What makes something “Information Visualization?” Is it just visual titillation? Or is it a tool that interprets, analyzes, and facilitates deeper understanding of data?
Lattice graphs are used as underlying data structures in many statistical processing systems, including natural language processing. Lattices compactly represent multiple possible outputs and are usually hidden from users. The authors presented a novel vi
This is a proof of concept for an animation of tag-volume over time. The horizontal rule represents the passage of time, and the vertical rule represents the overall volume of tags at any given point.
What makes something “Information Visualization?” At this point there are probably tens of thousands of programs turning numbers into images and many of them purport to help us understand the data. I believe most of them don’t
extisp.icio.us text gives you a random textual scattering of a user's tags, sized according to the number of times that they've used each of them, and leaves you to draw your own insights from the overlapping entrails.
For an upcoming documentary by Benedikt Bjarnason, RhNav - Rhizome Navigation was used to create animated visualizations of large genealogy data sets...
P. Isenberg, T. Zuk, C. Collins, and S. Carpendale. BELIV '08: Proceedings of the 2008 conference on BEyond time and errors, page 1--8. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)