http://fidjissimo.com/2007/07/pieces-of-art-n3-facebook-friend-wheel/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:21:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://fidjissimo.com/2007/07/pieces-of-art-n3-facebook-friend-wheel/#comment-163 About visualization tools « Tech IT Easy Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:45:09 +0000 http://www.fidjissimo.com/2007/07/21/pieces-of-art-n3-facebook-friend-wheel/#comment-163 [...] 3) Social networking: this field is probably the one where visualization tools are the most artistically involved, which may lead to think that these visual representations are just “gadgets”, like for example the Facebook Friends Wheel. But, apart from artistic projects, some of them are more useful, to visualize the structure of your network: how people are connected, what are the “clusters” in your network for example. Again, Touchgraph provides a great and customizable tool to do that (the image in this article is the visual representation of the core of my network), including the links between people thought pictures’ tags. [...] [...] 3) Social networking: this field is probably the one where visualization tools are the most artistically involved, which may lead to think that these visual representations are just “gadgets”, like for example the Facebook Friends Wheel. But, apart from artistic projects, some of them are more useful, to visualize the structure of your network: how people are connected, what are the “clusters” in your network for example. Again, Touchgraph provides a great and customizable tool to do that (the image in this article is the visual representation of the core of my network), including the links between people thought pictures’ tags. [...]

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