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Archive for ‘Network Visualization’ Category

• X-Men Universe Relationship Map

  Contrary to what a lot people might think they know from the movies, the X-Men universe stretches out quite a ways with lots of characters and lots of relationships. This…

• Visual Representation of Tabular Information – How to Fix the Uncommunicative Table

  This is a guest post by Martin Krzywinski who develops Circos, a GPL-licensed (free) visualization tool that can help you show relationships in data. This article is based on a…

• Campaign Contributions to the 110th Congress

  This network graph shows common contributions between representatives in Congress: A relationship exists between two elements in the visual if they share a relationship with at least one member of…

• Phrase Net Shows the Secret Life of Words

  Many Eyes, the social data analysis site, released another visualization tool - Phrase Nets: When you read a book it can feel as if you’re encountering a series of hidden…

• Ranking and Mapping Scientific Knowledge – eigenfactor

  The Eigenfactor Project and Moritz Stefaner collaborate in these interactive visualizations "based on Eigenfactor Metrics and hierarchical clustering to explore emerging patterns in citation networks." Yeah... or in other words,…

• Data Visualization Sketches for Google Search Results

  Grid/plane, a studio centered in Portland Orgeon, collaborated with Instrument, to visualize media buzz across various social media outlets. The client? Google. Working in tandem with Google Analytics, the Flash-based,…

• Researchers Map Chaos Inside Cancer Cell

  The thing about cancer cells is that they suck. Their DNA is all screwy. They've got chunks of DNA ripped out and reinserted into different places, which is just plain…

• Visualizing YouTube, Blogs, Twitter, Flickr, People…

  From the guys who brought you 6pli and other like-minded network visualization tools, Bestiario takes 6pli to the next level. 6pli lets users explore their del.icio.us bookmarks. This work, in…

• mæve Installation Shows Relationships Between Projects

  The Interface Design Team at the University of Potsdam revealed mæve last week. It's an installation that lets users place physical project cards on an interactive surface and see the…

• Interactive Graph Visualization System – Skyrails

  Skyrails is an interactive graph visualization system that looks a lot like a video game. Explore relationships, visit nodes, and immerse yourself in the data. As I watch the demo…

• Visualize Genomes and Genomic Data – Circos

  Circos is a project by Martin Krzywinski that lets you upload genomic data and visualize it as a network like the one above. It is easy to plot, format and…

• Facebook Lexicon – Trends for Writings on the Wall

  Facebook recently released Lexicon which is like a Google Trends or Technorati for wall posts. Type in a word or a group of words, and you can see the buzz…

• What Interests Do Your Facebook Friends Have in Common?

  Nexus, by Ivan Kozik, lets you explore your Facebook social network and find out what your friends have in common. Nexus kind of caught me off guard, because it actually…

• 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe

  I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking about all the data visualization I've seen for Twitter tweets. I felt like I'd seen a lot,…

• Names Mentioned in Debates by Major Presidential Candidates

  As usual, The New York Times graphics department churns out another useful graphic. This time it's in network diagram form.