What is Data Visualization?

There are a number of tools you can use to make your own display when you need to organize information:

- LivePlasma is a tool that lets you find music and movies that are similar to your favorites. If you enjoy Bon Jovi as a musician or a movie like Gladiator, simply enter the information in the data visualization tool. It then opens a large number of other films or music that shares common factors with the original data. It will show a giant "molecule-like" structure that is connected through a number of factors to other things that you can enjoy.

- Swarm is a data visualization tool that can be used with Digg. There are hundreds of users and the stories flying around the screen of this tool, users are able to 'Digg' a story. They are then taken to the story and connected to it for a short time, and you will find that this service is ideal for finding stories with excellent user interface.

- Research Chronology is a tool that helps track the patterns of student research. The tool uses Delicious bookmarks that have been marked throughout the semester, and helps connect your different research avenues.

- TwittEarth is a tool that lets you see where all the tweets from around the world are coming from. The tool displays the world as a giant 3D globe, and the location of the tweets are highlighted in real time on the map. You can find new tweeters to follow, or you can just sit back and enjoy the incredible software that displays the latest data visualization.

- Tag Galaxy Flickr labels shown in the style of a solar system with several planets and stars to the labels on the questions. The star is the label you want, and planets are the labels associated with the original search.

- Twingly Screensaver is a fascinating tool that lets you see the blogosphere all over the world in real time. The screen saver shows the activity of bloggers from around the world, since then, and the constant progress of blog activity makes for a truly amazing display.