Amazon Books Map

Amazon Books Map


amaz node - info vis - Takayuki Fukatsu


Amaznode (http://amaznode.fladdict.net/)
is a relation based search engine for amazon which is made with adobe flash9 (as3). This search engine visualizes a relation network of products in amazon, from the statistics data "customers who bought this item also bought", by digging related products again and again. Amaznode is not
only for searching but also good for researching and making an associate link.

Fantastic how it mines the associational network of products 'also purchased by...'

good display for hover over with its interactivity. love it.

integratable to your own amazon associates id. score

and not just books, or info vis... any product. the best amazon widget.


Affiliate with amaznode

Amaznode enables you to make a direct link to paticular saerch query, and you can also add your own amazon associate link.


In the search result view, click the "COPY RESULT LINK" button at the top left menu. It copies a handy html to your clipboard.


a href="http://amaznode.fladdict.net/#keywords=information%20design&locale=uk&searchIndex=" target="_blank" affiliate="AFFILIATEID-22">Search with amaznode: information design /a>


You can easly make a link to amaznode search result by adding this code to your blog or email.


Also if you have amazon associate id, and you replace the part "affiliate=" to your own id, all products in this query works as your associate product link.



Market analysis with amaznode


An another aspect of amaznode is that for researching tool. Searching with amaznode, you can find hidden characteristics of products. For example, some kind of products may be bought by a limited user group even it is very very popular.


Made by Takayuki Fukatsu (fladdict.net / blog)


see previous post: Green Search Engine

Published on 2009/01/23 4:07 pm.
Filed under: algorithm, clean, complex, concept map, data, dynamic, image, information, knowledge, map, multidirectional, nodes, non linear, spatial, spider, technology, visualisation, white space

Information Aesthetics Diagram

Information Aesthetics Diagram

From they're paper Towards a Model of Aesthetics in information Visualization, Andrea Lau & Andrew Vande Moere (who was previously quoted, see here) create this fantastic equilaterral triangular digram that helps understanding of the types of images, charts, art, design & much more.

Although I have yet to read this paper, this diagram investigates & structures the different types of mapping between the three poles of:

Aesthetics - Focus on visual style & experience
Data - Focus on representing abstract data sets
Interaction - Focus on user input & feedback

Regular readers will notice that this blog seeks to find some of the most creative & innovative (aesthetics) ways of visualising, mapping (hence I tend to call them visual maps) information (data).

I am also intersted the Interaction between users mentioned in the diagram such as the HCI (human computer interaction), explored really well by lauren bugeja in her research map, and taking into account the level of engagement of the graphics, GUI (graphic user interface) both in website design such as hierachy/composition, but also the graphics themselves beeing stimulating when dealing with interactive visualisations such as kartoo, visual acoustics or music plasma.

The higher engagement allows greater playfulness through more challenge, presenter control, and variety in a game for browsing, read here presentation visualisation by till voswinkel.

This diagram certainly gives a reader/user of this visual map/diagram a better awareness of how these interesting factors of info vis, data vis, art, design & graphics all coherently piece (reflected in its jigsaw syle puzzle) together.

Excellant, read the paper, as will I.

For further research into visualisation read, views on visualisation from eager eyes. Or see more papers co-written by andrew vande moere.


found here: http://visualmethods.blogspot.com/2007/09/information-and-aesthetics.html

Published on 2008/09/11 8:46 pm.
Filed under: aesthetic, algorithm, art, communication, data, design, diagram, engagement, GUI, HCI, information, mapping, puzzle, representation, visual, visualisation

Sweat Map

Sweat Map

Measured Perspiration by Kanarinka.


These colourful, fluid lines & abstract series of drawings map an extroadinary terrain, visualising the 12 inches of weather on the human body by tracing perspiration, movement and time.


define:weather says: Weather is the specific condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time.


Kanarinka states, 'It is measured in terms of such things as wind, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, cloudiness, and precipitation.


Weather is everyday and everywhere. For this project, I launched an artistic investigation by asking the question “Can a body (human, not planetary) have weather, too?”.


To create the drawings for 12 Inches of Weather, I used paper to collect the sweat on twelve inches of my body during running outdoors in hot weather. Then, using an algorithm (a simple system), I hand-traced the contours of that sweat onto 1970’s computer paper using various colors of felt tip pen.


The algorithm would tell me how many minutes to spend tracing each color' Kanarinka


Very interesting project, curious as to what the algorithm was defining the time length but still very creative.


featured here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2168552%3APhoto%3A1662

Published on 2008/09/08 3:50 pm.
Filed under: abstract, algorithm, drawing, geographic, mapping, perspiration, shape, territory, visualisation, weather