http://www.influxinsights.com/blog/ 2008-11-22T00:03:27Z http://www.influxinsights.com/blog/article/1746/data-as-art.html The visualization of data is fast becoming the next art form. <br><br>This is a nice example that comes from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.c71123.com/visualizations/more-visualizations/">JK Keller</a><br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edcotton/2186923153/" title="Datasart by ed100, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2088/2186923153_66b305c082.jpg" alt="Datasart" height="368" width="500"></a><br><br>Here's how he creates the visuals. <br><br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"This is a program I wrote that reads a source text and looks for words that are used repeatedly. The more the word is used, the larger its cube gets. Red cubes are words that are not unique, blue cubes are. The size of the rings is determined by the size of the paragraphs."</span><br><br>Found by <a target="_blank" href="http://johannareed.blogspot.com/2008/01/below-image-is-from-project-called.html">This is That</a><br><br>Posted by Ed Cotton Influx Insights 2008-01-12T10:46:42Z