I love treemaps, ever since I built my first treemap visualization of my harddrive for Brad Myers’s 15-621 Introduction to User Interface Programming. They are a great visualization tool for understanding nodes and their properties. The newsmap application built by marcos Weskamp and Dan Albritton is a treemap visualization of the Google News portal. It reminds me of the SmartMoney MarketMap. It is just such a simple way to visualize the relative importance of differernt nodes.
Marcos Weskamp has provided a bunch of very interesting Flash visualization including:
- Synapsis: a Carnivore client
- Social Circles: a mailing list social networking visualizer
- Geotracker: a visitor-based tracker of local weather conditions
Just fabulous.
Other great visualization tools I have discovered (or rediscovered) recently include the MacWarriors 3DOSX tool for visualizing directory hierarchies in OS X, and their new TrailBlazer to visualize a users’ browser history. This group of developers is creating some very light-weight visualizations for Mac OS X users.