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Treemapping. Treemap of soft drink preference in a small group of people. Color and gradients are used to group items, while still identifying individual items. Treemap showing changes in waiting times for patients of English PCTs. TreeSize Treemap visualizing hard disk space usage. Main idea[edit] When the color and size dimensions are correlated in some way with the tree structure, one can often easily see patterns that would be difficult to spot in other ways, such as if a certain color is particularly relevant. The tiling algorithm[edit] To date, six primary rectangular treemap algorithms have been developed: In addition, several algorithms have been proposed that use non-rectangular regions: History[edit] Area-based visualizations have existed for decades. These early treemaps all used the simple "slice-and-dice" tiling algorithm.
A third wave of treemap innovation came around 2004, after Marcos Weskamp created the Newsmap, a treemap that displayed news headlines. See also[edit] References[edit] §. 5 Myths About the 'Information Age' By Robert Darnton Confusion about the nature of the so-called information age has led to a state of collective false consciousness. It's no one's fault but everyone's problem, because in trying to get our bearings in cyberspace, we often get things wrong, and the misconceptions spread so rapidly that they go unchallenged.
Taken together, they constitute a font of proverbial nonwisdom. Five stand out: 1. "The book is dead. " 2. 3. 4. 5. I mention these misconceptions because I think they stand in the way of understanding shifts in the information environment. Last year the sale of e-books (digitized texts designed for hand-held readers) doubled, accounting for 10 percent of sales in the trade-book market. Many of us worry about a decline in deep, reflective, cover-to-cover reading. In studies of culture among the common people, Richard Hoggart and Michel de Certeau have emphasized the positive aspect of reading intermittently and in small doses.
The Curation Economy and The 3C’s of Information Commerce. InShare1 Several years ago I had the privilege of working with Steve Rosenbaum, author of Curation Nation. Back then Steve was already vested in the future of online curation and his grande conquête was playing out with Magnify.net, a realtime video curation network.
At the time, he was also a staple at some of the tech industry’s most renown conferences sharing his vision for social, video, and curated content. As Steve was completing his new book, he asked if I would write the foreword. At the time I was finalizing the new version of Engage! I share this digital foreword with you here… The Curation Economy and The 3C’s of Information Commerce I always appreciate when a very complex and important subject is simplified to ease understanding. Forrester Research tracked how people adopt and use social technologies through its Technographics research. Creating original content, consistently over time, is daunting. The Rise of Short-form Content Creators Let me explain. Information Overload is Filter Failure, Says Shirky - Clips - Lifehacker. A Vision of Students Today. A Portal to Media Literacy. Information R/evolution.