Updating Technorati Charts

Technorati now has automatically updating charts of recent blog posts containing specific words, such as "entrepreneur". The first chart shows results for all blogs, the second for blogs with a lot of authority, according to Technorati.

English posts that contain Entrepreneur per day for the last 30 days. (all blogs)


English posts that contain Entrepreneur per day for the last 30 days. (blogs with authority)

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Smashing Data Visualization

Smashing magazine recently published a great piece on data visualization. Thanks to Guy Kawasaki for the pointer.

Search Crystal

SearchCrystal is available now.

Thanks to Fred Wilson at A VC for a pointer to this new aggregating search engine.

New Visualizations

Designer Manuel Lima's Visual Complexity site points to numerous related books available through his Amazon aStore. Thanks for pointers to several of the pages below.

Ink Trails by Robert Hodkin. Thanks to Future Feeder for the pointer.

The 32nd America's Cup Circling Galaxy display. Thanks to Great Map for the pointer.

Chris Harrison's projects, including the Clusterball visualization of the three levels of of wikipedia.

Paul Dunn's Visuwords, an online graphical dictionary.

Lee Byron's Lisening History posters from Last.fm software.

Finally, Walk2Web creates a visualization of your own web activity. (An example of an opening page to begin visualizing your history, below)

Google Maps: SF Rentals and World Tours

CraigStatsSF uses Google Maps to display San Francisco apartments advertised in Craigslist. This project was born out of boredom, according to the creator, grad student Ethan Garner.



Thanks to BoingBoing for the picture of the heat map showing a citywide view of rental costs for one bedroom apartments over the last year.

To tour the world as seen from above, try GoogleSightseeing for unusual satellite images. Here's the supersonic fighter aircraft, parked in a mall parking lot, and the rooftop test track of Fiat's famous Lingotto building.

Periodic Table of the Internet

The full Periodic Table of the Internet can be found at Miscellanea.


Thanks to Infosthetics for pointing to this and other data visualizations.

Modeling Light

There is new work in bringing ancient architectural features to life through sophisticated modeling of light. "We use it for product design and medical visualization and lots of other things - it's just that archaeology is a particularly challenging application, which is why we've focused on it." said Alan Chalmers, professor of visualization at the Warwick University Digital Laboratory. Snippet from the BBC.

For different perspectives on modeling light, NOAA has experimental images of light pollution in the continental U.S. based on the 1990 Census population concentrations.
And among Wolfram's 1,500 demonstration projects is one for modeling light curves. According to Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, the Wolfram Demonstrations Project introduces a new paradigm for exploring ideas. The power to easily create interactive visualizations, once in the domain of computing experts alone, is now in the hands of every Mathematica user.

Confetti for Visitors

The Download Squad points to CrazyEgg's Confetti View that lets one get a better idea of how visitors use a site. These same folks produced the Heatmap that shows the concentration of clicks on a web page.

ManyEyes Revisited

IBM's data visualization work with ManyEyes is reviewed in BusinessWeek.

To the IBM leaders of this project, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda B. Viégas, the perspective "isn't just about creating pretty pictures, although the graphs are eye-catching. These are neat, visual condensations of information that prompt deep analysis." Snippet from the Business Week article.

Some other perspectives, from Stamen Design Studio, ReadWriteWeb, Useful Chemistry, and BGN's earlier pointers.

Swivel Geo

Swivel Geography was just announced. The sample map shows vehicles per state.

Visualization - Periodic Table

The Periodic Table of Data Visualization. is available from Visual Literacy. Thanks to Kevin Creamer at Pandaemonium for noting this.