Information Visualization

About this Blogsphere:

This blogsphere attempts to capture, catalog and share resources relating to visual perception of information. It is about a world mostly dealing with Physical (Touch, Taste, See/Sight, Smell and Hear) and sometimes Metaphysical (and that is none-of-the-above category). Physical, for instance, touch (e.g., feel, felt, found), look and visualization, is here with an attempt to combine verbal, vocal and visual--to synchronously see, hear, share and do much more. Interestingly, in order to visualize one does not need special skills, competencies, etc. It is all about common sense, especially with human visualizations. In short, "information is in the eye of the beholder." Continue reading much more all-ado-about this Blogosphere

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October 01, 2007

IEEE InfoVis 2007

October 28 - October 30, 2007

Join us Sunday, October 28, through Tuesday, October 30, 2007, in conjunction with the IEEE Visualization 2007 Conference and IEEE VAST 2007 Symposium in Sacramento, California.

The conference program is now set. Please click here for a schedule of conference events.

Keynote and Capstone speakers set. Two dynamic invited speakers, Matthew Ericson of the New York Times (IEEE InfoVis keynote) and Stephen Few of Perceptual Edge (combined IEEE InfoVis capstone/IEEE VAST capstone) will be presenting talks.

click here for more info

September 23, 2007

AT&Ts Case Studies in Information Visualization Research Problems

AT&T's Information Visualization: Case Studies:

The following application case studies illustrate how information visualization research solves real-world problems.

Software Visualization for Vplus+ (VoIP/CallVantage prototype)

See also AT&T's information visualization:

Main Research Areas

Visual data mining
Algorithms for graphics, computational geometry and optimization
Graph (network) visualization
Large-scale database visualization

September 09, 2007

Visualizing the ‘Power Struggle’ in Wikipedia

"A new visualization Bruce Herr and I recently completed is being featured in this week’s New Scientist Magazine (the article is free online, minus the viz). They did a good job jazzing up the language used to describe the viz–’power struggle’, ‘bubbling mass’, ‘blitzed articles’–but they also dumbed down the technical accomplishments. I guess not everyone gets as excited about algorithms as I do. "

September 02, 2007

Converting Browsers Into Buyers — Know Your Ecommerce Math

In many ways the Internet has many similarities to direct marketing. It requires consistency and persistence.

Can you make money selling a $1.00 for only 85 cents? NO! Yet, this is exactly what happens at many Ecommerce web sites. Why? A failure to:

control overhead costs;
understand the cost to acquire a customer.

continue reading: Converting Browsers Into Buyers — Know Your Ecommerce Math

See also my previous posts:

Visual immersion using Web Analytics

Pay but don’t touch – Security, Satisfaction, and ...

Add Sense to your AdSense: Visualizing the Return on Investment?

August 30, 2007

Square Pie in the Eye @ Juice Analytics

"The New York Times—normally a source of clear and interesting infographics—produced the following graphic over the weekend."

Continue reading Square Pie in the Eye @ Juice Analytics

August 25, 2007

Visual immersion using Web Analytics

Practical analytics: persuasion scenarios
@ immeria - An immersion in Web Analytics,
by S.Hamel

A typical site is composed of several conversion objectives: registering to a newsletter, purchasing something, finding the nearest store, or any activity that represent a positive outcome for the user and the site owner. As Brian Eisenberg puts it, those represents the "conversion points" of a "persuasion scenario":

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