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Google's Fusion Tables

Google Adds New Options for Viewing Data in Fusion Tables, Cameron Scott, IDG News (Apr 13)

Google is doing something in the field of data visualization - tho it's not easy to figure out. It's Fusion Tables:

"One new feature provides a checklist from which users can select different subsets, or facets, of the data to see how they'll look when added in different combinations to a map or a chart. It has also added tabs that let users compare the different views they create to decide which is best.

Fusion Tables also has some new formats for displaying data, including a network graph for showing relationships in a social network, and a zoomable line chart."

There is a search engine -- https://www.google.com/fusiontables/search

Infographcis Galore

How Can Infographics Produce Better E-Learning Courses?, Rapid E-Learning Blog (Mar 27)

If you are thinking about creating an infographic on an issue or topic, this article will show you how and show you to some great examples.

Stephen Abram has leads and advice in this post on Advice: Getting on the Infographic Bandwagon (Mar 12)

And if you want to see even more, just search for infographic at Pinterest.

Find Infographics

Data Visualization & Infographic Search Engine Visual.ly Launches, Greg Finn, Search Engine Land (Jul 13)

Infographics - gotta love them. Now we can find them all in once place at Visual.ly

" Visual.ly is launching with hopes of becoming “the largest community for sharing, creating and promoting data visualizations.” The site currently offers a search functionality and a submission feature to help users find & share infographics from across the web."

Visualization with Twitter

Two Great Twitter Visualization Tools: Twiangulate & MentionMap, Affiliate Marketing Blog (Feb 17)

Like Twitter? Use visualization tools to follow the activity.

Twiangulate - "They help you see the biggest (or the most influential) followers of any two or three Twitter users, as well as mutual followers and mutual friends, compare lists, and do much more. " -

MentionMap -"Here you can analyze only one Twitter user (or their connections) at a time". Check your own connections with this one.

Data visualizaion thru Google Maps

Viewing Large Data Sets with Google Maps , Google Maps Mania (Sept 9)

"The Public Data Explorer in Google Labs makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. The examples provided by Google provide animated Google Maps time-lines that let you explore different datasets geographically and chronologically."

Examples: Unemployment in the US, GDP and personal income - US States, World Development Indicators.

See http://www.google.com/publicdata/home

Visual Search Engines

The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners by Larry Ferlazzo, AltSearchEngines (Nov14)

I'm not sure these are necessarily the best engines for people who are new to English, but they are all interesting.

Have a mix of search engines designed for students:

+ Study Search in Australia created from Google Custom Search

+ Boolify - work with images to create boolean queries.

Some form of visualization of search results"

+ Eyeplorer - graphical knowledge engine.

+ Carrot - thematic categories
+ Quinitura
+ Viewzi - select different views
+ Middlespot - many thumbnails and ways to adjust display.

And one that expedites viewing results

+ Melzoo - preview page in side panel. Very fast.

Visual Search at Bing

Bing is one up on Google by introducing a visual search - http://www.bing.com/visualsearch. I have always said that searching through images can find good pages on a topic as well as - or maybe better than - a straight text search. Bing has introduced this but only in some consumer areas: entertainment, famous people, reference, shopping, sports. Reference is very US-centric at present but you'll get the idea.

However, to use this you must install Microsoft Silverlight™ 3.

Microsoft Bing adds visual search By Maggie Shiels , BBC News (Sep 15)

Browse results through pictures rather than text. "Visual search will initially concentrate on four main areas: travel, health, leisure and shopping. "

Bing announces new Visual Search!, AltsearchEngines.

"Visual Search helps you search information visually, and helps you refine a query when a picture makes it easier to sift through all the online information. Look for that movie you wanted to see, find the best new purse, or figure out which digital camera is right for you using an engaging visual experience without having to sort through page after page of links. "

Bing 2.0 “Visual Search” Launches, Allows Search By Pictures by Elisabeth Osmeloski, Search Engine Land (Sep 14)

"Bing Visual Search lets searchers browse easily through a slick interface of “structured data sets from trusted partners” using Sliverlight technology."

Very detailed.

Topic Visualization

3+ Keyword and Topic Visualization Tools, Ann Smarty, Search Engine Journal (May 19)

Online tools for topic visualization - and not one is a clustering metasearch engines. Five great tools - VisWiki is one. Use them to learn about the topic, consider words, get angles, and plan strategies.

