I recently developed an application for interactive patent database visualization and navigation. It’s still in progress but I thought I’d post a couple screen shots. It’s the standard mass/spring ball/stick network visualzation, which isn’t terribly intuituve or efficient, but it’s a start. This interactive program is written in Processing and uses various online patent databases.
Currently it allows several interesting group selection operations including tag cloud generation, date, inventor and class-based organization.
I’ll post more pictures and an online demo soon.
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4 Comments to “Patent Database Visualization”
- 1 Pingback on Mar 28th, 2007 at 11:37 am
- 2 Pingback on Oct 21st, 2007 at 1:36 pm
springgraphs are just neverending fun… but you found a nice excuse for playing with them (it just sounds better to say “i’m investigating patent data” than saying “I play with a randomly generated graph because I like that wiggling motion…”)
wow, i like the work, really inspritional~