visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors
Aside from being quite beautiful, I find these rather fascinating. Context derived from patterns are central to how I think. Perhaps how we think? Hmm. More food for thought.
I also recently read a paper about "Digital Artifacts for Remembering and Storytelling" (Original PDF - Google HTML rendering) which reveals that essentially data patterns jog memories of social interactions and give one a whole fantastically deep wealth of context.
Pattern learning. Pattern thinking. Pattern recognition. Frequencies. Stimuli.