Wikipedia and Genomics Visualization: Separated At Birth?:

By tim

One of the most fascinating presentations at our recent Foo Camp was one on visualization. A number of different folks ran through some of their visualization projects. There was a lot of mindblowing stuff, but what particularly struck me was the similarity between a visualization that Fernanda Viegas had done (with Martin Wattenberg) visualizing the change logs in wikipedia entries and one that Ben Fry had done on Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, or SNPs, (comparisons of the genetic varation between individuals.) While the similarities may simply be an artifact of a similar visualization technique, they are striking and thought-provoking, and suggest the organic nature of wikipedia.

Fernanda and Martin explain their technique here.

I find visualization really interesting, and these are cool ways of looking at history of documents in general, it is easier with wikipedia since the data is there and the number of changes can be cool

(Via O’Reilly Radar.)