Knowledge Visualization

Tree of life

2006-03-08T00:01:00.000-08:00

A global evolutionary map reveals new insights into our last common ancestor

In 1870 the German scientist Ernst Haeckel mapped the evolutionary relationships of plants and animals in the first 'tree of life'. Since then scientists have continuously redrawn and expanded the tree adding microorganisms and using modern molecular data, yet, many parts of the tree have remained unclear. Now a group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] in Heidelberg has developed a computational method that resolves many of the open questions and produced what is likely the most accurate tree ever. The study, which appears in the current issue of the journal Science, gives some intriguing insights into the origins of bacteria and the last common universal ancestor of all life on earth today.

More pictures here and more details here.

Knowledge and Information Visualization

2006-03-07T05:28:00.000-08:00

Editors’ Note:
"Until now, knowledge visualization and information visualization investigated the question of visualization from different perspectives.
However, as there are some common areas of interest, synergy effects can be expected. In an international workshop titled “Visual Artefacts for the Organization of Information and Knowledge. Searching for Synergies” held in May 2004 at the Knowledge Media Research Center in Tuebingen (Germany), leading-edge researchers tackled the problem of looking for synergies.
This book explores the approaches of most of the workshop participants, as well as other invited experts. The intention of the book is to advance current research and development in the fields of knowledge and information visualization, to push the borders of what is now feasible and applicable to develop synergistic approaches that may represent both knowledge and information in a comprehensive manner."

More informations here.
The content here with BibTeX references (DBLP).

Heat Map Explorer

2006-03-06T05:51:00.000-08:00

A new desktop treemap application called Heat Map Explorer. With it users can view Excel or Access data as a treemap.

This screenshot displays the fuel economy of U.S. cars.

If you want to try it out, there is a 30-day trial version available.

NewsMap

2006-02-28T04:46:00.000-08:00

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information.

Buzztracker

2006-02-28T00:23:00.000-08:00

The "Buzztracker" is a visualization of current world news. It visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations in the Google world news directory. You can view the most active areas of news in the world at a glance.

There is also a widget for mac here.

Figurative system of human knowledge

2006-02-22T06:43:00.000-08:00

"Systême Figuré des connoissances humaines"

A cartography of the "figurative system of human knowledge", sometimes known as the tree of Diderot and d'Alembert, was a tree developed to represent the structure of knowledge itself, produced for the Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot.

The tree was a taxonomy of human knowledge, inspired by Francis Bacon's Advancement of Knowledge. The three main branches of knowledge in the tree are: "Memory"/History, "Reason"/Philosophy, and "Imagination"/Poetry.

See wikipedia for more information.

Grokker

2006-02-17T00:16:00.000-08:00

Grokker is a interactive tool, that allows to visualize search results. It is available as visual search tool to search the web or other information repositories (as amazon). You can also buy desktop licences that allow to search on your computer for files.

Processes that pop out

2006-02-15T23:35:00.000-08:00

New article from the digital magazine of InfoVis.net:

"One of the reasons why visualisation can be so powerful has its roots in the fact that there's a series of identification and recognition operations that our brain performs in an "automatic" way without the need to focus our attention or even be conscious of them. Managing properly the elements that are "pre-attentively" processed can make a difference in a user interface. "

Entire article here.

InfoVis:Wiki

2006-02-15T06:05:00.000-08:00

The InfoVis:Wiki project is intended to provide a community platform and forum integrating recent developments and news on all areas and aspects of Information Visualization.

VisualComplexity.com

2006-02-15T05:49:00.000-08:00

VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.

InfoVis.net

2006-02-09T03:49:00.000-08:00

InfoVis.net is a project devoted to Information Visualisation, seen as the process of incorporation of knowledge through the perception of information, mainly (but not only) in visual form.

FreeMind

2006-02-05T01:24:00.000-08:00

FreeMind is a free mind-mapping software. A mind map (or mind-map) is a diagram used for linking words and ideas to a central key word or idea. It is used to visualize, classify, structure, and generate ideas, as well as an aid in study, problem solving, and in making decisions.

Tree Map

2006-02-01T03:03:00.000-08:00

The Treemap was used to visualize the Budgets of a Company.

Tube Map Visualization

2006-02-01T03:01:00.000-08:00

The Tube Map Visualization was used to illustrate a long-term project.