Right from the get go, I’ll have to admit being a total whore for information graphics. There’s just something cool about graphical statistical data. I know, I need professional help; medication, a therapist or something. The thing is, stuff like that is just interesting. I suck at mathematics but I’ve always been a very keen reader of charts and graphs, must have something to do with being into graphics and stuff like that.
Anyhoo, I found some stuff that just totally kicks the shit out of normal piecharts and curves. Chris Harrison, a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the States has a really cool website with lots of Web-related data analysis. For example this visualization that shows the structure of Wikipedia category pages and their interconnections. It’s a cool visualization since I for one use Wikipedia quite a lot. Awesome.
There’s also some very intriguing work on Internet traffic and search engine patterns. There’s a B&W map of the world with all the City-to-City connections drawn in by lines; I could actually imagine printing it out and framing it as a art piece.
I suggest you have a skim through, if like me you have an unhealthy interest in this sort of stuff; chrisharrison.net.
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