November 25, 2008

7 Data Visualizations You Probably Have Never Seen

Visualization of a large social network created with a tool called Walrus
Visualization of a large social network created with a tool called Walrus


Stan Schroeder has written about 7 Beautiful Data Visualizations on Mashable. Stan has included video clips that show these interactive visualizations in motion. Many of these were new to me.

Some are just beautiful and others are amazing in terms of features or their ability to illuminate large data stores.

Skyrails - uses a interactive graph of interconnected nodes to display multiple dimensions. Menus, colours and chart type is customizable. The beta-version of skyrails is only available for non-commercial purpose. Skyrails is amazing - but the most amazing part is the developer worked on this for his *undergraduate* software engineering degree. Great work Yose Widjaja!

Fidg’t Visualizer displays your social network and some of their actions. It offers some sweet visual filtering features.

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The data deluge is upon us - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory

Representing and interpreting data graphically and visually is more important than ever to our understanding and knowledge.
# posted by OpenID knowledgenavigator : 12:23 PM
 
Thanks for referencing Chris Anderson's article - The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

The Petabyte Age:
Sensors everywhere. Infinite storage. Clouds of processors. Our ability to capture, warehouse, and understand massive amounts of data is changing science, medicine, business, and technology. As our collection of facts and figures grows, so will the opportunity to find answers to fundamental questions. Because in the era of big data, more isn't just more. More is different. - Wired Magazine, http://tinyurl.com/3tg7c9
# posted by Blogger Fichter : 3:28 PM
 
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