MAPPING EXAMPLES-
• 3D maps
• Etsy geolocator
• http://www.etsy.com/geolocator.php?fs=1
Absolutly nothing to do with science, but just an idea of visualization technic. another sleek shopping interface as an interactive 3D world globe illustrating the location of Etsy sellers. users can search products by tags, materials, seller names or location. from the creator of Google Newsmap.
Absolutly nothing to do with science, but just an idea of visualization technic. another sleek shopping interface as an interactive 3D world globe illustrating the location of Etsy sellers. users can search products by tags, materials, seller names or location. from the creator of Google Newsmap.
• Competitive Edge Explorer
• http://mobilab.mit.edu/mashup/futureboston/
a 3D map-like visualization of the particular factors that help make Boston competitive in the global marketplace, such as innovation, education, income, culture or housing cost.
the "competitive edge explorer" visualization tool allows people to interactively compare the geographical distribution of abstract concepts such as culture, quality of life & innovation, explore where is job growth is occuring, or check the areas where income is high & housing cost is low.
a 3D map-like visualization of the particular factors that help make Boston competitive in the global marketplace, such as innovation, education, income, culture or housing cost.
the "competitive edge explorer" visualization tool allows people to interactively compare the geographical distribution of abstract concepts such as culture, quality of life & innovation, explore where is job growth is occuring, or check the areas where income is high & housing cost is low.
• London Air Pollution in 3D
•
Author(s):
Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith (et al)
Institution:
University College London and King's College
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.londonair.org.uk/london/asp/virtualmaps.asp
Project Description:
Since the arrival of Google Earth there has been a lot of interesting Geo-Data Visualization projects where the overlay of data becomes useful in communicating key issues to the public at large. A great example of this approach is this 3D exploration of air pollution in London.
In July 2006, an interactive three-dimensional map that allows users to "fly" above London to see pollution hotspots was launched by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) - University College London and King's College. The easy-to-use tool allows transport and urban planners, as well as the general public, to zoom in on different areas to see how clean particular neighbourhoods are. It is the first time air pollution for an entire city has been related to the built environment. The map also provides projections of air quality up to 2010, taking into account measures adopted at local and national government levels to improve the air Londoners breathe, such as the uptake in catalytic converters and constraints on factory emissions.
The London Air Quality Network, which hosts the web-based map, was aware that two-dimensional representations can be difficult for non-specialists to grasp, and so seized upon UCL CASA's suggestion to use their expertise in 3D mapping to create a simple but effective tool. Users can already choose to focus on roads and railways, the River Thames, green spaces and the congestion charge zone. Air quality can be viewed by overall level of pollution, or by key pollutants such as the particulate matter PM10 or oxides of nitrogen.
There's also a great video on YouTube that provides a fly through London and its polluted arteries.
Author(s):
Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith (et al)
Institution:
University College London and King's College
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.londonair.org.uk/london/asp/virtualmaps.asp
Project Description:
Since the arrival of Google Earth there has been a lot of interesting Geo-Data Visualization projects where the overlay of data becomes useful in communicating key issues to the public at large. A great example of this approach is this 3D exploration of air pollution in London.
In July 2006, an interactive three-dimensional map that allows users to "fly" above London to see pollution hotspots was launched by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) - University College London and King's College. The easy-to-use tool allows transport and urban planners, as well as the general public, to zoom in on different areas to see how clean particular neighbourhoods are. It is the first time air pollution for an entire city has been related to the built environment. The map also provides projections of air quality up to 2010, taking into account measures adopted at local and national government levels to improve the air Londoners breathe, such as the uptake in catalytic converters and constraints on factory emissions.
The London Air Quality Network, which hosts the web-based map, was aware that two-dimensional representations can be difficult for non-specialists to grasp, and so seized upon UCL CASA's suggestion to use their expertise in 3D mapping to create a simple but effective tool. Users can already choose to focus on roads and railways, the River Thames, green spaces and the congestion charge zone. Air quality can be viewed by overall level of pollution, or by key pollutants such as the particulate matter PM10 or oxides of nitrogen.
There's also a great video on YouTube that provides a fly through London and its polluted arteries.
• Aesthetic maps and Visualization
• dynamics design
• http://dynamicdiagrams.com/case_studies/holtzbrinck_map.html
Holtzbrinck Web Map
Author(s):
(unknown)
Institution:
Dynamic Diagrams
Year:
1999
URL:
http://dynamicdiagrams.com/case_studies/holtzbrinck_map.html
Project Description:
By 1999, the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's many companies and subsidiaries had created hundreds of public Web sites. Dynamic Diagrams undertook a comprehensive study of these sites, giving Holtzbrinck a benchmark to use for its future Internet strategies. The study included all divisions, products, and joint ventures of Holtzbrinck for which a Web site could be found - representing 18 countries and 9 languages. Collecting information on each of over 150 sites was just the start of the process. The goal was to show the organizational groupings of the sites, the features they had in common, and the Web links between them.
To communicate the complete scope of Holtzbrinck's Web presence, the designers at Dynamic Diagrams created a wall-sized diagram that shows all of the sites in one "Web map." When viewed in its entirety the Web map quickly reveals the group or groups to which each site belongs. Close up, the map provides information about each site's content, home country, language, and status. Inside each circle is an image of the site's home page. The diagram and a 200-page book containing a summary of each site were presented at Holtzbrinck's annual meeting in Stuttgart Germany in May 1999.
Holtzbrinck Web Map
Author(s):
(unknown)
Institution:
Dynamic Diagrams
Year:
1999
URL:
http://dynamicdiagrams.com/case_studies/holtzbrinck_map.html
Project Description:
By 1999, the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's many companies and subsidiaries had created hundreds of public Web sites. Dynamic Diagrams undertook a comprehensive study of these sites, giving Holtzbrinck a benchmark to use for its future Internet strategies. The study included all divisions, products, and joint ventures of Holtzbrinck for which a Web site could be found - representing 18 countries and 9 languages. Collecting information on each of over 150 sites was just the start of the process. The goal was to show the organizational groupings of the sites, the features they had in common, and the Web links between them.
To communicate the complete scope of Holtzbrinck's Web presence, the designers at Dynamic Diagrams created a wall-sized diagram that shows all of the sites in one "Web map." When viewed in its entirety the Web map quickly reveals the group or groups to which each site belongs. Close up, the map provides information about each site's content, home country, language, and status. Inside each circle is an image of the site's home page. The diagram and a 200-page book containing a summary of each site were presented at Holtzbrinck's annual meeting in Stuttgart Germany in May 1999.
• Cinematic Particule
• http://www.evsc.net/v6/htm/cinematic.htm
Author(s):
Eva Schindling
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.evsc.net/v6/htm/cinematic.htm
Project Description:
Cinematic Particles draws abstract visualizations of a movie's succession of subtitles as smokey watercolor drawings emerge from each movies individual frequency of spoken words and letters.
This is how it works: Several particles move across the screen according to their individual acceleration and velocity values. Each particle is fed a letter of the current displayed movie dialog. The amount of active particles is defined by the amount of letters in the subtitle line. The letter influences the particles movement dynamics by adjusting the acceleration value into a calculated direction and changes its size by defining a growing or shrinking rate. Lowercase consonant letters are relocated to the position of the word's starting letter, while lowercase vocal letters bend their path towards the direction of the word's starting letter.
This fixed sets of conditions lack random actions and therefore cause the exact same drawing if run twice. Yet the applet allows the user to manipulate the drawing by either stopping the dialog replay or changing the playing speed. By hitting the pause button, the movie stops and the particles remain with the letter the have been fed right before. This allows the particles to follow their initiated pathways without constantly changing pace and direction. Movies that are defined by rapid successions of spoken dialog produce drawings that consist mostly of black ink blobs that grow together, as the particles are constantly reset with new parameters. Movies that show long silent pauses between scenes gives particles more time to produce long lines and curves. By altering the replay speed of the movie, size and dynamic of the emerging drawings can be controlled.
Author(s):
Eva Schindling
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.evsc.net/v6/htm/cinematic.htm
Project Description:
Cinematic Particles draws abstract visualizations of a movie's succession of subtitles as smokey watercolor drawings emerge from each movies individual frequency of spoken words and letters.
This is how it works: Several particles move across the screen according to their individual acceleration and velocity values. Each particle is fed a letter of the current displayed movie dialog. The amount of active particles is defined by the amount of letters in the subtitle line. The letter influences the particles movement dynamics by adjusting the acceleration value into a calculated direction and changes its size by defining a growing or shrinking rate. Lowercase consonant letters are relocated to the position of the word's starting letter, while lowercase vocal letters bend their path towards the direction of the word's starting letter.
This fixed sets of conditions lack random actions and therefore cause the exact same drawing if run twice. Yet the applet allows the user to manipulate the drawing by either stopping the dialog replay or changing the playing speed. By hitting the pause button, the movie stops and the particles remain with the letter the have been fed right before. This allows the particles to follow their initiated pathways without constantly changing pace and direction. Movies that are defined by rapid successions of spoken dialog produce drawings that consist mostly of black ink blobs that grow together, as the particles are constantly reset with new parameters. Movies that show long silent pauses between scenes gives particles more time to produce long lines and curves. By altering the replay speed of the movie, size and dynamic of the emerging drawings can be controlled.
• Yahoo Design Innovation Team
• http://design.yahoo.com/index.php#projects
a collection of aesthetic data visualization from the (new?) Yahoo! Design Innovation Team, also known as "Yhaus". interesting examples include "I You He She", an application that shows live questions from Yahoo! Answers to generate an overall, impression of people's raw feelings & thoughts. "Delicious DNA" compares social bookmarking patterns with colorful barcode patterns. "traffic map" depicts a forecast view of traffic conditions.
currently available as large Quicktime movies only.
See also the website of their competitors Stamen
a collection of aesthetic data visualization from the (new?) Yahoo! Design Innovation Team, also known as "Yhaus". interesting examples include "I You He She", an application that shows live questions from Yahoo! Answers to generate an overall, impression of people's raw feelings & thoughts. "Delicious DNA" compares social bookmarking patterns with colorful barcode patterns. "traffic map" depicts a forecast view of traffic conditions.
currently available as large Quicktime movies only.
See also the website of their competitors Stamen
• Animated maps
• Anymails
• http://carohorn.de/anymails/
a dynamic visualization of an email inbox, based on the metaphor of microbes. all emails are categorized in 6 person groups: family and friends, school, job, e-commerce, unclassified, & spam.
an animal conveys the condition of an email message: the age of an email is shown by the size & opacity of the animal. the status of an email (i.e. unread, read, responded) is shown by the number of hair/feet & velocity. users can select messages & group them by different attributes, such as sender, status or time.
Author(s):
Carolin Horn, Florian Jenett
Institution:
DMI Boston
Year:
2007
URL:
http://carohorn.de/anymails/
Project Description:
Anymails is a visualization piece of Carolin Horn's received emails. Carolin has investigated how to use natural metaphors to visualize an email inbox, its inherent structure and attributes. The metaphor of microbes is what Carolin used for the Anymails project, developed during her MFA thesis "Natural Metaphor for Information Visualization?" at the Dynamic Media Institute Boston in 2007. As she explains: "My objective is to offer the user another experience of his email world".
The emails are categorized in six person groups: family and friends, school, job, e-commerce, unclassified, and spam. These are then represented by six species of microbes, different in color and form. For instance, all received emails from school are blue and look a bit like croissants. An entire system of shapes and behaviors was created to reflect every property of a common email message. The age of an email, for example, is shown by the size and opacity of the animal, while its status (unread, read, responded) is shown by two animal attributes: the number of hair/feet and velocity. An unread email is hairy and swims fast; a read email has less hair and does not swim so fast anymore; a responded email is hairless and barely moves. Another interesting functionality of the tool (represented here) is the ability to group emails, according to user preferences, in unique strings of relatedness.
The emails used in the prototype are read from the user's local Apple Mail database. The prototype was built with Flash and Processing.
a dynamic visualization of an email inbox, based on the metaphor of microbes. all emails are categorized in 6 person groups: family and friends, school, job, e-commerce, unclassified, & spam.
an animal conveys the condition of an email message: the age of an email is shown by the size & opacity of the animal. the status of an email (i.e. unread, read, responded) is shown by the number of hair/feet & velocity. users can select messages & group them by different attributes, such as sender, status or time.
Author(s):
Carolin Horn, Florian Jenett
Institution:
DMI Boston
Year:
2007
URL:
http://carohorn.de/anymails/
Project Description:
Anymails is a visualization piece of Carolin Horn's received emails. Carolin has investigated how to use natural metaphors to visualize an email inbox, its inherent structure and attributes. The metaphor of microbes is what Carolin used for the Anymails project, developed during her MFA thesis "Natural Metaphor for Information Visualization?" at the Dynamic Media Institute Boston in 2007. As she explains: "My objective is to offer the user another experience of his email world".
The emails are categorized in six person groups: family and friends, school, job, e-commerce, unclassified, and spam. These are then represented by six species of microbes, different in color and form. For instance, all received emails from school are blue and look a bit like croissants. An entire system of shapes and behaviors was created to reflect every property of a common email message. The age of an email, for example, is shown by the size and opacity of the animal, while its status (unread, read, responded) is shown by two animal attributes: the number of hair/feet and velocity. An unread email is hairy and swims fast; a read email has less hair and does not swim so fast anymore; a responded email is hairless and barely moves. Another interesting functionality of the tool (represented here) is the ability to group emails, according to user preferences, in unique strings of relatedness.
The emails used in the prototype are read from the user's local Apple Mail database. The prototype was built with Flash and Processing.
• Gapminder
• http://www.gapminder.org/
Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. This is done in collaboration with universities, UN organisations, public agencies and non-governmental organisations. Gapminder is a Foundation registered at Stockholm county administration board (Länstyrelsen) (reg. nr. 802424-7721). It was founded by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling on 25 February 2005, in Stockholm. Gapminder Foundation will advance software development that have been done earlier by the non-profit company Gapminder Ltd. Funding has been and is mainly by grants from Sida for the Trendalyzer project. Being a producer of global public goods Gapminder benefit from free and creative inputs from pilot-testers and other end-users in many institutions and organisations.
Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. This is done in collaboration with universities, UN organisations, public agencies and non-governmental organisations. Gapminder is a Foundation registered at Stockholm county administration board (Länstyrelsen) (reg. nr. 802424-7721). It was founded by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling on 25 February 2005, in Stockholm. Gapminder Foundation will advance software development that have been done earlier by the non-profit company Gapminder Ltd. Funding has been and is mainly by grants from Sida for the Trendalyzer project. Being a producer of global public goods Gapminder benefit from free and creative inputs from pilot-testers and other end-users in many institutions and organisations.
