Datavisualization.ch is a website dedicated to data and information visualization. The mission is keep track of the eclectic research results in this field. This includes cognistions from self initiated studies as well as it provides an overview of the developement done by the incredible smart people in the community.

It evolved from our research blog that we used to gather the resources for our bachelor’s project. Beside our own continuing research in this field, we’ll document the newest creations by some of the smartes people around. The “Cutting Edge” is a moderated new section where we document the newest creations we encounter. We’ve built a pretty neat dashboard to monitor this agile community and stay on top of the cutting edge of information.

First why not start by reading Ben’s version? Then come back and see my Top 10:

1. My internet uses Flash sometimes to display data in an interactive manner – say for information visualization for example.
2. My internet preferes clarity over visual richness.
3. My internet doesn’t try to print background images or colors.
4. But my internet prints out the href after the text of the link. Maybe in nice brackets?
5. My internet likes convention better than configuration.
6. My internet knows what it’s saying to me (read: his words are marked up sematically correct)
7. My internet knows that a required field is empty before I try to submit a form.
8. My internet serves me with my own data the way I want it to. “Can I have a XML-bag for this to take it with me?”
9. My internet talks the language of my desktop computer as well as the one of my mobile and it syncronizes data nicely.
10. My internet knows everything about me that I want it to know and it doesn’t gossip about me with others.