The cartography cube (from Alan MacEachren’s “How Maps Work”)
The model describes visualization use according to three main dimensions:
1) Private vs. Public: Is the visualization targeted to one person or a restricted group of people to solve a specific problem or it is more intended to address public audience?
2) Static vs. Interactive: Is the visualization a static representation or an interactive tool that people can use to explore alternative views?
3) Revealing Knowns vs. Revealing Unknowns: Is the goal to communicate a number of findings or messages to an audience or to provide people ways to explore the data and make sense of it?
Cartography as a process of graphic communication / Alan M. MacEachren (1979)
Une cartographie des sites internet français de japanimation (source: Animint)
Facebook worldwide friendships mapped (source: Facebook, december 2010)
WikiLeaks cables broken down
Cartographie de la blogosphère veille et IE (septembre 2010), Aref Djey
Cartographie du web des données (via LOD cloud shows surprisingly lumpy structure)
