Information Visualization
Types of information to display
- Calendars
- time lines
- presentation
- geographical mapping
- mapping social networks
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The japanese are famous for coming to a presentation with one slide with lots
of stuff on it. And spend the hour explaning it.
Teds Talks - Gap Minder - www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92
Visual thesaurus - Making it dynamic
Animate a series of snapshots over time.
the context of information is important.
Shopping by color - http://etsy.com
measuring the health of the community as a fish tank:
Clarity of the water
number of bubbles
which fish
arthur brock fishtank
think Geek usb bunny ? nabaztag: the wifi enabled "ambient" bunny
http://www.nabaztag.com
Way finding
Book: "Way Finding"
Presentation of Dashboards
Fishtank is a form of dashboards
Different metaphors
- using colors as a measurment
- mapping network into Doom
- mapping network into sounds of the country (birds + water )
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read more poetry
The icons on the OLPC laptop are incomprehensible. the bike warnings by the streetcar tracks are uneqivocal...
http://Visualcomplexity.com
http://infothetics.com
http://mapmind.org
people in general do not make leaps to understanding things - jean
Discussions about cross-cultural icons.
What is the thing that makes meaning? What is the picture that makes people
see the meaning of the image.
dialogue mapping
compendium is the tool for diagramming the oure of a conversation
Visual Search engine
http://www.kartoo.com
http://www.quintura.com
http://cnet.com - each article has a sidebar with contextual links
http://www.theyrule.net - interactive network visualization of the connections between the boards of directors of major corporations
http://press.jrc.it
http://www.visualthesaurus.com
James Burke - Connections
Tell a story to align the relationships between the facts.
yahoo vs google as presentation metaphores.
Tools
GraphViz - http://www.graphviz.org
compendium - http://www.compendiuminstitute.org
Resources
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92
Visual Thinking by Robert Horne
http://www.edwardtufte.com
From the pibb session:
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I have a moonedit of InformationVisualization going
Saturday, May 12, 2007 5:22:30 PM
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Visualize... or search?
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Everyone's bringing their own take on visualization:
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...some with social networking tag clouds...
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...some with literal, geographic maps....
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...some with novel "search by color" (http://www.etsy.com)
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Folks mentioned Hans Rosling's data visualization video. "Worth the 20 minutes" seems to be the verdict.
Saturday, May 12, 2007 5:24:12 PM
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visualization of information - visualcomplexity.com; etsy.com, mapmind.org
Saturday, May 12, 2007 5:24:22 PM
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Someone's finally mentioned Tufte.
Saturday, May 12, 2007 5:24:48 PM
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/me idly wonders if Brian Ellin is watching this thread. he'd be interested.
Saturday, May 12, 2007 5:25:10 PM
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Fish tank to vlsualize health care
Saturday, May 12, 2007 5:26:11 PM
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infosthetics.com
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wayfinding!
Saturday, May 12, 2007 5:27:49 PM
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Someone mentioned the "USB bunny;" I think they meant the Nabaztag (http://www.nabaztag.com/).
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Oops -- the auto-formatter sucked in the punctuation -- should be http://www.nabaztag.com
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Nature sounds as server background noise
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"Doom" interface as network diagram. Demons == daemons?!? When you kill a process, you _really_ kill a process!
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"Reducing the cognitive blow"
Saturday, May 12, 2007 5:34:05 PM
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Pictograms are more cross-cultural than icons
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"People in general do not make leaps in understanding things." --Jean
Notes by John Sechrest and Nathan Young via Nick Jacobsen's MoonEdit Server
