Google Tool Visualizes Public Data in Animated Charts http://mashable.com/2010/03/08/google-public-data-explorer/ Google Tool Visualizes Public Data in Animated Charts
Google launched Google Public Data Explorer.
The new Google Labs tool offers a visual way to look at and analyze large public data sets on a variety of popular search topics.
Periodic Table of World Internet Facts http://bit.ly/8tnbtV Periodic Table of World Internet Facts
Google Visualization API Gallery http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery.html Google Visualization API Gallery
This gallery lists JavaScript visualizations built on the Google Visualization API. Some of these have been written by Google, and some have been written by third parties. Links point to instructions for and demonstrations of each visualization.
Visualization Options Available in Many Eyes http://bit.ly/88ECod Visualization Options Available in Many Eyes
Finding the right way view your data is as much an art as a science. The visualizations provided on Many Eyes range from the ordinary to the experimental. We're deliberately providing a wide array of possibilities since this is an experimental site—and expect to see more ...
Flowing Data http://flowingdata.com/ Flowing Data
FlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better - mainly through data visualization.
Money spent, reps at the gym, time you waste, and personal information you enter online are all forms of data. How can we understand these data flows? Data visualization lets non-experts make sense of it all.
Information is Beautiful http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ Information is Beautiful
These days I’m an independent visual & data journalist. A passion of mine is for visualizing information – facts, data, ideas, subjects, issues, statistics, questions – all with the minimum of words.
I’m interested in how designed information can help us understand the world, cut through BS and reveal hidden connections, patterns and stories underneath. Or, failing that, it can just look cool!
My pet-hate is pie charts. Love pie. Hate pie-charts.
Information Aesthetics Weblog http://infosthetics.com/ Information Aesthetics Weblog
Inspired by Lev Manovich's definition of "information aesthetics", this weblog explores the symbiotic relationship between creative design and the field of information visualization.
More specifically, it collects projects that represent data or information in original or intriguing ways.
Glasshouse http://tinyurl.com/c4gypw The software, Glasshouse by Green Phosphor, lets you take data from either a spreadsheet or database query and place a 3D representation of it into a virtual world environment where it can then be explored interactively.
Users are inserted into the virtual world as an avatar which can then manipulate the visualization of the data by drilling down into it, re-sorting it, or even just spinning it around to see it from all angles.
DBpedia http://dbpedia.org DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
See presentation at www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
Data Visualisations of the Delicious website http://mashable.com/2009/02/20/delicious-new-tools/ Data Visualisations of the Delicious (Social Bookmarking) website "There are some fascinating tools out there for seeing Delicious in totally new, visual, ways. Some of them, like Delicious Soup, may seem a bit silly at first, but they grow on you as you explore what they can actually do."
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches http://tinyurl.com/yo3a6q Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results.
In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years.
Wikipedia page on Data Visualisation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_visualization Wikipedia page on Data Visualisation "Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, defined as information which has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information."
The main goal of data visualization is to communicate information clearly and effectively through graphical means. It doesn’t mean that data visualization needs to look boring to be functional or extremely sophisticated to look beautiful.
Data visualization is closely related to Information graphics, Information visualization, Scientific visualization and Statistical graphics. According to Frits Post (2003) data visualization is currently a very active and vital area of research, teaching and development. The term unites the established field of scientific visualization and the more recent field of information visualization
7 Beautiful Data Visualizations (With Videos) http://mashable.com/2008/11/24/data-visualizations/ 7 Beautiful Data Visualizations (With Videos) "Data visualizations can be gorgeous, but images often don’t do them justice, especially if we’re talking live, real-time visualizations (some of which require a lot of processing power and can’t even be run on a regular desktop computer).
We’ve dug out 7 videos of awesome data visualizations you simply must see."