Yeah, exactly what I asked the first time I started thinking about it. But then I met my buddy Neil at CMG (Computer Measurement Group) in Reno (brrr, was it cold there) and we started talking about hot topics and performance visualization came up. Actually, I don't recall if this happened before or after we had a few beers. This is not that important because most really good ideas came after a few beers. So, back to the topic at hand. Visualization is not a new concept. It has been used in several fields. Here is a list of web site with various applications of visualization: digg labs Parallel coordinates Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies Edward Tufte sparklines John Tukey Gallery of Data Visualization Earth Simulator Center Here is a technical article on visualization as it applies to computer and network performance. Performance Visualization May 2005 Article by Neil Now the big complaint from my good friend Neil is that people in the performan...
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