Do you ever use visualization techniques such as imaginary trepanation? [more inside]
posted by Secret Life of Gravy on Nov 5, 2009 - 24 answers

I need cool data visualizations to project. Any recommendations? [more inside]
posted by k8t on Oct 19, 2009 - 11 answers

Authors have agents. Musical talent has A&R reps. Startups have VC. What is the category of representative, or who is the aggregator, for my business? We do live interactive performance visualization. [more inside]
posted by lothar on Sep 17, 2009 - 10 answers

Help me find data visualization software like Tableau, where the visualizations can be viewed and interacted with by end users. But the rub is that I need it to work in the Macintosh environment. [more inside]
posted by crapples on Aug 19, 2009 - 1 answer

I'd like any software or website that helps visualize rhythms. [more inside]
posted by argybarg on Jul 29, 2009 - 9 answers

Do movies shape the way we imagine things or vice versa? I notice that when I dream/daydream/concept that I often think very cinematically (meaning imagining things staged/put together/"filmed" even in a motion picture narrative style). What I wonder is if one type of visual conception is a result of the other. [more inside]
posted by Senor Cardgage on Jun 10, 2009 - 10 answers

How to make a vertical timeline? [more inside]
posted by jfricke on May 24, 2009 - 7 answers

How to make clever visualizations from Excel or CSV data? Any free, flexible information-graphic scripting software out there? [more inside]
posted by anthill on Feb 23, 2009 - 10 answers

Asking for a friend, what is this visualization on the White House website? You can see the part of interest between 01:34 and 01:39. [more inside]
posted by R343L on Jan 15, 2009 - 2 answers

What organizations provide collaborative decision-making via visualized data, like Arizona State University's Decision Theater? [more inside]
posted by Jennifer S. on Jan 6, 2009 - 1 answer

I'd like to figure out how to do good looking data visualization for reports beyond Excel charts, but without any coding/programming skills except xhtml/css. [more inside]
posted by icarus on Nov 20, 2008 - 12 answers

Examples of good web/election widgets to show to librarians this upcoming week? I'll be speaking at a conference this week talking about, among other things, Web 2.0 stuff. I'm looking for some good topical examples to briefly highlight. [more inside]
posted by jessamyn on Nov 4, 2008 - 6 answers

I am writing a grant for a project that will include some relatively simple web development. Please help me with some rough estimates for labor and equipment costs. [more inside]
posted by googly on Oct 29, 2008 - 5 answers

I am curious about how detailed, or photographic/realistic the imagery in one's mind's eye is, and what in general would be considered "standard" for most people. Note I am not talking about "creative visualization" but I suppose it could be related. Specifically I am referring to simply the process of visualizing an object, face or scene in your mind's eye. [more inside]
posted by horhey on Sep 10, 2008 - 39 answers

Any ideas on starting or running a website just for data and charts? [more inside]
posted by gnossos on Aug 28, 2008 - 5 answers

professional looking data driven visualizations - resources/experience using different programs? [more inside]
posted by figTree on Aug 13, 2008 - 11 answers

How do I make the projection screen in my NOC look like the control room at NORAD? [more inside]
posted by empath on Jun 10, 2008 - 20 answers

Statsfilter: I have a bunch of noisy measurements. Each has an (x,y) coordinate and a "score" for that location. Most of the scores are trustworthy, but with the occasonal outlier. I want to come up with a function f(x,y) that estimates what the score at (x, y) would be (whether or not I have an observation at exactly that location). I'd like the function to be smooth and resilient to noise. Can someone point me in the right direction? [more inside]
posted by Sockpuppet The First on May 14, 2008 - 9 answers

I heard the Google Visualization API Query Language allows you to query Google Spreadsheet documents using a language similar to SQL. Is there a PHP library I can get to use a Google Spreadsheet as a simple database table?
posted by remi on Apr 4, 2008 - 2 answers

