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Visualizing whatishol.com

This is whatishol.com:

whatishol_visualization.jpg
Courtesy of a free and easy little web app that graphs websites (thanks to Leslie Brown for the link), you just plug in a web address and the program dynamically maps the site right before your eyes. The colors represent different kinds of basic web content including images, links, tables and forms. Other than that though, it's hard for me to know what we're looking at here, which is too bad. I assume the large symmetric burst at the lower right is our main project books page, but what's that single tendril leading off it? And those funny arms sticking out before you get to the less condensed mass filling the rest of the image? And that little gray dandelion at the top? And by publishing this post, did I just change the map?

And for more visualization info and eye-candy, check out visualcomplexity.com.

Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 at 09:24AM by Registered CommenterGreg Albers | CommentsPost a Comment

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