• Outside.in
• http://outside.in/buzzmap.php
pour la facon de cartographier l'information coming from different sources and combining time and space.
Brooklyn Buzz Online
This is a map of neighborhood buzz, projected over both time and space. The map tracks the the neighborhood hotspots in the Flatbush/Atlantic Avenue area of Brooklyn that people have been talking about online for the past six months. The larger the icons, the more conversations about the place. Each circle represents the ratio of coverage by local bloggers (in orange) to the mainstream media (in gray.)
pour la facon de cartographier l'information coming from different sources and combining time and space.
Brooklyn Buzz Online
This is a map of neighborhood buzz, projected over both time and space. The map tracks the the neighborhood hotspots in the Flatbush/Atlantic Avenue area of Brooklyn that people have been talking about online for the past six months. The larger the icons, the more conversations about the place. Each circle represents the ratio of coverage by local bloggers (in orange) to the mainstream media (in gray.)
• Maps of properties through time/ trulia
• http://hindsight.trulia.com/
Trulia Hindsight is an animated & fully browsable map of homes in the United States from Trulia . The dynamic animations (developed by stamen.com ) use the year the properties were built to show the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities over time. see also the video http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/08/trulia_hindsight_usage_video.html
Trulia Hindsight is an animated & fully browsable map of homes in the United States from Trulia . The dynamic animations (developed by stamen.com ) use the year the properties were built to show the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities over time. see also the video http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/08/trulia_hindsight_usage_video.html
• Bio-maps
• Biomapping
• http://www.biomapping.net
Christian Nold Jan 2004 - ongoing
Bio Mapping is a community mapping project in which over the last three years almost 1000 people have taken part in. In the context of regular, local workshops, participants are wired up with an innovative device which records the wearer's Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), which is a simple indicator of the emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location. People re-eplore their local area by walking the neighbourhood with the device and on their return a map is created which visualises points of high and low arousal. By interpreting and annotating this data, communal emotion maps are constructed that are packed full of personal observations which show the areas that people feel strongly about and truly visualise the social space of a community.
Christian Nold Jan 2004 - ongoing
Bio Mapping is a community mapping project in which over the last three years almost 1000 people have taken part in. In the context of regular, local workshops, participants are wired up with an innovative device which records the wearer's Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), which is a simple indicator of the emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location. People re-eplore their local area by walking the neighbourhood with the device and on their return a map is created which visualises points of high and low arousal. By interpreting and annotating this data, communal emotion maps are constructed that are packed full of personal observations which show the areas that people feel strongly about and truly visualise the social space of a community.
• Blogs Maps
• Anymails
• http://carohorn.de/anymails/
a dynamic visualization of an email inbox, based on the metaphor of microbes. all emails are categorized in 6 person groups: family and friends, school, job, e-commerce, unclassified, & spam.An animal conveys the condition of an email message: the age of an email is shown by the size & opacity of the animal. the status of an email (i.e. unread, read, responded) is shown by the number of hair/feet & velocity. users can select messages & group them by different attributes, such as sender, status or time.
a dynamic visualization of an email inbox, based on the metaphor of microbes. all emails are categorized in 6 person groups: family and friends, school, job, e-commerce, unclassified, & spam.An animal conveys the condition of an email message: the age of an email is shown by the size & opacity of the animal. the status of an email (i.e. unread, read, responded) is shown by the number of hair/feet & velocity. users can select messages & group them by different attributes, such as sender, status or time.
• Digg Labs
• http://labs.digg.com/
Example of Digg visualization. Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by users. It is a place where people can collectively determine the value of content.
Example of Digg visualization. Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by users. It is a place where people can collectively determine the value of content.
• Email Map
• http://christopherbaker.net/projects/mymap
Author(s):
Christopher Paul Baker
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://christopherbaker.net/projects/mymap
Project Description:
This Email Map, created by Christopher Baker, is a piece of custom designed software capable of rendering the relationships between Christopher and individuals in his address book by examining the TO:, FROM:, and CC: fields of every email in his email archive. The intensity of the relationship is determined by the intensity of the line. The tool allows one to explore different relational groupings and periods of time, revealing the temporal ebbs and flows in various relationships. In this way, this tool is a veritable self-portrait, a reflection of Christopher's associations and a way to locate himself at various points in history.
As the author explains: "Email became an integral part of my life in 1998. Like many people, I have archived all of my email with the hope of someday revisiting my past. I am interested in revealing the innumerable relationships between me, my schoolmates, work-mates, friends and family. This could not readily be accomplished by reading each of my 60,000 emails one-by-one".
This project can be viewed as a large scale static print (40"x40" archival inkjet) or as an up-to-date dynamic visualization. The interactive program is written in Java and uses Processsing, MySQL and various other libraries. The software includes a custom IMAP email client and a VCF address book parser, which enables the inclusion of VCard photos. This particular visualization strategy was influenced by similar circular relational structures such as CAIDA, SCHEMABALL, GNOM, etc. Much of my initial email visualization research was influenced and inspired by the work of Judith Donath's Sociable Media Group at MIT - particularly the work of Fernanda Viegas.
Author(s):
Christopher Paul Baker
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://christopherbaker.net/projects/mymap
Project Description:
This Email Map, created by Christopher Baker, is a piece of custom designed software capable of rendering the relationships between Christopher and individuals in his address book by examining the TO:, FROM:, and CC: fields of every email in his email archive. The intensity of the relationship is determined by the intensity of the line. The tool allows one to explore different relational groupings and periods of time, revealing the temporal ebbs and flows in various relationships. In this way, this tool is a veritable self-portrait, a reflection of Christopher's associations and a way to locate himself at various points in history.
As the author explains: "Email became an integral part of my life in 1998. Like many people, I have archived all of my email with the hope of someday revisiting my past. I am interested in revealing the innumerable relationships between me, my schoolmates, work-mates, friends and family. This could not readily be accomplished by reading each of my 60,000 emails one-by-one".
This project can be viewed as a large scale static print (40"x40" archival inkjet) or as an up-to-date dynamic visualization. The interactive program is written in Java and uses Processsing, MySQL and various other libraries. The software includes a custom IMAP email client and a VCF address book parser, which enables the inclusion of VCard photos. This particular visualization strategy was influenced by similar circular relational structures such as CAIDA, SCHEMABALL, GNOM, etc. Much of my initial email visualization research was influenced and inspired by the work of Judith Donath's Sociable Media Group at MIT - particularly the work of Fernanda Viegas.
• ITP Students list conversation / ex
•
http://www.auscillate.com/itp/listview/
Author(s):
Josh Knowles
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.auscillate.com/itp/listview/
Project Description:
ITP Student List Conversations is a visualization of the e-mail conversations that have occurred on the ITP (NYU graduate program) student e-mail list. The amount of conversation between two people is determined by how much they participate in the same discussion threads.
The strength of the connection between two people is determined by multiplying the number of e-mails they each send to the same thread and adding together these numbers for each thread. So if you and I each sent 1 message to a thread, we get 1 connection "point" added to our "score." If we each sent 3 messages to a different thread, we would get 9 connection points (3x3). More connection points are represented by heavier lines connecting two people.
The project was developed using Processing along with some PHP and MySQL, and it traced messages sent between September 1st, 2006 and January 10th, 2007.
http://www.auscillate.com/itp/listview/
Author(s):
Josh Knowles
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.auscillate.com/itp/listview/
Project Description:
ITP Student List Conversations is a visualization of the e-mail conversations that have occurred on the ITP (NYU graduate program) student e-mail list. The amount of conversation between two people is determined by how much they participate in the same discussion threads.
The strength of the connection between two people is determined by multiplying the number of e-mails they each send to the same thread and adding together these numbers for each thread. So if you and I each sent 1 message to a thread, we get 1 connection "point" added to our "score." If we each sent 3 messages to a different thread, we would get 9 connection points (3x3). More connection points are represented by heavier lines connecting two people.
The project was developed using Processing along with some PHP and MySQL, and it traced messages sent between September 1st, 2006 and January 10th, 2007.
• Segoland
• http://www.desirsdavenir.org/index.php?c=blogs_annuaire
Author(s):
(unknown)
Institution:
desirsdavenir.org
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.desirsdavenir.org/index.php?c=blogs_annuaire
Project Description:
Segoland is a visual representation of 1054 local blogs and websites that supported the 2007 French presidential candidate, Segolene Royal. It displays an intricate network of sites, divided by political party and geographically placed throughout the French territory. By materializing the existing bonds between them, this chart makes it possible to emphasize the vast network of influences on the Web.
Author(s):
(unknown)
Institution:
desirsdavenir.org
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.desirsdavenir.org/index.php?c=blogs_annuaire
Project Description:
Segoland is a visual representation of 1054 local blogs and websites that supported the 2007 French presidential candidate, Segolene Royal. It displays an intricate network of sites, divided by political party and geographically placed throughout the French territory. By materializing the existing bonds between them, this chart makes it possible to emphasize the vast network of influences on the Web.
• The map is the territory
• http://www.aalab.net/projects/maps/
Visualizing on-line community, links to conversation maps (the warren sacks one or some of the media lab projects)
Visualizing on-line community, links to conversation maps (the warren sacks one or some of the media lab projects)
• The world as a blog
• http://www.brainoff.com/geoblog/
Real time & updating display of weblog postings, around the world, great but one can wonder about how useful it is.
Real time & updating display of weblog postings, around the world, great but one can wonder about how useful it is.
• Twingly
• http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=468
Author(s):
(unknown)
Institution:
Primelabs, Sweden
Year:
2006
URL:
http://www.twingly.se/ScreenSaver.aspx
Project Description:
Twingly screensaver tries to map the global activity of the blogosphere in a dynamic 3D globe view of the Earth. The engaging visualization is a real time rendering of blog posts represented as bars standing over the continents. The motivation of the Primelabs team is obvious: "The fact that every blog is an ordered record of thoughts and opinions makes the aggregated data of many blogs very valuable. With a large amount of data from various blogs it is possible to analyze the spread of ideas and monitor the effects of a campaign or public knowledge of a brand. Without the time axis, a statistical report is just a snapshot in time. With the concept of time, a new dimension is added to the equation."
As the authors explain in their blog: "Twingly is an aggregation of the global blogosphere into a single database. The immense power of this data will be made available to our customers through a number of applications. With sustained innovation over a long period of time we are continously improving the tools available for connecting to the blogosphere".
To use Twingly screensaver you need a PC with Windows and a graphics card supporting OpenGL.
Author(s):
(unknown)
Institution:
Primelabs, Sweden
Year:
2006
URL:
http://www.twingly.se/ScreenSaver.aspx
Project Description:
Twingly screensaver tries to map the global activity of the blogosphere in a dynamic 3D globe view of the Earth. The engaging visualization is a real time rendering of blog posts represented as bars standing over the continents. The motivation of the Primelabs team is obvious: "The fact that every blog is an ordered record of thoughts and opinions makes the aggregated data of many blogs very valuable. With a large amount of data from various blogs it is possible to analyze the spread of ideas and monitor the effects of a campaign or public knowledge of a brand. Without the time axis, a statistical report is just a snapshot in time. With the concept of time, a new dimension is added to the equation."
As the authors explain in their blog: "Twingly is an aggregation of the global blogosphere into a single database. The immense power of this data will be made available to our customers through a number of applications. With sustained innovation over a long period of time we are continously improving the tools available for connecting to the blogosphere".
To use Twingly screensaver you need a PC with Windows and a graphics card supporting OpenGL.
• Visualizing online social roles
• http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/articles/volume8/Welser/
a collection of data visualization methods that reveal the specific characteristics of communications between Usenet newsgroups members. the visual analysis focuses on distinguishing "signatures of role", such as identifying so-called "answer people", individuals whose dominant behavior is to respond to questions posed by other users.
for instance, the "authorlines" visualization represents the volume of contributions for a single author across a year. each vertical strip represents one week. each circle represents a thread in which the actor participated during this week. red circles represent threads initiated by the selected author, while blue circles indicate threads initiated by someone else that were replied to by the selected author. the diameter of a circle represents the number of messages posted by author to that thread during that week.
a collection of data visualization methods that reveal the specific characteristics of communications between Usenet newsgroups members. the visual analysis focuses on distinguishing "signatures of role", such as identifying so-called "answer people", individuals whose dominant behavior is to respond to questions posed by other users.
for instance, the "authorlines" visualization represents the volume of contributions for a single author across a year. each vertical strip represents one week. each circle represents a thread in which the actor participated during this week. red circles represent threads initiated by the selected author, while blue circles indicate threads initiated by someone else that were replied to by the selected author. the diameter of a circle represents the number of messages posted by author to that thread during that week.
• Visualization of blogspace
• http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=422&index=422&domain=
Jonathan Schull visualizations of Blogspace ( BlogTree.com, blog genealogy site). Each registered blog owner records the pre-existing blogs that inspired their own blog. made with python to crunch the data and re-cast for graphviz. Graphviz lays the graphs out and renders them.
Jonathan Schull visualizations of Blogspace ( BlogTree.com, blog genealogy site). Each registered blog owner records the pre-existing blogs that inspired their own blog. made with python to crunch the data and re-cast for graphviz. Graphviz lays the graphs out and renders them.
• We feel fine
• http://www.wefeelfine.org/mission.html
Exemple de representation / capture des emotions sur le web/blog =interessant / a importer pour weblog science / interessant a exploiter si exhibition (ressemble a Hansen / listening post)
Exemple de representation / capture des emotions sur le web/blog =interessant / a importer pour weblog science / interessant a exploiter si exhibition (ressemble a Hansen / listening post)
• Collaborative maps
• Many eyes ***
• http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home
"Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis."
"Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis."
• Swivel **
• http://www.swivel.com/
Swivel lets you explore data and share your insights with others. Swivel has data about politics, economics, weather, sports, business and more.You can explore popular data or obscure data. Search for it or cruise all the graphs, data sets and opinions.You can compare gas prices to presidential approval ratings or UFO sightings to iPod sales. You might find coincidences You can share your insights by posting a graph to a blog or emailing a link to your coworkers. You can upload the information you need, describe it, pick a color scheme and even pick a photo to bring it to life.
