information aesthetics

a visual representation of one's Twitter network, distributed over a circle, similar to ludios circular network graph,

there seem to be plenty of twitter stream visualizations out there, although only one has been blogged here before. do you know any other examples worthwhile to be included at infosthetics?

[link: tweetwheel.com]

see also:
. circular email visualization
. circos
. gnom
. wikipedia clusterball . schemaball
. mammal supertree
. document icons

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a novel information visualization system of online search results that represents both the similarity between documents & their relevance (ranking) relative to the search query. the color points represent the resulting documents. the closed regions surrounding the point are similarity-based clusters. the angle difference between regions are related to cluster height. the application was implemented based on GoogleAPI (now Google SOAP Search API).

[link: emislej.googlepages.com|thnx Ernesto]

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a sophisticated visual aggregator that tracks the activities of about 32,000 noteworthy people, both living & dead. the dataset consists of a "Who's Who" including the curriculum vitae of each noted person (i.e. information such as date of birth, a biography, & other essential facts.)

the resulting network graphs document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious, as a person's otherwise inexplicable behavior is often understood by examining the crowd that person has been associating with.

nodes can be order hierarchically, as a grid, or symmetrically, or be highlighted by age, political affiliation or sexual orientation. all graphs can be stored for others to explore, ranging from Google's board politics over Larry Page to the Enron board political contributions.

[link: nndb.com]

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a sophisticated online collection of about 48 design patterns that describe distinct methods for the display of interactive information graphics, their active behavior as well as the forms of user interaction with them.

as part of the written thesis in Interface Design from Christian Behrens, a freelance interface designer in Berlin, the website aims to inform graphic designers who need to deal with complex tasks in the field of information design, but do not have any specific knowledge in statistics or data visualization. it is intended as an online "cookbook" that offers a set of tools & methods to cope with all common forms of data visualization, similar to design patterns in computer science, such as the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library.

each pattern consists of a text part that describes the general characteristics of the pattern, its required or appropriate data source, its generic application, & a discussion of the pattern's usage rationale. besides a real-world example, each pattern is accompanied by a layout that is based on an identical dataset, here the statistical yearbook of the City of Berlin.

Chris informed me there is the possibility to publish the thesis as a book. any interest from infosthetics readers?

[link: niceone.org|thnkx angus & Christian]

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from Eric Rodenbeck from stamen.com at Postopolis, the mapping & data visualization firm known from digg labs & Trulia Hindsight.

several data visualization talks have been put online recently. if you are interested in this subject, be sure to check out following online recordings:

. Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg (IBM) @ Parc Forum 2006 (not blogged before)
. Ben Fry @ See conference 2008.
. Frank van Ham (IBM) @ See conference 2008.
. Bernard Kerr (Yahoo! interaction designer) @ Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign.
. Eric Rodenbeck (stamen.com) @ Nextcity.
. Jonathan Harris documentary.
. Hans Ronsling @ TED 2006.
. Jonathan Harris @ TED 2007.
. Marcos Weskamp @ See conference 2007.
. Sep Kamvar @ See conference 2007.

this should keep you busy for at least a couple of hours.

[link: vimeo.com|via w.we-make-money-not-art.com]

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a recent talk from Ben Fry at the See Conference ("Conference on
Visualization of Information"), showing a lot of older & a few new visualization works. in addition, there are videos of talks from the performance artist Zachary Lieberman, science fiction author Bruce Sterling & visualization researcher Frank van Ham of the IBM Visual Communication Lab.

you will need to visit the See Conference video collection website to watch the talks, as it (unfortunately) seems the videos cannot be embedded in 3rd party websites.

there is also a recent post on informationandvisualization.de describing a personal impression of the conference.

[link: see-conference.org (Ben Fry video) & see-conference.org (Frank van Ham talk) & see-conference.org (Zachary Lieberman talk)]

image taken from the see.conference flickr stream.

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a navigable Earth globe that represents the strength of relations between cities from searches on Google. the concept is based on measuring the "Google proximity": the comparison of number of pages on the Internet where 2 particular cities appear close to each other with the number of pages they appear isolated. therefore, 2 cities can be very close despite they are far apart physically.

[link: bestiario.org|thnkx Jose]

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Jonathan Harris's & Sep Kamvar's most recent visualization project "I want you to want me", created for the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MoMA has already previously been blogged. this recent movie, however, gives a better impression about the the aesthetic quality of its interactivity & dynamic animations, while including a verbal description of the creator himself.

one should note that the piece is specifically designed for a 56" high-resolution touch-screen, hanging vertically on the wall.

[link: iwantyoutowantme.org|thnkx thedlab]

see also:
. whale hunt,
. universe,
. love lines,
. we feel fine,
. ten by ten,
. Jonathan Harris TED talk.

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