Statistical Visualization For his book The Visual Miscellaneum, David McCandless, along with Lee Byron, had a look at breakups on Facebook, according to status updates. They looked for the phrase "we broke up because" in status updates, and then graphed the frequencies over time. Why they couldn't just look at updates to relationship status, I'm not sure. Notice the peak leading up to the holiday season and spring cleaning. Then there's the people who think it's a funny April Fool's joke to say the broke up with their significant other. Finally, there's the highlight of Mondays, which you might lead you to believe that people like to call it quits during the beginning of the week. [Information is Beautiful | Thanks, Elise]
Cytoscape: An Open Source Platform for Complex Network Analysis and Visualization Visual Mapping.com Twitter StreamGraphs A StreamGraph is shown for the latest 1000 tweets which contain the search word. The default search query is 'data visualization' but a new one can be typed into the text box at the top of the application. You can also enter a Twitter ID preceded by the '@' symbol to see the latest tweets from that user. A parameter to the URL can be used to specify the initial search word. For example, use indiemapper is free - Axis Maps Blog by David Heyman on January 5, 2012 With the start of 2012, we’ve decided to make indiemapper free to use. Since indiemapper launched in 2010, our business has grown and changed to where supporting and maintaining indiemapper is no longer a major part of what we do at Axis Maps every day. To allow us to give it away for free, we’re scaling back what indiemapper does. We’re really happy about this change and we hope you are too. Launch indiemapper
Websites as graphs Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information on the web. Your browser's job is to render the HTML according to the specs (most of the time, at least). HTML consists of so-called tags, like the A tag for links, IMG tag for images and so on. I've used some color to indicate the most used tags in the following way: blue: for links (the A tag)red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)green: for the DIV tagviolet: for images (the IMG tag)yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)black: the HTML tag, the root nodegray: all other tags Here I post a couple of screenshots, and I plan to make the app available as an applet, so that anybody can look at their websites in a new way. Update: Here it is: cnn.com boingboing.net apple.com As always, simplicity rules at Apple's website.
Axis Maps LLC - Cartography. Visualization. Design. Infosthetics: the beauty of data visualization The beauty of information aesthetics: Visual Poetry 06 by Boris Müller. " Boris Müller's newest 'visual theme' for a annual international German literature festival. 2006 the theme consisted of beautiful visualizations of the poetry texts themselves. Each word corresponded to a numerical code by adding the alphabetical values of its letters together. This number was mapped onto the position on a circle, and marked by a red dot. Andrew Vande Moere digs deep in his information channels to gather the most interesting forms of data visualization. Written by Verena Stamen are amongst Andrew’s all time favorites. First, would you quickly sum up your background for us? Way back, I studied Architectural Engineering at the K.U.Leuven University in Belgium. In contrast to most currently existing shared 3D worlds, such virtual architecture is not necessarily based on traditional considerations as climate protection, privacy or constructive needs. Beautiful diagram, again from Stamen !