While readig through the latest entries of my subscribed rss-news-feeds I stumbled upon an interesting collection of three websites that are presenting data visualization of all kinds. Here is a list:

1. SWIVEL – See, Understand and Share Data
2. Tableau – Visualize and Share Your Data
3. Verifiable – Share Your Data. Learn from Others.
4. Visualcomplexity – Resource Space for Visualization of complex networks
5. and last but not least of course the already mentioned: Many Eyes – for shared visualization and discovery

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Smashing Magazine recently presented 50 free UI-and-web-design wireframing kits.

Here I present an excerpt, namely parts of the collection of iPhone & iPad templates and resource links that are really useful to create nice (low-fid) prototypes, advertisement pictures, fake-screenshots or whatever you would like:

• iPad GUI PSD
• iPhone GUI PSD
• iPhone Stencil PDFs
• iPhone PSD Vector Kit
• iPhone APP Sketch Templates
• iPhone GUI Elements
• iPhone Wireframe Sketches

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User Experience & Interaction Design are two of the most important issues when facing the current use of our World Wide Web. Though, most scientists and developers forget, that the Semantic Web and therefore also the Internet-Data’s Understanding is strongly connected with UE.

Within my future thoughts and projects I will be approaching the Semantic Web from more of a Interaction-Design or respectively user-focussed perspective. So obviously there are many interesting viewpoints to be taken into account when dealin with this wide-ranging issue.

The first question I stated was what are the different ways to look at this topic; here is a short answer to it:

Notes:

To begin with, I would like to use this post to note down a very incomplete listof professionals, conferences, symposia and institutes (which I may update from time to time), that are besides the obwvious ones, dealing with this topic somehow:

• iSchools iConference
• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) – Sympoisum on Creative Intelligent Systems
• UC Berkeley School of Information
• Semantic Web User Interaction (SWUI)
• InfoVis C. – A data code compute resource
• A Timeline Visualization of Information History
• Information Aesthetics – Where form follows data – Blog
• DataVisualization.ch – Blog
• many many more

Catchphrases, Quotes & other thoughts:

concept of … highly adaptable … up-scaling views …

“Students shall choose projects with high societal payoffs, researchers have to employ the updated science 2.0 strategies, developers have to focus on genuine user needs”

Eventually, one of our best hopes for the future is that a large and connected group of people can change the world!”

Concept: Let us think of what should be achieved by 2020 and do something about it!

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This weekend we have been to the Small Bösenstein (2395m) within the Niedere Tauern. Though there is not much snow these days in Styria, is was a nice skitouring day. Let me share some impressions with you:

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I would like to inform you about Cocoaheads Graz: This is (next to Cocoaheads Vienna) an Austrian COCOA community which holds user group meetings on regular base. These events are open to all who are interested and would like to talk about programming and developing apps for Mac OS X & iPhone.

The first meeting was on 09.11.09 and is repeated monthly on the second monday every month (at 19:00 in SciencePark so far).

I would also like to use this post as a “reminder” of NSLog specific format specifiers, I am not able to remeber
So here is the list:

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Last weekend – til tuesday – we have been to the Weissee Glacier World for skiing. We stayed at the Rudolfshut there, a former Alpenverein hut, which is now a very nice hotel with sauna, indoor swimming pool and much more. Because of the reason that there was not much snow, we couldnot vary a lot with the skitours there, but nevertheless it was a wodnerful time and I would like to share osme impressions:

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The last three days I spend some time with friends in OSP (near Koper in Slovenia). The days were wonderful short holidays and therefore I would like to share some impressions with you from there:

If you do not know yet what is possible to dynamically visualize with JavaScript, habe a look at this nice online-demo-collection (Google Chrome optimized). For example, one demo is a Starfield simulation and the Google Gravity demo.

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While I am working on many projects dealing with information visualization, I would like to share a good online ressource about this research topic: IBM’s online visualization research site “MANYEYES“.

Finding the right way to view your data is as much an art as a science. The visualizations provided on Many Eyes range from the ordinary to the experimental. We’re deliberately providing a wide array of possibilities since this is an experimental site—and expect to see more soon!

Their featured visualization types include: Network Diagrams, Word Clouds (also links to Wordle), Word Trees, Treemaps, but also the more standard ones as Bubble Charts, Piecharts and histograms, World Maps etc.

Reading through the information given to a specific visualization type (and component) you also find information about for which dataset is it best chosen. => Datasets, such as: unstructured text, proportions, hierarchical structures, continuous change, relationships etc.

Have fun trying some of them out!

Related Links:

• A quite small but also interesting research site dealing with this topic and using some the ManyEyes offerings to name is the The NYTimes’ Visualization Lab.
• Berkeley, University of California – Course Site: 294-10 Visualization
• http://vis.berkeley.edu/~maneesh/
• Martin Wattenberg’s site about Data visualization, Media art and Collective intelligence.

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