Search Cube for Visual Results

Search Cube scours Google in 3D by Josh Lowensohn, Webware (Apr 13)

SearchCube shows images representing results on a cube that you can flip and turn. Mouseover the image to see the url - and not much else. Cute but not very useful.

"Search Cube is the latest in a string of search engines that forgoes displaying search results in an easy-to-parse, ordered list, in favor of a whiz-bang 3D interface. It grabs its results from Google and site preview thumbnails from Thumbshots, then combines them in a 3D cube that you can rotate freely either with your mouse or keyboard."

Posting has demo, or you can try it yourself at search-cube.com

Tools for data visualization

Data Visualisation: Tools and Examples , Mathew Solle, FUMSI (Feb 2009)

Overview article on data visualization tools:

As an introduction and appraisal of all the available resources, I thought it most sensible to split them into three groups: online and offline tools producing immediate results; areas where developers, researchers, academics and artists are pushing the boundaries; and examples of highly developed and inspiring work - and run through either what can be done with each or what is being done. Hopefully, your interest will be suitably increased and I will then flag the best ways of keeping abreast of all data visualisation developments.

Timeline Views at Cuil and Google

A timeline view of results can help us see the progression of thoughts or events - almost essential for studying history, but useful in many other studies.

Cuil, the engine that said it could beat Google, will show a timeline on some search topics. We see it on this search on Great Depression.

I haven't been a fan of Cuil but I do like its treatment of this topic: the timeline, the categories, and the longer descriptions.

Google also has a timeline view in its experimental search that helps in comprehending a topic. But the Google timeline doesn't have the same visuals or grouping that Cuil has.

How will these two do on the history of Canada?

Cuil has some odd choices of tags - for example, John Cabot is under 1497 labelled Henry VII of England - but, on the whole the information popups pickup the main dates and events. (The page of results, on the other hand, is weak - Canadian Encyclopedia should be there and isn't. Note: the timeline view is lost if you use double quotes -- "history of canada".

At Google Experimental we have to work more with the timeline to open the period and view results with those dates. 1497 falls in the range 1495-1499 - and we see the same entry (from Wikipedia) about John Cabot. Google is using its number range function, and sometimes that brings up false drops such as page numbers from a journal or other publication. On this search, Google does have better results. And there is the extra advantage in Google Experimental of the map view (though not in conjunction with the timeline).

Cuil's timeline is better for seeing the progression and sometimes its categories help in getting a big picture of the topic (true for Great Depression, not as helpful for History of Canada). But Google Experimental has more information and higher precision.

Perhaps use both - but certainly try Cuil.

Also see Cuil Launches Timeline To Search Results by Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land (Apr 1)

Visual View of Wikipedia

VisualWikipedia - reviewed at Pandia (Jan 8)

"VisualWikipedia puts knowledge in context. It contains the same information as Wikipedia, but presents the information differently, more visually. This way it is easier to navigate the huge amounts of information."

VisualWikipedia is not associated with Wikipedia.

It may have some startup problems. I wasn't able to view it on Jan 12.

Visual Search (or Not)

Speculating About The Visual Future Of Search Results by Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land (Apr 11)

Greg Sterling sees the future of search as visual and has some examples to support that view. Eventually yes - but not yet. There is something that is holding us back as users. Might be because we're used to linear text listings, or because there are few (to no) good visual interfaces, or because there are more text people than image. I remember that visual was predicted for executive dashboards 20 years ago - and developers are still working on that. Maybe there is something about text that is fast and informative for most situations.

Map of the Web

Web Trend Map 2008 Beta at Information Architects Japan

Interesting visual display of top web sites using the Tokyo train map.

"We present you with the 2008 Web Trend Map, in all its beautiful beta glory. This time we’ve taken almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites and pinned them down to the greater Tokyo-area train map."

Take a closer look to get explanatory text and closeups of parts of the map.

EBCSO adds Visual Search

EBSCO Enhances Visual Searching by Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 1/28/2008

"The EBSCOhost interface has gotten a face-lift thanks to new “Visual Search options and additional clusters,” designed to expedite searching. The vendor said the new Visual Search options “provide visual learners” with graphical approaches to locating information, while the enhanced clustering helps “all users to narrow their searches right from the results list.”"

