Visualization

The SQL Server team has released an interactive Silverlight-based Cost Analysis Tool, which allows you to change different values to see your possible savings when setting up your IT department. An addition to handy visuals, its interesting to note that this is a light-weight companion…

I just came across a very cool application which uses Microsoft’s Seadragon technology to create an interactive visualization of Last.fm users and the music they like. The app, over on Tamas Nepusz’s web site, displays all the different artists on the Last.fm web site as differently colored circles…

I just learned of Flotzam from Major Nelson, when he referenced it in a recent blog post. (OK, to be honest, I actually learned about this last year, but I forgot). This cool WPF application, built by some folksat Microsoft’s Mix Online, lets you visualize data from social web sites including…

Visual Numerics, Inc. rep discusses and demos the VNI math library (native and .NET versions), as well as their PV-Wave graphical environment for manipulating and visualizing data.

SC08: HLRS researchers discuss and demo cool visualization, virtual and augmented reality environments.

SC08: HLRS researchers discuss and demo cool visualization, virtual and augmented reality environments.

Short video showing Windows HPC Server 2008 and Visualizing MPI traces with Vampir on a Cray CX1.

The MIX Online team has released their latest issue covering the topic of data and information visualization. Along with two articles on building infographics and future thinking around visualization, the issue includes a lab named Descry consisting of four visualizations: The Obesity…

Over on MIX Online, they’re looking into the power of information visualization as a communication tool. They call this “Project Descry.” As part of the project, they’ve released a series of open source, web-based visualizations each of which are available for download from Codeplex so designers…

If you enjoyed the Windows Media Player Yule Log visualization but don’t have a PC in your living room, you may want to check out this virtual fireplace instead. As Major Nelson reports, an Xbox LIVE Member SniperED007 used the XNA tools to create this visualization “that has all the sights and…