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Visualizing Technical Debt
Mark Hissink Muller's Complexity Map creates a tree map that helps Java and J2EE/JEE developers keep unintended complexity to a minimum--effectively monitoring what Ward Cunningham described as "technical debt." The visualization allows ...
Annoucement: GraphGear 1.2 Available
How does the work move forward? Sometimes this is a strange question. Working on a lot of things, however, inevitably implies that some things get left behind in the wayside. Graph Gear ...
Energy Map of America
Where does our energy come from? The Energy Map of America is an interactive display of all the major sources of power superimposed on a political map of the United States, ...
Simple Designs: Designing Coffee
Sometimes we get lured into the perspective that design is some complicated arcane art. The reality is often that good design is simple, informative and clear. I recently saw these two nice ...
My mail is evolving.
Anymails is an interesting email visualization work by Carolin Horn: Anymails is a visualization of my received emails. I have investigated how I can use natural metaphors to visualize my inbox, ...
Mapping the Maze that is Political Contributions
Political contributions can get very confusing. Although required to make their funding public, it can seem as though the government and parties try to make it as hard to understand as possible. ...
Graph Gear, an opensource platform for Graph Visualization - now available.
Graph Gear, an open platform for graph visualization (the mathematical kind, not the bar chart kind), is now available. It allows you to create an interactive graph with force directed layout that ...
Connor’s Kameraflage gets noticed
A little shout out to fellow collaborative Connor who's work on Kameraflage is getting a lot of attention today. For those of you who don't know: kameraflage is a context-Sensitive ...
Illustrating History
HistoryShots is a print shop that creates high-quality information graphics that provide context to interesting subjects, time periods and events. Most of these are original works of information design - although ...
Visualizing Travel: How far can I go?
How far can I go? is a travel site from Air New Zealand that offers travelers a unique perspective on their travel arrangements. Instead of finding flights based on destination or ...
Following the Media’s Coverage on Climate Change
In a similar vein to last week's post. Idiom.at's new award winning Media Watch on Climate Change is an original web application that allows users to view current articles on ...
City as Visualization Platform - Digg City & VisitorVille
Digg City is a visualization developed in response to Digg's recent API contest. It works by utilizing the image of a city block - with ten different buildings symbolizing the most ...
Clusterball: A new view of Wikipedia
Chris Harrison designed an illuminating visualization of three levels within Wikipedia and their interconnections. His design starts with one large circle, the center of which holds the parent topic. Secondary ...
Mousetrack, now with visualization.
We've got the mousetrack visualizations working (go to the experimenter list here to check it out, follow the visualize link). Some notes: There are preferences, but I wouldn't even go into them right ...
[graph-watch] All the President’s Graphs
The Wall Street Journal has a nice graph selection taking a look at U.S. presidents' job-approval ratings. The site showcases the average approval ratings over time of modern presidencies from ...