Universe August 21, 2007
Posted by jonathan686 in data display, software, tools.trackback
I’m not sure if this inspires or intimidates me, but this TED talks video of Jonathan Harris includes a few awesome data display interfaces. In particular, Universe, which he discusses at the end, displays and connects news stories from around the world.
Universe is an interesting database of information, but I found it a little hard to navigate. I think we can learn from how the stories and topics are grouped though.
I agree that this could be very frustrating to use, but a visual display using a typical story web idea might be an easier way to find information and how it connects to your original subject search. The constant rotating of the constelations and losing your original search were annoying but a stationary way of displaying and seeing search information might work better. What do you guys think?