Swivel lets you explore data and share your insights with others. Swivel has data about politics, economics, weather, sports, business and more.You can explore popular data or obscure data. Search for it or cruise all the graphs, data sets and opinions.You can compare gas prices to presidential approval ratings or UFO sightings to iPod sales. You might find coincidences You can share your insights by posting a graph to a blog or emailing a link to your coworkers. You can upload the information you need, describe it, pick a color scheme and even pick a photo to bring it to life.
• Dynamic map
• History flow
• http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/
history flow is a tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. In its current implementation, history flow is being used to visualize the evolutionary history of wiki* pages on Wikipedia.
history flow is a tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. In its current implementation, history flow is being used to visualize the evolutionary history of wiki* pages on Wikipedia.
• Breathing earth
• http://www.breathingearth.net/
a simple animated geographical visualization that shows the relative impact different countries have on climate change. different icons represent the statistical time-varying data of all countries (i.e. birth rate, death rate & carbon dioxide emission), which are 'simulated' in real time.
a simple animated geographical visualization that shows the relative impact different countries have on climate change. different icons represent the statistical time-varying data of all countries (i.e. birth rate, death rate & carbon dioxide emission), which are 'simulated' in real time.
• History of religion
• http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html
How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? this map gives a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed are also highlighted. 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds.
How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? this map gives a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed are also highlighted. 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds.
• Dynamic Network environment maps
• 6 pli
• http://www.sixpli.com/
Author(s):
(unknown)
Institution:
bestiario.org
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.sixpli.com/
Project Description:
6pli (still in alfa version) lets you navigate a set of del.icio.us tags in a dynamic network environment. The interactive tool produced on flash delivers a fascinating output with different visualization methods such as elastic net 3D, elastic net 2D and circles 2D.
6pli is still in alfa version and there's only a few del.icio.us pages that you can explore, but soon it will probably open to anyone who might be willing to see their del.icio.us account visualized in this fashion. Even now, you can have your account displayed by becoming a 6pli alpha-tester. All you need to do is send an email to sixpli@sixpli.com .
Author(s):
(unknown)
Institution:
bestiario.org
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.sixpli.com/
Project Description:
6pli (still in alfa version) lets you navigate a set of del.icio.us tags in a dynamic network environment. The interactive tool produced on flash delivers a fascinating output with different visualization methods such as elastic net 3D, elastic net 2D and circles 2D.
6pli is still in alfa version and there's only a few del.icio.us pages that you can explore, but soon it will probably open to anyone who might be willing to see their del.icio.us account visualized in this fashion. Even now, you can have your account displayed by becoming a 6pli alpha-tester. All you need to do is send an email to sixpli@sixpli.com .
• Cluster Ball
• http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/clusterball/
a set of circular graphs of 3 levels of Wikipedia category pages & their interconnections. the parent node is centered in the graph. pages that are linked from this parent node are rendered inside the ball. pages that are linked to the latter (secondary) nodes are rendered on the outer ring. the color of the edges between them represent their depth from the parent node. highly connected groups of pages are clustered clump together, hereby forming topical groups.
a set of circular graphs of 3 levels of Wikipedia category pages & their interconnections. the parent node is centered in the graph. pages that are linked from this parent node are rendered inside the ball. pages that are linked to the latter (secondary) nodes are rendered on the outer ring. the color of the edges between them represent their depth from the parent node. highly connected groups of pages are clustered clump together, hereby forming topical groups.
• Geomapping / Atlas
• Geomapping / world atlas of freedom
• http://freedom.indiemaps.com/
a geovisualization tool for world statistics. it was designed for social scientists, journalists, NGO/IGO workers & others who wish to have a better understanding of issues of freedom, democracy, human rights & good governance between 1990 & 2006.
the represented datasets include general topics such as political rights, civil liberties, corruption perception index, type of regime, & more detailed statistics, such as averaging schooling years, ethnic fractionalization, or "candidate intimidation affection".
a geovisualization tool for world statistics. it was designed for social scientists, journalists, NGO/IGO workers & others who wish to have a better understanding of issues of freedom, democracy, human rights & good governance between 1990 & 2006.
the represented datasets include general topics such as political rights, civil liberties, corruption perception index, type of regime, & more detailed statistics, such as averaging schooling years, ethnic fractionalization, or "candidate intimidation affection".
• Heatmaps
• Craigslist
• http://mullinslab2.ucsf.edu/craigstats/
a heatmap overlaying a geographical map to depict the current rental market in San Francisco. CraigStats is based on the San Francisco craigslist rental listings since August of 2006, so the cost of renting on a per neighborhood basis is binned in 1/2 mile intervals & represented as a color.
a heatmap overlaying a geographical map to depict the current rental market in San Francisco. CraigStats is based on the San Francisco craigslist rental listings since August of 2006, so the cost of renting on a per neighborhood basis is binned in 1/2 mile intervals & represented as a color.
• search popularit hotmap
• http://hotmap.msresearch.us/
an online, interactive map that shows where people have looked at when using Microsoft's Live Search Maps. the darker a point, the more times a specific part of the map has been downloaded.
in hotmap, each colored square represents 1 unit of imagery, or a "tile". tiles are shown from a resolution of 74 meters-per-pixel (zoom level 11) to 0.3 meters-per-pixel (zoom level 19).
see also
http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2007/07/hotmap-released.html
an online, interactive map that shows where people have looked at when using Microsoft's Live Search Maps. the darker a point, the more times a specific part of the map has been downloaded.
in hotmap, each colored square represents 1 unit of imagery, or a "tile". tiles are shown from a resolution of 74 meters-per-pixel (zoom level 11) to 0.3 meters-per-pixel (zoom level 19).
see also
http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2007/07/hotmap-released.html
• Historical maps
• History flow
• http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/
history flow is a tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. In its current implementation, history flow is being used to visualize the evolutionary history of wiki* pages on Wikipedia.
history flow is a tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. In its current implementation, history flow is being used to visualize the evolutionary history of wiki* pages on Wikipedia.
• Breathing earth
• http://www.breathingearth.net/
a simple animated geographical visualization that shows the relative impact different countries have on climate change. different icons represent the statistical time-varying data of all countries (i.e. birth rate, death rate & carbon dioxide emission), which are 'simulated' in real time.
a simple animated geographical visualization that shows the relative impact different countries have on climate change. different icons represent the statistical time-varying data of all countries (i.e. birth rate, death rate & carbon dioxide emission), which are 'simulated' in real time.
• History of religion
• http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html
How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? this map gives a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed are also highlighted. 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds.
How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? this map gives a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed are also highlighted. 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds.
• Interactive maps
• Radial Visual Browser ****
• http://der-mo.net/relationBrowser/
a semantic data visualization that shows the relationships within complex concept network structures. in this example, the diagram represents the connotations (e.g 'has a border to', 'is part of', 'is spoken in') between countries, languages, continents & oceans based on CIA factbook data. the center node can be clicked for detailed information, while adjacent nodes can be selected to put them in the center. another variant of this visual browser is capable of visualizing social networks in outfoxed, a firefox extension for social browsing.
by Moritz Stefaner
a semantic data visualization that shows the relationships within complex concept network structures. in this example, the diagram represents the connotations (e.g 'has a border to', 'is part of', 'is spoken in') between countries, languages, continents & oceans based on CIA factbook data. the center node can be clicked for detailed information, while adjacent nodes can be selected to put them in the center. another variant of this visual browser is capable of visualizing social networks in outfoxed, a firefox extension for social browsing.
by Moritz Stefaner
• Competitive Edge Explorer
• http://mobilab.mit.edu/mashup/futureboston/
a 3D map-like visualization of the particular factors that help make Boston competitive in the global marketplace, such as innovation, education, income, culture or housing cost. the "competitive edge explorer" visualization tool allows people to interactively compare the geographical distribution of abstract concepts such as culture, quality of life & innovation, explore where is job growth is occuring, or check the areas where income is high & housing cost is low.
a 3D map-like visualization of the particular factors that help make Boston competitive in the global marketplace, such as innovation, education, income, culture or housing cost. the "competitive edge explorer" visualization tool allows people to interactively compare the geographical distribution of abstract concepts such as culture, quality of life & innovation, explore where is job growth is occuring, or check the areas where income is high & housing cost is low.
• Social networl visualization (based on the relation browser : CIA world factbook demo ***
• http://der-mo.net/relationBrowser/RB_v1.15_demo/social%20network/index.html
see also http://getoutfoxed.com/visualization
an open source will be released soon
see also http://getoutfoxed.com/visualization
an open source will be released soon
• Interactive Worldmap
• http://maps.maplecroft.com/loadmap?template=map&issueID=17
an interactive geograpical map resource which contains detailed country information for over 200 states & maps key social, economic, environmental & political issues, such as greenhouse gas emissions, corruption, landmine risk & child labor statistics. the interactive map enables users to view an issue individually or in combination with other issues in order to illustrate the relationship between 2 or more associated topics. the tool is meant to raise awareness, providing a framework for monitoring & analyzing a wide range of complex issues that impact on society & the goals of business.
an interactive geograpical map resource which contains detailed country information for over 200 states & maps key social, economic, environmental & political issues, such as greenhouse gas emissions, corruption, landmine risk & child labor statistics. the interactive map enables users to view an issue individually or in combination with other issues in order to illustrate the relationship between 2 or more associated topics. the tool is meant to raise awareness, providing a framework for monitoring & analyzing a wide range of complex issues that impact on society & the goals of business.
• Nodediagram
• http://www.lukelab.com/lab/noder/
XML 3D Node Diagram is a flash piece that allows anyone to load a xml file and see its structure drawn in a 3D cone diagram, tree form or branching structure which can then be rotated along the three axis, X, Y and Z. One can also zoom in the dynamic diagram in order to find and drag particular nodes. Changing the controls changes the form of the diagram; for example, by changing the sub node angle, the spread of the nodes automatically readjust.
If one doesn't want to load their own xml file, this flash application has already various sample feeds and data available for further analysis. The user can for instance visualize feeds from Yahoo News, Boing Boing, Slashdot, BBC World News, among others.
XML 3D Node Diagram is a flash piece that allows anyone to load a xml file and see its structure drawn in a 3D cone diagram, tree form or branching structure which can then be rotated along the three axis, X, Y and Z. One can also zoom in the dynamic diagram in order to find and drag particular nodes. Changing the controls changes the form of the diagram; for example, by changing the sub node angle, the spread of the nodes automatically readjust.
If one doesn't want to load their own xml file, this flash application has already various sample feeds and data available for further analysis. The user can for instance visualize feeds from Yahoo News, Boing Boing, Slashdot, BBC World News, among others.
• NEWS.COM **
• http://news.com.com/2104-1006_3-5731398.html
Interesting application for the way information is displayed and for the navigation between clickable information.
Interesting application for the way information is displayed and for the navigation between clickable information.
• British History Timeline
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index.shtml
British History Timeline. Interactive Timeline
BBC.
British History Timeline. Interactive Timeline
BBC.
• Interactive Treemap
• http://www.lateral.net/
commercial website that uses a full-screen & visually impressive lay-out based on the well-known treemap visualization metaphor. users can switch between the 'accessible version' & the 'commercial suicide' one (the conventional plain html & the treemap representation respectively). different color schemes are available (see buttons right top corner).
commercial website that uses a full-screen & visually impressive lay-out based on the well-known treemap visualization metaphor. users can switch between the 'accessible version' & the 'commercial suicide' one (the conventional plain html & the treemap representation respectively). different color schemes are available (see buttons right top corner).
• La blogopole
• http://www.blogopole.fr/
an impressive interactive data visualization based on the political playground of the French blogosphere. the "blogopole" represents about 2000 blogs that focus on political themes, which were analized in the context of the past 2007 French elections.
the first view allows users to select a more detailed part of the map by either a political stream or by a small, representative sample (yellow circle in the middle). the node color corresponds to its different political party. the node size represents the authority of the website, such as its Google PageRank, authority, or number of inward links. the positions of the nodes are purely topological in that the force-directed algorithm attempts to minimize the number of overlappings.
an impressive interactive data visualization based on the political playground of the French blogosphere. the "blogopole" represents about 2000 blogs that focus on political themes, which were analized in the context of the past 2007 French elections.
the first view allows users to select a more detailed part of the map by either a political stream or by a small, representative sample (yellow circle in the middle). the node color corresponds to its different political party. the node size represents the authority of the website, such as its Google PageRank, authority, or number of inward links. the positions of the nodes are purely topological in that the force-directed algorithm attempts to minimize the number of overlappings.
• The genographic Map
• https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html
a geographical & "genographical" world map illustrating when & where ancient humans moved around the world, as a visual explanation about the appearance & frequency of genetic markers in modern people. the interactive application also acts as the basis of depicting your personal ancient ancestors & genetic lineage around the world through the ages, after sending back your own DNA sample.
a geographical & "genographical" world map illustrating when & where ancient humans moved around the world, as a visual explanation about the appearance & frequency of genetic markers in modern people. the interactive application also acts as the basis of depicting your personal ancient ancestors & genetic lineage around the world through the ages, after sending back your own DNA sample.
• Mapping the Digg community
• http://brian.shaler.name/diggapi/diggfriends.php
Author(s):
Brian Shaler
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://brian.shaler.name/diggapi/diggfriends.php
Project Description:
Using the Digg API, Brian Shaler created a map of Digg users and how they're connected to each other. On the map, users are organized by the length of time they have had accounts on Digg. The oldest accounts are at the center and accounts created in the last few months are around the edges. The map only includes users who utilize Digg's friendship feature.
The map has some basic interactive functionalities by allowing you to click anywhere on the map and type a Digg user name to see where on the map that user is located. Besides the location on the map you can also know the number of friends and fans that particular Digg user has.
As acknowledged by the author, this Digg friendship map is not a practical analysis tool, but nonetheless, it's an idea that has been in his head for quite some time and he just decided to implement it as a visualization piece.
Note: Click on "Show Time" on the map to better understand the visualized time span.
Author(s):
Brian Shaler
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://brian.shaler.name/diggapi/diggfriends.php
Project Description:
Using the Digg API, Brian Shaler created a map of Digg users and how they're connected to each other. On the map, users are organized by the length of time they have had accounts on Digg. The oldest accounts are at the center and accounts created in the last few months are around the edges. The map only includes users who utilize Digg's friendship feature.
The map has some basic interactive functionalities by allowing you to click anywhere on the map and type a Digg user name to see where on the map that user is located. Besides the location on the map you can also know the number of friends and fans that particular Digg user has.
