Week 6

Social Networks

Visualizing conversations, crowds, and networks of people


Visualizing histories
Fernanda Viegas (Chat Circles, Mountains, Themail, etc...)

Space memories
Artifacts of the Present Era
Last Clock

Social dynamics
Vizster
Boundary Functions
Mark Lombardi (this and that)
Linkology

Wisdom of crowds
TagMaps

Reading for next week: Artistic Data Visualization

Misc links:
XKCD - Map of Online Communities
Google's Social Graph API

Studio

Twitter visualization: more REST API, some mathematics and bezier curves.  
The code is here.

Final project proposal

Just a reminder that you should be thinkin about your final project. The proposal will be a 1 pager describing your data source and what you intend to do with the data (what you want to show, what story want to tell, what you want to express, etc...)

You need have your proposal online by Wednesday October 28th.