Is there a special name for a this type of chart, in this case it is one showing the nuclear fuel recycling capability of a CANDU reactor? Or do I just call it a flowchart, that happens to have a very visually appealing way of showing a complex cycle?
posted by Space Coyote on Mar 30, 2008 - 4 answers

What about London should I map? [more inside]
posted by viewofdelft on Feb 21, 2008 - 21 answers

What was this cool visualization ability I had for a while? [more inside]
posted by trinity8-director on Dec 29, 2007 - 17 answers

I need help putting some data in a pleasing graphical form. In short, it is a history of a particular industry, with all of the companies, their founders and where they came from. I would like to build some sort of corporate family tree like this famous one. Does anyone know any good tools for this?
posted by blahblahblah on Dec 13, 2007 - 9 answers

What is a cool-looking realtime pluggable visualization program for Linux? [more inside]
posted by bkudria on Oct 22, 2007 - 7 answers

In data graphing and visualization, are there any existing standards for false-color or pseudo-color images?
posted by fake on Jun 21, 2007 - 7 answers

I'm looking for interesting visualizations of the internet: traffic patterns, affinity networks, what-have-you for a presentation on "Online Communications." Bonus points for movies, animation, and general coolness. [more inside]
posted by hwickline on May 5, 2007 - 7 answers

I've charged with adding a feature to a shift scheduler / coverage requestor that displays shift information for a given week. I've been able to display them so as to satisfy the constraints I've been given, but it's got me wondering wondering if there's a more rigorous/mathematical approach to the general problem of organizing the display of any such calendar information. [more inside]
posted by Frankieist on Apr 12, 2007 - 3 answers

Where can I find some great infographics? [more inside]
posted by god particle on Feb 15, 2007 - 9 answers

How do I organise my college course modules into one cohesive format? [more inside]
posted by ajp on Feb 13, 2007 - 6 answers

How do I improve my ability to form mental images? [more inside]
posted by philosophistry on Dec 25, 2006 - 16 answers

Looking for statistical data of United States economy / consumption / production in Excel (or other) format to convert to XML [more inside]
posted by dvjtj on Oct 30, 2006 - 6 answers

I need some video eye candy generator software that outputs straight to disk instead of to the screen... [more inside]
posted by ostranenie on Aug 29, 2006 - 6 answers

Graph editor: I'm looking for a graph editor I can use to create print quality graphs (the node/edge kind, not the excel kind). Requirements inside. [more inside]
posted by null terminated on Jul 8, 2006 - 10 answers

I'm trying to clean up my del.icio.us links... [more inside]
posted by youarenothere on Jun 25, 2006 - 2 answers

What's the easiest way to extra data about my emails? It's for the purposes of making a visualization along similar lines to Mountain. [more inside]
posted by bruceyeah on May 15, 2006 - 7 answers

Questions on affirmations, visualizations and the subconscious mind. [more inside]
posted by arrowhead on Mar 20, 2006 - 4 answers

For a project at work, I've been building a conceptual map of a communications network. The boss is happy with the results, but thinks the current output (minus identifying labels) is confusing and needs prettying up. [more inside]
posted by piro on Nov 18, 2005 - 6 answers

Marine traffic control filter: How many vessels are out on the water right now, and where are they in general? [more inside]
posted by dino terror on Nov 12, 2005 - 17 answers

Any templates/examples of visualizing org structure changes and/or company growth and hiring. [more inside]
posted by jbradley on Oct 12, 2005 - 3 answers

I have a bunch of tasks I can rank by imminence, completeness, and rate of activity. Is there an interesting or useful way to visualize them rather than three sorted lists? [more inside]
posted by Firas on Oct 3, 2005 - 5 answers

Looking for cool, interesting, representations of spatial data. [more inside]
posted by signal on Sep 17, 2005 - 7 answers

Is there a plug-in for iTunes (windows) that will allow me to easily view the track information for the current song, even if I am far away from my computer?
posted by stupidsexyFlanders on Jan 1, 2004 - 6 answers