New TouchGraph

TouchGraph has a new version of the TouchGraph Google Browser - its visual-information tool for viewing Google results. It uses the "similar" function in Google to identify connections and likenesses between sites and display the resulting clusters as interconnected nodes. Google's similar pages do not mean they link to each other; rather that a third pary else links to both and possibly that there is some similarity in content.

TouchGraph is most useful for looking at broad topics such as this one for "social networking" in the screenshot below. See how the topic radiates to other sites. Click on the graph to center it on a new node. The representation of the topic is unlikely to be 100% accurate but it is an excellent start at seeing aspects to consider and providing the means to do so.

There are a variety of controls - whether to show the halo, filter out singles, minimum size of cluster.

This new version seems easier to use than the earlier one which relied on lines of different colours and thicknesses.

There is a version for Amazon - especially helpful for books, and Facebook.

Reviewed in TouchGraph connects the dots of Google searches, Pandia (Sept 18)

Visual Search at Thomson Gale

Groxis and Thomson Gale Partner to Provide Innovative Search Solution, PRNewswire via Marketwatch (Apr 16)

"Groxis, a pioneer in visual search and discovery, and Thomson Gale, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing, today announced that they have teamed to provide enhanced search capabilities to Thomson Gale's user base of K-12 schools and Public and Academic Libraries worldwide. In order to meet the growing demands of today's information seekers, Thomson Gale will leverage the technology of Groxis' flagship product, Grokker, to offer a powerful complement to their own robust aggregated content database search platform PowerSearch(TM)."

New Quintura

Quintura launches a unique search interface with interactive tag cloud and icons., Press Release (Feb 27)

Quintura is getting easier to use. The new front page shows the tag cloud in the left pane and results in the right. The tag cloud is interactive - point at terms to get a new "picture" of the topic and to navigate through related terms.

"Quintura offers an intuitive way to refine and narrow a search. The innovative graphical user interface of Quintura presents search results in two panes - the left pane contains a preset interactive tag cloud and the right pane lists search results. The intuitive nature of the cloud allows web users to refine their search by clicking on tags that appear in the cloud. Holding a mouse cursor over a tag in the cloud causes new, related tags to appear surrounding an original tag and search results to change in the scrollable right pane. Clicking a tag in the cloud the web users can easily refine a search and navigate through visual clusters of search results."

You can also save the tag cloud - essentially saving the search query. Or share it - send an email. You can adjust the settings for number of words to be shown, whether to auto-refine (yes), and the quality of the information.

Quintura supports search of the Web (Yahoo), Images, Video, and Amazon. This is quite promising especially for a first-cut on a topic.

Quintura for Kids is Great

Quintura for Kids ? Quintura brings its visual clooud to kids, Press release (Dec 20)

OK - if we can't get adults using tag clouds to help comprehend search results, maybe kids will see the value. Quintura, which uses tag clouds to help visualize search, has issued a kids version - and what a delight it is for content and display.

From the press release: "Designed specifically for kids, this new experience demonstrates Quintura’s continued commitment to change the way people search and find information on the Web. Based on the same cutting edge Neural Network technology used on Quintura.com, Quintura for Kids utilizes the Quintura cloud, which allows kids to find what they are looking for faster and easier than ever before."

Flowser at Amazon

Browsing for Amazon Items With Flowser, ResearchBuzz (Nov 9) -- Flowser is a visual tool for searching Amazon (it beeps too). Flash and javascript are needed to use it. Calishain likes it. I don't - takes too much effort to figure out where to click and hold.

Big Picture at CNet

Google's battle over library books By Elinor Mills, CNet (Oct 24) - yet another article that reviews the main issues surrounding copyright and Google Print. But this has additional interest because of CNet's visual display of related articles. It's called the "big picture' and is powered by Liveplasma.com. It shows connections between stories, topics, and companies.

Sherman Groks

Visualizing Yahoo Search Results By Chris Sherman, SearchDay (June 22) - reviews the I Grok search tool that presents Yahoo search results graphically. Sherman likes it.

"This presentation is appealing if you like visually organized results, but there are a couple of other neat features offered by I Grok that are worth exploring even if you're not a fan of categorized results."

Thorough review - worth considering if you have never tried Grokker or tried it and didn't like it.

