The importance of data

Going back to our early info-visualization concerns,
here is a great video from hans rosling.

mapping blogosphere

another interesting work on mapping. this time the world of blogs.
data mining
nothing new, but still good to keep

Websites as graphs

This is fun!
Credits to Processing, traer.physics and HTMLParser.
There is a source code too.

Flight patterns

Beautiful information visualization on flight patterns
by Aaron Koblin










he teaches at UCLA and has some of his lectures on virtual form available

Liveplasma maps it

talking about maps,
here is a great one!
liveplasma maps well defined families of artists, according to interest, styles and epoch, so it is a linear relationship, but the interface is pretty good and it can be really helpfull to us

Google APIs

Google APIs developer kid seems to be an important tool for us if we want to be able to use the full potential of the net at this point, so I am also!!! going to start learning how to turn my computer into a search robot!
A good description on the potential of this tool by Douwe Osinga in Google Hacks (of course, now he works for google)

mapping mapping

Polar Wandering by Layla Curtis
an exciting map



You can find plenty of more maps in the
Design Institute of U. of Minnesota
Else/Where Mapping

Tools for maping the search

douweosinga and namebase are two good tools to start mapping the web
let's start working from two both sides of the spectrum until we reach eachother.
I suggest Cage vs Schönberg
or Palazuelo vs Escher
ultimately we should be able to generate a three dimentional map like the visual thesaure of thinkmap