Data Visualization
Piggybacking off of my previous post on data and infographics…
Data visualization is a programming and design concept that is becoming increasingly more popular thanks to Web 2.0 standards and the integration of those standards across platforms. Stunning visualizations have been created thanks to Digg, Last.fm, flickr, and del.icio.us (just to name a few) and used by programmers to create organic, experimental designs. Many of the designs resemble complex molecule structures, hence when I find them organic and naturally flowing. Below are some of the data visualizations sets that I have stumbled upon that show elegant and interesting designs of data. Some are in realtime, while some are not.
Digg Stack is a real-time news aggregator of some of the most popular stories users are currently viewing from around the globe.
Digg Swarm is much like Digg Stack, but instead of showing which news stories are the current trend, Swarm shows how the Diggers, users, “swarm” around a story and show the correlation of how users are connected. Swarm makes use of molecule structures to show the connection.
Kunal Anand was able to create some of the most visually stunning and organic piece of data visualization based on del.icio.us results. Below are a few example of his work.
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