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While vacationing last week Leslie and I paid a visit to New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Boy, even on a rainy Tuesday morning it was crowded, but we saw some good stuff. The Design and the Elastic Mind has some interesting data visualizations. In the image pictured here they are showing internet traffic statistics on a globe. There was another interesting one that took the text to Alice in Wonderland and represented word frequency and proximity. Both interesting ideas, but I’m not sure how revealing they are towards better understanding those data sets. But its certainly worth trying — with so much data flying around these days I think visual representations offer the best route towards understanding and interpreting the world around us.

If you can’t make it to MOMA, or if you want an easy way to explore this idea further, check out visualcomplexity.com. Lots of good ideas here.

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VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project’s main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.