Infovis
Project Palantir: Facebook Interaction Visualization
The goal of Facebook's Project Palantir is to "visualize all the data that Facebook gets". Each Facebook action is geo-located on a 3D globe, becomes a particle that floats off the surface of the Ear ....... read more
Sun,
23 Nov 2008
Memetracker: Tracking News Phrases over the Web
Based on the stacked bar graph data visualization technique introduced by ThemeRiver (PDF) and StreamGraph, MemeTracker [memetracker.org] represents the daily news cycle of around 900,000 news storie ....... read more
Mon,
10 Nov 2008
OECD eXplorer Online Visualization Tool
An online data visualization tool [oecd.org] for exploring and analyzing regional statistics, in particular of the regional differences and structures of all OECD (short for Organization for Economic ....... read more
Thu,
06 Nov 2008
Citizen-Driven US Election Monitoring System
A dedicated group of "volunteer citizen-journalists" are in the midst of polishing a grassroots election monitoring system, called Twitter Vote Report [twittervotereport.com]. It features an innovati ....... read more
Sun,
02 Nov 2008
NYTimes Visualization Lab
The NYTimes has partnered with Many Eyes to create the NYTimes Visualization Lab [nytimes.com]. This Many Eyes version was specifically designed for the NYTimes, to allow newspaper readers to visuali ....... read more
Tue,
28 Oct 2008
YouCalc: Interactive Chart Widgets
The conceptual space created by Widgenie and other visualization portals has got even smaller by a Youcalc [youcalc.com], a new online chart portal that "brings data to life". The youcalc widgets tra ....... read more
Tue,
28 Oct 2008
Atlas of Cyberspace Book: Now for Free
Some readers might still remember the website "An Atlas of Cyberspaces" at cybergeography.org, now unfortunately only available as a static online archive. Back in the days, it was a very inspiration ....... read more
Fri,
24 Oct 2008
3D and Geographical Financial Treemaps
The use of the typically green/red colored treemaps to depict the stock market exchange is not particularly new, especially for those who know the now famous SmartMoney Map of the Market. However, Fi ....... read more
Wed,
22 Oct 2008
IEEE infovis'08 Conference Coverage
There is some interesting online coverage of IEEE VisWeek [vis.computer.org], inclusive of the Information Visualization Conference (infovis'08), Visual Analytics Science and Technology Conference (V ....... read more
Mon,
20 Oct 2008
upcoming visualization events
it seems to rain visualization events lately.
visualizar is a symposium & workshop in Madrid to be held at November 12 & 13 (& the 2 weeks afterwards), with several famous attendees. the workshop i ....... read more
Thu,
04 Oct 2007