A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
This is geek heaven. A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods is a triumph of cool infodesign in and of itself. It’s a periodic table, where each element is instead a means of visually displaying information. Naturally, as in the real periodic table, “elements” are clustered based on similarity. It’s done via pop-ups, which perhaps Edward Tufte might disapprove of… but I could probably fiddle with it for hours.
Wow. I just sent the link to all of our doctoral students. I’m flabbergasted by the number of things there that I’ve never seen before 🙁
WOW! Nice find…O.o thats very very sexy (in a numerical display of data kind of way!)
Oh you know what they need to do…is create a backend database, standardized against the display types that let you adjust data points and variables then you could measure the effectiveness of different types of data visualization on the periodic table as it related to different data structures!
I’ve thought often about contstructing an interactive data visualization enviornment in a 3D space (maybe SL) I dont have the time or spare funds for it at the moment though 🙁
Maybe one of these days…
Wow. Very nice.
Now that is clever. That one’s definitely going in the perma-link folder.
Thanks for the heads-up on this, Raph.
–Bart