ReVis: a mobile data visualization application visualizing the blog post metadata from the now defunct infosthetics.com, a well-known data visualization archive site run by Andrew Vande Moere which documents the latest developments in this emerging field.
This J2ME application allows the mobile device user to view and analyze the newest posts of infovis projects in a different way, becoming a visualization of aspects of the visualization field itself.
Each post on the infosthetics site is tagged with category metadata such as "ambient" or "collection."
The user can view the distribution of new posts by category such as how many recent posts are categorized under "ambient" for ambient related visualization projects. Secondly, the user can analyze the blog entries by title length. The third and last visualization deals with the relative importance of current categories.
Video of ReVis running on Java phone emulator.
The third visualization type adds up the title lengths of all posts in a particular category. It then divides this number by the number of posts in that category to determine an "dominance/rarity factor ratio" for that category. A category with a large ratio and containing a large number of posts indicates a high level of dominance on the site.
The "collection" category shown in the above video is an example of this. The largest ratio, the "art" category, indicates a high rarity factor because it has only one post under it on the site at the moment data was collected.
Distribution of info-vis related projects posted at infosthetics.com. I created this distribution visualization which was also published to IBM Many Eyes.