During our association with Yahoo!, we designed four data visualization tools that allow visitors to explore and understand the sophisticated technical framework that powers key portions of the Yahoo! suite of products.
Unfortunately, as a result of the internal reorganization that swept over Yahoo! last year, two of these projects were put on hold, and then later canceled. That was too bad, because not only had we worked hard on them, we were really excited about releasing them to the public.
One of the tools is shown here. It's an exploration of the Yahoo! Cloud, and offers visitors a chance to see how active it really is. Visitors can explore the major product offerings and initiate simulated server calls, messages, emails, and other behaviors. Additionally, they can explore geographic locations and capacity of server infrastructure to understand the complex pathways and systems that are involved in even the simplest of tasks.
It's a look at the essential technology that enables everything we do online, and we're sure people would be amazed.
