Data Origami

Origami is the art of folding a plain piece of paper into an interesting, and sometimes useful artifact. Data has the same properties. In its raw form it is typically quite bland. Only after carefully working with the data is the beauty and usefulness revealed.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

A couple of interesting websites on visualizing information …

See

Visual Hint at http://hint.fm/blog/

Visual Complexity at http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

A periodic table of visualization methods at http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

Edward Tufte at http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

The Simple Complexity gallery at http://simplecomplexity.net/visualization-gallery/

Information Asthetics at http://infosthetics.com/

The Processing exhibition at http://www.processing.org/exhibition/

A gallery of art using Context Free at http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

The Matplotlib gallery at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html

The Pure Data gallery at https://gem.iem.at/

Eigenfactors at http://well-formed.eigenfactor.org/index.html

A site with a good discussion on how to present charts at http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/data-visualization/

A gallery of MayaAVI capabilities at http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/auto/examples.html

A really cool site – www.datamasher.org

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