Category: Visualization

SonART is a toolkit for sonnification research which my friend Bill Farkas has been working on. Neat stuff.
For some examples see remapping sensory data
Continue reading SonArt: Sonnification Toolbox

The 3D Visualization Technologies Research Group is part of the National Research Council Institute for Information Technology. They have developed laser scanners that can digitize spaces and objects. (See The Virtual Theater). They have also developed technologies for generating 3D spaces from images/paintings and technologies for searching 3D databases.
Continue reading NRC: 3D Technologies

Govcom.org Foundation Amsterdam is a group that are developing ideas and software around the mapping of debates. They use the Web as evidence for mining and visualizing social issues. It is welcome to see socially interesting projects around data mining and visualization.
Continue reading govcom.org: mapping debates

StÈfan Sinclair posted to a conference a good list of exemplary visualization projects:
Web browsing
OPTE (http://www.opte.org/)
Map.net (http://maps.map.net )
kartOO.com
anemone (http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/anemone/)
Grokker.com
Reference and bibliographic visualization
Visual Thesaurus (http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/ )
RefViz Galaxy & Matrix views (http://www.refviz.com/)
Document structure
XML Structure Navigator (http://sunfire.arts.ualberta.ca/%7Estefan/hcr/HyperPo/XMLStructure/?url=http%3A//www.tei-c.org/P5/Test/teilite.rng)
I think its time to start reflecting on the semiotics of visualization.

Dynamic graph drawing is another neat application on jibble.org. The Java applet (source available as GPL) builds a graph of your sentences as you dialog with an Eliza like bot. I previously blogged the Social Shakespeare Pie Spy tool, grockwel: Research Notes: Visualizing Social Networks. Paul Mutton is building a neat collection of tools and his site is well designed.
This comes courtesy of StÈfan Sinclair.

Newsmap is an effective visualizer of Google News stories that creates treemaps based on the volume of stories for each topic. The interface allows you to compare different national news sets and to show/hide different types of news (world, nation, business…). What’s more, it actually works visually and for looking at the information.
Continue reading Newsmap: Google News Visualizer

ARCHAVE is the site for a 3-D visualization lab at Brown University which has a cave. They have been using it for archaeological projects and electronic literature projects.
Continue reading ARCHAVE: Cave at Brown

Meatball Wiki: TextVisualization is a good summary of the field with example images. Meatball calls itself an “intercommunity or metacommunity” and deals with “online culture, especially how people come together naturally in groups.” The authors, if one takes the Visualization article as an example, are building a solid knowledge wiki. Bravo.
Continue reading Meatball: Text Visualization

THEORIES OF PLAY is a site Matt Didemus did for an independent study which includes a neat little Futurist text toy that generates circles and triangles of text. You paste in some text and choose how many of each (circles and triangles) you want and it generates a SVG. Very nice and clean.

I think we now need a general environment for such text toys like Proce55ing.

The site for TAPoR at the University of Alberta has an interesting feature – a dynamic site map. In the lower left of every page (if your browser supports it) is a graph of the page you are looking at with the connections to other pages in the site. This worked for me in Safari, but not IE on the Mac. StÈfan Sinclair showed it to me as just one application of visualization. Now… can we turn it into a TAPoRware tool?