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The days of Hadoop are numbered?

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An interesting take on the latest ‘Big Data’ technology.

Analyst’s Workspace: Protecting Vastopolis

An entry to VAST Challenge 2011 and spotted by Simon: This looks like a cross between Invisque and Jigsaw. Click on the picture to get the PDF.

analysts workspace Analyst’s Workspace: Protecting Vastopolis

“The primary goal of Analyst’s Workspace is to provide a spatial workspace in which foraging and synthesis activities can be integrated into a single, fluid investigative process.”

INVISQUE requirements

  • Data type
    • Structured text data (such as database records)?
    • Semi-structured text data (such as emails)?
    • Free text?
    • Picture?
    • Audio?
    • Video?
    • Anything else?
  • Data size
    • Displayed data item number (items on the screen)?
    • Processed data item number (for functions such as faceted search or dynamic querying; probably much larger than the displayed data item number)?
    • *These are for the data items in INVISQUE; they are different from how many records in the database.

  • Performance
    • Maximal response time for display, mouse/touch interaction, filter/query, …?
  • Interaction
    • Mouse: click/right click, drag, wheel (zoom), …?
    • Multi-touch gesture?: click, drag, 2/3/4 finger vertical/horizontal swipe, …?
    • Anything else?
  • Functionality
    • Reasoning space: what are the requirements?
    • Faceted search or dynamic querying?
  • Image quality (and how to measure it)?
  • 2D?
  • 3D?
  • Operating system independent?
  • Mobile platform?
  • Compatibility of any existing systems?
  • Development time frame?

Maltego – Open Source Intelligence and Forensics Application

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Flare – a Flash visualisation toolkit

Developed by the same group of people who made the Prefuse, so you know it is good. Below is its demo, live in Flash.

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Prefuse – a Java Information Visualisation toolkit (open source of course)

Quite nice, and below is its demo video.

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Gephi – an open source graph visualisation software

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KNIME: data mining & visualization platform

Looks quite professional for a open source software:

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JuiceKit – a Flash-based SDK for visual analytics

People familiar with Adobe Flash may find this one useful.

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