June 2008
10 posts
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BBC News White Spectrum →
a data visualisation tool which tries to analyze the debate sparked by the BBC White season of programs which aired on BBC2. the interface shows a number of particles floating around in space. each particle represents a sentence taken from the debate & is assigned a color corresponding to the type of emotion (i.e. anger, fear, hurt, confusion, happiness & caring) word found in the...
Watchan “organic software visualization” that shows the history of commits in a software project. a “commit” happens when a developer makes changes to the code or documents & transfers them into the central project repository.
both developers and files are represented as moving elements. when a developer commits a file, it lights up & flies towards that developer. files...
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Wordle Elegant Word Clouds →
an online tool for generating beautiful “word clouds” from user-provided texts, such as plain text files or del.icio.us tags. the clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. users can tweak their clouds with different fonts, layouts & color schemes. users can also print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with friends.
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Twitarcs Twitter Arcs →
an online visualization of the linguistics relationships in the continuous stream of Twitter data. the graph takes the latest 100 tweets for a specific Twitter ID or term of interest, & then creates a list representation of arcs connecting those messages sent to the same users or that use the same primary term. users can click on the left side to load the tweets for a new user, on the...
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Stop Motion Graphic Equalizer →
a stop-frame animation mimicking a graphic equalizer.
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Mobile Phone Usage Collage →
a mobile phone application, freely distributed for Symbian phones, that visualizes personal mobile communication usage patterns. the application sits on the periphery of the machine, monitoring the connectivity through the number & type of calls received, & then subtly displaying those in the form of a generative graphic. “some days will be really colorful & wired, others...
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Visualizing Large Graph →
a collection of about 1,890 graph drawings of matrices in the University of Florida Collection. each of the datasets, here sparse matrices is viewed as the adjacency matrix of an undirected graph, which is laid out by a multilevel graph drawing algorithm. if the graph is disconnected, then the largest connected component is drawn. the largest graph in this collection has 8,863,287 vertices &...
Life →
A Mitsui Fudosan Residencial website featuring interviews of people who live in Mitsui realestate. The project aims for, through the voices of actual residents, a positive review of a Mitsui living.
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TEDsphere talks interface →
an alternative visual interface to browse through all the information & talks from TED talks: inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers & doers. TED sphere offers a ‘different’ way to enjoy this rich knowledge while highlighting the relations between the talks’ content.
videos are presented in- or outside a 3D globe & can be searched by content tags.
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Adobe Launches Acrobat.com →
Adobe is jumping head first into web-based software this evening, announcing the launch of several new services at Acrobat.com. The launch essentially moves Adobe’s traditional strengths of document creation and management software (Acrobat / Adobe Reader) into an online environment, allowing users to create, manage, and share Adobe documents through an account at Acrobat.com – for free and over...