Making a graph of information can often help to give a clearer picture of what data you have or how parts of it connect to other parts. We’ve made graphs of our height, how we use our time, temperature over a day and many other sets of data. Here’s a new twist on graphs though – graph your website!
Plugging your site’s URL into this page will produce a graph of your content – it’s really interesting to watch the picture being constructed on your screen. I made graphs of our blog and our wiki; they look quite different, because the structure of each site is so different. If you want to see some more amazing shots, there are more than two thousand posted here on Flickr.
Here is another interesting tool which converts your site to a picture that looks like a DNA sample. According to the site, ”WEB2DNA will take you website, analyze it, crunch it to little bits and spit it out as a graphic representation of a human DNA.” I think the most interesting part of this is, like the graphs above, comparing the pictures of different sites. Here are the WEB2DNA pictures of our blog and wiki:
There are hundreds of other examples of sites pictured with WEB2DNA here on Flickr.
So, has anyone found any other cool sites that change your webpages to graphics? Please let us know if you have!
Tags: flickr, graphs, Tools
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October 23rd, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Hey Mrs C
I wish I did have a website more like the ones you’ve discovered and are very interesting, but sadly I can’t…
Another magnificent post! I can’t believe how spectacular technology is, with all the amazing sites and things it can do! I found this post particularly interesting especially when I read about graphing your website. Isn’t that something unexpected? Well wow! I can’t help but freeze in shock, stunned, at how technology works!!!
What AMAZING websites you can all find! I would never get as far as finding what you have in your post. Brilliant!
You’d never have thought you could graph your very own site. When it comes to this, believe me, I think technology is just so astounding! Look at mobiles, how little they are, yet how so much data and information is stored in them. Don’t you ever wonder how people make them? How items so tiny can contain such remarkable data? Have you ever wondered in such a way?
Thanks for sharing these sites with us Mrs C and class. I’m sure we, and I including, have learnt so much from these breath taking websites.
Nadine
From Mrs C: Hi Nadine, thank you for visiting our blogs and commenting. I especially like that your comments are so much more than the standard, “I like your blog, come visit mine.” Have you tried making a graph of your blog yet? It could be interesting as you have many hyperlinks and they would show up on the graph.
The technology that’s being invented boggles my mind sometimes. When I was at primary school there wasn’t a single computer or printer or even photocopier in the place! Now my grade blog, post on wikis, surf the internet and interact instantly with people all over the world. Mobile phones are more like computers these days. I wonder what some innovators of the past (like Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, Wilbur and Orville Wright and Henry Ford, for example) would make of the world today? I think they’d be amazed and pleased.
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October 25th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Hello Mrs C
I agree, writing the simple ‘I like your blog, come visit mine’ isn’t a very good standard of commenting because the person you’re talking to can always click your name and go to your site!! I will try to make my blog a graph today and let you know soon how it goes. I can’t believe you barely had a single computer when you were little… imagine how unusual that would be for me if I time traveled!
Thanks for your comment on my blog, and your advice. I shall take a look at the website and hopefully join in! Good luck to your daughter too… how old is she? Is she a good writer?
I too like Morris Gleitzman and was a big fan when I was 10 and 11. But I have moved on, as most people do. Because the more you read, the more you learn, the more you like the writing of other authors… if I were to choose I wouldn’t be able to because of the many I like, including one of Eoin Colfer’s books, Kate Dicamillo’s ‘Desperaux’, J.R.R Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ and Sally Gardener’s ‘I, Coriander’. They are all amazing in their own ways.
I hope to publish my book one day… and I’d dedicate it to my family, best friend and all my blogging friends including 56c for all your encouragements and advice, you wait and see!
Thank you for your compliments, they make me smile!
I too think the mobile is like a mini computer! AND, I think the innovators of the past would definitely be shocked and yes, pleased of what the world has become. But they’d surely be a bit confused with all the new ways of doing things, like using a mobile phone!!! It’d take a bit of time for them to settle in, don’t you agree?
~Nadine~
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October 31st, 2008 at 5:05 am
This looks like a great resource Mrs C. I can’t wait to show P5LW tomorrow. I’m just about to leave to go back to school. We have our Halloween disco tonight. Are you doing anything for Halloween?
Miss L and 5LW
From Mrs C: Where we are it’s tomorrow already and Halloween is over. It’s not a big deal here in Australia; certainly I don’t know of anyone who goes Trick or Treating. We don’t do decorating with pumpkins – or anything else.
We do have something else unusual though: in Victoria the first Tuesday in November is a public holiday for the Melbourne Cup, a horse race! Most schools also take the day before off too, so we are on a four day weekend starting today. The next event in our year is then the end of the school year on December 19, then Christmas. In January, we all return to new grades.
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