Joe Weaks of the Macintosh Biblioblog notes that the makers of the ESV (English Standard Version) have used a data visualization technology (Many Eyes) to create a social networking map of new testament characters.
I don’t know much about data visualization, but it appears to be a technology that is being used more and more outside the hard sciences.
Do you think the other dots are jealous of the size of the Jesus dot?
UPDATE: Brandon Wason of Novum Testamentum Blog posted another use of Many Eyes data visualization technology. Brandon mapped out the length of New Testament books.
It might be a very useful tool for Biblical trivia – give groups a copy of it and see who can come up with the most correct explanations for the connections in a given time frame. I might even suggest it to my daughter’s religious education teacher – she’s always looking for ways to get the students to look at the Bible and is not against providing incentives of an edible nature. :-)