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Jason
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Alex
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Conversation
Map - Warren Sack
Sack works with what he calls Very Large-Scale Conversations
(VLSC) such as those found in chat forums. The Conversation
Map helps users get an overview of the social and semantic networks,
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MarketMap
SmartMoney.com has created a Java applet that gives the user
a rich bird's-eye view of current market activity and a variety
of tools to tunnel down for information on specific companies. |
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The
Sociable Media
Group at the MIT Media Lab
This group is running a long-term research project into how
to support people as the socialize with on-line media. Relevant
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People
Garden
PeopleGarden is one manifestation of the creators
exploration of data portraits. It combines whimsy and utility
in an elegant fashion. Individual flowers represent individual
participants, while the entire garden represents the chat group.
Color, extension and multiples are used to visualize amount
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LiveFan
LiveFan is one aspect of the LiveWeb project
which "...visualizes real-time user activity at WebBoards,
which are Web-based message boards. It uses the thread structure
of the WebBoard to layout the messages in a fan-like fashion.
It then overlays instantaneous and cumulative message accesses.
Using this system, users can perceive broad activity patterns
and individual behaviors of other Web users." |
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VisualWho
"Visual Who is a tool for visualizing an
electronic community. Using data such as mailing list subscriptions,
it creates a spring based model of the patterns of affiliation
within the community. By varying the groups chosen as anchor
points, the user can interactively explore the underlying social
and organizational structure. The resulting image of the community
can be used as the basis for visualizing other data, such as
the patterns of activity found in the record of login and idle
times."
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Loom
"Loom is a visualization tool for Usenet
newsgroups. It represents the pattern and textures of events
in a threaded newsgroup as a weave of a digital fabric. The
objective of this project is to observe patterns in key events
of newsgroups. Examples of such events are: entry and exit of
participants in conversation, the birth and death of subject
threads, the tone of messages, and the path traversed by users
as they create this social fabric." The
amount of texture and variation in this work is impressive. |
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ChatCircles
"Chat Circles is an abstract graphical interface
for synchronous conversation. Here, color and form are used
to convey social presence and activity, and proximity-based
filtering is used to intuitively break large groups into conversational
clusters." Of particular interest
is it's visualization of "hearing
range" and history. |
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Dynamic
Diagrams
A web design / implementation shop which prides itself in creating
rich diagrams of the websites / information architecture |
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Holtzbrinck
Web Site Map
A static diagram representing the "...use
of public web sites run by the companies that make up the Verlagsgruppe
Georg von Holtzbrinck." I personally don't find the execution
that clean, but the format represents some intriguing possibilities. |
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JAMA
Publications Archive
Just another sort of mapping...more suitable
to architecture than communities, but worth looking at.
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INTERNET
MAPPING PROJECT - Bill Cheswick and Hal Burch
A long term project devoted to collecting routing information
and using it to generate trees that display the paths to most
nets on the Internet. Beautiful pollen-like structures depicting
the geography of Internet routing as well as the division
of IP addresses have been created.
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URLGRAPH
- Kevin Palfreyman
Palfreyman's work is about visualing information stores in the
abstract sense: Urlgraph is a tool for visualizing the "world
around your web page." Similar to work done at XEROX PARC
which I will include in here as soon as possible.
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SQWID
Search Query Weighted Information Display
A "...Java-based tool for visualizing search results from
World Wide Web queries, particularly queries with large numbers
of search results." Similar to the VisualWho work, in that
it uses several weights to stress items in the display graph
in different directions.
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