Another issue highlighted on the internet today and which will be addressed in WWW Conference is data visualization.

Fernanda Viegas, a researcher at Google and one of the world’s leading experts on the subject, will speak on Wednesday at 15h (3pm) in Industry Track about “big data and visualization”. And with Martin Wattenberg, Geoffrey Borggaard, Alison Cichowlas, Jonathan Feinberg, Jon Orwant and Christopher R. Wren, she will talk about the “Google+ Ripples” in a talk called “A Native Visualization of Information Flow” (17th at 17h).

The Google + Ripples is a tool that creates an interactive graphic of the public shares of any public post or URL on Google+ to show you how it has rippled through the network and help you discover new and interesting people to follow. The tool is fully interactive, and updates in real-time, which can be particularly useful when watching the spread of a highly-engaging post, such as one you’d find in What’s Hot. More information on this post on Social Media Today.

Viegas- a Brazilian scientist and designer, Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab –  is one of the founders of IBM’s experimental Many Eyes web site, created in 2007. Many Eyes seeks to make visualization technology accessible to the public – in the video bellow Fernanda and Martin Watteberg explain the idea behind the site.

There has been much research and much writing about the importance of visualizing data, which is consider “the last step in the process of transforming bits into knowledge” or “the result of the amazing alchemy process of our digital age”. If you are a fan of data visualization, don’t miss the site which shows 50 great examples of data visualization and this talk by David Mc Clandess, the London-based author, date journalist and information designer:

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