Information Visualization of Project

This time, i’m going to talk about Visual Information by using a sample that was created to explained the project that already submitted and accepted or the project that still in proposing phase. Before getting to the sample first, i want to talk about visual information. Visual information is making a data become easier to understand by making it into a picture or table. By using picture and table, people can understand it more faster and easier than just using a wall of text.

That picture is a map that explain about the project that will happen or in the working phase. It visualizes the data using map to put all the information that fit the location. So in essence, this visualization is using a 2-d map to represent all the existance of the project that has been submitted to the governor.

This map using aggregration technique to combine all the project that the governor have to consider. By using aggregration they combine all the data into one map and put a description for each area that have a project. Using color to differentiate project with different type of project. While the shape and the dense of color differentiate the project that already on development and the one that still have to wait for approvement.

By using this map, governor employee can see which project already in the middle of working so the project that executed won’t collide to each other and making the budget wasted.

konflik umat buddha dan islam di Burma

Kali ini saya akan membahas konflik yang terjadi di Burma(Myanmar). Di Burma ada penganut agama Buddha tidak ingin ada penganut muslim tinggal di daerah mereka. Sampai akhirnya ada geng motor yang merealisasikan kepercayaan mereka dalam bentuk tindakan. Pada tanggal 28 mei 2013.

Hal ini menyebabkan umat muslim di Burma harus mengungsi ke daerah lain. Parahnya rumah dan toko-toko umat muslim dibakar oleh geng tersebut sehingga menyebabkan kerugian yang ditanggung mereka tidak lah kecil

Konflik ini didasari dengan perbedaan pendapat tentang agama apa yang dianut dan perebutan wilayah. Para anggota geng ingin membuat Burma sebagai daerah umat buddha sehingga berusaha membunuh/ mengusir umat islam.

Konflik ini bisa diselesaikan dengan kompromi satu sama lain. Mungkin tidak akan mudah tapi selain dengan kompromi antar sesama. Konflik ini tidak akan terselesaikan tanpa tambahan korban atau bahkan tidak akan selesai terus menerus. Pemerintah harus bisa berkompromi dan membuat peraturan yang dapat disetujui oleh kedua pihak. Dengan begitu konflik ini bisa dikontrol dengan baik.

Walau begitu hal itu tidak akan menghilangkan perasaan di penganut dari kedua agama tersebut. Tapi bisa dijadikan bahan motivasi untuk bisa mematuhi ajaran agamanya sendiri.

SWOT Square Enix

As one of the top rank game development Square Enix have some strength that they can be proud of, weakness that they have to erase. And with that also come opportunities from outside world as well as the threat.

Strength
1.   Franchise
       The number of franchise Square Enix have could be called spectacular. For example they have Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and of course you can't forget about Dragon Quest
2.  Multiplatform
        Like we all know, Square Enix has been releasing their games in multiplatform for the Handheld and Console.
3.  Branch
                Square Enix have open branch in some countries like North America, Europe, China.
4.  Story writer
         it couldn't be denied that Square Enix has a good story writer. For an RPG style game a story writer is the core of the project. So by having a nice story writer Square Enix already have some nice qualities in that genre.
5.   Designer
   Of course a game won't be called nice if only the stories that  supporting it. Square Enix understand this and hiring a good designer to design the characters
6.  Technology
      Square Enix not only good at making story but they use their own game engine that would be used to develop their game.

Weakness
1.  Undeveloped Franchise
        Little by little they stop developing  some franchise that could be developed as a money making for the company.
2.  The same game play
         Because their main genre in game franchise, their game play didn't change much from long ago. Either turn based, strategic based.
3.  Genre range small
       Because they succeed in RPG genre, they hardly move to other genre
4.  Employee Quality
      Their employee quality is different in each branches that sometime create a problem
5.  Target marketing
      By choosing RPG as their marketing target, they cut themselves from any other target.

