VIZ4ALL
Visualizations
For All:
Informative and Enjoyable Web-Based Visual Presentations
This web site showcases
informative and entertaining web-based information visualizations that are
meant for access by the general public. We do not endorse these websites; in
fact many have features that we think are flawed, but this is the mixed state
of current designs for web-based information visualization. However, they are
good enough to criticize, and promising enough to study. We hope by drawing
attention to these designs we will encourage discussion that leads to
improvements as well as a more sophisticated understanding of what makes
visualization effective. This is a student group project done by students in
the spring 2005 University of Maryland Department of Computer Science graduate
seminar on Information Visualization, taught by Ben Shneiderman. We solicit
your feedback and suggested additions to: 
Currently we have
visualization tools for Business, Shopping,
News, Music, Movie,
Sports, Linguist, Web Search, Housing,
Maps, Environment, medical information, Social Network
and etc.
Business
Treemap of stock market: See the trend of stock market at one glance
http://www.smartmoney.com/marketmap
Business Analytics for the Business User
http://www.antarctica.net/products/
Shopping
Treemap shell of amazon.com: An alternative way to shop on
amazon.com
http://www.hivegroup.com/amazon_dyn.html
Blue Nile's Loose Diamond Interactive Search:
Query diamonds by size, shape and price, see it before buying
http://www.bluenile.com/diamond_search.asp?track=dss
Treemap of Peet's coffee: Find Peet's coffee on a treemap
http://www.peets.com/selector_coffee/coffee_selector.asp
Cars at Carmax with dynamic sorts: Quickly find and see a car with
desired type price and location
http://www.carmax.com/dyn/searchengine/searchresults.asp#CarMax
News
Treemap of news: Find out what¡¯s happening around the world on a
Treemap
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
Visualizations of Usenet newsgroups from Microsoft, Marc Smith
http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/treemap/
http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/crosspostVz.asp
10x10-an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that
define the time
http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html
Word Count - displays words by frequency and size
http://wordcount.org/main.php
Music
The IBM glass engine enables deep navigation of the music of Philip
Glass
http://www.philipglass.com/glassengine/
Movie
Top 100 Movies
http://www.inxight.com/demos/tl_movies/tl_movies.html
Sports
Predict Super bowl 2001 Winner!
http://www.inxight.com/demos/tl_nfl/tl_nfl.html
Super bowl XXXV - parallel analysis
http://www.inxight.com/demos/tl_superbowl/tl_superbowl.html
Linguist
Visualization of related words: View the English words with related
meanings
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
Visualization of Hamlet: Find out the most frequent words in Hamlet
http://textarc.org/Hamlet2.html
Baby Name Guide: 100 year guide to U.S. name popularity
http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html
Visualization of web search
Treemap of Google result: A 2D visualization shell of Google
http://www.hivegroup.com/google/
Intelligently organize and visually map your searches from top
search engines
http://www.groxis.com/service/grok/
See the relationship between corporation websites
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
Housing
DataPlace from Fannie Mae - Housing data by maps, charts &
tables
http://dataplace.knowledgeplex.org/cds/
2001 Santa Clara County Housing Market
http://www.inxight.com/demos/tl_housing/tl_housing.html
Maps
Google's smooth panning, zoomable US roadmap
http://maps.google.com/
Environment
Dynamic Choropleth maps with Environmental and demographic data by
US counties
http://www.turboperl.com/dcmaps.html
Medical Information
State Cancer profiles- Comparison Tables & Interactive Graphs
http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/
State Cancer profiles - Small multiple maps
http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/micromaps/
Social Network
Maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US in 2004
http://www.theyrule.net/2004/tr2.php
Social Networks based on the plays by Shakespeare (by PieSpy)
http://www.jibble.org/shakespeare/
NetVis - a free open source web-based tool to analyze and visualize
social networks using data from various sources
http://www.netvis.org/
Visualization of Connected Blogs, Chat and Social networking
http://www.huminity.com/mapt=821501
Visualizing Patterns and Trends in Scientific Literature
http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/citespace/current/demo.html
Misc
Lexis/Nexis Interactive Map View of sources available
(Startree-hyperboic tree)
http://www.lexisnexis.com/startree/interactiveview.asp
Financial contributions to 2004 US Presidential race by geography
http://fundrace.org/moneymap.php
