I was going to link to a counterclockwise web-clock in support of Chad’s post but, strangely, I couldn’t find one.
I can’t really comment as the computers at my work won’t display flash videos over version 7. Funnily, when looking at a flash version test (http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15507sliceId=1) it displays 9.0.16.0 …
But to come to my point. The sites pictured here live by their design, but too many sites nowadays depend upon flash for navigation. The other day, I had to give an address change in a flash form. The site was https, but I don’t know whether that goes for the flash data as well…
The key insight of the periodic table of elements was that given the right choice to order the elements (i.e. atomic number), various properties of the elements will repeat at regular intervals. In other words, there is an ordering from left to right across the table as well as from top to bottom. Any visualization technique that attempts to draw an analogy to the periodic table of elements is only truly doing so if the individual items are ordered in both dimensions. Otherwise, it is just a bunch of items in categories that may as well be itemized as a list.
Another catalogue of visualisations can be found at http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ . I don’t think it was mentioned here before.
So what really prompted me to find the FWA: Favourite Web Awards - (http://www.thefwa.com/) site was a recent project I worked on.
Take a look at the WPC Connection Tool (http://members.microsoft.com/partner/digitalwpc/) we recently completed - It’s essentially a tree view but in a whole different context! Oh, and by the way, Silverlight rocks!