Add another online destination to find the data that you need. DataMarket launched back in May with Icelandic data, but just a few days ago relaunched with data of the international variety. They tout 100 million time series datasets and 600 million facts. I’m not totally sure what that means (100 million lines, sets of [...]

A new interactive application written by the giCentre uses live data from the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme to reveal patterns in docking station use across London.

BikeGrid uses spatial treemaps to show the last 24 hours use of all London docking stations in a grid.

To use the BikeGrid application, find out where bikes and spaces are available across London and explore spatio-temporal patterns in recent cycle usage, go to [...]

We worked with climate scientists at NCAS-Climate (University of Reading, UK) who produce large datasets of simulated storm tracks from General Circulation Models that span many decade, and need to analyse them. We collaboratively designed and implemented interactive visualisation techniques that have opened up their database, enabling storm tracks to be browsed in their spatial and temporal context, and for specific examples to be captured as Quicktime video clips. The purpose of generating these storm tracks was to better understand the spatial and temporal distribution of storms, particularly for extreme events.

In a recent paper (soon available from IEEE TVCG), we present a systematic approach to the interactive visual analysis of heterogeneous data.  The data consists of interrelated parts that are given on spatial grids over time (e.g., the atmosphere and ocean part from a coupled climate model).  By integrating both data parts in a framework [...]

How visualization helps to coordinate firefighting

Daniel A. Keim and Florian Mansmann and Daniela Oelke and Hartmut Ziegler, Visual Analytics: Combining Automated Discovery with Interactive Visualizations, 2008, Discovery Science,pp. 2-14, ISBN 978-3-540-88410-1., [download], [bibtex]

@inproceedings{Keim-5,
  author = {Daniel A. Keim and Florian Mansmann and Daniela Oelke and Hartmut Ziegler},
  title = {Visual Analytics: Combining Automated Discovery with Interactive Visualizations},
  month = {December},
  year = {2008},
  note = {Discovery Science,pp. 2-14, ISBN 978-3-540-88410-1.},
}