Everything started with a little experiment on how to draw luminous lines with WPF and XAML. The result was pretty cool. So I extended my experiment to use this technique for developing my own information visualization graphic. Check the visual complexity site for some really inspiring examples.

But what kind of data shall I visualize? Now, I got the idea to analyse the tag-to-tag relations of my rock climbing blog, build with wordpress. The boring part was to query the wordpress xml file to get the tag data. After that, I draw a node for every tag on a horizontal line. A relation between two tags exists, if both tags are used for the same post. Every relation is mapped as a luminous arc between two nodes. And the result is very interesting.

My name is Christian Schuller. I am from Vienna (Austria) and a software enthusiast and experienced developer since 14+ years. I work as a professional .net developer and architect since 5+ years. Addionally I run some other projects, like this site ;-)

Currently, my favorite technologies around .net are nServiceBus, StructureMap, RhinoMocks and WPF. I am also very intressted in graphic design and related topics. And in the future I will try out the Windows Mobile 7 Development.