Now this seems to be an actual "data wiki" kind of site - Many Eyes. It's an experimental site for social data analysis and collaborative visualization. Though the visualizations are in Java, they offer pretty good set of visualizations - much better than the Swivel site I had blogged about earlier.

This Web too dot oh thing is catching up like crazy. Another day, another site. This time it's Swivel - a site to share and explore data through graphs. Had thought about something like this few days back to have a "data wiki" - where people can upload data and share them using charts and other visualization techniques. Swivel comes quite close.

Downloaded and installed the new iTunes yesterday, and, boy, is the new coverflow thing addictive or what. And it also easily finds cover art albums for your music. Nice!

I hope they include some sort of search by color for the album art in the next version - something like this.

Relative size of our world.

Also an interesting video - Powers of Ten (on YouTube).

"Eventually, everything connects" - Charles Eames.

Theres a new kid on the block for graphics enthusiasts or ui prototypists - a visualization language called Processing. Seems to be used by many graphics artists these days for creating visualization programs.

Recently one of my friends asked me as to what field I am working in. I usually reply 'Information Visualization - a specialization of Computer Graphics' but my friend needed more info on it. The next thing was to just type the keywords on the Firefox wikipedia search bar and there was the answer -

In computer science, information visualization is the use of interactive, visual representations of abstract data to aid cognition. Information visualization is an active research area, drawing on theory in information design, computer graphics, human-computer interaction and cognitive science.

Sounds much better, right? :)

latedecember.com - a website containing a list of BBC News Headlines, which are automatically classified as 'good', 'bad' or 'neutral'. a linguistic system categorizes news headlines as different 'moods' using keyword scoring from a vocabulary of 160 words & phrases, after which the ratings are visually represented through a simple color spectrum ranging from green to red.

Interesting.