- ARCHIVE / TAG ARCHIVE
- How to visualize a big taxonomy within a single webpage?
Here’s a couple more experiments aimed at representing visually a large taxonomy. Some time ago I looked at ways to visualise a medium-large taxonomy (3000 terms circa) using one of the many visualisation kits out there. It turned out that pretty much all of them can’t handle that many terms, but there are other strategies […]
- Creating useful classifications with taxonomies (part 1)
Taxonomies and other classification schemes are omnipresent in Information Architecture. In this post I’ve tried to gather a few ideas on the topic, with the aim of clarifying the issue a little, and maybe help constructing more useful taxonomies. Comments and suggestions are welcome as usual! It recently occurred to me though that there is […]
- Messing around wih D3.js and hierarchical data
These days there are a lot of browser-oriented visualization toolkits, such d3.js or jit.js. They’re great and easy to use, but how much do they scale when used with medium-large or very large datasets? The subject ontology is a quite large (~2500 entities) taxonomical classification developed at Nature Publishing Group in order to classify scientific […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
