I've written here (and in our Forum) about visualization and why a lot of visualization isn't very useful. An interesting parallel concept is that of auralization, which is to sound what visualization is to sight. William W. Gayer at Apple developed a neat application he called SonicFinder that...

Visualization of networks has been something that I've been watching for some time and have yet to see anything that looks really interesting. Many vendors use the Tom Sawyer Software package. Netviz had an interesting package but CA (which acquired them via their Concord acquisition) decided to...