VUE: mind mapping meets data visualization, semantic analysis, and presentation engine. VUE (Visual Understanding Environment) is a free, open source mind mapping and data visualization software developed by the Academic Technology group at Tufts University in Boston. VUE is unique in that it offers a range of innovative functions such as tagging of nodes and of relationships, support for images, videos, and other objects within the mind map structure, and the ability to import and analyze datasets (from CSV files, XML files, and even RSS feeds) using semantic mapping. It also functions as an innovative Powerpoint-style presentation tool, allowing users to define “presentation pathways” on top of the mind map structure, and to create presentation-style content that is associated with the mapped concepts. VUE can also be used in conjunction with the Zotero Firefox extension to map out and visualize online documents and web clippings.
VUE is also a full-fledged, Powerpoint-style presentation software. Here are more notes on this program: Version Tested: 3.0 beta4b2. 20 Web - VUE Applet - VUE User Guide. Overview Generally, an applet provides functionality or performance beyond the default capabilities of its container (the browser). When you run an applet, it runs in the browser window, but executes locally. The VUE applet is signed with a certificate to allow VUE to save VUE maps to and read VUE maps from your local computer. To learn more about signed applets, see Sun's Applet Security Basics document: Why use the VUE applet?
The benefit of using the VUE applet to users is that VUE doesn't have to be installed locally, while as a site owner you can host both VUE and VUE maps on your own web server. Limitations of the VUE applet In order to reduce the download size of the applet itself, not every feature available in the full application is replicated in the applet. Features removed from the applet version include: Using the hosted VUE Applet ... Review of VUE | I used to be undecided, but now I'm not so sure. VUE stands for Visual Understanding Environment. This program comes from Tufts University in the USA. It was written to allow students to take notes during lectures and to make presentations.
The program stores its maps in disk files which have to be saved manually. I have not used VUE as a presentation tool and so maybe I have a biased opinion. To do a presentation with VUE you first have to define a ‘path’, this is a series of slides. When making the presentation the view of the map will be stepped through this series of slides in ‘full screen presentation mode’. VUE is a very extensive tool with a lot of facilities which are only briefly covered in this review, fortunately you can try it for free, if you don’t like it you haven’t lost anything. Overall score = 26 out of 50 1. The user places nodes on the map in the position they want and makes the connections they want.
Keywords can be assigned to nodes, you can also assign ‘categories’. 2. 3. 4. 5. VUE can export to a .html file. Visual Understanding Environment - Download. Visual Understanding Environment - Download. Featured Maps. How to Use Ontologies in VUE. Using Pathways in VUE. Introduction to Pathways in VUE. VUE 2 overview. Using Data Repositories in VUE. Visual Understanding Environment.