Robert Kosara has a great piece on what he thinks will happen in the field of Information Visualization this year, and it’s a bit of a surprise. It won’t be algorithms, it won’t be The Cloud, it won’t even be open data: It will be Microsoft’s IE9.
But another development will actually be much more important: Internet Explorer 9. What has held back visualization so far is that no version of IE supports SVG or Canvas. Later this year, IE 9 will be released, which not only includes that support, but also has a hardware-supported implementation of Canvas. Practically all other browsers already support Canvas, but some are still behind on the performance part. That is likely to change very soon.
via The State of Information Visualization, 2011 | eagereyes.
I posted over at http://secviz.org about my 2011 predictions. They are a bit security focused, but you’ll probably see some general trends. I’d be curious what you think about them:
http://secviz.org/content/security-visualization-state-2010-and-2011-predictions