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16 Awesome Data Visualization ToolsMay 15, 2007 - 1:18 am PDT - by Adam Ostrow 47 Comments
From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in
the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are
changing the way we view content. We found the following 16 apps
both visually stunning and delightfully useful.Visualize Your
Network with Fidgt
Fidgt is a desktop application that aims to let you visualize your
network and its predisposition for different types of things like
music and photos. Currently, the service has integrated with Flickr
and last.fm, so for example, Fidgt might show you if your network
is attracted or repelled by Coldplay, or if it has a predisposition
to taking photos of their weekend partying. As the service expands
to support other networks (they suggest integrations with Facebook,
digg, del.icio.us, and several others are in the works), this one
could become very interesting.
See Where Flickr Photos are Coming From
Flickrvision combines Google Maps and Flickr to provide a real-time
view of where in the world Flickr photos are being uploaded from.
You can then enlarge the photo or go directly to the users Flickr
page.
See Where Twitters are Coming From
From the maker of Flickrvision (David Troy) comes Twittervision,
which, you guessed it, shows where in the world the most recent
Twitters are coming from. Troy has taken things one step further
with Twitter vision and has given each user a page where you can
see all of their location updates.
New Ways to Visualize Real-Time Activity on Digg
Digg Labs offers three different ways to visualize activity in
real-time on the site, building on the original Digg Spy feature.
BigSpy places stories at the top of the screen as they are dugg.
Stories with more diggs show up in a bigger font, and next to each
one you can see the number of diggs in red:
Swarm visualizes stories with circles that grow and become brighter in color as they receive more diggs:
Stack shows Digg users stacking up on top of stories, so as more diggs come in, the higher the respective stack grows.
Visualize Words and their Synonyms
As the name implies, Visual Thesaurus allows you to navigate the
dictionary visually. By typing in a word, you can see its synonyms,
and then navigate to one of them to see its synonymous and so on
and so forth.
Visualize Flickr Tags Over Time
Taglines from Yahoo! Research allows you to visualize Flickr tags
over time. For each day, dating back to June 4, 2004, the eight
most popular tags are shown with a photo selected for each. You can
view Taglines in waterfall mode, which displays eight tags and
respective photos in eight rows, or in river mode, where tags and
their photos flow from right to left.
Search the Web Visually
Quintura allows you to enter in a search topic and then presents a
split screen with a tag cloud on one half and search results in the
other. In this example, a search for The Sopranos brings up a cloud
with links like hbo and television on the left, with direct links
to web sites on the right.
KartOO is a visual search engine that employs several different visualization methods. In the following search for The Sopranos, the left side reveals folders with additional related topics, while the right presents a cloud of potential links to follow. Upon mousing over one of these links, the left side is replaced with a Snap.com-style preview, while the right side shows how the link relates to other topics.
walk2web lets you start by entering a URL, and then allows you visually browse web sites that are linked from it. On the right, a large screen capture of the selected web site is shown to give you a preview of site content.
Visualize Click Data with CrazyEgg
For webmasters looking for a visual output of where users click on
their site, CrazyEggs heat maps are an option. The recent upgrade
of Google Analytics includes a Site Overlay with click data, so it
may be just a matter of time until it also adds a heat map
feature.
Search Real Estate Visually
Trulia and Zillow allow you to search real estate listing with
satellite imagery and maps. In the following example from Trulia,
you are allowed to switch between street maps and satellite view.
Once you have found a property in a desirable location, you can
click on the push pin icon to see a thumbnail image and details
about the home. Using the search tools on the left, you can refine
your search to only show properties meeting certain criteria.
Visualize Digg Data like a Nuclear Submarine Commander
Two applications from Brian Shaler allow you to use a radar map to
visualize Digg data. The radar map is organized by placing users
with the oldest Digg accounts in the center.Digg RADAR shows you
where on the map diggs are coming from:
The Map of Digg Friendship displays a users location on the map along with the number of friends and fans they have:
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3 4 5 Show All 1Ali Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 1:37 am Some interesting applications there,
never heard about walk2web before.All these web startups happening,
hard to keep up.
2Kris Hoet Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 3:05 am Very cool list, there are a few I hadnt
heard of before that I need to check out.Did you hear about Twingly
already? Too bad it only works as a screensaver, but I think it
would fit in this list as well, pretty cool.- Kris
3Chicago 2016 Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 3:24 am I checked out that Digg tool the other
day, but it looks like there are some other interesting things Ill
need to check out. Thanks for the list!
