A Twitter visualization project using javascript and web browsers is inspired by particle colliders to reveal the hidden connection between tweets.
Twitter StreamGraph
Canadian programmer Jeff Clark released a new visualization that leverages Twitter content from Summize. The StreamGraph examines the last 200 tweets and parses them into a time-arranged stacked graph.
Ben Shneiderman: Creativity support tools
This is live blogging coverage of Ben Shneiderman’s colloquium today, entitled: “Creativity support tools: Accelerating discovery and innovation.”
The Human Brain Cloud
The game is simple: You see a word or short phrase from the 530,000 already suggested by other players, and you enter the first response that enters your head. Beyond being a great time suckage, the Human Brain Cloud has the potential to produce enormously valuable information for designers and marketers.
Visualizing the information stream
Not so long ago, Digg challenged its community to a contest to make use of the Digg API to feed creative and dynamic Flash visualizations. Digg Radar, a visualization of new diggs created by Brian Shaler and profiled here in the summer, was one of the entries that tried to move the news stream out of the standard most-popular list format that is the default of the site. Although Twitter has not yet issued a similar challenge, their open API is already being used by some developers to examine the information stream in new ways.
Keeping time with humans
The Human Clock isn’t new. In some form, it has been around since 2001 as an effort to photograph a depiction of every minute of the day and change photos every 60 seconds. This summer, human clock creator Craig Giffen launched a sequel, the human calendar. The project was featured today in information aesthetics, a great blog on visualization.
Visual Surveys
Scott McLeod of Dangerously Irrelevant offered up an interesting idea for visualizing technology usage as a simple venn diagram. The context was specifically aimed at opening dialogue amongst educators about technology training in schools, but the idea of expressing what amounts to simple survey questions as diagrammed answers is appealing from a usability perspective, too.