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5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2009 | FlowingData

The top visualization project of the year, according to FlowingData, is a project by Ben Fry, which shows changes to the theory of evolution over time. The project takes advantage of the publication of the full works of Darwin online to trace changes in the text of On the Origin of Species over time.
A deserved winner, and very apt, considering the batch of anniversaries that have gone by this year.

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Tags: data-visualization, posterous

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Visualisation, internet No Comments

Wordle

I’m a bit behind the zeitgeist here, I know, but Wordle is a pretty cool little tool. I think the cloud of my CiteULike tags fairly reflects my academic interests, and the fact that even after 5 years away from the lab, ‘wet’ techniques dominate, I really should make more of the bioinformatics involved in the papers I bookmark.

Wordle Tag Cloud of my CiteULike Library

Find it on Wordle here.

A few notes on technique. I extracted the tags from the RIS export of my CiteULike library using this Python script, I had to limit the represntation of words to 25, otherwise ‘proteomics’ would have dominated to such an extent that virtually none of the other tags would be visible (except maybe ‘protein-protein-interactions’). But then I am responsible for supporting proteomics researchers, and predicting and validating protein-protein interactions is my major personal research interest. So I guess this is fair enough.

Tags: citeulike, tag cloud, wordle

Friday, December 12th, 2008 Visualisation, internet No Comments