Datavisualization.ch » Wikipedia http://datavisualization.ch Datavisualization.ch is the premier news and knowledge resource for data visualization and infographics. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:23:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 WikiWebhttp://datavisualization.ch/showcases/wikiweb/ http://datavisualization.ch/showcases/wikiweb/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 06:00:33 +0000 Benjamin Wiederkehr http://datavisualization.ch/?p=2287 WikiWeb is a live, graphic visualization of Wikipedia designed and coded by Anthony Mattox using Processing. The project reconsiders how a user browses the web by creating a visual representation which is not only functional, but aesthetically pleasing. Wikipedia is an appropriate subject as it is a celebration of our knowledge as a global community, and presents that information in a structure of both unbounded complexity and interconnectedness. This structure, invisible to the casual browser, is represented directly with this program.

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The application gathers all the documents that are linked on a page from Wikipedia and represents them as a dot. The dots are connected by a line of there’s an interlinkage. The dots reorganize themself after a while in a organic manner which makes it very visually intruiging.

Anthony released the source code under a Creative Commons Licence (by-nc-sa 3.0). We’re very pleased to see this kind of openness becoming more and more a standard.

]]> http://datavisualization.ch/showcases/wikiweb/feed/ 0 Obama Wikipedia page editshttp://datavisualization.ch/showcases/obama-wikipedia-page-edits/ http://datavisualization.ch/showcases/obama-wikipedia-page-edits/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:15:22 +0000 Benjamin Wiederkehr http://datavisualization.ch/?p=929 This video features a visualization of people who’ve contributed to the Barack Obama page on Wikipedia. Users who have contributed a lot drift toward the center. It’s created by Jamie Dubs and built with Ruby.

The visualization is made using code_swarm: vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm
and the Wikipedia page history parser: github.com/jamiew/wikiswarm/

Music courtesy from Z-trip’s Obama Mix: htp://djztrip.com

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