I’ve been looking into network visualization tools for some assignments when Jeff pointed me out to dig labs tools; “stack” from digg, this is what I’d call a true next generation data visualization apparatus. It monitors the real time activity as the stories are being “dugg” and then add them onto a “stack”. The stack elements flash if the same story gets “dugg” again. This real-time interactive display of web activity is an excellent example of how next generation web analytics tool would evolve. A different approach has been taken by digg labs tool swarm where news are connected together in the form of a, well, swarm. These news are shown to get connected together for brief periods of time via a network connection and the nature of connectivity is shown as legend. Visually it looks almost like cellular automata or game of life, quite interesting.
What’s in visualized data for financial markets? Smart money market maps show an exciting way of looking at market situation in a quick and effective way. Different market sectors are divided into squares and then colored according to their performance. Web 2.0 has a big market for visualization tools. How the blogs are linked together? Who is looking at whose profile? How are the people connected together and how do tags identify them? These are all the new areas of interest for advertisers, data analysts and social network analyzers.
Outfoxed (now lijit) has several good Visualization demos and their Basic architecture diagram is very much like AJAX infrastructure. ThinkMap’s Visual Thesaurus is a good example of semantic networks. Tracking the threat provides a network navigator to show “visual link analysis and discovery of entities and relationships in the database”. An effective way of looking at different entities connected together based on open source data. Jeff's professor at UCLA is working on visualization techniques of n-dimensional spaces in three dimensions so I'll add more to it as it comes. University of Maryland has compiled a very good list of visualization tools for different application domains here.http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2005/cmsc838s/viz4all/viz4all_a.html
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