Groxis goes deep

Groxis Opens Deep Web to Business, Schools By Susan Kuchinskas, InternetNews.com (June 20)

"Groxis, a provider of search clustering and visualization technology, launched the Grokker Research Pilot designed to act as the interface between "deep Web" content, the kinds of information not indexed by regular Web crawlers. "

Also see pdf brochure about the Grokker Research Pilot.

Grokker searches Yahoo for free

A new way to search the Web - Groxis will begin offering visual maps - by John Markoff, New York Times via Monterey Herald (May 9)

Groxis, known for the Grokker software for displaying search results in graphical orbs, now searches Yahoo and does so on the web, free thanks to advertising.

"Groxis, a San Francisco-based company founded in 2001, has converted its desktop Grokker software program, which displays a Web search as a series of categories set in a circular map, to run as a Java plug-in for browsers. Today, the company will begin allowing computer users to view Yahoo search results with its visualization technology at www.groxis.com."

Grokker, like Kartoo is fun to try out, but using it for search must be an acquired taste.

This will be tougher competition for the other visualization searcher - Kartoo.

Visualization in Search

Groxis, makers of the visual search engine - Grokker 2.2 -- have an article, courtesy Library Journal, titled Visualize This by By Judy Luther, Maureen Kelly, & Donald Beagle, (3/1/2005) -- about visualization tools.

"Visualization tools use two basic approaches to clustering information: they use metadata (such as cataloging information) that is associated with the information resource, and they use statistical and/or linguistic algorithms to create topical clusters on the fly. These approaches can be used alone or in combination to provide different views of the content."

Article describes different "visual metaphors" and reports on the adoption of these tools primarily by libraries. EBSCO Publishing for example is in discussions with Grokker.

OCLC Tries Visual with Antarctica Systems

OCLC is determined to have us finding library books by searching online. They are testing a new visual search interface using the map views of Antarctica.net for finding eBooks -- http://ebooks.antarctica.net. This is a pilot only that will end in April 2005. Database has about 200,000 books.

See Gary Price's comments -- Data Visualization (Jan 12)

Grokker E.D.U

Groxis Launches “Search-and-Research” Platform for Education Market eContent (Dec 17)

"... Grokker 2.2, the company's visual search-and-research application that captures content from multiple data sources and presents results in a visual map. The platform has been designed to incorporate many different data and information resources relevant to educational settings." See Grokker Education.

Ten X Ten Must See

An Hourly Visualization of the News Search Engine Watch Blog (Nov 5) There is a high WOW factor to this new tool that shows hour by hour photos and headlines from three big news feeds: Reuters, BBC, and NY Times. The site is 10 x 10 (tenbyten.org). A must see. Requires Flash.

List of Info Viz Tools

Searchenginewatch Blog has an entry about info visualization tools on the Web -- A Groxis Update (Oct 19) Most of these (all?) work only with IE 5 or IE 6.

Infoviz tools

Infoviz for Info Pros: Information Visualization Software Tools by Judith Gelertner, Searcher. October 2004 - in depth article on three software tools that present information visually - KartOO, Grokker, and anacubis. Refers to the tools as infoviz.

Grokker for Apple

Groxis brings visual search to Mac OS X machines with Grokker 2.

Groxis Ships Grokker 2 for Apple Mac OS X EContent (July 6)

VIVA New York

Skyscrapers in Cyberspace: Maps and History Online By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL New York Times May 14, 2004

"Skyscraper Museum has put online more than 2,000 documents about historic New York buildings by connecting the digitized images to an interactive map of Manhattan.

Starting today, visitors to the museum's Web site (www.skyscraper.org) can use the map to zoom into a neighborhood, select one of 120 big buildings and see its past depicted through postcards, construction photographs and other documents from the museum's archives. Each building is also shown as a three-dimensional drawing that can be viewed from four angles as a stand-alone structure or surrounded by its neighbors."

Site is called Visual Index to the Virtual Archive, or VIVA.

Visual Search Engines

Toolkit: Picturing the Web A look at visual search engines By Paula MacKinnon. Information Highways (May / June 2004) - lists and describes several "visual search engines". A few are really just based on text annotations. The really impressive ones can interpret shapes such as eVision, Vima Technologies, and Idée.

