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Very cool demo of animated tag cloud-type visualization
By WDavidStephenson | November 7, 2007
I saw a demo (can’t disclose name or company) of new visualization tool that generates display similar to a tag cloud from a document or other source (sort of like the ones I did of bin Laden speech), with an important difference: this one is animated: the key words move toward the user, and ones that are used in combination are clustered together. You can’t avoid seeing what’s important.
The developers told me it would be relatively easy to key them to a Google map so that, in a disaster or terrorist attack, if citizens were texting info via Twitter or other service to police departments, etc., key words such as “bomb,” “bridge collapse,” “flood,” etc. would not only come to the fore, but would be clustered near the location, allowing first responders to focus on that area.
Neat..
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