Welcome to the Second Life Data Visualization wiki!

 

PASSWORD TO EDIT: data

 

 

This is a community wiki, please feel free to edit it. There is a companion "Data Visualization" group in Second Life.

 

Project and Action Items:

  • Background: Virtual worlds are the natural evolution of the Internet into a 3d commerce, information and communication platform. Streaming data into virtual worlds for visual display and interaction is an obvious next step.
  • Vision: Build a virtual worlds data visualization community for the purpose of collaborating, developing, sharing and using tools
  • Current Activity: Expand this wiki as a directory of data visualization tools in Second Life, and as a list of tool designers, developers, artists and interested parties
  • Near-term Goals: Establish lecture and workshop meetings, design and host a competition for innovative and effective data viz in SL (please contribute to Second Life Data Visualization Competition page), extend tools to other virtual worlds platforms

 

 

Directory of Data Visualization Tools in SL:

 

Interactive Data Exhibits:

  • Data Visualization Tools area at the SciLands, SLurl
  • Embodiment Island Data Visualization Exhibit Hall, SLurl, contact Mark Dubin/ThreeDee Shepherd to exhibit material
  • NOAA real-time U.S. weather sim, SLurl
  • Daden Prime real-time LAX Air Traffic Data, SLurl, Google Maps in Second Life Machinima, SLurl and real-time U.K. weather sim, SLurl
  • Drawing/sketching whiteboard/blackboard accepting graphics tablet input from a Web page. Go here SLurl and get the notecard from the blackboard and enter web-based data here. (bruce henderson)

 

Tools - scientific:

  • Euclidean Visualization Environment (EVE) - graphs 3d polynomial, exponential and trigonometric equations. Status: Available for demo (Michel Gallant/Stormbringer Blackflag, Pleiades Consulting), SLurl
  • CAIA - Cheminformatic Assisted Image Array visualization laboratory. Status: Available to view (Gus Rosania/Caia Alter), SLurl
  • Hiro's Molecule Rezzer - Rezzes molecules from a notecard. Status: OpenSLedware. (Andrew Lang/Hiro Sheridan) ONREZ SLurl
  • Histogram (20 period, real-time, on-demand stock market data), production SLurl, dev SLurl Status: Open-source download available (Melanie Swan/Xantha Oe and Eloise Pasteur)
  • Orac - Takes smi, InChI, or inchikey as input, queries three web services and rezzes the returned minimized structure in SL. Status: Avaliable upon request. (Andrew Lang/Hiro Sheridan)
  • StoryMachine - Generic visualization tool for dynamic interactions. Status: In development (Peter Miller/Graham Mills), SLurl
  • Protein Rezzer Toolkit - In-world rezzing of 3D protein backbone structures based on specially parsed PDB files. Status: In development (Peter Miller/Graham Mills; based on scripts by Troy McLuhan).
  • Spectral Viewer (Andrew Lang/Jean-Claude Bradley) Status: available upon request.

 

Tools - enterprise:

  • Airline flight booking - connecting Second Life to a SAP NetWeaver system to create a 3-D Business Process (Bjoernaeon)
  • Green Phosphor, New Jersey, USA - enterprise data visualization applications (Ben Lindquist/Arkowitz Jonson, David Cooper/Coop Upshaw), SLurl
  • VIT Mind Map, (John Lopez/Goedeke Messmer and George Kurtz/Butch Dae), SLurl

 

Building-block tools to be developed:

  • Basic scatterplot
  • Drawing/sketching whiteboard accepting graphics tablet input
  • Excel SL (the Excel of SL)
  • Visual data mining tools for association, sequencing, classification, clustering and regression
  • Open source XML parser

 

Developers available for Data Viz application development:

 

Project Participants and Interested Parties (alphabetically):

 

Papers, seminars, tutorials, workshops

 

Questions?

 


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