2D Visualisation Archives - Digital Urban https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/category/2d-visualisation/ Data, Cities, IoT, Writing, Music and Making Things Thu, 24 May 2007 11:03:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.digitalurban.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Dulogosm-1.png 2D Visualisation Archives - Digital Urban https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/category/2d-visualisation/ 32 32 Shared Data and 2D Visualisation – Many Eyes https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/05/24/shared-data-and-2d-visualisation-many/ Thu, 24 May 2007 11:03:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=2104 With the focus of this blog on the third dimension it is sometimes easy to forget how powerful two dimensional visualisation can be. The sticking point to social scientists is...

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]]> With the focus of this blog on the third dimension it is sometimes easy to forget how powerful two dimensional visualisation can be. The sticking point to social scientists is often the difficulty involved in making clear and understandable visualisations – at which point Many Eyes comes to hand a fantastic site where users openly share data and visualise.

The diagram below represents a Topographic View of the London Underground:


A vector based version can be viewed on the Many Eyes site which you can either comment on, manipulate or more importantly download the raw data and make your own visualisation.

Sometimes you just stumble on a great site and Many Eyes is definatly one of those times.

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