Ooooh. We love visualization. It is, after all, one of the six mega
trends* we encourage our clients to live by. As you might expect, we
spend a fair amount of time on ManyEyes.
ManyEyes allows the entire Internet to upload all kinds of data and turn it into beautiful, elegant and sometimes surprisingly insightful pattern pictures. Lots of different kinds of patterns available to you as well and all from our friends at IBM. ManyEyes goes one step beyond great visualizations turning them into social media through its rating and discussion features. The home page at ManyEyes has an up-to-the-minute gallery of visualizations – check them out.
We encourage you to start thinking about how to visualize your stuff – make it more meaningful and you might even surprise yourself about the insight you might see inside your data. So, to help you get your visualization ideas flowing, here are a few other favorite visualization tools.
Newsmap – visualizing the Google news aggregator.
Amaztype – a typographic visual search of Amazon
We Feel Fine – a somewhat addictive set of visualizations of feelings from all over the web.
Have tool. Will visualize.
*all six mega trends are: connectivity, personalization, mobility, sharable media, visualization, virtualization.
Original Post: The Modohood: http://modohood.marcominteractive.com/2008/11/have-tool-will.html
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