A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

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Jan 102007
 

This is geek heaven. A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods is a triumph of cool infodesign in and of itself. It’s a periodic table, where each element is instead a means of visually displaying information. Naturally, as in the real periodic table, “elements” are clustered based on similarity. It’s done via pop-ups, which perhaps Edward Tufte might disapprove of… but I could probably fiddle with it for hours.

  6 Responses to “A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods”

  1. JuJutsu says:
    January 10, 2007 at 10:54 am

    Wow. I just sent the link to all of our doctoral students. I’m flabbergasted by the number of things there that I’ve never seen before 🙁

  2. Allen Sligar says:
    January 10, 2007 at 11:15 am

    WOW! Nice find…O.o thats very very sexy (in a numerical display of data kind of way!)

  3. Allen Sligar says:
    January 10, 2007 at 11:27 am

    Oh you know what they need to do…is create a backend database, standardized against the display types that let you adjust data points and variables then you could measure the effectiveness of different types of data visualization on the periodic table as it related to different data structures!

    I’ve thought often about contstructing an interactive data visualization enviornment in a 3D space (maybe SL) I dont have the time or spare funds for it at the moment though 🙁

    Maybe one of these days…

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    January 10, 2007 at 2:45 pm

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  5. moo says:
    January 10, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    Wow. Very nice.

  6. Bart Stewart says:
    January 10, 2007 at 4:34 pm

    Now that is clever. That one’s definitely going in the perma-link folder.

    Thanks for the heads-up on this, Raph.

    –Bart

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