Opportunities

1.  Fans Numbers
      With many popular franchise they have, Square Enix have many fans that supporting them just to get the sequel of that franchise.
2.  The increase of the platform
     With the increase of the platform so do chances to make money from those platforms.
3. The increase of Genre
     The range of genre keep increasing by years, like FPS,  brain tests and many more.
4. The quality of applicant
   Applicant in many country are trying to work in Square Enix, this could be used to get a great staff to their company
5.  Kid development
        with many gadgets invented, the way child grow has been changed. Those child already capable of operating some gadgets that long ago shouldn't be possible

Threat
1.  Rival company
   Of course,  the increasing of a good applicant also works in reverse. If they can't get them  to work in their company and ended up working for their rival company. It could make their rival stronger.
2. Parents view to gamer
    Not all parents is thinking gaming is a good thing. Some of them would prohibited their child to play game because their point of view
3. Government rules for game content
    Yeah, this one not only affect  Square Enix but almost all of developer game. If by some chance the government make a new rule while they create a game that have some prohibited content that being released. They have to cancel or restart the project
4.  The difference in money value
     When their game go to international, of course the money and game value would change with the shipment and many things.
5. Haters
      Of course, if fans exist so do Haters. As one of developer game mainly in RPG some gamer that didn't like that genre won't just stay aside looking it getting more fame making their fave genre fall.

Along with those Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threat. Company would make strategy how to handle every problem that would show up.

SO Strategy

1.  Developing the sequel from each franchise to make the number of fans grow.
2. Continuing the development for the next gen platform so they won't lose any chance to get more income.
3. With their story writer and designer, it won't be hard for them to touch other genre while perserving their own unique point. It could become a high sell point that could end up making their marketing target broader.
4.  Using their popularity, Square Enix could invite many awesome applicants to work in Square Enix. Of course, it would be supported with their development when they work with their old staff. So even if the old staff retire Square Enix can keep going like before.
5. Square Enix could broaden their range to kid by using the designer power to attract kid to become their fans. Just make an interesting art and song it would make them attached to it and making them think Square Enix is a good developer.

WO Strategy

1.   Square Enix have so many undeveloped franchise that their fans still waiting to be released. So using this chance they can make develop those franchise so they have a back up franchise after their main one.
2.  The increase of genre itself could be used by Square Enix to broaden their genre. Some people didn't really like RPG.  So if they could make another genre with the same quality as their RPG genre. It would get them more fans and name in gaming worlds.
3. Their RPG surely is awesome and no one could really deny it. But with the same game play fans would be easily bored with it. So they could add another spice in the game play so the fans can keep playing without getting bored.
4. The difference between each branch employee could be solved by getting a brightful applicant and let them work under the one which have many experienced so they can learn from them.

ST Strategy

About the Parents view and government rule change, Square Enix could show them a nice story and a good game play at once without adding some needless story. By doing that Square Enix not only stopping those two things but also beat their rival company and changing haters to be their fans.

WT Strategy

Well, in any case Square Enix could minimalize the damage they get  from the threat by changing their own weakness to strength. Yeah, they didn't have unique game play but by strengthening the story and design part they could overcome those threats.

Perusahaan yang tidak saya sukai

Kalau membicarakan salah satu perusahaan yang tidak ingin saya jadikan tempat kerja adalah perusahaan Smartfren. Perusahaan yang didirikan pada tahun 1996 ini mulai memperluas cakupannya dengan membangun ISP yang bernama smartfren pada tahun 2007.

                Seperti kebanyakan perusahaan awal dari pembangunannya perusahaan ini banyak diminati oleh orang-orang indonesia yang tertarik dengan kecepatan akses internet yang cepat dan juga murah. Tapi sayangnya ini tidak bertahan lama setelah banyak orang memakai modem smartfren, perusahaan ini bukannya menaikkan kualitas kecepatan/ bandwith internetnya tapi malah memperburuk kecepatannya dengan pembuatan banyaknya pembatas-pembatas yang menyebabkan penggunanya semakin kesusahan mendapatkan kecepatan akses internet yang sama seperti di awal mereka menggunakan smartfren.

 Tanpa dijawab sih sebenarnya jelas alasan saya tidak ingin bekerja di perusahaan ini.

