Archive for the ‘Visualization’ Category

Google Wave, Twitter, & Pictures

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Just as Google Wave was announced yesterday, I was thinking of writing about the usefulness of the pictures that accompany results in Twitter Search, giving a good immediate overview of search results. I find this especially valuable in searching for Twitter users, to see how connected they are -- It's ...

Visualizing Swine flu news with Newsmap

Friday, May 1st, 2009

With its world-wide occurence and implications, Swine Flu shows up well in Newsmap. This makes it easy to see at at glance how the news media in different countries is covering the story. The screen shots below were taken at 8:00 AM this morning. A Flickr set has larger screenshots of ...

Visualization with Twitter Venn diagrams

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Venn diagrams have long been used in teaching online searching, to help users visualize how Boolean searching works. A new application of Venn diagrams, Twitter Venn, gives on-the-fly Venn diagrams of Twitter postings. Because Twitter does such a good job of taking the pulse of the Web, Twitter Venn is ...