Web Two Point Gazillion

This is a vision from Mozilla labs regarding web browsing in the future. My guess is that it has many applications in the area of process and service visualisation. Note the use of a 3D Mouse Like interface - like the one available here.

Kzero Metaverse Analysis Information

Kzero have released their analysis of population and marketing statistics for virtual worlds. This is represented as a Universe Graph. Note the position of Second Life in the 30 plus age bracket. Others are larger, but have a younger demographic.
Possibly suggesting more scope for serious use of the technology, than other fields.

I would argue that this is due to the configurability of SL, and its ability to garner information from other sources on the internet, and produce visualisations as such in situ, as we have shown with business processes at QUT.

BTW, the graph is a nice intuitive visualisation of Age Demographic with Age of World using a Polar Coordinate approach.

Ross

Nice Book to Read

Have just picked up a copy of Visualizing Data by Ben Fry, (thanks QUT :-) ), and it looks like being a useful resource for practical visualisation of large data sets. It also comes with a Java-based tool called Processing, which was developed during the Author's time as a PhD student.

Will be useful in my teaching and research, but also should prove a useful tool for future implementations of visualisation systems in BPM. Will give more info as the book is read and the programs are written. You might even see examples of the programs on this blog.

Ross