4Basic Thinking Blog Figdt Visualizer Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 4:43 am [...] Mashable weitere Artikel: Bloggen:
was bringt mehr Traffic? || Trackback-URL Artikelstatistik:
[...]
5nicky Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 5:34 am During the french presidential elections,
the Observatoire prsidentiel had develop very nice graphical tools
that represent social networks.
6Adam Ostrow Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 5:39 am Glad you enjoyed it there are a lot of
Digg visualization tools out there, perhaps enough to warrant its
own list sometime soon :)
7Adam Ostrow Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 5:40 am Looks pretty interesting, although I cant
read French unfortunately. Thanks for sharing :)
8Adam Ostrow Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 5:42 am Had not seen Twingly yet. Just Googled it
and it looks pretty neat. Thanks for sharing.
9E-democracy2.0 :: Pillole 2.0 :: May :: 2007 Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 5:44 am [...] sentirete parlare sempre pi spesso:
le potenzialit sono abnormi! Intanto ecco un elenco completo delle
piattaforme di visualizzazione disponibili ad [...]
10Jon Williams Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 10:53 am Anyone know any good del.icio.us
ones?
11Anonymous Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 12:08 pm IMHO, Trulias heat maps are an awesome
visualization tool.
Neighboroo builds on the idea and uses Trulias data services to map
things like crime stats and income to a microarray inspired
coloring of cities and neighborhoods.
12Alex Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 2:01 pm How about http://www.wefeelfine.org/
?Nominated for three 2007 Webby Awards in the following categories:
Best Navigation/Structure, Best Visual Design / Aesthetic, and Net
Art.
13BayTaper Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 2:02 pm Does anyone know of a generic data
visualization application? I need an app that I can feed in data
and their associations and then see the visualization of that data.
Its for a project of mine, and Id love to find something that could
help me visualize this unique data set I have. Suggestions?
14Adam Ostrow Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 2:13 pm wow that one is really neat, will
definitely include it when we revisit the topic :)
15Shawn Allen Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 2:25 pm Off the top of my head I only know one:
6pli by Bestiario. Definitely keep an eye on these guys.
16Beau Gunderson Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 2:33 pm You can see a visualization of the number
of Flickr photos by 1-degree squares of longitude and latitude
here:http://www.beaugunderson.com/flickr/
17Visual tools : Tu dosis de tecnologa Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 2:52 pm [...] Via mashable [...]
18Blackout Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 2:52 pm I love how on Visual Thesaurus the word
Power leads to the word Powerless then Impotence.
19Shane Cassidys Blog Blog Archive Visualization of Data
Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 3:04 pm [...]
http://mashable.com/2007/05/15/16-awesome-data-visualization-tools/
[...]
20Mauricio Pastrana Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 3:56 pm heres another oldie but still worthy of
this list, its a 2d visualization of google news and popularityy
(and is pretty good as a trend marker of sorts):Newsmap is an
application that visually reflects the constantly changing
landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap
visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of
information gathered by the
aggregator.http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/-mp
21LordSalisburry Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 4:47 pm Where does the data, that these
applications are running on, come from?
22mobmash blog Blog Archive links for 2007-05-16 Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 5:22 pm [...] 16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools
(tags: data visualisation mashups technology web2.0) [...]
23John Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 6:08 pm Another one you missed
was:http://tools.google.com/gapminder
24Unatine :: blog : links for 2007-05-16 Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 6:29 pm [...] 16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools
(tags: visualisation tools) [...]
25Eric Blue Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 6:31 pm Great list!
26Greg Sadetsky Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 6:48 pm Twittervision 3D!
27Adam Ostrow Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 7:01 pm mostly from APIs that the respective
companies offer (Digg, Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps, etc.)
2816 Awesome Data Visualization Tools (With Pictures) News
Coctail Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 7:07 pm [...] Data Visualization Tools
(WithPictures) Filed under: Uncategorized recar @ 2:02 am 16
Awesome Data Visualization Tools (With Pictures) From navigating
the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where twitters and diggs are
coming from, [...]
29[ Feeds 4 All ] :: 16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools :: May
:: 2007 Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 7:18 pm [...] Read More @ 16 Awesome Data
Visualization Tools [...]
30Brian Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 8:01 pm Woo hoo! Made it onto the end of the
list! :-) Theres also the heat-map version of that big green mess
of lines: http://brian.shaler.name/digg/heatmap/
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