Beauty in Data Mining

Part of my process for collecting topics to post on is to use Bloglines as a holding pen for interesting posts (thanks to the handy keep as new check box). I find that nearly every post from Information Aesthetics ends up being checked for later reference. This blog posts a steady stream of interesting visualizations of a huge range of data types and applications. Many of the posts I save are for a longer article I hope to write about the pros and cons of graph visualization. In the meantime, I'm going to put up this gallery image of some graphing software I came across a few years ago and which Information Aesthetics reminded me of. The system is WALRUS, and the visualizations it produces are motivation enough to get into the data mining, data visualization space!

Comments

[Kevin Burton]

Yeah.. Walrus is cool.. I played with it about 5 years ago.

I was interested in hyperbolic graph visualization for source code analysis for developers. Basically just-in-time analysis of code to show interesting but maybe normally ungrokable analysis.

It's a project I'd like to revisit one day. The hardware still isn't there yet. Ideally you'd use a dedicate processor and a secondary attached monitor.

But thanks for the blog reference.. subscribed...

[amir]

please send me if possible

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