Last.fm: Listening habits

Kalu Kalu’s visualization script unveils the (more or less) long tail of your listening habits using attention-data recorded on Last.fm (found on Rocketsurgeon, which is a good read for all things Music 2.0).

Barcamp: Rhizome Navigation

at Barcamp, Walter Rafelsberger just did a nice demo of Rhizome Navigation, an application framework for building 3D-interfaces for navigating statistical data like web-server logs (similar to Digg’s swarm-feature) or user-attention data. try out the Java-frontend, download the demo or see this analysis of austria’s political parties’ manifestos using Rhizome Navigation.

traffic-visualization: clickdensity

analyzing website-traffic using the server’s access-log and common (free) tools like awstats or webalizer hasn’t really progressed a lot during the past years. the problem is, that log-data is too abstract for many business-executives and terms like ‘visit’, ‘unique visitors’ and ‘pages’ aren’t well-defined (f.e. the concept of ‘visit’ is based on an assumed timeframe/duration, [...]

digg labs stack & swarm launch

unimpressed by the ongoing dispute between digg-founder Kevin Rose and AOL/Netscape’s Jason Calacanis concerning Jason’s lucrative offer to top digg-submitters, digg labs just launched two innovative data-visualization-features which might help staying ahead of Netscape.

the stack is a live-representation of users digging storys. each digg is visualized as a white bar dropping from above. each stack [...]