From the post:
So, there is a new food web dataset out that was put in Ecological Archives here, and I thought I would play with it. The food web is from Otago Harbour, an intertidal mudflat ecosystem in New Zealand. The web contains 180 nodes, with 1,924 links.
Fun stuff…
Interesting visuals but do you find that they help you understand the data?
Important question for visualizing topic maps because you can make the nodes and associations between them jump, jitter, blink (shades of the browser wars), or zoom in and out. OK, so if I am playing “Idiotfield 3” or whatever that might be interesting.
But the question for topic maps or any information systems is whether it helps me find or understand the underlying data?
What do you think here? Data is available. What would you do differently?