Newsmap

Newsmap takes stories from Google News and shows them in bands across the page in coloured boxes. This is a flash application and the aim is to reflect "the constantly changing landscape" ... "objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news, on the contrary it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it. " It needs a full screen and is quite a load on an older computer, but when the text is large enough to read it is interesting. Tara Calishain reviewed it -- Get Your News In a Big Rectangular Flash App in ResearchBuzz (May 5)

Orbs code information

Future of 'Glanceable' technology glows AP via Globe and Mail (April 19) Ambient Devices of Cambridge, Mass will display information in orbs - the colour and size will cue people to changes in the information they are monitoring. -- "The idea behind Orb came out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, where "Tangible Bits" research led by Professor Hiroshi Ishii aims to replace computers' graphical user interface with tangible representations of the data they produce — giving physical form to information. Paul Saffo, research director at the Institute for the Future, calls the Orb and similar objects "calm computing devices" and believes they augur future relief from information overload."

Anacubis Demos

Anacubis is a desktop tool for graphical presentation of information. It offers three demos of its capabilities: Google search, company information from Hoover's Online, and patents from Open Patent Service. Results are shown with a central node radiating out to related sites or concepts. A chart for a company, for example, will show executives, products, financial information, competitors, and industry information. The demos provide a read-only Web view. Desktop users can further drag and drop, manipulate, and analyze. There is a free 10-day trial of the Desktop product.

anacubis Launches New Free Demonstration Services - Providing Visual Access to Online Business and Patent Information R Newswire (April 5)

Visual Searching

Sketchy Information Will graphical search interfaces make a picture worth a thousand links? By Erik Sherman. Technology Review (March 19, 2004)

Some new visual techniques to help people see relationships are at work at Gnooks.com. Enter the name of an author to get results that show likenesses of that author with others. The likeness is based on readership patterns - people who read Alice Munro may also read Jane Urquart. Gnooks.com uses Amazon's database. There is also Gnoovies (for movies) and Gnoosic (for music).

Article also mentions Endeca for guided navigation, and Anacubis for use of metadata to determine nodes.

E-Journals and Information Visualization

New Age Navigation: Innovative Information Interfaces for Electronic Journals by Gerry McKiernan. Serials Librarian (2003) [PDF file - 37 pages]

McKiernan is Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer at Iowa State University Library.

From the abstract: "In this article, we review several novel technologies and implementations that creatively exploit the inherent potential of the digital environment to further facilitate use of e-collections.We conclude with speculation on the functionalities of a next-generation e-journal interface that are likely to emerge in the near future."

Shows a variety of visualization techniques - clusters in 2-D space for articles in D-Lib, stars node for Astronomy and AstroPhysics, simple Vivisimo folders for the Institute of Physics, Concept space at London School of Economics. HighWire Press is notable for use of several visual presentations - Verity TopicMap, Citation Map, MatchMaker to show matching sets of articles based on patterns. Utrecht University uses the AquaBrowser .

Concludes with "Although only a select number of electronic journal collections currently offer innovative and novel interfaces, one can expect that such enhancements will soon become commonplace as digital collections become larger and more complex, and the need for advanced navigation features and functionalities becomes more widely recognized."

Visual Browsing

Marcus Zillman features information visualization tools in the December 2003 issue of the Awareness Watch newsletter. All of the Touchgraph powered browsers at www.pmbrowser.info are described, as well as anacubis, Groogler, Kartoo and a few others.

Grouping Search Results

Bringing order to chaos Associated Press in the Globe and Mail (Jan 2, 2004) - Discusses how Vivisimo, Grokker ( downloadable program), and even Teoma help to bring order out of chaos by grouping results by topic.

Grokker 2

Groxis Ships Version 2 of Its Visual Search Tool by Paula J. Hane (Dec 22) NewsBreaks - Grokker 2 is software from Groxis that displays search results in a visual map. The article notes that it has been well received in "K-12 and higher education markets" and that Groxis has been working with library applications and content providers such as Reed Elsevier.

"The software provides an integrated browser for viewing documents, deduplication from multiple sources, and filters that adapt to the data source to permit data mining. Users can create personal categories on a map, save a map, and e-mail it to a colleague who can use the free Grokker reader to view it."

Grokker 2

Plug-in gives shape to Google search by Stephanie Olsen. CNet (Dec 17) "Groxis, a technology start-up that uses graphics to display Web search results, sees a gap in Google's widely used search engine and wants to capitalize on it. "

More positive press for the desktop search utility Grokker 2.

