Sep
8
20 Useful Visualization Libraries
September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Well, not entirely limited to libraries. Useful stuff for visualization practitioners sounded a little non-specific, though. These are all freely available.
1. Prefuse (Java) & FLAIR (Flex)
May
29
Network Visualization for Systems Biology
May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This is a quick look at the state-of-the-art of network visualization in systems biology. It’s an interesting topic on its own (and my day job at the moment), and also as it relates to the visualization of other types of networks, such as social networks (think Facebook). Systems biology is all about looking at proteins, […]
May
12
A Look at FINVIZ.com (Financial Visualizations)
May 12, 2008 | 2 Comments
FINVIZ is a suite of free financial tools that takes advantage of modern visualization ideas. The infoviz and interaction designs are certainly worth a blog post. Here’s a look at their efforts…
1. Sector Visualization. This visualization is a treemap implemented using the Google Maps API. It shows how well sectors and companies (stocks) within […]
Apr
20
5 Reasons Visualization Is Not More Prevalent
April 20, 2008 | 8 Comments
Why does it seem I have to look hard to find good data visualization examples? Why do few tech companies devote resources to visualization (Google’s the obvious exception)? Why are there relatively few job postings for visualization, with many of those there are requiring mainly graphic design skills and not data visualization skills? I was […]
Apr
13
Haugeland’s AI Views 25 Years Later
April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment
A couple of years ago, I picked John Haugeland’s Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea up off the free book table in the computer science department of Indiana University. Finally read it this weekend. Published in 1985, there’s a lot to like about the book, but its definitely a product of its time. That period […]
Apr
3
10 New York Times Visualizations
April 3, 2008 | 3 Comments
NYTimes.com has done a great job of moving beyond the static infographics found in newspapers. 10 favorites below…comment if you know of good ones I’ve missed. Also, for further reading/viewing, see…
- Playgrounds for Data: Inspiration from NYTimes.com Interactives - Infovis 2007 slides on Matthew Ericson’s blog…
Mar
11
ETech Presentation on Ensemble Machine Learning
March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments
Just wanted to put up my slides from ETech this past week. The talk is pretty similar to the talk I posted a few months ago, just a bit more fleshed out. [ppt][pptx][pdf]
Unfortunately, I only made it to the conference for the day I was speaking. Beautiful venue. Seemed that most the […]
Mar
9
An information visualization conference, the See Conference, is being held in Wiesbaden, Germany, on April 19th. Impressive speaker list. The conference organizers plan to stream the speeches in real time via the conference website.
Ben Fry
Zachary Lieberman
Frank van Ham
And comfortable seats!