Subject Analysis - Visualization

The following people and projects focus on the visual presentation of information. There is some overlap between these and people mentioned in the ir page.

People

Katy Börner: Director of the Information Visualization Lab at Indiana.
Chaomei Chen and Xia Lin: Both these faculty members at Drexel are engaged in research on information visualization.
Juan C. Dürsteler: Dürsteler maintains Info@Vis, including an e-zine and many links to people and visualization projects.
Sherry Koshman: Sherry is carrying on in the footsteps of the late and greatly-missed Robert Korfhage at Pitt.
Ben Shneiderman: Visualization work at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the U of Maryland is led by the prodigious Shneiderman.
James Z. Wang: Wang does research at PennState, including work in lingustics image indexing and art image retrieval.

Projects

Aquabrowser: A shimmery display used in OPACs.
TheBrain Technologies: Animated visual organizing tool. ["This is your brain, ..."]
Credo Reference (formerly xrefer): The Research Mapper is a shimmery visualization of search results in xrefer. You have to be logged in (Credo is a Simmons e-resource)
Elastic Lists: Visual guided navigation.
Grokker: Visual information framework for enterprise data management.
The Hive Group: demos of the Hive Group's mapping software can be seen for amazon.com, newsisfree, and iTunes.
kartoo: Metasearch engine which plots Web sites in a sort of geographic arrangement. Powers ujiko.
Many Eyes: "For shared visualization and discovery". Users submit visualizations, and boy have they ever!
Mooter: Search engine with a visual clustered result.
Newsmap: A visual Google news aggregator.
searchCrystal: Visual representation of metasearch results, and metaformat results.
Semantic MEDLINE: Summarized PubMed results and presents information graphically.
SmartMoney.com: Among many financial products and services, SmartMoney.com developed SmartMoney Maps for data visualization. The mapping has been applied in other domains, notably HistoryWired at the Smithsonian.
Stamen Design: The projects page includes examples and demos, many with Digg collaboration.
Thinkmap: Thinkmap respresents data in 3D navigable structures of different kinds. The Web site illustrates applications for digital archives, knowledge management, visualizing search results, and several other applications, including the Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus.
TouchGraph: Visual link pattern mapping (among other things).
visualcomplexity: A visualization project directory.

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