Today we discuss on an article published by the Search Engine Land blog, where the author is making a strong case for Search Computing. The author says: Business buyers use search engines throughout the entire research and buying process. We couldn’t agree more. Next Generation Web Search will be a switch in user behavior paradigms: asRicardo Baeza-Yates [...]
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One of the research tracks within the Search Computing project deals with Visual Interfaces and User Interaction for Search Computing. There are plenty of JavaScript libraries out there for rendering data. This post lists 5 data visualization tools that we considered for our experiments and prototypal applications. The Javascript Information Visualization Toolkit: The JavaScript InfoVis [...]
ManyEyes is a IBM social networking application for data visualization, where one may share and visualize data sets via a social network. With more than 20 data visualization types and more than 100.000 publicly available data-sets, ManyEyes is a remarkable example of generic data visualization techniques adapted to heterogeneous data sources. Moreover, the available data-sets [...]
As an increasing number of organizations feels the need to open up their data for public usage, it also arises the need for tools able to unlock the intrinsic value of such data. Following a trend that already saw the creation of a public data search feature, Google Lab just launched the Google Public Data [...]
Synesketch is a software library (Java API) for sensing and creative visualization of textual emotions. According to the project’s WIKI, Synesketch is a result of a research that spreads out through several diverse fields – from natural language processing techniques based on WordNet, across Ekman’s research of emotions, to color psychology, visual design, data visualizations, and affective [...]
The New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently decided to release their transit data to the public. Examples of release data are about the subway, buses, railroads, etc. The goal of MTA is to enable the creation of new mash-up services, such as the WayFinder Mobile Application for iPhone, an augmented reality application that has [...]
Microsoft Live Labs recently launched Pivot, a new tool to visually explore large sets of data. Gray Flake presented it at the latest TED Talk event.