As acknowledged by the author, this Digg friendship map is not a practical analysis tool, but nonetheless, it's an idea that has been in his head for quite some time and he just decided to implement it as a visualization piece.
Note: Click on "Show Time" on the map to better understand the visualized time span.
• IBM World's listening habits
• http://ibmrocks.mytoycode.com/
a 3D interactive globe that shows what IBM employees are listening to around the world. users can select an IBM location from the 3D globe explore the most popular songs at that site.
a 3D interactive globe that shows what IBM employees are listening to around the world. users can select an IBM location from the 3D globe explore the most popular songs at that site.
• TRACKING MAP
• http://www.snibbe.com/scott/public/youarehere/index.html
You Are Here is an interactive visualisation which tracks and displays the paths of visitors traveling through a large public space. The system displays the aggregate paths of the last two hundred visitors along with blobs representing the people currently being tracked. When viewers approach the work, they can display the live video image with the paths of currently tracked visitors superimposed. it provides an understanding of surveillance systems' through the visual representation of information that is normally only accessible as dry statistics.
You Are Here is an interactive visualisation which tracks and displays the paths of visitors traveling through a large public space. The system displays the aggregate paths of the last two hundred visitors along with blobs representing the people currently being tracked. When viewers approach the work, they can display the live video image with the paths of currently tracked visitors superimposed. it provides an understanding of surveillance systems' through the visual representation of information that is normally only accessible as dry statistics.
• Map of future Forces Affecting Education*
• http://www.kwfdn.org/map/map.aspx
a graphical concept map that forecasts a consistent view of how future forces will affect the components of public education in the US. the map was created by aggregating the opinions of relevant experts who create intensive case studies based on field research. the vertical side shows 6 categories driving all trends, such as "smart networking", "strong opinions" or "the end of cyberspace". the horizontal direction illustrates 5 key areas of activity where major trends are revealed, such as "family", "institutions", or "educators". different rectangular zones depict the dilemmas, trends or hotspots that will impact public education.
a graphical concept map that forecasts a consistent view of how future forces will affect the components of public education in the US. the map was created by aggregating the opinions of relevant experts who create intensive case studies based on field research. the vertical side shows 6 categories driving all trends, such as "smart networking", "strong opinions" or "the end of cyberspace". the horizontal direction illustrates 5 key areas of activity where major trends are revealed, such as "family", "institutions", or "educators". different rectangular zones depict the dilemmas, trends or hotspots that will impact public education.
• Portfolio
• http://www.portfolio.com/infographics/2007/06/salary_comparison
a simple infographic illustrating how the gap between the average CEO & the average worker drastically widened between 1970 & 2005.
a simple infographic illustrating how the gap between the average CEO & the average worker drastically widened between 1970 & 2005.
• Mapping the electoral mood
• http://pulse.ninemsn.com.au/
an online polling & visualization application that maps the mood of the (Australian) electorate in regards to specific quotes of politicians. in Passion Pulse, a timeline shows how levels of "passion" vary from controversial quote to quote, combining the participation rates & the cumulative intensity of each user's reaction.
users can also explore what is concerning the electorate by rolling over the "Passion Pulse graph" or comparing the distributions along the geographical or electorate map of Australia.
an online polling & visualization application that maps the mood of the (Australian) electorate in regards to specific quotes of politicians. in Passion Pulse, a timeline shows how levels of "passion" vary from controversial quote to quote, combining the participation rates & the cumulative intensity of each user's reaction.
users can also explore what is concerning the electorate by rolling over the "Passion Pulse graph" or comparing the distributions along the geographical or electorate map of Australia.
• Crimespotting *
• http://oakland.crimespotting.org/#lat=37.824&lon=-122.239&zoom=14&dtstart=2007-09-19T23:57:43-07:00&dtend=2007-09-26T23:57:56-07:00
an online street map displaying the exact location of recent crimes in Oakland, including murder, robbery, burglary, vandalism, or alcohol. the map allows users to explore the crime data by location, weekly/monthly frequency or type.
an online street map displaying the exact location of recent crimes in Oakland, including murder, robbery, burglary, vandalism, or alcohol. the map allows users to explore the crime data by location, weekly/monthly frequency or type.
• Friends Wheel
• http://thomas-fletcher.com/friendwheel/flashwheel.php
uthor(s):
Thomas Fletcher
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://thomas-fletcher.com/friendwheel/
Project Description:
Thomas Fletcher, a 19 year old student studying Computer Science & Maths at Bath University, has developed a series of Facebook applications. Among them is a colorful wheel that maps all the links between Facebook friends, in this case, between all of Thomas Fletcher's 100 friends.
Friend Wheel is free and anyone with a Facebook account can see their network of friends linked and represented in this fashion. The rationale is simple: On the outside are all of your friends and if two people are linked together, it means that they are friends with each other. There's also an interactive flash version which allows the nodes to be moved and highlighted, and makes it possible to zoom in and out.
At the time of writing, 31st August 2007, Friend Wheel had 365,000 users and is still growing significantly. Around 25,000 wheels are generated each day. The tool uses the Facebook Development Platform to retrieve your friends and all of the links between them. This information is then used to draw the wheel image. PHP and the GD extensions for drawing are used for Friend Wheel.
uthor(s):
Thomas Fletcher
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://thomas-fletcher.com/friendwheel/
Project Description:
Thomas Fletcher, a 19 year old student studying Computer Science & Maths at Bath University, has developed a series of Facebook applications. Among them is a colorful wheel that maps all the links between Facebook friends, in this case, between all of Thomas Fletcher's 100 friends.
Friend Wheel is free and anyone with a Facebook account can see their network of friends linked and represented in this fashion. The rationale is simple: On the outside are all of your friends and if two people are linked together, it means that they are friends with each other. There's also an interactive flash version which allows the nodes to be moved and highlighted, and makes it possible to zoom in and out.
At the time of writing, 31st August 2007, Friend Wheel had 365,000 users and is still growing significantly. Around 25,000 wheels are generated each day. The tool uses the Facebook Development Platform to retrieve your friends and all of the links between them. This information is then used to draw the wheel image. PHP and the GD extensions for drawing are used for Friend Wheel.
• Neoformix ***
• http://www.neoformix.com/2007/ATextExplorer.html#SummaryEnd
interactive tool to explore the structure of a text document
interactive tool to explore the structure of a text document
• MIGration MAP
• http://www.transitmigration.org/migmap/
a rich collection of virtual maps illustrating current European migration policies. in particular, MigMap conveys a picture of how & where the production of knowledge is taking place in the area of migration, who is participating in & has access to it. it looks, for example, at how European standards in politics & civil society are implemented, & at the authorities, persons & institutions taking part in this process.
the 4 different maps, titled “Key Players”, “Discourses”, “Europeanisation” & “Places + Practices” provide access to a broad range of information on players, debates, processes & events that together comprise Europe’s present day migration policies.
a rich collection of virtual maps illustrating current European migration policies. in particular, MigMap conveys a picture of how & where the production of knowledge is taking place in the area of migration, who is participating in & has access to it. it looks, for example, at how European standards in politics & civil society are implemented, & at the authorities, persons & institutions taking part in this process.
the 4 different maps, titled “Key Players”, “Discourses”, “Europeanisation” & “Places + Practices” provide access to a broad range of information on players, debates, processes & events that together comprise Europe’s present day migration policies.
• Mind maps
• Re-orient
• http://www.reorient.hu/research_en.html
Author(s):
Anna Barothy (et al)
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.reorient.hu/research_en.html
Project Description:
Presented at the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture, the project, "Re:orient - Migrating Architectures" explores the local aspects of China's global significance and increasing influence. The project seeks to forecast possibilities which are now detectable only in connection with retail, but which will, in all likelihood, determine the built environment, which transforms under the pressure of ever-cheaper products. The project follows up these ideas with the presentation of spaces, architectural devices and materials that create new contents, and indicate ways of turning these constraints of the market to our benefit, show how to infuse the mass products, which are designed to have a short life-span, with lasting cultural values.
As part of the project the authors conducted extensive research on the topic, which was then represented in an associative mindmap. The map (shown here) highlights the connections and key points between the research modules and the mesh of thoughts on which the project and the installation were based. Further materials, readings, photos etc that are also linked to several texts can be found on different pages on the site and in the scrapbook.
Author(s):
Anna Barothy (et al)
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.reorient.hu/research_en.html
Project Description:
Presented at the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture, the project, "Re:orient - Migrating Architectures" explores the local aspects of China's global significance and increasing influence. The project seeks to forecast possibilities which are now detectable only in connection with retail, but which will, in all likelihood, determine the built environment, which transforms under the pressure of ever-cheaper products. The project follows up these ideas with the presentation of spaces, architectural devices and materials that create new contents, and indicate ways of turning these constraints of the market to our benefit, show how to infuse the mass products, which are designed to have a short life-span, with lasting cultural values.
As part of the project the authors conducted extensive research on the topic, which was then represented in an associative mindmap. The map (shown here) highlights the connections and key points between the research modules and the mesh of thoughts on which the project and the installation were based. Further materials, readings, photos etc that are also linked to several texts can be found on different pages on the site and in the scrapbook.
• Bookvar
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyZ18B-DGVA
A demo of Bookvar a mindmapping software taht allows users to add branches by just dragging images.
read this too : • Embedding images in a Bookvar map is accomplished via drag and drop. The program incorporates an image search function, making it easy to find images from the web. In the typical mind mapping program, you add a topic, and then attach an image to it. Bookvar turns this model on its head. When you drag an image or video clip into your map, the program creates a blank gray bar at the top, where you can then type in your topic name.
• Multiple people can collaborate on a map at the same time; topics are colored according to who submitted them. Microsoft's Sharepoint services can be used as the collaboration platform.
• Bookvar includes a file viewer that was built using Microsoft's Silverlight multimedia development platform (their competitor to Adobe's Flash).
• If you have multiple maps open in Bookvar, switching between them invokes a cool 3D effect that looks like a cube turning. Cool!
Bookvar was created exclusively for the Imagine Cup, but the team does hope to develop it further and eventually commercialize it. You can read more about it in the Bookvar Blog, which includes the Channel 9 video interview and video clips of the team's presentation to the Imagine Cup judges.
http://bookvar.blogspot.com/
A demo of Bookvar a mindmapping software taht allows users to add branches by just dragging images.
read this too : • Embedding images in a Bookvar map is accomplished via drag and drop. The program incorporates an image search function, making it easy to find images from the web. In the typical mind mapping program, you add a topic, and then attach an image to it. Bookvar turns this model on its head. When you drag an image or video clip into your map, the program creates a blank gray bar at the top, where you can then type in your topic name.
• Multiple people can collaborate on a map at the same time; topics are colored according to who submitted them. Microsoft's Sharepoint services can be used as the collaboration platform.
• Bookvar includes a file viewer that was built using Microsoft's Silverlight multimedia development platform (their competitor to Adobe's Flash).
• If you have multiple maps open in Bookvar, switching between them invokes a cool 3D effect that looks like a cube turning. Cool!
Bookvar was created exclusively for the Imagine Cup, but the team does hope to develop it further and eventually commercialize it. You can read more about it in the Bookvar Blog, which includes the Channel 9 video interview and video clips of the team's presentation to the Imagine Cup judges.
http://bookvar.blogspot.com/
• News maps
• Newsmap
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/index.cfm
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/index.cfm
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.
• Online data maps
• An Atlas of Cyberspace *
• http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/info_maps.html
atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new Internet electronic territories, the World-Wide Web and other emerging Cyberspaces.
atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new Internet electronic territories, the World-Wide Web and other emerging Cyberspaces.
• Mapping Cyberspace
• http://www.mappingcyberspace.com/
Source : Martin Dodge & Rob Kitchin
Summary : A book about mapping cyberspace.The website provides graphs.
Source : Martin Dodge & Rob Kitchin
Summary : A book about mapping cyberspace.The website provides graphs.
• Mapping Internet
• http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/InternetMap/index.html
Author(s):
Chris Harrison
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/InternetMap/index.html
Project Description:
The Dimes Project provides several excellent data sets that describe the structure of the Internet. Using their most recent city edges data (Feb 2007), Chris Harrison created a set of visualizations that display how cities across the globe are interconnected (by router configuration and not physical backbone). In total, there are 89,344 connections.
The renderings shown here represent network connections among the globe, focusing on Europe (first image) and North America (second image). The intensity of edge contrast reflects the number of connections between the two points. No country borders or geographic features are shown. However, it should be fairly easy to orient yourself. The second image is also part of a full rendering of the world shown on the site.
Note: No projection has been applied to the geographical data. Latitudes and Longitudes were rounded to the nearest whole number and used in a flat coordinate system. This means that the planetary surface area represented by each point varies, skewing how the data (and densities - both point and edge) is shown.
Author(s):
Chris Harrison
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/InternetMap/index.html
Project Description:
The Dimes Project provides several excellent data sets that describe the structure of the Internet. Using their most recent city edges data (Feb 2007), Chris Harrison created a set of visualizations that display how cities across the globe are interconnected (by router configuration and not physical backbone). In total, there are 89,344 connections.
The renderings shown here represent network connections among the globe, focusing on Europe (first image) and North America (second image). The intensity of edge contrast reflects the number of connections between the two points. No country borders or geographic features are shown. However, it should be fairly easy to orient yourself. The second image is also part of a full rendering of the world shown on the site.
Note: No projection has been applied to the geographical data. Latitudes and Longitudes were rounded to the nearest whole number and used in a flat coordinate system. This means that the planetary surface area represented by each point varies, skewing how the data (and densities - both point and edge) is shown.
• Authormap : Citation mapping and visualization *
• http://project.cis.drexel.edu/authorlink/
Keywords : scientometric tool - citation mapping - visualization - author - search tool
AuthorMap explores author relationships through co-citation patterns. The assumption is that if two authors are often cited together by many other authors, these two authors likely have common intellectual interest in their research and writing. When many related authors' pair-wise co-citation patterns are explored, we will have a map of a subject domain where authors on the map represent ideas or subtopics as well as their relationships. AuthorMap currently attaches to ISI Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), 1988-1997, about 1.26 million records.
When an author search is conducted, AuthorMap generates a list of 25 authors co-cited most often with the given author. The user then can choose to interact with two types of maps that visualize how these author related to each other based on their co-citation counts. One map is based on Kohone's self-organizing feature map (SOM), the other is based on Path Finder Network(PFNET). Both maps are generated within seconds. Both maps allow the user to drag the names on the maps and drop them to a search box to activate an automatic search by the underlying search engine.
