Max Kiesler – Designer

In this visualization each country is represented by a circle that shows the amount of money spent on the military (size of circle) and what fraction of the country’s earnings that uses (colour). In this graphic the data is presented as ellipses on a cylindrical projection. The countries are not named, and the scaling is slightly different, but once you see africa (central collection of small dots) the layout is clear. The usa dominates the upper/left third of the map.

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This is a New York Times data visualization of all of the categories and prices that make up the U.S. Governments inflation numbers. As they say, “Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gathers 84,000 prices in about 200 categories — like gasoline, bananas, dresses and garbage collection — to form the Consumer Price Index, one measure of inflation.” I found some very compelling data here. Such as the high price of oil is a large factor in rising food prices. The page is worth checking out.

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The idea of the the social graph was written about by Brad Fitzpatrick where he defined it as “the global mapping of everybody and how they’re related”. This is what TweetWheel does for Twitter. It shows you all of your friends and how they’re connected to each other. The load is a bit slow, however, it’s worth the wait. Nice job to the developers.

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Another great visualization example by Moritz. This is basically an interactive network graph that was made for the EU project MACE, for visualizing expert vocabulary for metatagging architectural contents. “The vocabulary contains more than 2000 terms, organized hierarchically in a number of facets and fields.” The examples were created using the flare visualization toolkit and the NodeLinkTreeLayout algorithm. There are currently four examples on his website.

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Slicer, or 3D Slicer, is a free, open source software package for visualization and image analysis. 3D Slicer is natively designed to be available on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac Os x. The 3D Slicer (or simply Slicer) software was initially developed as a joint effort between the Surgical Planning Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and at the MIT AI Lab. The program has evolved into a national plattform supported by a variety of federal funding sources. This versatile research environment has resulted in a wide array of functionality, supporting a variety of medical imaging projects. Slicer is a “point and click” end-user application. Slicer is used as a vehicle for delivering algorithms to computer scientists, biomedical researchers and clinical investigators. Slicer is distributed under an open source license without a reciprocity requirement and without restrictions on use.

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Osprey is a software platform for visualizations of complex interaction networks. Osprey builds data-rich graphical representations from Gene-Ontology (GO) annotated interaction data maintained by The GRID.

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“Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. Automatic graph drawing has many important applications in software engineering, database and web design, networking, and in visual interfaces for many other domains. Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. It has several main graph layout programs. See the gallery for some sample layouts. It also has web and interactive graphical interfaces, and auxiliary tools, libraries, and language bindings.”

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circaVie allows you to easily create multimedia timelines all about your life. Special events, noteworthy achievements, relationships, memorable vacations, interests and hobbies, celebrations, announcements… you name it. If it’s about life, it’s circaVie. By creating a circaVie timeline and adding events to it, you’re automatically able to share your life and interests with your friends, your family and the rest of the world in a brand new way. You can think of circaVie as a souped-up, unique way of blogging, where you can seamlessly share photos, video and text that other users can comment upon. Your timelines are also portable and can be shared anywhere you like since they’re all embeddable into your personal Web site, or online profile. Just create your timeline here and take it with you wherever you like!

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MeVisLab, the successor of the image processing environment ILAB4, represents a platform for image processing research and development with a focus on medical imaging. It allows fast integration and testing of new algorithms and the development of application prototypes that can be used in clinical environments. Beside general image processing algorithms and visualization tools, MeVisLab includes advanced medical imaging modules for segmentation, registration, volumetry, and quantitative morphological and functional analysis. MeVisLab has been developed by the MeVis Research GmbH in Bremen, Germany. Based on MeVisLab, several clinical prototypes have been realized, including software assistants for neuro-imaging, dynamic image analysis, surgery planning, and vessel analysis.

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Schemaball is a flexible schema visualizer for SQL databases. The purpose of Schemaball is to help visualize the relationships between tables. Tables are related by foreign keys, which are fields which store the value of a record field from another table. Foreign keys create a lookup relationship between two tables. Large schemas can have hundreds of tables and table relationships. Keeping track of them call can be tedious, error-prone and slow down the schema development process. Schemaball provides a means to create flexible, static graphic images of a schema. Tables and table links can be hidden, highlighted and foreign key relationships can be traversed forward or backward to highlight connected tables.

