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Information Aesthetics tips us off to a great interactive treemap visualization of the huge dataset from the Barcelona Natural Science Museum (which we discussed earlier) from design firm Bestiario.

Beginning with a broad view of all “Animalia”, you can click to zoom in through Phylum, class, and further on down until you find a single organism.  Once you’ve found your one organism, they provide records with maps and links to other databases (including Flickr) for more information.

Interactive Treemap Visualization of the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona, via Information Aesthetics

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The Natural Science Museum of Barcelona hosts a database of over 150 years worth of biological records from around the world, and now presents the data via an interactive map on their website.

The database consists of about 50.000 different records of mollusc, vertebrata and artropodes. All the information is structured following the Darwin Core Standard, developed by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

On the map you can zoom into any area in the world and click on an active square to view all of the registers located there.

via World Map of Barcelona Natural Science Museum Biodiversity Data – information aesthetics. via Information Aesthetics

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If you’re in Heidelberg, Germany during early March you might want to check out the VizBi conference on biological data visualization.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together, for the first time, researchers developing and using systems to visualize a broad range of biological data, including sequences, genomes, phylogenies, macromolecular structures, systems biology, microscopy, and magnetic resonance imaging. In selecting topics for this workshop, we have focused on the visualization of processed and annotated data in their biological context, rather than the processing of raw data.

They’ve got a long list of speakers, including a keynote by Ben Fry.  They’re currently accepting abstracts and applications.

An EMBO Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data (VizBi).

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