vizTweets

...involves sharing textual abstractions of Information Visualization using the Web2.0 infrastructure by:

• extending the HiVE visualization expression language to accommodate the needs of a broad set of stake-holders with whom we are in communication through formal and informal networks
• deploying existing micro-blogging technologies to share HiVE statements that describe graphics and sequences of graphical operations
• developing open re-usable clients and services that visualize key data sets, generate, interpret and transform HiVE and use miroblogging technologies to both log and access HiVE abstractions
• engaging with a broad user community to inform and disseminate this activity through established networks of stake-holders, academic meetings that span disciplines and micro-blogging.

Broadening the scope of existing prototypes in this way and embedding them in accessible technologies will enable those using Information Visualization to 'scratch' a permanent shareable record of their activity on micro-blogging sites that will be interpretable by users and software, such as the lightweight clients that will be developed. This solution is efficient, exciting, has been requested by the Information Visualization community and will be supported by the Willis Research Network. It will provide the means and the mechanisms for what Drew Baker describes as: "a new way of debating and using data artefacts within visualizations"