Visualization

"The Pivot Collection Tool for Microsoft Office Excel is an Excel add-in for quickly building Pivot collection prototypes. It is the quickest way to get started building collections, as it enables you to build a complete collection without first diving into the Collection XML (CXML) Schema or Deep Zoom image details. The tool is primarily intended for rapid iteration when designing a collection (see also: Collection Design). For information on tools specific to Deep Zoom imagery, see: Collection Image Content." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms. matplotlib can be used in python scripts, the python and ipython shell (ala matlab or mathematica), web application servers, and six graphical user interface toolkits. matplotlib tries to make easy things easy and hard things possible. You can generate plots, histograms, power spectra, bar charts, errorcharts, scatterplots, etc, with just a few lines of code. For a sampling, see the screenshots, thumbnail gallery, and examples directory" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

thanks to this post for mentioning the library: http://biostumblematic.wordpress.com/2009... - Mike Chelen

I've found matplotlib to be one of the more mature plotting libraries out there. It's also a great reason to use tools like f2py to bring data into Python. - Christopher Granade

"Torstein Hønsi from Vevstein Web has created a really impressive Javascript charting library. Highcharts allows a developer to easily include interactive charts in websites and webapplications. It currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types. The graphics are rendered using the Canvas tag or occasionally SVG & VML. The supported browsers are Safari, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer+ and it also runs great on the iPhone. The default skin for the visualizations does quite a good job regarding readybility and clarity. Unfortunately there are some Powerpoint-esque skins as well (please, just cut them out). One really nice feature is the zoomable timeseries, which I haven’t seen before in any Javascript library. The library is free to use for non-commercial applications and there are commercial licenses as well. I look foreward to see some real-life examples of it but the Demo Gallery looks good so far." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

http://www.highcharts.com - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"Microsoft Pivot running to show collection of Magic: The Gathering cards and NFL Players. I thought that this kind of visualization would be uber useful for online personals!!! :) Soundtrack by SML Music http://getpivot.com" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

Great visualization & data mining! - TrafficBug

"I’ve gone back to using another wonderful visualization package, PyMol. I find that it hits the sweet spot between easy setup of the scene I’d like and generating nice figures. The specific feature that I’ve come to rely on quite heavily is the built-in ray tracer. There are three available ray tracing modes in addition to the default, each of which has its uses. Mode 1 will place a black outline around your structure, which can help make the secondary structure elements visually distinct. Mode 2 is really interesting, in that it only renders the outline. I find this especially helpful if I want to show something in an overlay without obscuring what is behind it. Mode 3 produces “quantized” color in addition to the outline, giving your figure a very cartoonish appearance. I find that this one has to be used with care :) " - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"Kim Asendorf from Kaubonschen.com has notified me about the release of the SPAM VISUALIZATION website. It’s a collection of various visualization methods to display the Spam Catalog database. The application let the user examine multiple attributes of the spam database with different views like: wordScore, quantityGrid or timeTable:" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways. "We take web search further, away from endless lists of blue text links and towards a more intuitive experience. We want you to get a good overview of a subject, find useful information and be inspired with Spezify. We mix all media types and make no difference between blogs, videos, microblogs and images. Everything communicates and helps building the bigger picture. We collect websites and are aiming to use as many relevant, free and open API:s as possible to generate extensive and diverse search results." Spezify was founded in Stockholm, Sweden by Felix af Ekenstam and Per Persson who have over 10 years experience within the creative digital industry. A beta was released late April 2009 and the first official version went online on the 15th of June. The developers are constantly working on Spezify, adding API:s and enhancing the search experience for upcoming versions. http://spezify.com http://twitter.com/spezify - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"At Microsoft Live Labs, we're all about experiments, and Pivot is our most ambitious to date. Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. For more information, see http://www.getpivot.com ." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

I guess this is abt data warehousing/data mining, indexing and exploring systems rather than abt pivot tables in excel. - TrafficBug

@TrafficBug This is about image search - how to visualize large amount of data while performing image searches using different available metadata - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"Our seminar series offers brief presentations by senior Wolfram Research technical staff on topics of interest to Mathematica newcomers as well as to experienced users. These seminars provide you with an easy way to learn about what's new in Mathematica and find out about emerging technologies. They give you a special opportunity to learn from Mathematica experts, and best of all, they're free! Online seminars run 30-60 minutes and include live Q&A with Wolfram Research technical staff. Online seminar dates and times are listed on the Wolfram Education Group seminar calendar. On Demand seminar recordings are now available, so you can watch anytime." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"1609 webcams found all around the world, placed on a geographical world map & synchronized. Video piece made for a french art exhibition in 2004. Music by Henrik José aka BLISS." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

