HotPads.com is a new tool for shopping for houses and they do so in a visual way. And here’s the FastCompany article.
The FellinLoveWithData blog points to 7 classic foundational visualization papers your should read.
Check out LinkedIn’s new visualization tool, InMap, that shows you an interactive view of how all your contacts are related. Here’s a post on the LinkedIn blog with more info. And here’s DJ Patil, Chief Scientist, introducing the tool.
The tool they used is called Gephi and is available at gephi.org.
Mozilla announces the winners of their open data visualization competition.
Here’s a Techcrunch article by Mark Suster about driving personal creativity using visualization.
Learn about what you can do with the open source language, Processing, to build visualizations.
Christie’s auction house has Edward Tufte’s extensive library up for auction. Some of the works are estimated at tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Check out the Google Chrome plugin from GraphYourInbox that allows you to visualize your Gmail inbox.
Google now offers the capability to not only access many public data sets, but to explore the data using their visualization tools. Cool stuff.
The number of servers an organization has in action is the currency of the new data economy. Here’s an interesting visualization at Gizmodo showing the huge number of servers that Google has compared to the relatively small number everyone else has.

