Saturday, February 18, 2012

Viz tool–from cells to strata

A fascinating visualization tool created by a researcher at the Scripps Research Institute gives an intuitive breakdown of the relative sizes of the internal structures of a cell. This animated graphical tool can morph the complex cellular structure into a highly simplified geometric version enabling direct comparison of the various organelle volumes. Check out the superb video on the above link to see a demonstration.

The analog to this tool in terms of textual analytics might might categorize the primary topical themes of a given book or chapter, organize them sequentially into color-encoded geographic regions, thus enabling the side-by-side comparison of multiple books (or perhaps the chronological progression within a single corpus Scripps 3d cell Visualizationor sub-corpus.)

Scripps 3d cell Visualization-comparison

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