Comments on: Digg Labs – Stack & Swarm Visualizations http://simplecomplexity.net/digg-labs-stack-swarm-visualizations/ Making Simple Sense From Complex Data Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:32:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Metablocks | MetaBlog » Real-Time Activity Visualization http://simplecomplexity.net/digg-labs-stack-swarm-visualizations/#comment-97 Metablocks | MetaBlog » Real-Time Activity Visualization Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:59:23 +0000 http://simplecomplexity.net/2007/10/12/digg-labs-stack-swarm-visualizations/#comment-97 [...] Simple Complexity’s Chad Burt takes a slightly different view: These are beautiful for visualizing the information they present, but there’s one big caveat. This is all real-time information. Maybe it would be useful for Digg’s own sysadmins to have this sort of information available, but for an end user it is just a pretty proof of concept. [...] [...] Simple Complexity’s Chad Burt takes a slightly different view: These are beautiful for visualizing the information they present, but there’s one big caveat. This is all real-time information. Maybe it would be useful for Digg’s own sysadmins to have this sort of information available, but for an end user it is just a pretty proof of concept. [...]

]]> By: Chad Burt http://simplecomplexity.net/digg-labs-stack-swarm-visualizations/#comment-60 Chad Burt Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:53:35 +0000 http://simplecomplexity.net/2007/10/12/digg-labs-stack-swarm-visualizations/#comment-60 These are beautiful for visualizing the information they present, but there's one big caveat. This is all real-time information. Maybe it would be useful for Digg's own sysadmins to have this sort of information available, but for an end user it is just a pretty proof of concept. Something you could put in the waiting room of Digg headquarters. There needs to be a deeper temporal perspective here and then it could be a useful alternative to a feed reader. What would be really cool is if you started out with a visualization of a day's worth of posts but can "zoom in" to current activity. These are beautiful for visualizing the information they present, but there’s one big caveat. This is all real-time information. Maybe it would be useful for Digg’s own sysadmins to have this sort of information available, but for an end user it is just a pretty proof of concept. Something you could put in the waiting room of Digg headquarters.

There needs to be a deeper temporal perspective here and then it could be a useful alternative to a feed reader. What would be really cool is if you started out with a visualization of a day’s worth of posts but can “zoom in” to current activity.

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