User:Puncinus/Cameron Beccario
Cameron Beccario is a computer programmer and creator of the animated earth: windmap visualisation of global wind and weather data. He is originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Born in the United States, he is currently living and working in Japan. He has studied Computer Engineering and gained a BSc at the Iowa State University. He has worked for Microsoft, (Seattle), TradingScreen (Tokyo) and actually working for Indeed also in Tokyo.[1]
He has given presentations on the evolution of the design of the windmap in 2014 in London[2]
The windmap animated website has gained significant acclaim from commentators [3][4][5][6][7]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Cameron’s bio argo.ucsd.edu, retrieved 15 July 2017
- ^ Cameron Beccario talks about designing http://earth.nullschool.net/ which is an animated map of global wind and weather. Cameron spoke at The Graphical Web 2014 conference (http://www.graphicalweb.org/2014/) at The University of Winchester as organised by The Office for National Statistics - text summary to the youtube of his presentation - see [1]
- ^ Oremus, Will (18 December 2013). "Mesmerizing Map Shows Which Way the World's Winds Are Blowing" – via Slate.
- ^ Stinson, Liz. "This Map Shows You How Miserable the Weather Is Around the World".
- ^ Gonzalez, Robbie. "This real-time global wind map will completely devour your weekend".
- ^ "Interactive globe reveals Earth's ocean currents in REAL TIME".
- ^ "MapCarte 23/365: Earth Wind Map by Cameron Beccario, 2013 - Commission on Map Design".
External links
[edit]- earth.nullschool.net - the main link to the earth windmap website
- Camerons Twitter account
- XI.1 Earth
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