Processing:

see examples, experiment with programing and raster based techniques and if desired incorporate into your work
You can use pure processing or processing within Photoshop

processing.org

Applets:
Interesting visualization that maps out your mouse track over time:
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/mousepath-track-mouse-movements/

Creates a graph of the pages for a specified URL:
http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/

processing.org
Applets:
Interesting visualization that maps out your mouse track over time:
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/mousepath-track-mouse-movements/

Visualization of the top executives and companies and how they interact together:
http://www.theyrule.net/

Information is Beautiful: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

A Decade Of Fear http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/mountains-out-of-molehills/

Ben Fry
http://benfry.com/projects/

Visualizing Empires Decline:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwOA8AfeHM4

Many Eyes Visualization project:
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations?page=7
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/

history flow
visualizing the editing history of Wikipedia pages
http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/index.htm

Bradford Paley
http://textarc.org/Hamlet2.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/solaas/sets/72157600350977412/with/544925947/

* Open Source Intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_David_Steele
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1eeWDAIi2I

WikiLeaks
Is Julian Assange an information liberator or the most dangerous man in the world? The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished -- and what drives him. The interview includes graphic footage of a recent US airstrike in Baghdad.
WikiLeaks  Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks wiki leaks
The Most Dangerous Man in the World, a biography about WikiLeaks Editor in Chief Julian Assange, has just been optioned as a movie, according to reports. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376833,00.asp

Data mining:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,587546,00.html
http://www.cwire.org/data-mining-using-google/

WEEK IN REVIEW   | January 30, 2011
Spotlight Again Falls on Web Tools and Change
By SCOTT SHANE
By cutting off Egypt's Internet and wireless service, the president betrayed his fear that his weakness could be exposed.