Visualizing Complexity
We were working on a project recently where we were researching different ways to visualize structured data sets and we came across this gem of a site called Visual Complexity whose purpose is to “be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.” Currently they have over 560 different visualizations catalogued on their site visualizing topics from art to the web. Those of particular interest were the “shape of song” (pictured) and the “business network” visualization showing the relationship between board members of different businesses. Often visualizations of this sort are just good at analysis of large complex data sets. What makes some of these especially interesting is their ability to simplify things down to an understandable and interactive software UI.
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