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Keywords : scientometric tool - citation mapping - visualization - author - search tool
AuthorMap explores author relationships through co-citation patterns. The assumption is that if two authors are often cited together by many other authors, these two authors likely have common intellectual interest in their research and writing. When many related authors' pair-wise co-citation patterns are explored, we will have a map of a subject domain where authors on the map represent ideas or subtopics as well as their relationships. AuthorMap currently attaches to ISI Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), 1988-1997, about 1.26 million records.
When an author search is conducted, AuthorMap generates a list of 25 authors co-cited most often with the given author. The user then can choose to interact with two types of maps that visualize how these author related to each other based on their co-citation counts. One map is based on Kohone's self-organizing feature map (SOM), the other is based on Path Finder Network(PFNET). Both maps are generated within seconds. Both maps allow the user to drag the names on the maps and drop them to a search box to activate an automatic search by the underlying search engine.
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• ICCARUS
• http://www.viddler.com/explore/rich115/videos/1/79.766/
a 3D data visualization of the real-time social networks behind scouta.com. ICCARUS, short for "Interactive Command Console & Relational User Statistics", consists of different traditional network graphs that convey the social network between members, the memberships of groups, & the links between members & the content they explore.
a 3D data visualization of the real-time social networks behind scouta.com. ICCARUS, short for "Interactive Command Console & Relational User Statistics", consists of different traditional network graphs that convey the social network between members, the memberships of groups, & the links between members & the content they explore.
• Unilock
• http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/
audio/visual experience as a world map interface representing the geographical location & amount of users & views of the website, along with personal links & blogs of the visitors.
audio/visual experience as a world map interface representing the geographical location & amount of users & views of the website, along with personal links & blogs of the visitors.
• Blogarchie
• http://www.ouinon.net/documents/cartoblog2.1.pdf
a blogarchie francophone est de retour avec cette nouvelle mappemonde encore plus complète (1).
Cette visualisation est vraiment de très bonne facture : en plus de la carte qui met en scène 200 (!) blogs, le pdf associé comprends plusieurs pages qui détaillent la méthodologie suivie pour effectuer cette sélection.
Le nombre de commentaires postés sur chaque blog est privilégié comme critère de sélection. Aucune chance donc pour Serial Mapper ;-°)
Ceci dit ce choix est amplement expliqué dans la partie méthodologique.
L'auteur ne manque pas d'humour quite à flirter avec l' Almanach Vermot (Ah la mer Luche et la mer Guez...) ce qui est plutôt réjouissant dans un Web 2.0 qui a tendance à ce prendre beaucoup trop au sérieux.
L'auteur, Cristophe Druaux du blog Ouinon, a répondu à un interview sur Ecrans (Libération)
Ecrans, toujours en pointe sur la cartographie de l'information, propose également un aperçu général de ce travail.
PS : Pour mieux visualiser la carte n'hésitez à zoomer dans Acrobat Reader. L'image est réalisé en vectorielle, elle supporte donc tous les facteurs d'agrandissement.
a blogarchie francophone est de retour avec cette nouvelle mappemonde encore plus complète (1).
Cette visualisation est vraiment de très bonne facture : en plus de la carte qui met en scène 200 (!) blogs, le pdf associé comprends plusieurs pages qui détaillent la méthodologie suivie pour effectuer cette sélection.
Le nombre de commentaires postés sur chaque blog est privilégié comme critère de sélection. Aucune chance donc pour Serial Mapper ;-°)
Ceci dit ce choix est amplement expliqué dans la partie méthodologique.
L'auteur ne manque pas d'humour quite à flirter avec l' Almanach Vermot (Ah la mer Luche et la mer Guez...) ce qui est plutôt réjouissant dans un Web 2.0 qui a tendance à ce prendre beaucoup trop au sérieux.
L'auteur, Cristophe Druaux du blog Ouinon, a répondu à un interview sur Ecrans (Libération)
Ecrans, toujours en pointe sur la cartographie de l'information, propose également un aperçu général de ce travail.
PS : Pour mieux visualiser la carte n'hésitez à zoomer dans Acrobat Reader. L'image est réalisé en vectorielle, elle supporte donc tous les facteurs d'agrandissement.
• Newsmap
• http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/index.cfm
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.
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.
• Touchgraph
• Google is developing some interesting tools for generating sociograms on internet data:
Touchgraph: http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
Facebook: http://www.touchgraph.com/TGFacebookBrowser.html
Touchgraph: http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
Facebook: http://www.touchgraph.com/TGFacebookBrowser.html
• Internet Mapping Project
• http://www.cheswick.com/ches/map/index.html
The Internet Mapping Project was started at Bell Labs in the summer of 1998. Its goal is to acquire and save Internet topological data over a long period of time. This data has been used in the study of routing problems and changes, DDoS attacks, and graph theory.
The Internet Mapping Project was started at Bell Labs in the summer of 1998. Its goal is to acquire and save Internet topological data over a long period of time. This data has been used in the study of routing problems and changes, DDoS attacks, and graph theory.
• The Opte Project
• http://opte.org/
This project was created to make a visual representation of a space that is very much one-dimensional, a metaphysical universe. The data represented and collected here serves a multitude of purposes: Modeling the Internet, analyzing wasted IP space, IP space distribution, detecting the result of natural disasters, weather, war, and esthetics/art.
This project was created to make a visual representation of a space that is very much one-dimensional, a metaphysical universe. The data represented and collected here serves a multitude of purposes: Modeling the Internet, analyzing wasted IP space, IP space distribution, detecting the result of natural disasters, weather, war, and esthetics/art.
• The map is the territory **
• http://www.aalab.net/projects/maps/
Category : programs for analysing Online data
Source : Jason E. Lewis and Alex Weyers
Summary :visualizing on-line communities
Category : programs for analysing Online data
Source : Jason E. Lewis and Alex Weyers
Summary :visualizing on-line communities
• Links to other Internet mapping efforts
http://www.caida.org/tools/, work by kc and collaborators.
http://www.cybergeography.org/
Internet Weather Report at http://www.internetweather.com/
The Rocketfuel ISP toplogy mapping engine.
and many others: consult your local search engine.
http://www.caida.org/tools/, work by kc and collaborators.
http://www.cybergeography.org/
Internet Weather Report at http://www.internetweather.com/
The Rocketfuel ISP toplogy mapping engine.
and many others: consult your local search engine.
• Political maps
• La blogopole ***
• http://www.blogopole.fr/
an impressive interactive data visualization based on the political playground of the French blogosphere. the "blogopole" represents about 2000 blogs that focus on political themes, which were analized in the context of the past 2007 French elections.
the first view allows users to select a more detailed part of the map by either a political stream or by a small, representative sample (yellow circle in the middle). the node color corresponds to its different political party. the node size represents the authority of the website, such as its Google PageRank, authority, or number of inward links. the positions of the nodes are purely topological in that the force-directed algorithm attempts to minimize the number of overlappings.
an impressive interactive data visualization based on the political playground of the French blogosphere. the "blogopole" represents about 2000 blogs that focus on political themes, which were analized in the context of the past 2007 French elections.
the first view allows users to select a more detailed part of the map by either a political stream or by a small, representative sample (yellow circle in the middle). the node color corresponds to its different political party. the node size represents the authority of the website, such as its Google PageRank, authority, or number of inward links. the positions of the nodes are purely topological in that the force-directed algorithm attempts to minimize the number of overlappings.
• Iranian Censored Network
• http://www.govcom.org/maps/censorship/GCO_Maps_set_censorship_final.pdf
Author(s):
Richard Rogers, Nart Villeneuve, Erik Borra and Marieke van Dijk
Institution:
Govcom.org Foundation, Amsterdam & OpenNet Initiative
Year:
2006
URL:
http://tinyurl.com/f6wfh
Project Description:
The Govcom.org Foundation, an Amsterdam-based foundation dedicated to creating and hosting political tools on the Web, and its collaborators have developed a software tool that locates and visualizes networks on the Web. The Issue Crawler, at http://issuecrawler.net, is used by NGOs and other researchers to answer questions about specific networks and effective networking more generally.
In this case, Issue Crawler was used to map Internet censorship in Iran. On March 30, 2006, the authors crawled a series of URLs from the OpenNet Initiative's list of Iranian social, political and religious sites. They found a network of sites through one iteration of co-link analysis and fetched each site through a proxy in Iran (on 18 May 2006). While doing this, the team discovered sites previously unknown to be blocked and compared newly discovered blocked sites with an entire list of Iranian websites checked by the OpenNet Initiative. The finding is the discovery of 30 additional blocked sites in Iran.
Author(s):
Richard Rogers, Nart Villeneuve, Erik Borra and Marieke van Dijk
Institution:
Govcom.org Foundation, Amsterdam & OpenNet Initiative
Year:
2006
URL:
http://tinyurl.com/f6wfh
Project Description:
The Govcom.org Foundation, an Amsterdam-based foundation dedicated to creating and hosting political tools on the Web, and its collaborators have developed a software tool that locates and visualizes networks on the Web. The Issue Crawler, at http://issuecrawler.net, is used by NGOs and other researchers to answer questions about specific networks and effective networking more generally.
In this case, Issue Crawler was used to map Internet censorship in Iran. On March 30, 2006, the authors crawled a series of URLs from the OpenNet Initiative's list of Iranian social, political and religious sites. They found a network of sites through one iteration of co-link analysis and fetched each site through a proxy in Iran (on 18 May 2006). While doing this, the team discovered sites previously unknown to be blocked and compared newly discovered blocked sites with an entire list of Iranian websites checked by the OpenNet Initiative. The finding is the discovery of 30 additional blocked sites in Iran.
• Segoland
• http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=473
Author(s):
(unknown)
Institution:
desirsdavenir.org
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.desirsdavenir.org/index.php?c=blogs_annuaire
Project Description:
Segoland is a visual representation of 1054 local blogs and websites that supported the 2007 French presidential candidate, Segolene Royal. It displays an intricate network of sites, divided by political party and geographically placed throughout the French territory. By materializing the existing bonds between them, this chart makes it possible to emphasize the vast network of influences on the Web.
Author(s):
(unknown)
Institution:
desirsdavenir.org
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.desirsdavenir.org/index.php?c=blogs_annuaire
Project Description:
Segoland is a visual representation of 1054 local blogs and websites that supported the 2007 French presidential candidate, Segolene Royal. It displays an intricate network of sites, divided by political party and geographically placed throughout the French territory. By materializing the existing bonds between them, this chart makes it possible to emphasize the vast network of influences on the Web.
• mapping the Iraqi election
• http://www.style.org/iraqielection/
Interactive geographical maps representing the elections in Iraq from the developer, Jonathan Corum.
Interactive geographical maps representing the elections in Iraq from the developer, Jonathan Corum.
• Unfluence / mapping politiacl contribution
• http://unfluence.primate.net/Author
(s):
Skye Bender-deMoll, Greg Michalec
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://unfluence.primate.net/
Project Description:
The Unfluence site constructs maps of the funding relations between groups of candidates and donors. The data comes from candidates' required disclosures, collected and made available to the public by the National Institute on Money in State Politics (NIMSP). The basic idea is to help people understand the context of political giving, and the relative positions of various candidates in terms of who is paying for their campaign.
A query is generated from the initial search settings and sent to NIMSP's API which looks in their databases and returns a list of matching candidates as an xml file. For each candidate it retrieves a list of the top contributors, and discards any with contributions below the value threshold set in the beginning. This donor-recipient information is formatted into a network and passed to GraphViz that computes positions for the nodes and draws it (with help from ImageMagik). The image is then passed back to the user. When a node is clicked, a query is sent to NIMSP and Project VoteSmart to check if there is information available for that candidate, and it includes the links in the info bubble. The visual effects are provided by script.aculo.us .
Unfluence won the first prize in the Sunlight Foundation Mashup competition.
or see this other comment : an interactive network map of US state level political contributions, showing donations between candidates (e.g. governor, Senate, House, Supreme Court) & various industries (e.g. automotive, energy, health, self-finance).
in "unfluence", circles indicate candidates running for a political office. green circles represent their contributors. gray arrows indicate the size (in terms of money) & direction of the contributions. the size of the circles is proportional to the total amount given or received.
Skye Bender-deMoll, Greg Michalec
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://unfluence.primate.net/
Project Description:
The Unfluence site constructs maps of the funding relations between groups of candidates and donors. The data comes from candidates' required disclosures, collected and made available to the public by the National Institute on Money in State Politics (NIMSP). The basic idea is to help people understand the context of political giving, and the relative positions of various candidates in terms of who is paying for their campaign.
A query is generated from the initial search settings and sent to NIMSP's API which looks in their databases and returns a list of matching candidates as an xml file. For each candidate it retrieves a list of the top contributors, and discards any with contributions below the value threshold set in the beginning. This donor-recipient information is formatted into a network and passed to GraphViz that computes positions for the nodes and draws it (with help from ImageMagik). The image is then passed back to the user. When a node is clicked, a query is sent to NIMSP and Project VoteSmart to check if there is information available for that candidate, and it includes the links in the info bubble. The visual effects are provided by script.aculo.us .
Unfluence won the first prize in the Sunlight Foundation Mashup competition.
or see this other comment : an interactive network map of US state level political contributions, showing donations between candidates (e.g. governor, Senate, House, Supreme Court) & various industries (e.g. automotive, energy, health, self-finance).
in "unfluence", circles indicate candidates running for a political office. green circles represent their contributors. gray arrows indicate the size (in terms of money) & direction of the contributions. the size of the circles is proportional to the total amount given or received.
• maplight
• http://maplight.org/
a public database that clarifies the connections between campaign donations & legislative votes over time. elected officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, & they often "pay back" campaign contributors with special access & favorable laws.
the website allows users to explore historical voting records, supporting & opposing interests & according campaign contributions. key information is revealed such as contributions given by interest, average donations given to legislators voting in favor or against, & a timeline of contributions & votes for each bill, graphically identifying when legislators received large donations before or after their vote.
a public database that clarifies the connections between campaign donations & legislative votes over time. elected officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, & they often "pay back" campaign contributors with special access & favorable laws.
the website allows users to explore historical voting records, supporting & opposing interests & according campaign contributions. key information is revealed such as contributions given by interest, average donations given to legislators voting in favor or against, & a timeline of contributions & votes for each bill, graphically identifying when legislators received large donations before or after their vote.
