File Under: things to read: Data Visualization Blog

Fell In Love With Data.  I've gotten interested in all sorts of different data visualizations lately, but haven't really figured out how to get started.  Maybe this blog is just the thing.  The proposed outline looks promising:

Here is a tentative list of topics I am planning to cover in the series (subject to changes):

1. Books and Other Resources
2. Programming Languages and Tools
3. Sources of Good Examples
4. Research Papers
5. University Courses

Andy Kirk over at Visualizing Data is planning on offering 1 day training courses in the US hopefully in 2012. 

Internet Topology Zoo

The University of Adelaide has an interesting site: The Internet Topology Zoo.  Its a collection of visualizations, tools, and data sets for visualizing internet service providers.  These visualizations have been all gussied up- by properly placing nodes on maps, but other data sets used in tools such as Cytoscape or Gephi will not only visualize but analyze large networks.

I would love to recreate the snapshot of the internet created by M. Newman in May 2006 with current data to determine such metrics as closeness or betweeness of GW's autonomous system.

Fineo

Fineo is an interesting tool to help visualize categorical data.  Using simple tab-separated-values file, you can create diagrams that allow users to select the categories  to explore the relationships between and among them.

A sample diagram is here.

Lots of visualizations

Nearly 800 visualizations on a plethora of topics.

It will take me a while to get through them all.

Interactive RF visualization

The Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum can be a confusing place to navigate.  Running from a few kilohertz to man gigahertz, there's a lot packed in there.  This is a great tool to help explore what various frequencies are used for.