Welcome to the Second Life Data Visualization wiki!
The wiki is presently locked to deter wiki spam. Please contact Melanie Swan with updates or to request a site login.
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 for data visualization.
- Vision: Build a virtual worlds data visualization community for the purpose of collaborating, developing, sharing and using tools
- Current Activity: Expand this wiki site 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 Second Life (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, and real-time U.K. weather sim, SLurl
- Updated Daden Prime Google Maps (and geocoded KML/RSS) now with browseable Google Maps. See review and video. 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)
- Wind visualization tools at the Sustainable Energy Science Lab on Etopia Island: in-world anemometers and graphs, web-based wind roses and histograms, SLurl
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: Available upon request. (Andrew Lang/Hiro Sheridan)
- StoryMachine - Generic visualization tool for dynamic interactions. Status: alpha quality (Peter Miller/Graham Mills), SLurl
- M. tuberculosis genome - touch-sensitive giant genome. 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.
- Carbon Goggles (Babbage Linden) A project to augment Second Life objects with their real world carbon emission data.
- Prim Plotter (CAIA Alter) A tool to rez 2D/3D hyperlinked scatter plots and image arrays from an Excel spreadsheet.
Tools - enterprise:
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:
- Mark Dubin/ThreeDee Shepherd, Neuroscientist. Managing Partner 3D Embodiment (3DE, LLC) Colorado, Boulder CO, USA, mark@3demb.com, Bruce Henderson/HarryButtle Tuttle, 3DEmbodiment, bruce.henderson@colorado.edu
- Annie Obscure, Software Engineer, Fremont, CA, USA, anne@pragatischool.org
- Eloise Pasteur, Second Life Developer, UK, eloisepasteur@gmail.com
Project Participants and Interested Parties (alphabetically):
- Wayde Allen/RF Dreamscape, NTIA/ITS, Boulder CO, USA, wallen@its.bldrdoc.gov
- Mark Beam/Skybeam Goode, Social Architect, Oaxaca, Mexico infinite@beaming.com
- Paul Bourke, University of Western Australia, WASP
- Jean-Claude Bradley/Horace Moody, Organic Chemist, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, USA, jeanclaude.bradley@gmail.com, Blog (Interested in represent spectral information in SL in an interactive way, optimally from JCAMP-DX files
- Dave Burden/Corro Mosley, Daden Prime, UK, david.burden@daden.co.uk
- George Djorgovski/Curious George, Professor of Astronomy, Caltech, Pasadena CA; Director of MICA (Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics); interests in computational science and data visualization/exploration; interview
- Tom Frey/SL Name, DaVinci Institute, Boulder CO, USA
- Michel Gallant/Stormbringer Blackflag, Technical Lead, Pleiades Consulting, Montreal Canada, mlg@pleiades.ca
- Oliver Goh/Eolus McMillan, Eolus, Zurich, Switzerland, oliver@eolusone.com, SLurl
- Eric Hackathorn / Hackshaven Harford, NOAA, Boulder CO, USA
- Richard Hackathorn/Hack Richard, Bolder Technology, Boulder, CO USA, focus is Serious Games in VW
- Bruce Henderson/HarryButtle Tuttle, 3DEmbodiment, ATLAS Institute, bruce.henderson@colorado.edu
- Juan Hinestroza/Diomedez Delpiaz, Nanotechnology, Cornell, Ithaca NY, USA, jh433@cornell.edu
- Piet Hut/Pema Pera, astrophysicist, IAS, Princeton, NJ, USA, piet@ias.edu, Open Knowledge project
- Leslie Jarmon/Bluewave Ogee, Co-Founder, Educators Coop in SL, Senior Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, LJarmon@mail.utexas.edu
- Matthew Kirschenbaum/Matth3w Merryman, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, HCIL, and MONK Project, University of Maryland (mgk@umd.edu)
- Andrew Lang/Hiro Sheridan, Mathematical Physicist and Second Life Consultant, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa OK, USA, Blog
- Marta Lyall/SL: Terra210 Telling, Twitter: terra210, Artist, Researcher, Founder/Director of WRLDs, (wrlds.com), Seattle WA, mdlyall@wrlds.com
- Spike R. MacPhee/Paradox Olbers, SL data importer for NASA CoLab, Boston, MA, US, spiker@tiac.net , Blog
- Troy McConaghy/Troy McLuhan, Canada, troy.mcluhan@gmail.com, Blog
- Peter Miller/Graham Mills, Biologist, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, pmiller@liv.ac.uk, Blog
- Tara5 Oh, Virtual Worlds Blogger, New York NY, USA, UgoTrade Blog
- David Orban/Davidorban Agnon, Futurist, Bergamo, Italy, Blog
- Michael Osias/Illuminous Beltran, IBM VNOCs, Virginia, USA, SLurl
- Giulio Prisco, Futurist, Metafuturing, Madrid, Spain
- Gus Rosania/Caia Alter, grosania@umich.edu, Blog
- Melanie Swan/Xantha Oe, MS Futures Group, Palo Alto CA, USA, m@melanieswan.com, Blog
- Dave Taylor/Davee Commerce, UK, nanodave@gmail.com Linked In Profile
- Riley Triggs/Eero Enzo, Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, Design Division, Austin, Texas, USA, Blog
- Eilif Trondsen, SRI, Menlo Park CA, USA
- Roberto Vitalini, BASHIBA, rob@bashiba.com, always working on real-time 3D metaphors to be used as permanent displays of change. Current focus is representing multivariate changes of complex data sets with beautiful developing landscapes.
- Babbage Linden, Linden Lab, Interested in augmented virtual reality applications like slateit.org
- Torrid Luna, Primforge Scripter (interested in building scientific visualisation and general elearning tools)
- Xyzor Misfit aka Paul from Camastra High Performance Computing Group (working on in-world visualisation and modeling
Research Papers, seminars, tutorials, workshops