Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Data Visualization

Here are some great Data Visualization links for you to check out, it's worth the time:

Newsmap shows the changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. The size of data blocks represent their popularity at the moment.
Digg Stack visualizes the way Digg stories stack as users digg them. The more diggs a story gets, the larger is the stack.
Time Magazine lets you "take a look at America by the numbers" (population statistics)
We Feel Fine is a very cute application that shows human feelings, calculated from a large number of weblogs.
Universe DayLife displays events, connections and news.
Fidg’t Visualizer allows you to play around with your network. You interface with the Visualizer through Flickr and LastFM tags, using any tag to create a Magnet.
Voyage is an RSS-feader which displays the latest news in the “gravity area”.
walk2web makes cool graphs of incoming and outgoing links; it also has audio reading your blog title.

Music Related:

This post took off from a roughly related talk I had with tyxod about Last.fm and how much he liked it.

Last.fm. Downloading the application gives you some cool functions. Use it as a fire and forget
dj for your parties.
Burst Labs suggests connected items to your queries in a bubble.
Musiclens suggests music responding to your mood as a diagram.
Musicmap creates an expandable web with interconnections of your search.
Musicovery has a great interface for choosing your music taste and lets you listen and browse through similar songs.

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