History Flow - Visualizing the Editing History of Wikipedia
History Flow is a tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. In its current implementation, history flow is being used to visualize the evolutionary history of wiki* pages on Wikipedia.
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Barcode Plantage Visualization - Revealing Bar Code Data
One can find it on almost all products: the bar code. Everyone knows that the bar code is used to facilitate the cashing and recording of goods in stores. But which information is actually encoded within the bar code? A simple answer to this question can be found at one of the product databases on the Internet, which are basically huge networks of national code databases. Keying in the 8, 12 or 13 digit figures of a bar code into an international code database, returns information on the manufacturer and the country of origin of the product. Moreover, each bar code is assigned to only one product worldwide; but these individual details are hardly visible to the naked eye.
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Visualization of Global Military Spending
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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Real-Time San Francisco Bay Wind Pattern
San Francisco is a very windy city. Because I live here I'm always very curious about the wind patterns. Now because of Francis Ludwig along with some code provided by Nick Thompson I have a way to visualize this. As Francis states, "This new visualization scheme was devloped independently by Nick Thompson who has kindly allowed us use of it. While this may initialy appear to be a time-series animation it is instead a dynamic rendering of particle streaklines. Rather than evolving through time the animation is describing the flow of the wind at a given time."
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All of Inflation’s Little Parts
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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Worldometers - World Statistics in Real Time
There is a current trend in visualizations to show trends, and statistics to let us all know what is going in the world we live in, and I for one applaud it. Worldometers shows real time numbers created by an, "algorithm that processes the latest and most accurate statistical data available together with its estimated progression to compute the current millisecond number to be displayed on each counter based on the specific time set on each visitor’s computer clock." Var cool. The most interesting thing about this site is the disparagy in the statistics. For example, the difference in energy produced this year (3,950,168,504) and the amount of solar energy striking the earth this year (908,355,014,564). BTW, these change every millisecond so by the time the post was finished the numbers had gone up significantly. This site reminds me of a large lED sign that was up in NYC for some time that showed the U.S. National Debt. Every time I walked past it made me think. This site does the same thing. Check it out and think about the numbers you see.
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Twistori - Streaming Thoughts From Twitter
Amy Hoy and
Thomas Fuchs have created a great twitter mash-up called Twistori. As they state in the footer of the website it was inspired by the
Jonathan Harris app
We Feel Fine. The app draws it's data from another twitter mash-up
Summize. I have a positive bias towards Twistori as I love streaming data. I feel it's very engaging and immersive to view data this way - I spent way too much time on Twittervision, Digg Spy and The Artist Network Visualization when they first came out. From an interaction standpoint the only two features I would like to see is a pause button and the ability to click on the tweet and go to twitter. All in all a fun and engaging website.
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Glossary Visualization V3 by Moritz Stefaner
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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Box2D Physics Engine
Are you looking to add the z-axis to your simulations? Well I've tried thinking in 3D, but it still escapes me. Box2D is an open source physics engine written primarily for games. As the name suggests, Box2D is a purely 2D engine. However, Box2D has grown beyond it's humble box simulating roots, and can now handle convex polygons and other shapes coming soon.
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Competitive Edge Landscape v1.0
The FutureBoston Competitive Edge Landscape is an experimental tool to explore the factors that make or break a city in today's competitive global economy. It integrates data on economics performance, innovation, population, and quality of life to help the user see where and what is happening in the Boston region. This tool is a proof-of-concept. It is intended to demonstrate the early stages of what a more advanced tool could do, i.e., better understand the complex dynamics that effect people's lives and help them make better decisions.
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circaVie - Create and Share Timelines
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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Demographics Visualizer
This application allows you to interact with demographic data and visualize it in an easy to use manner. It's flash based and is a Microsoft Virtual Earth mashup. It allows you to browse U.S. census data by county, population, age, ethnicity, election results, and income. There are many applications for a website like this, as they say on their site, "For any business to be successful, they must take into account both their customers and surrounding areas. Using Visual Fusion Client and Visual Fusion Server, our Demographics Visualizer allows you to pinpoint components of a region to determine where and how your business can be successful. This application allows the individual user to set their search criteria and cater the results for various uses."
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Walk2Web - Website Connection Visualization
Walk2Web is a new way to explore web sites from a specified starting point. You type in a starting point-like
http://www.blogschmog.net-and you see a page with a screenshot sample of the site and the first two levels of a search network, with sites as nodes. There are no more than six at a time, split between incoming and outgoing links with options to display more in either direction. The network grows as you explore, allowing you to make use of some simple directional tools to navigate the part of the World Wide Web you are manually crawling.
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Flight Patterns - Air Traffic Visualization
The Flight Patterns visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. New data and an improved interpolation algorithm has led to revised depictions of air traffic over the U.S. and Canada. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment, and the frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya.
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Music Maps - Find Out Who is Listening to What and Where
"The popularity map shows snapshots of current top artist and album charts by geographical location. The Flash-based interactive map works using data from the Gracenote Media Database and shows the latest artist and album lookups in states, regions, countries, and continents around the world." I like exploring this site as a way to see what the most popular types of music are in different countries. For example, look at the difference in musical tastes between California and Norway. Fun site.
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The Secret Life of Numbers by Golan Levin
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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UniversalMind - San Francisco Police Department Visualization Prototype
The new "Incident Report & Analysis Tool created by UniversalMind is a great example of how data visualizations can affect our lives. I live in the SOMA district in downtown San Francisco and if this tool was live I could see all of the crimes, incoming calls, and live video feeds from all of the police officers in the city. While this visualization is just a prototype at this point you can instantly see the benefits. Every major city should implement this technology now to give it's citizens a real-time view of crime in their city.
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3D Slicer - Visualization and Image Analysis
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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Interactive Map of the Entire Internet
The demo is a map of the entire Internet. As the devloper stated, "At the moment we're displaying the owner of each IP address (grey boxes), and which IP addresses are listed on the Spamhaus XBL blacklist (red dots), but we should be able to show other things in the future. Currently, we map all 4,294,967,296 IP addresses onto a huge image and let you zoom into it and pan around. Just like google maps, but more internetty. We've taken snapshots of the internet routing table (from CAIDA for this demo, but we'd probably use a local BGP feed out of preference) to work out who owns each IP address, and a snapshot of the Spamhaus XBL as some interesting data to overlay on the map. Then we use a Hilbert curve to map those addresses onto a two-dimensional map, as inspired by xkcd, so that nearby IP addresses are nearby on the map and so that CIDR ranges (the usual way blocks of IP addresses are broken down) map onto squares or rectangles."
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Overlapper - Movie Analyzer
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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