Random Etc. - Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About

The project Invisible Shape of Things Past by ART+COM enables users to transform film sequences into interactive, virtual objects. This transformation is based on the camera parameters relevant to a particular film sequence on screen: (movement, perspective, focal length). The individual frames of the film are lined up along the path of the camera. The angle of the individual frames relative to the virtual camera path depends on the view from the actual camera, whilst the size of the individual frames depends on the focal length used. The rows of pixels at the frames’ edges define the outer membrane of the film object.

Implementation
VIZ4All (University of Maryland) is a compilation of web based application done by Information Visualization class of 2006 spring. This work was inspired by VIZ4ALL project of Information Visualization spring 2005. The applications reviewed by last year’s VIZ4ALL are excluded in this year’s review. Additional to listing new web based applications that emerged in the web domain over the past year, we also discuss mashups in Web2.0, color design issue in web and list links to information visualization related companies.
Scientists and researchers have known for a long time that the best way to decipher vast quantities of data is to display it visually. Instantly recognizing patterns in a chart, graph or diagram “is wired into our visual system as part of the evolution of humans. Our focus is on visualizing abstract data set which can have various graphic representation.
Each application is categorized based on the following classification; Implementation, Application Domain, Visualization Category.

Many Eyes
The heart of Many Eyes is a collection of data visualizations. Many Eyes allows you to view and discuss visualizations, view and discuss data sets and to create visualizations from existing data sets.

The Gapminder World 2006, beta
Another tool by google to map data according to location.

Martin Wattenberg
Martin Wattenberg is a researcher at IBM whose work focuses on visual explorations of culturally significant data. His algorithmic approach is informed by his background in mathematics. Wattenberg is equally known for his scientific and applied work in the field of information visualization, and for his information-based digital artwork. In his work, the mathematical underpinnings of a computer program are not simply tools used to create art; they are the core of the artworks themselves. Technology Review recently named him “one of the world’s 100 top young innovators.”

The Baby Name Wizard: NameVoyager
Explore the sea of names, letter by letter…watch trends rise and fall, and dive in deeper to see your favorite name’s place in the historical tides.
The Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager is an interactive portrait of America’s name choices.Start with a “sea” of nearly 5000 names. Type a letter, and you’ll zoom in to focus on how that initial has been used over the past century. Then type a few more letters, or a name. Each stripe is a timeline of one name, its width reflecting the name’s changing popularity. If a name intrigues you, click on its stripe for a closer look.

THEY RULE
interactive graph of the most influential directors & companies in the US. make your own selection & explore various spatial configurations to discover unknown relationships between seemingly unrelated or competing companies, or download maps made by other users.

TextArc.org Home
an online application arranges the words of an entire text twice: once in an arc, & once on the inside on positions averaged on their occurences relatively to the whole text. words can be interactively explored & a dynamic, animated curved line connects the words in the order they appear in the text.

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