""This plug-in will allow users to map Google results into a form that is usable for educators, students and researchers, where long lists of search results, organized by PageRank (Google's algorithm), cannot provide that capability or value," said R.J. Pittman, CEO of Groxis. "

Vivisimo v Grokker

Monetizing Graphical Search By Susan Kuchinskas Internet News.com (Dec 15) Compares the clustering of results into hierarchical folders that Vivisimo does to the graphical representation of spheres by Grokker. "Released Monday, Grokker 2.0 lets users search indexed material and retrieve results organized into spheres of different colors and sizes, some of them nested inside each other. "

Grokker is desktop software available for Windows 2000 and XP. There is a 30 day trial. Price is $49.95 US. Preview the software through the demos at the Groxis site.

Fortune has more about Grokker. Going Deeper than Google "Revamped search software called Grokker could be the future for finding information" By David Kirkpatrick (Dec 16) He described what a search is like --

"Grokker creates a visual representation of a search. When you type in, say, "nanotechnology," Grokker starts organizing data from the multiple search engines. You see a big circle, within which are smaller circles with labels including "conference," "technology," "science," "research," "reports," "news," "molecular," "material," and so on. Each represents a subset of data on nanotechnology. Click on, say, "molecular," and that circle will enlarge so you can see several further subcircles, one of which is "molecular assemblies." Click on that, and another category becomes visible entitled "molecular assembly sequencing software." Now you could, in theory, have typed that exact phrase into Google and gotten to the same websites. However, in many cases you can't be sure what you're looking for because you simply don't know what's out there. Grokker gives you an easy way to delve into a data set, and it often leads to info-revelations. "

Corda - Interactive data Visualization

CORDA Launches New Web Site, So What's the Big Deal? Corda Technologies Gives Prospective Audience a New Site (Oct 29) PRNewswire via Newsalert.com "CORDA Technologies Inc., the leading provider of interactive data visualization solutions, has launched its new "smart" Web site, www.corda.com ."

Corda - has some suggestions and displays for the business executive, government, IT Manager, developer, and OEM.

xrefer Research Mapper

xrefer Releases xreferplus Version 2.0 e-Content (Sept 30)

"xrefer, an online ready reference service that provides full-text, aggregated content to academic, public, and corporate libraries, has released version 2.0 of its xreferplus service, which includes improved information visualization capabilities (a new "Research Mapper"), a host of new content, and unit conversions. "

There is a public demo of the mapper at http://www.xrefer.com/research/index.jsp Results show as nodes in a graphic. Mouseovers provide more information. Very effective - could make browsing easier.

Antarctica

Antarctica Upgrades its Visual Net Software by Paula J. Hane, Newsbreaks (Sept 29)

"The upgrades to Visual Net were aimed at maximizing the screen real estate to put as much information at a user’s fingertips as possible, while maintaining visual clarity and usability."

Article mentions that Antarctica's Visual Net software is being used mainly by businesses for displaying information from corporate databases. It could also be applied to many search and retrieval needs in libraries or governments, and by commercial online vendors or search engines. Libraries did show an interest earlier and there are some pilot projects with OCLC.

More information at Antarctica.net. May request a demo.

Medicine

Visualization Tools by Bryan Bergeron, MD MedGenMed eJournal Medscape (Sept 12, 2003) - requires registration to view. Clinical medicine relies on astute recognition of patterns in patient data. Data visualization software and techniques can help.

"Both plotting and graphing of laboratory data and the 3-D rendering of imaging data have clinical value by making clinical data more accessible. As such, visualization tools are a critical component of pervasive computing in that this technology constitutes the final link between wireless connectivity, tablet PC, and other computer components and the clinician end user. This article reviews readily available software tools for clinical data analysis and interpretation as well as the latest systems in medical research institutions."

Anacubis

Anacubis offers a visual way to shop at Amazon. Search any of Amazon's collections (books, videos etc) to get a display of items. Right click for options to view cover, get more information, or run a Google search.

It requires Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer with Java. Highest screen resolution of 1280 X 1024 is recommended. Users of Zone Alarm might need to turn Zone Alarm off to run a search.

This is a beta demo and didn't perform well on my not-so-new computer. Items were too tiny to read and processing too slow. Idea is interesting.