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Thinking Machine 4: Play the Game. 50 Great Examples of Data Visualization. Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information. And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for. But data visualizations can make all of that much easier, allowing you to see the concepts that you’re learning about in a more interesting, and often more useful manner. Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter. Music, Movies and Other Media Narratives 2.0 visualizes music. Liveplasma is a music and movie visualization app that aims to help you discover other musicians or movies you might enjoy.

Tuneglue is another music visualization service. MusicMap is similar to TuneGlue in its interface, but seems slightly more intuitive. Digg, Twitter, Delicious, and Flickr Internet Visualizations. RANDOM WALK on Datavisualization. Daniel Becker has published his 2009 diploma thesis RANDOM WALK at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany.

What does randomness look like? RANDOM WALK asks this question and presents experiments in mathematics and physics, showing the mysterious interaction of chaos and order in randomness. The project RANDOM WALK simulates randomness in visualizations, which are easy to understand. In this way, it delivers insight into a phenomenon, which has so far remained unexplained. Daniel investigates randomness in various topics. The project and it’s documentation are created with much love to detail and a distinct look & feel. Hat tip to @herrstucki. Information visualization projects so awesome they’ll turn your. I had the distinct pleasure and honor of taking the Information Visualization class this semester at the University of Michigan’s School of Information (where I’m completing a Masters of Info, specializing in HCI).

For the class each project team created a visualization to help aid user comprehension of a large data set. The very talented students in the class showcased their impressive final projects last week…and here they are (in the order they were presented), projects so extraordinary they’ll make you cry for mercy. ***** Where The Money Goes wherethemoneygoes.org Where the Money Goes This political visualization, according to its website, “makes it easier to visualize the contributions that political action committees (PACs) make to your members of Congress, and to each other.

Tacoma Crime Visualization tacomacrime.orgProject blog Tacoma Crime Visualization ARMuseumleannagingras.com/ARMuseum/ ARMuseum Tabvistabviz.org An early tabvis prototype VIEWconomyVIEWconomy project website. SIMILE Widgets | Exhibit. Ubigraph: Free dynamic graph visualization software. UbiGraph is a tool for visualizing dynamic graphs. The basic version is free, and talks to Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, C, C++, C#, Haskell, and OCaml. Download Version alpha-0.2.4 Version alpha-0.2.4 is distributed as two separate components. The server application, which renders graphs, is distributed as a compiled binary. The client bindings, which use XMLRPC, are distributed under an open source license. Download now ➠ Watch demonstrations The demonstrations on our Demos page illustrate the underlying technologies and some example applications. Watch demos ➠ Applications Algorithm Visualization UbiGraph can be used to visualize and debug complex algorithms and data structures...

Ad Hoc Networks UbiGraph's ability to visualize dynamic, distributed graphs makes it ideal for visualizing wireless ad hoc networks, in which the network connectivity is changing. Real-time profiling Epidemiology Visualize the spread of a disease through a social network... Mailing list Get notified of new releases. Data Visualization. Data visualization and infographics resources for design inspira. Infographics or Information graphics is mode of visual communication of information using graphics. Like maps, technical writing, flowcharts, scientific visualization, process visualization etc. They can be very good resources of inspiration for various design jobs as they solve communication problems using easy to understand graphics which can be small icons, pictograms or pictures.

Visualizing Fitt’s law – Particle Tree Published in 1954, Fitts’s Law is an effective method of modeling the relationship of a very specific, yet common situation in interface design. 21 ways to visualize and explore your email inbox – Flowingdata This article gives information on visualizing your email inbox using various visualization tools. 17 ways to visualize twitter universe – Flowingdata Twitter as we all know is very simple yet very useful social media tool which keeps us updated on what others are doing and show others what you are doing.

