3d charts, very nice & clean. 'the brief for The Design Council Annual Review stipulated a more engaging way to look at the facts and figures representing three key areas of policy: Competitiveness, Sustainability and Innovation.'
Musician visualisations are great for finding links to artists you had never heard of and more often than not they are just as brilliant as the band, singer you originally searched if not better.
music landscape I like that it shows the musicians a whole in one look, terrain. It also has this great zoom in the top left to go into further depth like the first image. It still has a search engine to search musicians individually. Not sure who decided what musicians go on to the map. http://www2.research.att.com/~yifanhu/MusicMap/index.html Another good music search visualisation that has been around for a while previously blogged http://visualisationmagazine.com/blogvisualthinkmap/2008/03/music-plasma.html Illinois: Visualizing Music [jaxdeleon.com] consists of a collection of visual interpretations based on Sufjan Stevens album titled Illinois . from: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/06/illinois_visualizing_music_the_infographic_interpretation_of_sufjan_stevens_music.html an online music recommendation visualization, based on Amazon.com's Similarity API. the application allows a user to search for music via graph diagram representing the album's relationship to similar albums, based on Amazon.com buying history. technically, the application is based on JSViz, a Javascript based library to generate 2D, dynamic force directed networks & tree graphs. see also: musicovery & music plasma & color music & mystrands. From http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/03/visual_music_recommendation.html [link: kylescholz.com & kylescholz.com] a visually impressive & fluid interface for discovering new music melodies. users can search, refine & explore new tunes according to style, mood or instruments. [link: burstlabs.com & burstlabs.com (blog)|via notcot.com] From: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/06/burstlabs_visual_music_search_interface.html Very basic map, they do one for movies and literature. http://www.music-map.com/ Nice visualisation of music by Alex Chou Visualization of Piano Music see more projects from havard: http://visualisationmagazine.com/blogvisualthinkmap/2009/09/cs-171-visualization-2008.html Find inspiration from what is been listened to globally. Interactive Map http://www.gracenote.com/map/