• MIGration MAP MIGMAP**
• http://www.transitmigration.org/migmap/
a rich collection of virtual maps illustrating current European migration policies. in particular, MigMap conveys a picture of how & where the production of knowledge is taking place in the area of migration, who is participating in & has access to it. it looks, for example, at how European standards in politics & civil society are implemented, & at the authorities, persons & institutions taking part in this process.
the 4 different maps, titled “Key Players”, “Discourses”, “Europeanisation” & “Places + Practices” provide access to a broad range of information on players, debates, processes & events that together comprise Europe’s present day migration policies.
a rich collection of virtual maps illustrating current European migration policies. in particular, MigMap conveys a picture of how & where the production of knowledge is taking place in the area of migration, who is participating in & has access to it. it looks, for example, at how European standards in politics & civil society are implemented, & at the authorities, persons & institutions taking part in this process.
the 4 different maps, titled “Key Players”, “Discourses”, “Europeanisation” & “Places + Practices” provide access to a broad range of information on players, debates, processes & events that together comprise Europe’s present day migration policies.
• Real-time maps
• Real Time GPS Shark Hunting
• http://www.areacodeinc.com/work/sharkrunners/
a real-time game based on oceanic exploration & shark research. online players take on the role of marine biologists who seek to learn as much as possible about sharks through advanced observation techniques. in the Shark Runners game, players control their ships, but the sharks are controlled by real-world white sharks with GPS units attached to their fins. real-world telemetry data provides the position & movement of actual great white sharks in the game, so every shark that players encounter corresponds to a real shark in the real world. ships in the game also move in real-time, so players receive email or SMS alerts during the day when their boat is within range of an encounter.
a real-time game based on oceanic exploration & shark research. online players take on the role of marine biologists who seek to learn as much as possible about sharks through advanced observation techniques. in the Shark Runners game, players control their ships, but the sharks are controlled by real-world white sharks with GPS units attached to their fins. real-world telemetry data provides the position & movement of actual great white sharks in the game, so every shark that players encounter corresponds to a real shark in the real world. ships in the game also move in real-time, so players receive email or SMS alerts during the day when their boat is within range of an encounter.
• Distributed solar enegy viz
• http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/BondingEnergy/
a collaborative real-time data visualization that represents the measurements of solar energy from 7 different geographically distributed sites around New York State.
data from each site is represented by a wedge in an animated circle. the colors in the wedges change as the data from the previous 7 days is played back: orange represents low light levels, yellow medium, & blue high. highlighted bands indicate maximum & minimum data values & a rotating line of text displays the date & time of the data being displayed in the center of the circle. shapes overlaid on the animation represent changing data relationships between & within the Sunsmile devices.
a collaborative real-time data visualization that represents the measurements of solar energy from 7 different geographically distributed sites around New York State.
data from each site is represented by a wedge in an animated circle. the colors in the wedges change as the data from the previous 7 days is played back: orange represents low light levels, yellow medium, & blue high. highlighted bands indicate maximum & minimum data values & a rotating line of text displays the date & time of the data being displayed in the center of the circle. shapes overlaid on the animation represent changing data relationships between & within the Sunsmile devices.
• Scientific production, knowledge and data
• The strengh of the Nation
• http://mapofscience.com/
In this impressive poster developed by Dick Klavans and Bradford Paley, with the help of Kevin Boyack and ISI data, one can see the variations in how different nations pursue science. The concept is not only ingenious but also takes full advantage of the page layout where it's quite easy to make sensible comparisons between the nations placed side-by-side.
This visualization analyzes a full span of 23 scientific areas such as Astrophysics, Math or Biochemistry, over 10 nations - USA, United Kingdom, France, China, Australia, Germany, Taiwan, Canada, Spain and Japan.
In this impressive poster developed by Dick Klavans and Bradford Paley, with the help of Kevin Boyack and ISI data, one can see the variations in how different nations pursue science. The concept is not only ingenious but also takes full advantage of the page layout where it's quite easy to make sensible comparisons between the nations placed side-by-side.
This visualization analyzes a full span of 23 scientific areas such as Astrophysics, Math or Biochemistry, over 10 nations - USA, United Kingdom, France, China, Australia, Germany, Taiwan, Canada, Spain and Japan.
• Map of science
• http://www.eigenfactor.org/map/maps.htm
Author(s):
Martin Rosvall and Carl Bergstrom
Institution:
Eigenfactor.org
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.eigenfactor.org/map/maps.htm
Project Description:
Eigenfactor.org is a non-commercial academic research project sponsored by the Bergstrom lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. Eigenfactor ranks journals much as Google ranks websites. Scholarly references join journals together in a vast network of citations. Eigenfactor uses the structure of the entire network (instead of purely local citation information) to evaluate the importance of each journal.
As part of the Eigenfactor project and using data from Thomson Scientific's 2004 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), the authors developed a map of the sciences and social sciences based on 6,434,916 citations among 6128 journals over a five year period. For sake of simplicity, the authors showed only the most important links, namely those that a random surfer traverses at least once in 5000 steps, and the modules that are connected by these links. Orange circles represent fields, with larger, darker circles indicating larger field size as measured by Eigenfactor. Blue arrows represent citation flow between fields. An arrow from field A to field B indicates citation traffic from A to B, with larger, darker arrows indicating higher citation volume.
This map is based on an information flow method for mapping large networks which identifies important structures (in this case, clusters of journals that compose research fields) within a very large network. We can then make a map of the network that simplifies away the unnecessary details while highlighting the important structures and the relationships among them.
Author(s):
Martin Rosvall and Carl Bergstrom
Institution:
Eigenfactor.org
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.eigenfactor.org/map/maps.htm
Project Description:
Eigenfactor.org is a non-commercial academic research project sponsored by the Bergstrom lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. Eigenfactor ranks journals much as Google ranks websites. Scholarly references join journals together in a vast network of citations. Eigenfactor uses the structure of the entire network (instead of purely local citation information) to evaluate the importance of each journal.
As part of the Eigenfactor project and using data from Thomson Scientific's 2004 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), the authors developed a map of the sciences and social sciences based on 6,434,916 citations among 6128 journals over a five year period. For sake of simplicity, the authors showed only the most important links, namely those that a random surfer traverses at least once in 5000 steps, and the modules that are connected by these links. Orange circles represent fields, with larger, darker circles indicating larger field size as measured by Eigenfactor. Blue arrows represent citation flow between fields. An arrow from field A to field B indicates citation traffic from A to B, with larger, darker arrows indicating higher citation volume.
This map is based on an information flow method for mapping large networks which identifies important structures (in this case, clusters of journals that compose research fields) within a very large network. We can then make a map of the network that simplifies away the unnecessary details while highlighting the important structures and the relationships among them.
• Mapping Complex Diseases
• http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=19023
Author(s):
Andrey Rzhetsky (et al)
Institution:
Columbia University
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=19023
Project Description:
Anyone who is a true advocate of information visualization will be fascinated by this project. Using health records from the Columbia University Medical Center, a group of researchers lead by Andrey Rzhetsky at Columbia University have mapped the overlap between 161 different diseases by studying epidemiological data from 1.5 million patients. Some of the disease correlations found in the mapping exercise have been previously observed, but many are new. The strongest results concern neurological disorders. "We're the first to quantify the overlap between schizophrenia, bipolar, and autism," says Rzhetsky. A Columbia University computer model was used to generate these maps, which the researchers hope will foster further investigation on the genetic bases of the diseases they studied.
The first map (on top) shows the overlap between some common diseases. Red lines between diseases indicate a positive correlation; blue lines indicate a negative correlation. The thickness of a line corresponds to the strength of the correlation. The size of the circles corresponds to the relative size of the patient population for each disease; in this map, patient populations range from about 20 to about 136,000 people. This visualization also demonstrates a strong positive correlation between schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism (yellow circles), suggesting that they are caused by a common group of genes.
The second map (bottom image) is the resulting output of an independent study into one of the 161 diseases mapped in the Columbia study - Migraine. The Columbia researchers found genetic overlap between migraine and about 60 other diseases. The size of the circles corresponds to the relative size of the patient population sampled; in this map, populations range from 46 to 136,000 people. Very little is known about what predisposes a person to migraines, says Rzhetsky, but the mapping project reveals a strong correlation with autism. Rzhetsky's research also shows correlations between infections and many neurological diseases, including migraines, autism, and schizophrenia.
Author(s):
Andrey Rzhetsky (et al)
Institution:
Columbia University
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=19023
Project Description:
Anyone who is a true advocate of information visualization will be fascinated by this project. Using health records from the Columbia University Medical Center, a group of researchers lead by Andrey Rzhetsky at Columbia University have mapped the overlap between 161 different diseases by studying epidemiological data from 1.5 million patients. Some of the disease correlations found in the mapping exercise have been previously observed, but many are new. The strongest results concern neurological disorders. "We're the first to quantify the overlap between schizophrenia, bipolar, and autism," says Rzhetsky. A Columbia University computer model was used to generate these maps, which the researchers hope will foster further investigation on the genetic bases of the diseases they studied.
The first map (on top) shows the overlap between some common diseases. Red lines between diseases indicate a positive correlation; blue lines indicate a negative correlation. The thickness of a line corresponds to the strength of the correlation. The size of the circles corresponds to the relative size of the patient population for each disease; in this map, patient populations range from about 20 to about 136,000 people. This visualization also demonstrates a strong positive correlation between schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism (yellow circles), suggesting that they are caused by a common group of genes.
The second map (bottom image) is the resulting output of an independent study into one of the 161 diseases mapped in the Columbia study - Migraine. The Columbia researchers found genetic overlap between migraine and about 60 other diseases. The size of the circles corresponds to the relative size of the patient population sampled; in this map, populations range from 46 to 136,000 people. Very little is known about what predisposes a person to migraines, says Rzhetsky, but the mapping project reveals a strong correlation with autism. Rzhetsky's research also shows correlations between infections and many neurological diseases, including migraines, autism, and schizophrenia.
• Mapping huge collection of data
• http://data.vanderbilt.edu/rapache/bbplot
a huge collection of data visualizations aiming to explore Major League Baseball teams' game scores going all the way back to 1814. scores from baseball games are "bivariate data", with each variate being one team's score. the distribution of baseball scores can be viewed from a bivariate point of view, & then be filtered by other attributes such as day of the week, day/night, month, starting pitcher & so on.
a huge collection of data visualizations aiming to explore Major League Baseball teams' game scores going all the way back to 1814. scores from baseball games are "bivariate data", with each variate being one team's score. the distribution of baseball scores can be viewed from a bivariate point of view, & then be filtered by other attributes such as day of the week, day/night, month, starting pitcher & so on.
• Map of future Forces Affecting Education
• http://www.kwfdn.org/map/map.aspx
a graphical concept map that forecasts a consistent view of how future forces will affect the components of public education in the US. the map was created by aggregating the opinions of relevant experts who create intensive case studies based on field research. the vertical side shows 6 categories driving all trends, such as "smart networking", "strong opinions" or "the end of cyberspace". the horizontal direction illustrates 5 key areas of activity where major trends are revealed, such as "family", "institutions", or "educators". different rectangular zones depict the dilemmas, trends or hotspots that will impact public education.
a graphical concept map that forecasts a consistent view of how future forces will affect the components of public education in the US. the map was created by aggregating the opinions of relevant experts who create intensive case studies based on field research. the vertical side shows 6 categories driving all trends, such as "smart networking", "strong opinions" or "the end of cyberspace". the horizontal direction illustrates 5 key areas of activity where major trends are revealed, such as "family", "institutions", or "educators". different rectangular zones depict the dilemmas, trends or hotspots that will impact public education.
• The product space and the wealth of nations
• Author(s):
C. A. Hidalgo. R. B. Klinger, A. L. Barabasi, R. Hausmann
Institution:
Center for Complex Network Research and Dept of Physics - University of Notre Dame, Center for International Development Kennedy School of Government - Harvard University
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.nd.edu/~networks/productspace/
Project Description:
The concept of proximity formalizes the intuitive idea that the ability of a country to produce a product depends on its ability to produce other ones. For example, a country with the ability to export apples will probably have most of the conditions suitable to export pears. Unfortunately this intuitive definition of proximity is, very cumbersome to measure. It requires quantifying the overlap between the set of markets related to each product. On the paper "The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations", published at Science magazine, the authors explain how they've measured proximity by using an outcome based method founded on the assumption that similar products are more likely to be exported in tandem.
The authors generated a network representation of the original proximity matrix to help them develop intuition about its structure as well as to visualize and study the dynamics of countries on it. The matrix representing the product space has many small values which represent weak connections between products. That is why a network representation becomes an adequate way to layout the products, giving the researchers a quick visual way to show the relevant links and to determine where countries are located and where they could be headed.
Another advantage of using a network representation is that we can simultaneously look at the structure of the space and other covariates. In this case, the authors painted the network using the product classifications performed by Edward E. Leamer, and made the size of the nodes proportional to the money moved by that particular industry or World Trade. To give a sense of the proximity of the links involved in our network representation we color coded them by using dark red and blue for strong links; and yellow and light blue for weaker ones.
C. A. Hidalgo. R. B. Klinger, A. L. Barabasi, R. Hausmann
Institution:
Center for Complex Network Research and Dept of Physics - University of Notre Dame, Center for International Development Kennedy School of Government - Harvard University
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.nd.edu/~networks/productspace/
Project Description:
The concept of proximity formalizes the intuitive idea that the ability of a country to produce a product depends on its ability to produce other ones. For example, a country with the ability to export apples will probably have most of the conditions suitable to export pears. Unfortunately this intuitive definition of proximity is, very cumbersome to measure. It requires quantifying the overlap between the set of markets related to each product. On the paper "The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations", published at Science magazine, the authors explain how they've measured proximity by using an outcome based method founded on the assumption that similar products are more likely to be exported in tandem.
The authors generated a network representation of the original proximity matrix to help them develop intuition about its structure as well as to visualize and study the dynamics of countries on it. The matrix representing the product space has many small values which represent weak connections between products. That is why a network representation becomes an adequate way to layout the products, giving the researchers a quick visual way to show the relevant links and to determine where countries are located and where they could be headed.
Another advantage of using a network representation is that we can simultaneously look at the structure of the space and other covariates. In this case, the authors painted the network using the product classifications performed by Edward E. Leamer, and made the size of the nodes proportional to the money moved by that particular industry or World Trade. To give a sense of the proximity of the links involved in our network representation we color coded them by using dark red and blue for strong links; and yellow and light blue for weaker ones.