Stephen P. Dna11 offers personal DNA portraits as modern art. Prefuse | interactive information visualization toolkit. Amazing Data Visualization Tool From The Geniuses At GA Tech (Ji. (Note: I am at a visual analysis conference sponsored by the National Visualization And Analytics Center so the last of the Top 5 Methods list will have to wait a day or two. In the meantime, I have found something else that is pretty cool...) John Stasko and the computer scientists at the Information Interfaces Lab at Georgia Tech may not have found the Holy Grail of visual analysis but they have come pretty darn close with their Jigsaw product. This extraordinary visualization tool automatically extracts entities (names, places, dates, etc.) from plain text documents. Then, it automatically creates a visualization of the relationships between those entities and the documents containing them. The program is fully customizable so you can add or delete data, designate entities or create relationships to modify what the automatic entity extractors come up with.

The real power of the tool comes into play after the data is in the program. The software is continuously improving. Data visualization. Introducing the Lifestreaming Visualization Stylings of Nicholas. – January 18, 2009 News Today I came across the Felton Report. What is this report? Well I see a beautiful visual Lifestream. It was created by one Nicholas Felton who is a graphic designer based in New York City. He is also the co-creator of the data-tracking website Daytum.com . I had recently signed up and gotten access to this site which is currently in private beta. The images below are from 2 pages of his report and show the uniquely interesting method he has used to visualize his Lifestreaming data.

You can view the whole report here . Posts you might like. Chart™ for WPF - WPF Chart Control. Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions | Developer's Toolbox | Advertisement Charts are supposed to visualize data in order to give a more profound understanding of the nature of a given problem or recent developments. Whatever type of data presentation you prefer (pie charts, bubble charts, bar graphs, network diagrams etc.), you can create charts in graphic editors manually or use special desktop-software instead. In both cases you have a major problem: once you’d like to update an old chart, or create a new one, you have to run the application and create new images over and over again. That’s not flexible. That’s also not usable — e.g. if you’d like to update your chart live. Server-based solutions, implemented with Flash, JavaScript or pure CSS, offer a more flexible alternative.

In fact, since Flash offers significant advantages over static data presentation with CSS and JavaScript, most solutions use it for dynamic data visualization. The Dojo Charting Engine can generate graphs and charts with few JavaScript snippets. CSS-based Solutions. » Free Chart and Graph Solutions. 10 must-have virtualization tools. Processing 1.0. ICCARUS: Three Dimensional Data Visualization. Flare | Data Visualization for the Web. 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year | FlowingData. Data visualization continues to grow online and in the real world. It exists as masterful art pieces and amazingly useful analysis tools. In both cases though it brings data -- which is oftentimes cryptic -- to the masses and shows that data is more than a bucket of numbers. Data is interesting. As we collect more and more data about ourselves and our surroundings, the data and the visualization will only get more interesting.

On that note, I give you FlowingData's picks for the top 5 data visualization projects of 2008. Visualizations were judged based on the use of data, aesthetics, overall effect on the visualization arena, and how well they told a story. Honorable Mention: Wordle Wordle, by Jonathan Feinberg, is the word cloud revamped. 5. Amanda Cox of The New York Times has a knack for creating excellent graphics. 4. The Radiohead "House of Cards" music video was a bit different in that no cameras were used to "film" it. 3. 2. 1.

Labs / arc. ITT Visual Information Solutions, Image Processing & Data An. Technology Review: Videos. 16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools. From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are changing the way we view content. We found the following 16 apps both visually stunning and delightfully useful. Visualize Your Network with Fidg’tFidg’t is a desktop application that aims to let you visualize your network and its predisposition for different types of things like music and photos. Currently, the service has integrated with Flickr and last.fm, so for example, Fidg’t might show you if your network is attracted or repelled by Coldplay, or if it has a predisposition to taking photos of their weekend partying. As the service expands to support other networks (they suggest integrations with Facebook, digg, del.icio.us, and several others are in the works), this one could become very interesting.

BigSpy places stories at the top of the screen as they are dugg. Visualize Flickr Tags Over TimeTaglines from Yahoo!