Network Visualization

tate@ClearNetSec.com (Tate Hansen) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:38:00 -0600

There is debate over the value of visualization techniques. I’m a proponent. Of course the point is to be able to deduce the information you’re looking for faster versus alternatives. Regardless, I’m fatigued by the run of the mill table views, and as such, I like to read about successful stories.

From: http://secviz.org/?q=node/74

“This directed graph reminds me of the social network you might see in a suburban high school, and revealed to us some interesting things, including the existence of a new network monitoring tool quietly installed by a rogue internal unix admin team... us and them, we're having a "come to Jesus" meeting tomorrow ;)”

That rocks.

A relation browser like http://www.der-mo.net/relationBrowser/index.html may make for a great forensics tool. Actually, imagine for a minute all the cool uses.

A timeline carousel: http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

A big list of visual techniques with thumbnails for fast viewing: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/graphs/index.html

Gapminder is popular: http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/applications/

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