We've been doing a lot of work on visualisation of data - mostly geographic - recently. Martin Brown, one of my project managers, drew this to my attention. It's part "intellectual toy" and part tool that graphically represents the raltionship between words in a text. (How it is done is explianed on TextArc's web site here.) Quite apart from looking cool it has got me thinking again about how we can make better use of the enormous graphical power available in today's PCs to make sense of the vast quantities of data we increasingly surround ourselves with. Our eyes are very good at detecting patterns that even the most sophisticted algorithms miss! I'm thinking about email and a smartner way to wade through that than Google Desktop!Try it yourself here (java app)
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