Topic: InfoVis

Just stumbled on the periodic table of visualization which shows several different types of visualizations including tree maps, flow charts, and venn diagrams. Best of all, you can see examples of each by rolling over it's little square. Great resource thanks to Visual Literacy!

This has got to be the easiest way to get your Wordpress blog data into a graph visualization. I've done most of the legwork for integrating with Constellation Roamer so all you have to do is set some configuration options and upload. Give it a try!

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.

Constellation Roamer, a Flash graph visualization tool, is now available for purchase at Asterisq.com.

Check out this demo of some data from my GPS logger displayed over Google Maps. The interesting part here is that the path varies in thickness to indicate how much time I spent in an area.

Another quick link—I was catching up on my feeds and came across this video of a brilliant talk by Hans Rosling. This guy is a Professor of International Health and currently the director of Gapminder, an organization that promotes global development through better understanding of statistics. They were initially focused on developing the visualization software, Trendalyzer, a project which was taken over by Google.

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.

Constellation is being used to visualize the structure of a wiki website for the EPA's Environmental Information Symposium. Read on for more info and a link.

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.

Information visualization (infoVis) is the presentation of abstract data in the form of images. Usually these visualizations are designed to make it easier to understand abstract data. This is done by taking advantage of our powerful visual systems. A lot of the processing in the brain is dedicated to making sense of what our eyes see. Without even thinking about it, our brains are determining the position of objects, evaluating objects' sizes, colours, and shapes, and looking for patterns. Visualization uses images that utilize these processes.