I am down at Etech in San Diego this and thought I would share some of the things I found Interesting. Information Visualization is a Medium Eric Rodenbeck from Stamen Design did a great little talk about using visualizations to show large data sets in context. One note that stood out was showing everything (all data) and using filtering to allow users to explore the data. Allowing easy exploration of data through simple filtering or visuals can make large data much easier to use and understand. It's becoming a common pattern on the web (check out this search for available car leases). He had a great sample showing crime stats in Oakland,
Windows 7 Home Premium Key, this website allows you to filter down crimes by type and time and see the trends. It's pretty interesting. As we move into a world of web services how we can start to visualize the data we are all collecting in our databases becomes an important exercise. We would love to hear any ideas from about how you could imagine using alternate data visualizations in your databases. <div