Word Clouds – data vis tools

Wordle is a “toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.”
The useful thing about this is finding out the word use trends you might have in [...]

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Webpages as Graphs- data vis tools

Webpages as Graphs
Here’s an applet that traverses the html of a web page and turns it into a nifty graphic visualisation.  Great for  making the underlying structure clear. (Developed  by Ahare)
The great thing about this is the colour coding for the pages.
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for [...]

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visualisation tools and examples

Data visualisation is being recognised as the communication tool for our times. We are drowning in stats, and have massive amounts of data to make sense of. As more and more data sources are available, the toolsets for displaying relationships and quantifying over time are emerging for general use.
Rather than blog about all of the [...]

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