Comments on: Our Signal: Page Cloud Visualization of Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Hacker news

By: laet

laet — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:39:41 +0000

There’s an old (and fairly better): http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm

By: Adam Sanderson

Adam Sanderson — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:04:39 +0000

It’s a neat idea, but I’ve just never found treemaps very understandable.
This tends to come out as a giant jumble.

By: krunkosaurus

krunkosaurus — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:26:35 +0000

Don’t dare attempt to resize the page – you’ll be welcomed with a 5 second wait at least in FF2 (haven’t upgraded this machine yet.) The resize detection needs to be optimized.

Otherwise pretty neat.

By: holts

holts — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:58:51 +0000

what’s wrong wit a little experimentation… I like it, and I hadn’t heard of a couple articles until I checked this out.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:42:25 +0000

And in my FF, the script takes so long it gives me an alert. Not good.

By: mrdanimal

mrdanimal — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:09:31 +0000

Oh god, why? This is horrendous. More importantly, it’s useless. It’s nothing but noise.

By: ilazarte

ilazarte — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:34:26 +0000

Look like a particular favorite blog of mine needs to pick up a copy of Designing Interfaces by Jennifer Tidwell. *cough!*

By: Andrew Clarke

Andrew Clarke — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:26:24 +0000

Just to nitpick, this particular visualization is called a treemap. Here’s way more than anyone would want to know about them: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/index.shtml