Visual representation of data

Posted by quant
Sep 1, 2010 at 08:26 PM

I think it’s not just the amount of data, it’s the “data with relationships” that it could display efficiently.
Once you start to have multiple parents and links between “far” items, it’s impossible to display it in tree structure.
Also programs like the brain, connectd text, mind raider have problem with that, because it’s in plane.
This adds another dimension, look at how many triangles and cycled graphs are there in that video, which means highly structured data, if implemented properly (limiting displayed data by closedness attribute etc), this could display sooooo much more structure that it could be a real eye opener - it could give you new ideas, because you’d suddenly see something that’s just not possible now. At 7:00 there is an example where how the graph and functions would allow you to see certain relationship between data (strict pecking order), that might be difficult to figure otherwise or maybe you wouldn’t even think there could be some.

The colors, links, directions, weight, everything is programmable, it could have soo many functionalities implemented ...