@TrafficBug but where's the visualization map? - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"Your favourite source of inspiration in datavisualization and infographics has now a new face for multi-touch devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, Andriod, Storm or Pre. The current design is best viewed in a modern browser like Firefox or Safari on a desktop computer or laptop. Thus the user-experience of browsing our content on a mobile device was a bit impaired. To improve this I’ve decided to create a dedicated theme for these devices. Here’s what has changed and how it was achieved: I evaluated that the most important interaction is browsing the posts quickly and getting a bit of a clue about the discussed topic or visualization. So a chronologically ordered list with title, thumbnails and some meta data seemed to be the adequate interface. The excerpt can be expanded to get further insight. New posts are loaded with AJAX to make browsing a streamlined process without interruptions. The detail page of a post is very similar to the current design including commenting,... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"GE worked together with Seed Visualization under the direction of Ben Fry on a way to visualize the cost of health. The outcome is simple and easy to use, but is it eloquent enough to show the facts as intended? The data driving the visualization is a compination of Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and 500′000 records from GE’s proprietary database. The result is an interactive Polar Area Pie Chart created in Processing. The wedges are color-coded representing chronic conditions. The size is is calculated by the radius (showing the costs) and the angle (showing the perecentage of patients suffering from the condition). The costs are divided in costs for the individual and the insurer. Numerical information about the costs is shown once a wedge is selected. A slider let’s the user select an age and focus the data on a specific age. I’d like to direct you to a great article from Robert Kosara from eagereyes.com discussing the usefulness of the visualization. Hat tip to FlowingData & Infosthetics" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Customisable visualisation system. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~wyos... Trade data courtesy of Lothar Krempel Macaque data courtesy of Linton Freeman first soundtrack by SGX, second one from suikoden celtic collection II" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"http://weshowthemoney.com is a visual approch to the US election donation. We have taken the data from National Institute on Money in State Politics a nonpartisan organization dedicated to the documentation and research on campaign financing at the state level. For now we have used only data about Governors elected in 2006 and the top 100 donors. Currently we show only donors who donated to more than one candidate or a single donation bigger than 100000 $." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

Great visualization! - TrafficBug

Basic: pie chart, donut chart, stacked area chart, stacked bar - ben lorica

Advanced: Treemap, Voronoi diagram, Nightingale rose graph, The Everything - ben lorica

"Google just released a new Google Labs project called Image Swirl. It is a visual search engine for images built to explore search queries from different visual perspectives. Google’s official description reads: Google Image Swirl organizes image search results into groups and sub-groups, based on their visual and semantic similarity and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

Direct link to site: http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/ - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"Needless to tell you that I am a big fan of the work done by The New York Times Online. The combination of engaging story-telling with sophisticated visual aesthetics and simplicity in usage makes playing with their interactive creations an delighful experience. The Innovation Portfolio is a place where they showcase some of their best creations and of course it is a well designed application itself. The innovations are represented by color-coded bubbles grouped in Virtual, Multimedia, Personal Tools, Interactive Graphics, User-Submitted and Applications. Once the user hovers over a bubble a small preview is shown and after selecting the bubble the feature is explained with a short video. The NYT also provides some insight into user engagement by showing the actual page-views along with the average time spent with the feature. The user can view the feature directly on NYT Online or download a PDF-version of the description." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

Interactive site: http://innovate.whsites.net/ - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Visualized: Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, 12 Angry Men, Primer. - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

terrific :) - FedericaB.

like it!!! - vjay

Google Translate ru2en: "An interesting variant of Google Maps API site http://hongkong.edushi.com: Whole otrenderennaya 3D-version of Hong-Kong in isometric projection. Available 4 step scale. Titanic work, despite the fact that Hong Kong is not very large to the city - little more than 30x30 km (area of 1100 sq. km). On the screenshots can be seen that the houses are drawn very, very detailed. Almost all the buildings on the map signed by many of you can click and uvidt pop-up information bar. Site allows you to switch from 3D to the usual type of map provided by Google or satellite imagery but in reality 3D map in no way connected with the geographical map. Tile mechanism Google Maps API is used here only for convenient display, navigation and zooming. Nothing technically difficult in that map there, but the scale and attention to detail is astounding. I wonder how many person-months spent on the creation of three-dimensional model, whether to use the automatic construction of models for the photo?" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

original text: "Интересный вариант применения Пoogle Maps API на сайте http://hongkong.edushi.com: целиком отрендеренная 3D-версия Гонгконга в изометрической проекции. Доступно 4 шага масштабирования. Титаническая работа, несмотря на то что Гонгконг не очень большой по площади город - чуть больше 30х30 км (площадь 1100 кв.км). На скриншотах видно что дома отрисованы весьма и весьма... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

via veo http://friendfeed.com/veo... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

link to generator: http://www.signalpatterns.com/persona... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Taking it is on my very long 'to do' list ... - Irma Vermaat

"This is mainly an experimentation with soft bodies using toxi's verlet springs. The data refers to the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent. The visual emphasis is on their decline. More on that project http://mondeguinho.com/master... UPDATE – some minor fixes: no flickering and more robust simulation." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Irene Ros offers a way to analyze traffic data in a fresh and exciting way. The visualization lets you explore traffic patterns of MBTA commuters across the various lines and stations over a single day." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

This interactive application from The Wall Street Journal provides an historical view into the national unemployment rate since 1948. Provided with data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics the application does a nice job in immediate insight. /// The data is organized in a table with the years from 1942–2009 as column headers and the months of the year are shown as the rows. The cells are filled with a color scheme ranging from red (high jobless rate) to green (low jobless rate). This gives an easy to understand heatmap-like overview. The interaction model is very basic and only provides a tooltip functionality and some additional filter for recessions. It would have been nice to implement some information with higher granularity. But the overall visual design is clean and easy to read. - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

link to app: http://online.wsj.com/article... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

I'd really like to see that refactored as a collaborative Google Wave gadget. - Dan Hagon

@Neil: WikiPathways is intended exactly for that type of collaborative pathway creation. WikiPathways pathway format is based on, and developed in cooperation with, http://www.genmapp.org. So admittedly it's not a widely supported standard, but at least it wasn't a complete new invention. SBML / SBGN support is on its way. Re Google Wave: unfortunately, all this work predated Google Wave by several years... - Martijn van Iersel

generated from opensimulator wiki figures http://opensimulator.org/wiki... - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

I have used Flot (the graphing one). It is very slick! - Lindsay