• A toxic site a day
• http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/superfund/
an online data visualization application that analyzes 1 toxic site per day that is currently active in the Superfund program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). the information portal shows different aspects of each toxic site, such as the address, the location, a hazardous ranking score, amount of people living in the vicinity, & so on.in the end, the archive will consist of 365 visualizations of some of the worst toxic sites in the U.S., roughly a quarter of the total number on the Superfund's National Priorities List (NPL).
an online data visualization application that analyzes 1 toxic site per day that is currently active in the Superfund program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). the information portal shows different aspects of each toxic site, such as the address, the location, a hazardous ranking score, amount of people living in the vicinity, & so on.in the end, the archive will consist of 365 visualizations of some of the worst toxic sites in the U.S., roughly a quarter of the total number on the Superfund's National Priorities List (NPL).
• Climate map
• http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/london-2071.html
London as it might look like in 2071. The city, they suggest, will be defined by "heat, dust, and water piped in from Scotland."
To illustrate the point, that article includes a somewhat cryptic climate map, produced by scientists at the University of Bremen. The map relocates Europe's capital cities to the present region that most closely resembles their impending future circumstances.
London as it might look like in 2071. The city, they suggest, will be defined by "heat, dust, and water piped in from Scotland."
To illustrate the point, that article includes a somewhat cryptic climate map, produced by scientists at the University of Bremen. The map relocates Europe's capital cities to the present region that most closely resembles their impending future circumstances.
• Aureka / mapping patent (ThemeScape)
• http://www.researchinformation.info/rijanfeb04patents.html
One of the key tools in Aureka is a text-mining module called ThemeScape. Aurigin brought this out to attract business customers by helping corporate strategists to: defend intellectual property against competitors; understand what business areas to operate in; and explore where to license out or buy-in technology. 'So IP started into the strategic marketing and financial areas of the firm, working in tandem with legal librarians, thereby making IP an integral part of the business decision process of the corporation,' says Dodd.
It helped solve the problem of how to compare, in a simple way, the portfolio of company A with that of company B, when tens of thousands of patents are involved. 'You want to be able to show to your management team, to your executive board, the lie of the landscape for intellectual property holdings. You can't do that with a search report the librarian's run,' says Dodd. 'Corporate strategists don't need to care about the details of what's in each patent, they need to see at a very macro level'. ThemeScape produces pseudo-3D maps - like those used by geographers and walkers - with contoured hills representing the patent themes identified. This sort of analysis has changed the way companies approach mergers and acquisitions. In the standard due diligence process, the intellectual property portfolio was at the tail-end of the review. Now, says Dodd: 'We see more and more companies, when they're doing acquisitions, say "take my portfolio; see how that company I'm going to acquire overlaps" or "show me my portfolio and show me all the potential candidates that I'm looking at, and show me how those portfolios overlap and which ones should I be buying", based on their IP'.
The overview provided by ThemeScape can be probed and analysed, including with other software tools, to answer more detailed questions asked by less elevated users. Having done a search on 10,000 documents, and seen a rough landscape, users may want to focus on one small subset of patents
One of the key tools in Aureka is a text-mining module called ThemeScape. Aurigin brought this out to attract business customers by helping corporate strategists to: defend intellectual property against competitors; understand what business areas to operate in; and explore where to license out or buy-in technology. 'So IP started into the strategic marketing and financial areas of the firm, working in tandem with legal librarians, thereby making IP an integral part of the business decision process of the corporation,' says Dodd.
It helped solve the problem of how to compare, in a simple way, the portfolio of company A with that of company B, when tens of thousands of patents are involved. 'You want to be able to show to your management team, to your executive board, the lie of the landscape for intellectual property holdings. You can't do that with a search report the librarian's run,' says Dodd. 'Corporate strategists don't need to care about the details of what's in each patent, they need to see at a very macro level'. ThemeScape produces pseudo-3D maps - like those used by geographers and walkers - with contoured hills representing the patent themes identified. This sort of analysis has changed the way companies approach mergers and acquisitions. In the standard due diligence process, the intellectual property portfolio was at the tail-end of the review. Now, says Dodd: 'We see more and more companies, when they're doing acquisitions, say "take my portfolio; see how that company I'm going to acquire overlaps" or "show me my portfolio and show me all the potential candidates that I'm looking at, and show me how those portfolios overlap and which ones should I be buying", based on their IP'.
The overview provided by ThemeScape can be probed and analysed, including with other software tools, to answer more detailed questions asked by less elevated users. Having done a search on 10,000 documents, and seen a rough landscape, users may want to focus on one small subset of patents
• The spread of obesity
• http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=509
Author(s):
Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler
Institution:
The New England Journal of Medicine
Year:
2007
URL:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/4/370
Project Description:
The prevalence of obesity has increased from 23% to 31% over the recent past in the United States, and 66% of adults are overweight. In order to better understand this phenomenon, the authors in this study performed a quantitative analysis of the nature and extent of the person-to-person spread of obesity as a possible factor contributing to the obesity epidemic.
The authors evaluated a densely interconnected social network of 12,067 people assessed repeatedly from 1971 to 2003 as part of the Framingham Heart Study. The body-mass index was available for all subjects. They used longitudinal statistical models to examine whether weight gain in one person was associated with weight gain in his or her friends, siblings, spouse, and neighbors.
The image shown here depicts the largest connected subcomponent of the social network in the year 2000. This network is sufficiently dense to obscure much of the underlying structure, although regions of the network with clusters of obese or non-obese persons can be seen. Each circle (node) represents one person in the data set. There are 2200 persons in this subcomponent of the social network. Circles with red borders denote women, and circles with blue borders denote men. The size of each circle is proportional to the person's body-mass index. The interior color of the circles indicates the person's obesity status: yellow denotes an obese person (body-mass index) and green denotes a non-obese person. The colors of the ties between the nodes indicate the relationship between them: purple denotes a friendship or marital tie and orange denotes a familial tie.
Discernible clusters of obese persons were present in the network at all time points, and the clusters extended to three degrees of separation. These clusters did not appear to be solely attributable to the selective formation of social ties among obese persons. A person's chances of becoming obese increased by 57% if he or she had a friend who became obese in a given interval. Among pairs of adult siblings, if one sibling became obese, the chance that the other would become obese increased by 40%. If one spouse became obese, the likelihood that the other spouse would become obese increased by 37%. These effects were not seen among neighbors in the immediate geographic location. Persons of the same sex had relatively greater influence on each other than those of the opposite sex. The spread of smoking cessation did not account for the spread of obesity in the network.
Author(s):
Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler
Institution:
The New England Journal of Medicine
Year:
2007
URL:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/4/370
Project Description:
The prevalence of obesity has increased from 23% to 31% over the recent past in the United States, and 66% of adults are overweight. In order to better understand this phenomenon, the authors in this study performed a quantitative analysis of the nature and extent of the person-to-person spread of obesity as a possible factor contributing to the obesity epidemic.
The authors evaluated a densely interconnected social network of 12,067 people assessed repeatedly from 1971 to 2003 as part of the Framingham Heart Study. The body-mass index was available for all subjects. They used longitudinal statistical models to examine whether weight gain in one person was associated with weight gain in his or her friends, siblings, spouse, and neighbors.
The image shown here depicts the largest connected subcomponent of the social network in the year 2000. This network is sufficiently dense to obscure much of the underlying structure, although regions of the network with clusters of obese or non-obese persons can be seen. Each circle (node) represents one person in the data set. There are 2200 persons in this subcomponent of the social network. Circles with red borders denote women, and circles with blue borders denote men. The size of each circle is proportional to the person's body-mass index. The interior color of the circles indicates the person's obesity status: yellow denotes an obese person (body-mass index) and green denotes a non-obese person. The colors of the ties between the nodes indicate the relationship between them: purple denotes a friendship or marital tie and orange denotes a familial tie.
Discernible clusters of obese persons were present in the network at all time points, and the clusters extended to three degrees of separation. These clusters did not appear to be solely attributable to the selective formation of social ties among obese persons. A person's chances of becoming obese increased by 57% if he or she had a friend who became obese in a given interval. Among pairs of adult siblings, if one sibling became obese, the chance that the other would become obese increased by 40%. If one spouse became obese, the likelihood that the other spouse would become obese increased by 37%. These effects were not seen among neighbors in the immediate geographic location. Persons of the same sex had relatively greater influence on each other than those of the opposite sex. The spread of smoking cessation did not account for the spread of obesity in the network.
• Global map of science / leydersdorff
• http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/map06/texts/index.htm
A Global Map of Science Based on the ISI Subject Categories
map http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/map06/index.htm
The ISI subject categories classify journals included in the Science
Citation Index (SCI). The aggregated journal-journal citation matrix
contained in the Journal Citation Reports can be aggregated on the basis of
these categories. This leads to an asymmetrical transaction matrix (citing
versus cited) which is much more densely populated than the underlying
matrix at the journal level. Exploratory factor analysis leads us to opt for
a fourteen-factor solution. This solution can easily be interpreted as the
disciplinary structure of science. The nested maps of science (corresponding
to 14 factors, 172 categories, and 6,164 journals) are brought online at
http://www.leydesdorff.net/map06/index.htm. An analysis of interdisciplinary
relations is pursued at three levels of aggregation using the newly added
ISI subject category of "Nanoscience & nanotechnology." The journal level
provides the finer grained perspective. Errors in the attribution of
journals to the ISI subject categories are averaged out so that the factor
analysis can reveal the main structures. The mapping of science can,
therefore, be comprehensive at the level of ISI subject categories.
A Global Map of Science Based on the ISI Subject Categories
map http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/map06/index.htm
The ISI subject categories classify journals included in the Science
Citation Index (SCI). The aggregated journal-journal citation matrix
contained in the Journal Citation Reports can be aggregated on the basis of
these categories. This leads to an asymmetrical transaction matrix (citing
versus cited) which is much more densely populated than the underlying
matrix at the journal level. Exploratory factor analysis leads us to opt for
a fourteen-factor solution. This solution can easily be interpreted as the
disciplinary structure of science. The nested maps of science (corresponding
to 14 factors, 172 categories, and 6,164 journals) are brought online at
http://www.leydesdorff.net/map06/index.htm. An analysis of interdisciplinary
relations is pursued at three levels of aggregation using the newly added
ISI subject category of "Nanoscience & nanotechnology." The journal level
provides the finer grained perspective. Errors in the attribution of
journals to the ISI subject categories are averaged out so that the factor
analysis can reveal the main structures. The mapping of science can,
therefore, be comprehensive at the level of ISI subject categories.
• Social maps
• Fidg't Visualizer
• Author(s):
(unknown)
Institution:
Fidg't
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.fidgt.com/visualize
Project Description:
Fidg't works as a Social Networking Address Book by keeping track of all your friends and their media across different social networks. After signing up you can just enter a couple of your accounts and Fidg't pulls all of your friends together and group them into what they call Meta Contacts. Some supported social networks include Flickr, LastFM, AIM and Yahoo Messenger. One of the coolest services provided by Fidg't is a desktop application called Fidg't Visualizer.
The Fidg't Visualizer allows you to play around with your network through Flickr and LastFM tags, using any tag to create a magnet. Once a tag magnet is created, members of the network will gravitate towards it if they have photos or music with that same tag.
This simple mechanic lets you visualize your network in a unique way, demonstrating its predisposition towards certain things. What is more popular amongst people in your network - rock or electronic music? Are photos of buildings more popular than photos of sunsets? Based on how your network reacts to those tags, you might get an answer. The Visualizer also shows how your network compares to a random sampling of the networks of other Fidg't users, letting you see how your network stacks up to others. For good measure, you can also search through the network for certain users, and check out their recent photos and music.
(unknown)
Institution:
Fidg't
Year:
2007
URL:
http://www.fidgt.com/visualize
Project Description:
Fidg't works as a Social Networking Address Book by keeping track of all your friends and their media across different social networks. After signing up you can just enter a couple of your accounts and Fidg't pulls all of your friends together and group them into what they call Meta Contacts. Some supported social networks include Flickr, LastFM, AIM and Yahoo Messenger. One of the coolest services provided by Fidg't is a desktop application called Fidg't Visualizer.
The Fidg't Visualizer allows you to play around with your network through Flickr and LastFM tags, using any tag to create a magnet. Once a tag magnet is created, members of the network will gravitate towards it if they have photos or music with that same tag.
This simple mechanic lets you visualize your network in a unique way, demonstrating its predisposition towards certain things. What is more popular amongst people in your network - rock or electronic music? Are photos of buildings more popular than photos of sunsets? Based on how your network reacts to those tags, you might get an answer. The Visualizer also shows how your network compares to a random sampling of the networks of other Fidg't users, letting you see how your network stacks up to others. For good measure, you can also search through the network for certain users, and check out their recent photos and music.
• Social network visualization (based on the relation browser : CIA world factbook demo ***
• http://der-mo.net/relationBrowser/RB_v1.15_demo/social%20network/index.html
see also http://getoutfoxed.com/visualization
an open source will be released soon
see also http://getoutfoxed.com/visualization
an open source will be released soon
• Email map
• http://christopherbaker.net/projects/mymap/
a data visualization application capable of rendering the relationships between the user & individuals in the address book by examining the TO:, FROM:, and CC: fields of every email in the 60,000-large email archive.
the intensity of the relationship is determined by the color intensity of the line. "My Map" allows to explore different relational groupings & periods of time, revealing the temporal ebbs & flows in various relationships. My Map thus becomes a veritable self-portrait, a visual reflection of personal associations.
a data visualization application capable of rendering the relationships between the user & individuals in the address book by examining the TO:, FROM:, and CC: fields of every email in the 60,000-large email archive.
the intensity of the relationship is determined by the color intensity of the line. "My Map" allows to explore different relational groupings & periods of time, revealing the temporal ebbs & flows in various relationships. My Map thus becomes a veritable self-portrait, a visual reflection of personal associations.
• Mapping the Digg community
• http://brian.shaler.name/diggapi/diggfriends.php
Author(s):
Brian Shaler
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://brian.shaler.name/diggapi/diggfriends.php
Project Description:
Using the Digg API, Brian Shaler created a map of Digg users and how they're connected to each other. On the map, users are organized by the length of time they have had accounts on Digg. The oldest accounts are at the center and accounts created in the last few months are around the edges. The map only includes users who utilize Digg's friendship feature.
The map has some basic interactive functionalities by allowing you to click anywhere on the map and type a Digg user name to see where on the map that user is located. Besides the location on the map you can also know the number of friends and fans that particular Digg user has.
