Links
Visualization Links
Heatmaps in C#
Zebranky over at mercuric.net has posted his implementation of heatmaps inspired by the talk along with his C# sourcecode -
http://www.mercuric.net/2010/08/heatmap-generation/#comments
Google Chart API
has a good selection of visualization methods to use with your telemetry - http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
Polymaps
is an impressive API for generating high quality geomaps from data - great for visualizing IP addressg geolocations, and such things -
OpenHeatmap
is another solution that generates a variety of custom heatmap from spreadsheets.
http://www.openheatmap.com/gallery.html
Real World Examples
Hot Failure: Tuning Gameplay With Simple Player Metrics
Google Game Developer Advocate Chris Pruett describes his experience with metrics gathering and visualization for his Android Game 'Replica Island' in his article on Gamasutra.
http://gamasutra.com/view/feature/6155/hot_failure_tuning_gameplay_with_.php
Crash Forensics and Analysis
If broken it is, fix it you should
Tess' MSDN blog has some of the most useful information about analyzing unwanted behavior in both .Net and native applications such as crashing, garbage collection problems, minidump analysis and crash capturing.
Never doubt thy debugger
Although Carlo Cardella's blog deals with mostly with windows and ASP related issues these days, it also has a number of very useful articles on debugging and exception analysis.