Category: Social Sciences

  • Evaluating post-Katrina rebuilding grants

    Using high throughput computing to evaluate post-Katrina rebuilding grants

  • City planning and cluster computing

    “If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.” – Cesar Chavez Could better city planning actually improve community cohesiveness, economic output, and quality of life? That’s the belief of Steven Farber, a geography professor at the University of Utah…

  • Patterns of a Political Cartoonist

    This visualization, generated on Clemson University’s Palmetto Cluster, is based on data collected for a study of 8,422 political cartoons by Herbert Lawrence Block (known as Herblock), published in the Washington Post between 1946 and 1976. The investigators are developing innovative ways of visualizing the different levels of context and meaning embedded within and across…