As acknowledged by the author, this Digg friendship map is not a practical analysis tool, but nonetheless, it's an idea that has been in his head for quite some time and he just decided to implement it as a visualization piece.
Note: Click on "Show Time" on the map to better understand the visualized time span.
Author(s):
Brian Shaler
Institution:
(unknown)
Year:
2007
URL:
http://brian.shaler.name/diggapi/diggfriends.php
Project Description:
Using the Digg API, Brian Shaler created a map of Digg users and how they're connected to each other. On the map, users are organized by the length of time they have had accounts on Digg. The oldest accounts are at the center and accounts created in the last few months are around the edges. The map only includes users who utilize Digg's friendship feature.
The map has some basic interactive functionalities by allowing you to click anywhere on the map and type a Digg user name to see where on the map that user is located. Besides the location on the map you can also know the number of friends and fans that particular Digg user has.
As acknowledged by the author, this Digg friendship map is not a practical analysis tool, but nonetheless, it's an idea that has been in his head for quite some time and he just decided to implement it as a visualization piece.
Note: Click on "Show Time" on the map to better understand the visualized time span.
• Statistic maps
• Comparing census data by site
• http://www.zipskinny.com/
a simple visualization website enabling the comparison of US census data based on their ZIP number. the visual indicators includes social aspects such as educational achievement, marital status, household income, occupation & poverty. in addition, short percentage lists allows easy comparison of this data against neighboring communities.
a simple visualization website enabling the comparison of US census data based on their ZIP number. the visual indicators includes social aspects such as educational achievement, marital status, household income, occupation & poverty. in addition, short percentage lists allows easy comparison of this data against neighboring communities.
• Textual Maps
• Similar diversity
• http://www.similardiversity.net/
A large-scale data visualization of the textual analysis of English translations of the Holy Scriptures, illustrating the relationships between Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism & Judaism.
in Similar Diversity, all characters are aligned alphabetically on the x-axis. their name & arc size is calculated from their total word count in all scriptures. the colored arc segments show the frequency of the word or the character in the particular Holy Books. bar charts below the names break down the activities of the characters in detail. the arcs connecting the names symbolize similarities of the activities assigned to a character pair.
see also this comment
Made with Processing and VVVV, Similar Diversity is an information graphic which opens up a new perspective on the topics of religion and faith by visualizing the Holy Books of five world religions. Communalities and differences of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism are shown in this visualization.
The graphic's basis is an objective text analysis of the Holy Scriptures, and works without any interpretations from the creators' side. Despite - or even because of this abstraction, the artworks are not only working on an informal but also on an emotional level. The viewers should be inspired to think about own prejudices and current religious conflicts.
A large-scale data visualization of the textual analysis of English translations of the Holy Scriptures, illustrating the relationships between Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism & Judaism.
in Similar Diversity, all characters are aligned alphabetically on the x-axis. their name & arc size is calculated from their total word count in all scriptures. the colored arc segments show the frequency of the word or the character in the particular Holy Books. bar charts below the names break down the activities of the characters in detail. the arcs connecting the names symbolize similarities of the activities assigned to a character pair.
see also this comment
Made with Processing and VVVV, Similar Diversity is an information graphic which opens up a new perspective on the topics of religion and faith by visualizing the Holy Books of five world religions. Communalities and differences of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism are shown in this visualization.
The graphic's basis is an objective text analysis of the Holy Scriptures, and works without any interpretations from the creators' side. Despite - or even because of this abstraction, the artworks are not only working on an informal but also on an emotional level. The viewers should be inspired to think about own prejudices and current religious conflicts.
• Timelines
• British History Timeline
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index.shtml
British History Timeline. Interactive Timeline
BBC.
British History Timeline. Interactive Timeline
BBC.
• Tree maps
• Treemap for space-constrained visualization
• http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/
Examples of treemaps and other links to information hierarchization , to softwares, etc. - note : updated in 2006
Examples of treemaps and other links to information hierarchization , to softwares, etc. - note : updated in 2006
• Visualization methods
• Periodic Table ****
• http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html#
A periodic table, interactive. Very useful and well done too see all the different visualization process.
A periodic table, interactive. Very useful and well done too see all the different visualization process.
• Mapdream - mapping portal****
• http://www.mapdream.com/carte.htm
A very interesting website about mapping activities, with useful links, links to experts, tools, etc.
In french.
A very interesting website about mapping activities, with useful links, links to experts, tools, etc.
In french.
• Web-content maps
• Clusterball wikipedia caegories
• http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/clusterball/
a set of circular graphs of 3 levels of Wikipedia category pages & their interconnections. the parent node is centered in the graph. pages that are linked from this parent node are rendered inside the ball. pages that are linked to the latter (secondary) nodes are rendered on the outer ring. the color of the edges between them represent their depth from the parent node. highly connected groups of pages are clustered clump together, hereby forming topical groups.
a set of circular graphs of 3 levels of Wikipedia category pages & their interconnections. the parent node is centered in the graph. pages that are linked from this parent node are rendered inside the ball. pages that are linked to the latter (secondary) nodes are rendered on the outer ring. the color of the edges between them represent their depth from the parent node. highly connected groups of pages are clustered clump together, hereby forming topical groups.
• Wikipedia activity image mosaic
• http://www.abeautifulwww.com/2007/05/20/visualizing-the-power-struggle-in-wikipedia/
an emergent image mosaic depicting a macro view of all English Wikipedia, revealing those are areas that are currently "hot", meaning they are being frequently revised. the dataset contains about 659,388 articles, connected by about 16,582,425 links. articles are positioned close to one another are similar, which is determined by counting the amounts of links to each other. the 1,869 images were automatically parsed as the first image of the highest ranked article.
an emergent image mosaic depicting a macro view of all English Wikipedia, revealing those are areas that are currently "hot", meaning they are being frequently revised. the dataset contains about 659,388 articles, connected by about 16,582,425 links. articles are positioned close to one another are similar, which is determined by counting the amounts of links to each other. the 1,869 images were automatically parsed as the first image of the highest ranked article.
• Most visited wikipedia pages
• http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_4/spoerri/index.html
a collection of data visualizations illustrating the monthly lists of the 100 most visited Wikipedia pages between September 2006 & January 2007. it is shown that almost 40 percent of a month’s top 100 pages are visited in all 5 months, whereas 25 percent are highly visited only in a single month.
in "category view", circular icons with colored sectors indicate which specific lists contain the same page, & their size indicates how many pages are contained in a specific combination of lists. in "cluster view", star–shaped icons at the periphery act like “magnets” that pull a page icon toward them based on the page’s list positions. in "spiral view", all pages are placed sequentially along an expanding spiral.
a collection of data visualizations illustrating the monthly lists of the 100 most visited Wikipedia pages between September 2006 & January 2007. it is shown that almost 40 percent of a month’s top 100 pages are visited in all 5 months, whereas 25 percent are highly visited only in a single month.
in "category view", circular icons with colored sectors indicate which specific lists contain the same page, & their size indicates how many pages are contained in a specific combination of lists. in "cluster view", star–shaped icons at the periphery act like “magnets” that pull a page icon toward them based on the page’s list positions. in "spiral view", all pages are placed sequentially along an expanding spiral.
• Chromogram wikipedia editing
• http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/chromogram.html
a data visualization technique that is able to represent long sequences of text. here chromograms are used to analyze the behavior of Wikipedia users, in order to find patterns in histories of tens of thousands of edits.
chromograms map text strings to color: the first 3 letters of a string determine the color of its representation. the 1st letter determines the hue, the 2nd letter the saturation, & the 3rd the brightness. although seemingly arbitrary, it actually reveals a series of important patterns in the editing activity of Wikipedians, such as so-called "systematic activities", or a sustained related sequence (e.g. alphabetical) of edits.
a data visualization technique that is able to represent long sequences of text. here chromograms are used to analyze the behavior of Wikipedia users, in order to find patterns in histories of tens of thousands of edits.
chromograms map text strings to color: the first 3 letters of a string determine the color of its representation. the 1st letter determines the hue, the 2nd letter the saturation, & the 3rd the brightness. although seemingly arbitrary, it actually reveals a series of important patterns in the editing activity of Wikipedians, such as so-called "systematic activities", or a sustained related sequence (e.g. alphabetical) of edits.
• History flow
• http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/
a dynamic visualization depicting evolving documents & the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. using the metaphor of flow, this application is capable of displaying the evolution of WikiPedia pages, for instance to discover the influence of specific authors over time.
a dynamic visualization depicting evolving documents & the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. using the metaphor of flow, this application is capable of displaying the evolution of WikiPedia pages, for instance to discover the influence of specific authors over time.
• News / wikipedia / itunes treemap
• http://www.newsisfree.com/newsmap/
another interesting news stories treemap data visualization. each rectangle is a single article, of which the size & color indicate the article age & popularity (determined by clicks, subscriptions, or features in weblogs). the map can be filtered or rearrarranged to view articles that meet certain criteria, or that contain specific text. the Hive Group website shows a wide range of similar treemaps that are based on different datasets, such as the iTunes, Wikipedia or Amazon collection.
another interesting news stories treemap data visualization. each rectangle is a single article, of which the size & color indicate the article age & popularity (determined by clicks, subscriptions, or features in weblogs). the map can be filtered or rearrarranged to view articles that meet certain criteria, or that contain specific text. the Hive Group website shows a wide range of similar treemaps that are based on different datasets, such as the iTunes, Wikipedia or Amazon collection.
• Google newsmap
• http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/
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. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.
Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. Its objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news; on the contrary, it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it.
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. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.
Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. Its objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news; on the contrary, it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it.
• Digg labs
• http://labs.digg.com/arc/
digg labs seems to have added yet another visualization technique of their digg data. stories arrange themselves around circles as users digg them. larger circles have more diggs.
digg labs seems to have added yet another visualization technique of their digg data. stories arrange themselves around circles as users digg them. larger circles have more diggs.
• World maps
• Globalis
• http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/
This map shows the impact from the human society on the ecosystems of the world. Our influence from construction, cities and roads decrease the natural value and the biodiversity where we influence and put stress on the environment. The human population has grown in about 100 years from 1700 to over 6000 million people (see map over population density). At the same time, we in the 'rich' part of the world has had a strong growth in our use of natural resources (see map over ecological footprint). Compare this to the scenario that shows the human impact in 2050.
This map shows the impact from the human society on the ecosystems of the world. Our influence from construction, cities and roads decrease the natural value and the biodiversity where we influence and put stress on the environment. The human population has grown in about 100 years from 1700 to over 6000 million people (see map over population density). At the same time, we in the 'rich' part of the world has had a strong growth in our use of natural resources (see map over ecological footprint). Compare this to the scenario that shows the human impact in 2050.
• Atlas of wold history
• http://www.atlasofworldhistory.com/Home2.htm
Ressources for teachers and students, ready to use maps.
Ressources for teachers and students, ready to use maps.
• Citespace : visualizing patterns and trends in scientific literature
• http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/%7Ecchen/citespace/
CiteSpace is a Java application, freely available to use. It requires Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2 or higher to run. Internet connections are not essential, although CiteSpace retrieves additional information from PubMed and a number of web services if an Internet connection is available.
CiteSpace is a Java application, freely available to use. It requires Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2 or higher to run. Internet connections are not essential, although CiteSpace retrieves additional information from PubMed and a number of web services if an Internet connection is available.
• Electronic Cultural Atlas initiative
• http://www.ecai.org/
interactive map / The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiativ e (ECAI) is an international project to develop and distribute digital data on historical and archaeological resources. With the dynamic Map Catalogue, you can create digital maps that display a wide range of cultural material by using place and time as a common element.
interactive map / The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiativ e (ECAI) is an international project to develop and distribute digital data on historical and archaeological resources. With the dynamic Map Catalogue, you can create digital maps that display a wide range of cultural material by using place and time as a common element.
• History Flow
• http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/index.htm
History flow is a tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. In its current implementation, history flow is being used to visualize the evolutionary history of wiki* pages on Wikipedia. The history flow application charts the evolution of a document as it is edited by many people using a very simple visualization technique. Note : developpeurs / Cambridge IBM.
History flow is a tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. In its current implementation, history flow is being used to visualize the evolutionary history of wiki* pages on Wikipedia. The history flow application charts the evolution of a document as it is edited by many people using a very simple visualization technique. Note : developpeurs / Cambridge IBM.
• Grokker / visualisation tool
• http://www.grokker.com/
Grokker™ is a web-based enterprise search management platform that leverages the power of federated content access and visualization to maximize the value of information assets for enterprises, content publishers, libraries and other research-intensive organizations.
to see a review of the programm : http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=138&lang=2
Grokker™ is a web-based enterprise search management platform that leverages the power of federated content access and visualization to maximize the value of information assets for enterprises, content publishers, libraries and other research-intensive organizations.
to see a review of the programm : http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=138&lang=2
• Kartoo
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http://www.kartoo.com/
KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm
voir aussi ce lien http://www.kartoo.net/e/eng/visu.html
Sites de cartographie
http://www.kartoo.com/
KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm
voir aussi ce lien http://www.kartoo.net/e/eng/visu.html
Sites de cartographie
• LabView
• http://www.ni.com/labview/whatis/
National Instruments LabVIEW is a powerful graphical development environment, for signal acquisition, measurement analysis, and data presentation. LabVIEW also provides you the flexibility of a programming language without the complexity of traditional development tools.- to be tested.
National Instruments LabVIEW is a powerful graphical development environment, for signal acquisition, measurement analysis, and data presentation. LabVIEW also provides you the flexibility of a programming language without the complexity of traditional development tools.- to be tested.
• Libero
• Libero trasforms news into networks. Unfortunatly in italian only.
http://arianna.libero.it/news/cgi-bin/gn/gns.pl?fromhpreg=1&r=12&query=IPOD&x=0&y=0&depth=1&last=2
see the exemple in the extension
http://arianna.libero.it/news/cgi-bin/gn/gns.pl?fromhpreg=1&r=12&query=IPOD&x=0&y=0&depth=1&last=2
see the exemple in the extension
• Loet Leydesdorff
• http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/software.htm
LL developed Science & Technology Dynamics tools.
LL developed Science & Technology Dynamics tools.
• Many Eyes
• http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/browse/visualizations
Many Eyes is linked to the IBM visual communication Lab. It is possible to use their graphs and generate some.
Many Eyes is linked to the IBM visual communication Lab. It is possible to use their graphs and generate some.
• Woldmapper
• http://www.worldmapper.org/
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
There are 366 maps, also available as PDF posters.
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
There are 366 maps, also available as PDF posters.