Visualized Concepts August 29, 2007
Posted by Brian in data display, ideas.trackback
Some people wanted a visual for what I was thinking about, and I think this is as close as I can make within reasonable time:
It’s not quite Venn diagrams, but as I mentioned before, I realized I actually meant Euler diagrams. You can see sets within sets. Think of it like this: your computer has many folders within it. Specifically, one folder would represent one piece of a bar (read: one topic or tag). Folders of similar types would be similar colors, I suppose. You can go into a folder, and it too would have many sub-folders within it. And so on and so forth. Eventually you get to very specific files (i.e. stories). This is like the very bottom circle of bars in the picture.
In the way I originally intended it, there would be a way to choose and compare stories of similar tags. I suppose that there could be another bar within these circles that would separate by country. Or just by a tag. I want people to be able to see where similar stories are happening elsewhere. This set of circles could be the American stories with these sets of stories, but there could be an option to see ones from other countries.
PS: I edited my mash-ups post from earlier yesterday.
that is a brilliant visual. I think maybe we can incorporate it as means of visualizing a taxonomy for any website (which has a taxonomy). Or just dealing with a lot of data.
So. Talking with Hepi made me realize that this image needs to be vertically flipped. Soi disant, the bottom disk is the one with the “least tags”, thus the least specific.
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