DataViz

Yesterday, the ever-hilarious xkcd featured a comic which was very much a visualization. It was a chart showing the interactions between characters from a handful of movies. The comic was the kick I needed to do a quick experiment with timeline-based graph visualizations.

Here's the result.

I just finished up a graph visualization for your Twitter network. It's a dynamic, interactive application that tracks the number of times you mentioned other users or hashtags.

I attended the Net Tuesday Meetup last night and got to see a variety of people talk about the cool projects they're undertaking in Vancouver. Turns out there's a lot going on, but there was one presentation in particular that struck a chord with me.

A quick test for visualizing similar artist data harvested from MusicBrainz and Last.FM. It's also been coupled with Amazon's web service so you can see a list of albums sold by the artist.

I've been working on a backend web service data harvester for several months. Now that it's ready I put together a Constellation visualization as quickly as I could.

A prototype Flash application for visualizing your friend network on Facebook. Find out which of your friends know each other and see your different groups of friends.

These Thinkmap-like interfaces are perfect for displaying social networks, sitemaps, and citation maps. I've developed visualizations for several projects using Actionscript. To find out about the interface and see other implementations, read on.