| By Nigel Cheshire |
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| May 29, 2007 10:00 AM EDT |
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Having a particular interest in data visualization (more on how that relates to what we are doing here later), I was browsing around the Digg API visualization contest today. The many different approaches to building a meaningful representation of a dynamic data set made me realize that there are probably as many ways to solve that problem as there are people willing to build a solution (some wackier than others!).
Ultimately, what struck me about the different approaches to the problem is that sometimes, the simplest approach is the best. Although I didn’t like the fact that it was an Apollo application (yet another runtime to download and install), I thought the Digg Graphr application did a nice job of representing the relative popularity of articles in a way that was very intuitive.
Nigel Cheshire is CEO of Enerjy Software, a division of Teamstudio Inc. He oversees product strategy and has been driving the company's growth since he founded it in 1996. Prior to founding Teamstudio, Inc., Nigel was co-founder and principal of Ives & Company, a CRM solutions consultancy. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Teesside, England.
