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Here’s what the data from the NYSE looks like as 3-D art. And in case you were wondering how to make sense of this:
The sphere size corresponds to the stock price, color to change, vibration to relative change, sphere position on spiral to volume, & sound to total percentage change. According to the artist, “The point is not to transmit a particular meaning but rather to express the power of energy concentrated in space information”.
Somehow I doubt this is what Warren Buffett sees when he’s analyzing the market.
Link via Neatorama
…No, but it is what they saw on the monitors in the Matrix.
The point of these visualizations is that they convey information about the behavior of data, rather than the data itself. In this way, one might be able to predict future behavior.
thelastpsychiatrist.com
posted by TheLastPsychiatrist on 12-25-2006 at 2:47 pm