“Collaborative filtering is increasingly present as an integral part of commercial web sites. ‘Memory based’ algorithms are the most simple to implement, yet the most effective when recommending products and predicting preferences.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“The behaviour of human beings when searching for information intensively resembles that of the hunter-gatherers of our past and that of the foraging of animals. Information Visualisation tries to take advantage of this finding.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“(…) over 10,000 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens and manuscript maps. The collection can be used to study history, genealogy and family history.” (About the collection) – courtesy of o’reilly network

“InfoVis.net celebrates four years of life in cyberspace. Today we review its origins, the current situation and future plans, gathering data to build a visualization of what this site has been during this time.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“The traditional way of interacting with a computer needed what Ben Shneiderman calls ‘syntactic’ knowledge. The graphical user interface has substituted syntactic for visual knowledge. Each one has its own advantages and drawbacks.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“The correct perception of movement has been an important routine of everyday life since the beginning of humanity. It is also an important resource in visualisation.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“Digital Dashboards are real time visualisation tools of critical business indicators that help in decision making. Its use is spreading and advancing from the executive elite towards the ubiquity of weblogs and personal computing.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – InfoVis!)

“Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.” (Marcos Weskamp) – courtesy of reloade

“The March 11th tragedy in Madrid has given rise to a cataract of information (and of emotions) some of which have been converted into visual representations that bring us closer to the what and the how of what has happened these dreadful days.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“Does Cyberspace have a geography? What do we know about the nature, shape, size, distribution and geography of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and Cyberspace?” (Cyber Geography)

“Many information architects (IAs) are skeptical about information visualization (InfoViz) and its applicability to IA problems. This presentation explores InfoViz from the perspective of IA practice.” (Karl Fast) – courtesy of brett lider

“Conceptual Maps are simple and practical knowledge representation tools that allow you to convey complex conceptual messages in a clear, understandable way. They facilitate both teaching and learning. Moreover they are represented naturally as graphs.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“Weblog visualisation uses spatial metaphors like that of the world map or the underground lines of a city. Something so apparently unlinked to localisation requires it in order to establish a reference (?).” (Juan Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“Whatever we make of the all-embracing umbrella of ‘knowledge management’, we do find at least one robust concept that opens up and provides useful coverage: the community of practice.” (Springer)

“The advent of increasingly visual and better structured browsers like Vivisimo, Grokker or TouchGraph is beginning to shake up a world that seemed to be static. A definitive reference point appears to still be beyond the horizon, but we are definitely closer.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“Visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors: a preliminary report.” (IBM Collaborative User Experience Research Group) – courtesy of chad thornton

“Visual representations have been used since the dawn of human civilization to communicate – to reveal the hidden, illustrate the intricate, explain the complex and illuminate the obscure.” (Maish Nichani and Venkat Rajamanickam – elearningpost)

“Most documents are the product of continual evolution. An essay may undergo dozens of revisions; source code for a computer program may undergo thousands. And as online collaboration becomes increasingly common, we see more and more ever-evolving group-authored texts. This site is a preliminary report on a simple visual technique, history flow, that provides a clear view of complex records of contributions and collaboration.” (IBM Collaborative User Experience Research Group) – courtesy of vanderwal