data visualisation
TOTD hears that this will be the “next big thing”. We’ve looked at Wordle before but here are more:
http://www.bewitched.com/ has some interesting examples – particularly the Name Voyager
and here’s a delightfully library oriented lot:
http://www.infochembio.ethz.ch/en/holdings.html
Now why can’t all data be presented in this way?!
I’ve always liked that Baby Name one – and thanks for reminding me about Many Eyes – I’d forgotten about it.
Have you also seen Gapminder ( http://graphs.gapminder.org ) – that’s pretty impressive. I tihnk that they use the same software to generate the visualisation tool in http://twitter-friends.com