Category: Visualization

Implicit Structure and the Dynamics of Blogspace is a paper by the folks at HP on visualizing the propagation of information. Interesting use of the work epidemic. See also Blog Epidemic Analyzer – I’m not quite sure how it works, but they seem to crawl memes and then create visualization.

TouchGraph is graph visualization tools that has been used to visualize relationships between web pages and blogs. Try their GoogleBrowser. Here is what the graph of the TAPoR site looks like, View image.

BlogStreet : Visual Neighborhood uses TouchGraph to show the neighborhood of a blog.
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Your Literary Masterpiece Was Delicious is post in a blog called Idle Words which discusses a cool visualization to SVG that Maciej Ceglowski put together. Another graph of words and characters done in perl and other packages.

Matt drew my attention to PieSpy in a comment. Here is a link to information and downloadable code, PieSpy – Inferring and Visualizing Social Network on IRC. See the page on Social Shakespeare where there are graphs of the networks of people in plays and animations of the networks over the extent of the play.

How can we visualize the evolution of documents?

Here is a cool IBM project, history flow that shows flow over time of source code. Neat.

Navigating large bodies of text by D. Small is an IBM Systems Journal paper that discusses 3-D navigation of text. A bit old now, but cool.

What can we do with visualization?

evl :: electronic visualization laboratory are pioneers in this field having invented the “cave” and other visualization technologies.

valence | ars 2001 | benjamin fry is a work that uses text visualization to explore two German texts by Goethe and Wittgenstein.
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Visualizing Keyword Distribution Across Multidisciplinary C-Space is an interesting article on using VisualNet to visualize available titles in a library.
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