why do you think its important?
Today the biggest problem faced by any growing organization is “how to represent the data to the users”. One might have the best operations and processes to mine the data and tabulate the final results but it all goes down the drain, if we are unable to present the data to the user.
The mantra: “showing the maximum amount of information while using the least amount of ink and presenting it in a fixed amount of space” Any interface which doesn’t follow his golden rule is not worth showing. More over its not so simple and easy to be in sync with the above mantra. So one has to keep experimenting different yet innovative ways to represent data. Here is a list of a few good Data-visualizations. Enjoy yourself ;)
special thanks to “www.smashingmagazine.com”
1. Mindmaps
Informationarchitects.jp presents the 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective in a mindmap. Apparently, web-sites are connected as they’ve never been before. Quite comprehnsive.
2. Displaying News
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. The size of data blocks is defined by their popularity at the moment.
Voyage is an RSS-feader which displays the latest news in the “gravity area”. News can be zoomed in and out. The navigation is possible with a timeline.
