Abstractions in programming, while hiding complexity and creating more distance to that machine code, help programmers get closer to the actual problems they’re trying to solve.

Visual abstraction of dynamic network via improved multi-class blue noise sampling Peer-Reviewed Publication. Higher Education Press ...

And that means it’s visualization created without layers of abstraction, because every data point in an image is really just a photon hitting your camera sensor. Photography by Alejandro Almaraz ...

Discovering and understanding operational detail and tracking potential problems across such a diverse and often beguiling range of hardware and software infrastructure requires inventive data ...

The Practical Course on Scientific Programming and Data Visualization was developed at Harvard where it was offered for the last two years. In 2010, for the first time, it will move to Heidelberg, ...