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I normally don’t post entertainment or portfolio sites, however, (suit)men will mark a change in that policy. (suit)men is a digital global entertainment company founded in Japan. Their website is flashed based and features a background visualization of their live website stats. The visualization is powered by Google, and you can see a full screen view by clicking on the black button in the lower left hand side of the website. Very impressive work.

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WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki pages in large public wiki’s, such as wikipedia, have become rich and complex documents. Thus, it is not allways straight forward to find the information you are really looking for. This tool aims to support users to get a good structured and easy understandable overview of the topic you are looking for. The browser is a modified version of the GNU GPL licenced Flash browser for FreeMind. All content of the mindmap is derived from the wiki which was selected and is available under the terms of GNU Free Documentaion Licence. Any other content and the conceptual idea of this website belong to the author.

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This is a visualization created by three very creative artist. “Using key words to search the Web for blogs, it gathers the thoughts of people around the world in real time and displays them in a swirl of information. GYRE WORLD REFLECTOR can be seen on each floor of the GYRE building, or accessed via your cell phone.” The subjects searched for are, I love / I hate, and I want. Very cool.

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The authors conducted an exhaustive empirical study, with the aid of custom software, public search engines and powerful statistical techniques, in order to determine the relative popularity of every integer between 0 and one million. The resulting information exhibits an extraordinary variety of patterns which reflect and refract our culture, our minds, and our bodies.

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In the movie world there are a lot of close relationships between people belonging to this environment. This work aims to explore a data set in order to find these relationships by using different visualization techniques. Visualization tools can be used to explore a huge quantity of data and find some relevant information by interacting and putting together some visualization techniques, filtering data by applying different criteria. Our proposal is a visualization framework with simultaneous visualizations that are able to overlap different data subsets in a force graph in order to find the relationships between people involved in different movies. Our proposal is a visualization framework with simultaneous visualizations that is able to overlap different data subsets in a force graph in order to find the relationships between people involved in different movies.

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Skyrails is a social network (or any graph really) visualization system. It has a built in programming language for processing (as far as visualisation attributes goes) the graph and its attributes. The system is not only aimed at expert users though, because through the scripting languages menus can be built and the system can be used by any users. The main distinguishing point of the system comes from the built in scripting language, the added flexibility of how to represent attributes (nodes can be binded to planes and spheres based on their attributes) and the scriptability of the user interface system. This makes skyrails ideal for creating presentations targeted at the average users.

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MigMap conveys a picture of how and where the production of knowledge is currently taking place in the area of migration – and of who is participating in and has access to it. MigMap investigates precisely how the new forms of supranational governance that can be observed in the European migration regime function. It looks, for example, at how European standards in politics and civil society are implemented, and at the authorities, persons and institutions taking part in this process. It examines how the various key players in the public and private spheres are interrelated and funded, as well as at the ways in which these spheres overlap or differ in terms of focus, location or personnel. Finally, it analyses how responsibilities are allocated and legitimised – and explores the theories, data and discourses upon which current paradigms in migration are based.

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“The SecViz portal is meant for people that are working on log analysis, log mining and especially on visualization of security related data to exchange, discuss, and comment on techniques, methods, parsers, and sample graphs. The maintainer of the site, Raffael Marty (ram at secviz dot org), has written about security data visualization for various books and also presents at security conferences about the topic of security data visualization. He is also the author of AfterGlow, an open source tool for security data visualization.”

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This project was created to make a visual representation of a space that is very much one-dimensional, a metaphysical universe.The first goal of this project is to use a single computer and single Internet connection to map the location of every single class C network on the Internet. It is obvious that the Internet is not routed as a bunch of class-c networks, but it is easy to see that by treating the Internet IP space as a bunch of class C networks, it will be possible to make a detailed map of the entire Internet. The data represented and collected here serves a multitude of purposes: Modeling the Internet, analyzing wasted IP space, IP space distribution, detecting the result of natural disasters, weather, war, and esthetics/art.

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SpaceNav lets your explore your tags represented as an inifinite 2D space. It will enable you to discover the relations between your tags, as well as recognize different patterns characterstics of certain grops of tags. In SpaceNav, tags are represented both as text (this is what you see when the applet starts) and as a small point encircled by an aurora (this is what you see when you clicked on a tag). The radius of the aurora represents the number of posts that were tagged using the tag. When a tag is clicked on (we say choosen), related tags will be laid out in circle around it.

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