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priscilla 1Visualising Data
October 29th 2010 04:41
The modern world of information technology can be difficult to understand. How exactly is all that information stored and passed around the globe?
At Wikibon, they've put together this article which is a collection of illustrations that clearly demonstrate and simplify the otherwise unfathomable world of modern data. Below are a few excellent examples, view all 15 illustrations here.
Click on each image to open a larger version in a new window.
This classic image renders an amazing depiction of the blogosphere by creating a graph displaying its interlinking structure. The visualization is centered on DailyKos. The highly connected area below center is the socio/political community. Above and to the right is the heart of the technical blogosphere with BoingBoing being the brightest node.
This is one day in a series that takes the news from one week of the Guardian newspaper, and visually represents it as a series of static visualisations.
Akamai monitors global Internet conditions around the clock. With this real-time data we identify the global regions with the greatest attack traffic, cities with the slowest Web connections (latency), and geographic areas with the most Web traffic (traffic density).
The Opte Project was created to make a visual representation of a space that is very much one-dimensional, a metaphysical universe, aiming to map every class C network on the Internet from a single computer and a single Internet connection with an overall goal of creating a map of the entire Internet.
Section Design’s look at portable data, from the vision of Bill Gates and Paul Allen in the 1970′s to advent of wireless technology and the growing demand for more efficient tools and storage hardware that has become a necessity in our everyday lives.
At Wikibon, they've put together this article which is a collection of illustrations that clearly demonstrate and simplify the otherwise unfathomable world of modern data. Below are a few excellent examples, view all 15 illustrations here.
Click on each image to open a larger version in a new window.
The Blogosphere: A Fresh View
One Day of the Guardian
Akamai Real-Time Web Monitor
The Opte Project
Portable Data
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