Daniel Chait announced the winners to the Lab49 WPF in Finance Innovation Contest. All of the finalists applications are available on his SkyDrive account and can be installed on a Windows box (running .NET 3.0). I’m impressed with the different designs and the implementations in WPF.
I didn’t see a submission among the finalists from Oculus. Which probably means they were busy working on other things, because their financial visualizations and WPF skills are among the best in the world. Mike Peters has agreed to present at a future DemoCamp and show some of the visualizations using both DirectX or WPF.
I’d really like to see a similar contest for building visualizations and experiences in Silverlight using Deep Zoom. (Lee says that you can do the same stuff in Flash, and Lee is a rockstar and there is no reason to disagree with his assessment). I love the the resurgence of visualization methods as RIAs and their development tools are maturing. Infosthetics and the Period Table of Visualization Methods are great starting points for visualization techniques.
Deep Zoom
- Applications = Designers + Developers – MIX session presented by Celso Gomes and Kirupa Chinnathambi , Deep Zoom featured in the second part
- Hard Rock: Behind the Music with Deep Zoom – MIX Session presented by Scott Stanfield
- First Attempt with MultiScaleImage – Mike Taulty shows how to implement control over Deep Zoom, followed by an update
- Deep Zoom Demo – Mike Ormond shares Deep Zoom code and then adds mouse wheel support in part 2
- Deep Zoom Composer Preview
- Deep Zoom Composer Preview – User Guide
- PhotoZoom
There’s the really interesting to create a shared community around data sets and visualizations called Many Eyes. The goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. The efforts to build a shared space and shared tools for building new visualizations. Along with the efforts from Digg Labs, Google, and Microsoft LiveLabs.
What are you’re favourite visualization?