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December 20, 2005
Needs easy data viz
Needs easy data viz: Jon Udell tries to show how time has influenced his blogging tags, and spends a lot of effort in production only to find the graphic didn't show what he had hoped. He calls for easier ways to plugin available data into graphics engines: "We need an environment that's open to users and developers, that fully embraces web standards and XML, that is dynamically scriptable, that deals with text, images, and vector graphics in the same domain, and that is tuned for rapid creation and wide propagation of memes." (He thinks it may be Firefox, but there's no sign that the audience will ever exceed a minority.) The world wants the ability to easily tweak and publish visualizations of arbitrary datasets... looks like an opportunity here for someone...?
Posted by John Dowdell at December 20, 2005 3:27 PM