The Best and Most Amazing Applications: Visualizations on the Internet

Sat, Dec 6, 2008, by CHAN LEE PENG

Web Talk

Here’re are some of the best and most amazing visualized applications on the internet you should have a look on.

America By The Numbers

This website shows you some useful data on U.S.population who live in a metropolitan area.

Social Explorer Maps

This website provides you useful demographic information and historical data of the United States which include hundreds of interactive data maps.

We Feel Fine

This website accumulates large number of weblogs which potray human feelings.

Information aesthetics

This weblog contains Manovich’s definition of information aesthetics to aid you in exploring the symbiotic relationship between creative design and the field of creative information visualization in an emergent multidisciplinary field.

Government

From this website, you’ll know how much the U.S. government officials get paid.

Newsmap

This website visually reflects a treemap visualization algorithm by displaying the enormous amount of information gathered by the Google News news aggregator.

Digg labs

This website provides a broader view of Digg.

Weekinreview

This website potrays some hand drawn weekly summary of current events.

Karl Hartig: Data visualization

Here, you’ll get great collections of charts, diagrams, and information graphics.

circaVie and Xtimeline

These two websites let you create your own timelines.

Voyage

This RSS feed reader displays the latest news. The news can be zoomed out and in.

oSkope

This is a visual search engine that lets you find products from Amazon, Ebay, Flickr, Fotolia, Yahoo!Image Search and YouTube.

Spacetime

You can search eBay, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr, Google, YouTube, RSS, and images all in one 3D space.

Quintura

This is a visual search engine that utilises tags, clouds, and highlighting.

SearchCrystal

This is a search visualization tool that assists you to share, compare and remix the results gathered from sources on videos, blogs, web, new engines, or RSS feeds.

YouTube

YouTube visualizations let you browse through related videos with visual effect. Once you go to a youTube video, click on its full-screen button. Next, you click on the small button that will lead you to a network, in which you see a lot of video balloons appearing on the screen. Whenever you hover over a button, its configuration will change.

Moody

This website allows you to create streamlined shuffles with songs in the same mood. You can also use Moody to tag your music collection with colors as it’s equiped with a color-coded web player.

Internet Traffic Report

This is another useful visualization tool that shows you the flow of data worldwide. It’s displayed from a value between 0 and 100. The higher the value, the faster the data flow and connection will be.

Coverpop

This website lets you browse through Amazon via collage.

Retrievr

This website lets you explore and search within a selection of Flickr images. You just have to draw a rough sketch to get this experimental service done a job for you.

KartOO

KartOO is a metasearch engine that uses visual display interface. Once you click on OK, KartOO will launch a query to a set of search engines by gathering the results, compiling them and finally representing them in a series of interesting interactive maps.

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  1. Christine Ramsay Says:

    Thanks for the recommendations. I try to have a look at some.

    Christine

  2. psychobutterfly Says:

    nice work!

  3. goodselfme Says:

    Great assortment my friend. Well composed.

  4. R J Evans Says:

    Great selection, Chan!

  5. Inna Tysoe Says:

    Thanks for the selection.

    Inna

  6. Darlene McFarlane Says:

    These are very interesting websites, Chan. I will bookmark this page so I can come back to it., It’s too much to take in all at once. I will send the link out in an email too so it can be shared with others.

    Thanks, Chan.

  7. Liane Schmidt Says:

    Wow, CHAN, what a great resource… I’m definitely going to “digg” this article!

    Blessings.

    Sincerely,

    -Liane Schmidt.

  8. Ruby Hawk Says:

    I agree with Darlene. It’s too much to take in at one time. I will book mark and refer bajck to it from time to time as I have time, great info, Ruby

  9. eddiego65 Says:

    Great list! Excellent article, as usual!

  10. BC Doan Says:

    Wonderful collection of websites!

  11. Swapna P Says:

    nice collections of websites….

  12. Lauren Axelrod Says:

    Always an education Chan . Thanks

  13. valli Says:

    Excellent collection.

  14. MJPatrick Says:

    Helpful websites! Thanks Chan.

  15. Launie and Melynda Sorrels Says:

    Great resource and informative. Thanx.

  16. Deep Blue Says:

    Nice tips my friend.

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