Brian Zhang Larsen’s Blog

Visualization and processing are currently hot topics, and still more ideas, tools and techniques evolve to help process and visualize various data. Seldom has data been more abundant, and seldom has data had more power. By the latter I mean that data is strongly used in interpretation of buyer patterns and behavior, which lays the foundation of, or ads ridiculously amounts of value to, marketing strategies, which again when all comes down to it, pretty much rule the world.

Jasmine Novak and Aaron Koblin at Yahoo! have succeeded in making a cool way of visualizing search queries, including dimensions such as time and location. take a look at it here.

When it doesn’t load, the page halts. I have several times seen the effect of the popular free analytic tool Google analytics’ unreachability, which often causes sites to stop loading entirely. Below is the same effect of a Webtrends breakdown on Microsoft.com. (It was like that for several minutes, and it didn’t redirect to the actual download).