Project Descry – Data Visualization in SilverLight

Microsoft has released a “toolset” named Descry to enable data visualization in their SilverLight environment.  If you’re not familiar with SilverLight, it’s Microsoft’s “flash-killer” web tool.

Project Descry demonstrates the power of data and information visualization as a communication tool. As a part of Descry, we are releasing a set of open source, web-based visualizations and an article written by the Jon Udell that serves as a broad introduction to the topic.

On the Descry website they show 4 example visualizations:

• “The Obesity Epidemic” – Show the obesity trend of every state in the US
• “Their First Words” – explore the inaugural speech of every US president
• “A Website named Desire” – a 100 megapixel digital poster with interactive annotations
• “Social Timeline” – an interactive timeline of your friends from FriendFeed

via Descry – Lab – MIX Online.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .