PUBLIC MARKS from user karlcow with tag visualization

Over the past few months I’ve been talking with many people passionate about Information Visualization who share a sense of saturation over a growing number of frivolous projects. The criticism is slightly different from person to person, but it usually goes along these lines: “It’s just visualization for the sake of visualization”, “It’s just eye-candy”, “They all look the same”.

I like to compare this practice to a game designer who lays out an intended context, rules and narrative for the game, but then has this moment of delight when users engender their own narrative, their own path. This is intrinsic to the conception of Information Visualization as a discovery tool.

The visualization grows a "tree" for each TimesPeople activity, adding users as they perform that the same action. The tree "decays" as the corresponding activity declines in frequency.

Parallel Sets (ParSets) is a visualization application for categorical data, like census and survey data, inventory, and many other kinds of data that can be summed up in a cross-tabulation. ParSets provide a simple, interactive way to explore and analyze such data.

Terre Natale (Exits 2) is a half-hour immersive visualization of human migration data.

Visitors enter a dark rotunda to discover a mirror-image Earth revolving around the room, printing animated maps and data to the wall's curved surface. Divided into five narratives, this piece quantifies both voluntary and forced movement across the globe due to political, economic, and environmental factors.

Hotmap was released internally at Microsoft in 2006 as a research prototype; its use was monitored as it was developed further. A public edition of Hotmap was released in 2007; the authors have collected feedback on that tool since.

The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit provides tools for creating Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web.

Protovis is a visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG.

Google Visualization API release process.

Jer Thorp is a software artist and educator based in Vancouver with a wonderful knack for creating work that draws on (and questions) a variety of disciplines. Genetics, biological growth, questions of representation and the emergent logic and aesthetics of large, collective pools of content are all topics of exploration in his projects.

In this work, a novel mobile browser for geo-referenced pictures is introduced and described. We use the term browser to denote a system aimed at browsing pictures selected from a large set like Internet photo sharing services. The criteria to filter a subset of pictures to browse are three: the user's actual position, the user's actual heading, and the user's preferences. In this work we only focus on the first two criteria leaving the integration of user's preferences for future developments.

This article is not about “improving your ability in sports using visualization“. This post is focused on the ubiquity of computer graphics and visualization in sports.

The method presented here provides an alternative to mitigate the problems outlined above. It is a visual approach that uses Circos[http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/circos] to represent rows and columns in a circular fashion, and ribbons to represent cell values. Does it solve every table's problems? No. It does provide, however, a way to capture the essence of the table and present it quantitatively and attractively.

a blogger who goes by the name Legofesto is likely to press ahead with an idiosyncratic campaign to keep the memory of what happened to detainees in U.S. custody during the Bush administration alive by recreating their suffering using Lego figures.

Here & There is a project by S&W exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd and 7th, and downtown from 3rd and 35th. They're intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward.

issue of "decorating" data versus making it accessible, and the emerging challenge to empower lay people to participate in visualizing and analyzing their own data.

Trulia Snapshot allows you to browse photographs and details of properties for sale in the United States. Snapshot provides an alternative view of listings from Trulia and was developed in collaboration with Stamen Design. You can find more about Trulia and Stamen's work together in Trulia's new explore section.

some visualisations for wiki data. My goal was to deliver some amazing visuals which could be applied to any data set. I wanted to explore the potential of two great new graphics libraries for JavaScript: Processing.js and Raphael.

simple static visualisations are much clearer than most animated attempts - and they have the added benefit of also being, to my not entirely unbiased eye, rather beautiful.

The program scans yours disks and displays their contents on a sunburst diagram, where the biggest files and folders at once become obvious.

“Dead pixel in Google Earth” by Helmut Smits, 82 x 82 cm burned square, the size of one pixel from an altitude of 1 km.

For my final project for MAT 259 (Data Visualization) I wanted to explore the topics of 3D Space, particle systems, OpenGL and java, alpha blending, bill boarding, user interactivity, self-organizing algorithms (Kohonen), and electromagnetic attractions and repulsion. The end result is what you see above and below. I used one year of transaction data (books, DVDs, etc) from the Seattle Public Library to drive the visualization. Each particle/sphere is given properties, such as what category/subcategory it represents and how many items where checked out in that category. This is used to drive the physics system that is used to separate the nodes evenly on the surface of the sphere, moreover I wrote a Kohonen-like to cluster the nodes that are related (same category) together. The visualization is interactive; it allows the user to manipulate how they see the data and the properties of the system.