1. Pelayanan ke pelanggan kurang.
2. Pengaturan keuangannya dan kepedulian kelingkungan sekitar kurang.
3. Ditambah lagi semakin kesana Pelanggan semakin diperas dengan pengubahan-pengubahan paket yang tidak lagi mengimbangi motonya. 

Dilihat dari diatas saja perusahaan ini sudah membawa aura-aura yang kurang menyenangkan untuk dijadikan tempat kerja. Maka dari itulah saya tidak ingin bekerja disana.

Perusahaan yang ingin saya jadikan tempat kerja

     Kalau membicarakan salah satu perusahaan yang menarik bagi saya tentu salah satunya adalah Square Enix. Square Enix adalah perusahaan yang bergerak developer game yang terbentuk dengan penggabungan Square dan Enix yang terjadi pada tahun 2003.

     Tentunya kalau membicarakan perusahaan Square Enix pasti akan menyentuh game-game yang pernah mereka buat. Beberapa franchise game dari Square Enix yang membuat saya menyukai perusahaan ini adalah

                1. Final Fantasy

                2.  Dragon Quest

                3.  Kingdom Hearts

              

  Ketiga franchise itu benar-benar bisa menangkap apa yang diinginkan fans dan semakin mengembangkannya di game berikutnya dari franchise itu. Baik dari sisi musik, cerita dan gameplaynya benar-benar memuaskan fans yang membeli game itu.  Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa Square Enix berusaha memuaskan para fans yang sudah mendukung mereka dengan memilih game-game yang mereka buat.

Kalau ditanya alasan saya ingin bekerja di Square Enix, ada beberapa yang  benar-benar membuat saya ingin bekerja disana.

1. Square Enix berusaha memuaskan para fans dan menurut saya untuk suatu developer game itu adalah hal yang sangat penting.
2. Square Enix mulai membuka cabang diberbagai negara, hal ini membuat banyak orang dari berbagai  negara bisa ikut bekerja tanpa terikat dengan bahasa.
3. Membuat lowongan kerja buat para programmer, designer dan berbagai macam orang yang biasa bergerak dibelakang pembuatan game.

               

Comment about I-Robot

I know this sound stupid that I watch I-Robot for the first time after it was released 9 years ago. But i can't help it, in the first place I don't really like watching Movies.

Unexpectedly I-Robot have some nice thing for the development of the technology in computerization of human task.   It's kind unique to be able to imagine about the future technologies. At some rate it was just some random thing put together to make it a cool movies. While it was for that kind of reason it spark the idea inside developers brain. I-robot had many aspect that could be created in the reality like VIKI and all the robots that could also categorized as AI( Artificial Intelligence) or the way to adapt all those technologies in human life that make humans life more easier.

AI ( Artificial Intelligence) itself is an automated programs that programmed to do something that already inputted to it. An AI can response to a question or an order given to it as long as it was in her code program. But in this movie VIKI as  one of the main AI for USR company not only using the program given by the creators but also inputting a new knowledge that end up making her turn into a program that try to control humans. This was based on the record humans always start wars that could end up destroying humanity.  Of course, normally one won't get that far like VIKI to rules everyone. But as an AI program  VIKI didn't have any feeling to considerate it so  it put that kind of actions to human. So it end up as a human we shouldn't give an important key that could end up getting us controlled by the AI itself.

While the other aspect is how they can utilized those technologies to humans life. It was increasing rapidly. If you counted the robot each person can have up to 5-6 electronic gadget. For this gadget to work they need an embedded programs that work using ubiquitous computing.  By using Ubiquitous computing those program can be integrated to everyday activities without the user itself realize it. Just look at those robots and the earphones used by the polices each of them have been integrated so much to their activities that they used it like normal. Even more using speech recognition program  it make it more easier to use those gadgets and make it more easier to be integrated to everyday activities.

and of course about those robots, it pique my interest why does those people use robots in a daily activities when a normal human can still do those thing without problem. i could understand that it also one of the effect of ambient intelligences but  you know it's kind of useless to be using those kind of robot to do some normal thing human can do. I approve if it was being used for taking care elder people or exploring a dangerous place. but for it to do all human works won't it just making human values go down and could end up becoming more stupid than the people right now.

but anyway it's a nice movie that pique the interest of researcher.