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Home - DKM. From Cartography to Card Catalogs: The History of Information Organization [Infographic] In today’s information age, we enjoy all but instant digital access to the world’s collected knowledge. Consider: • Wikipedia contains more than 19 million articles in some 270 languages. • Google aims to catalog the world’s supply of printed knowledge by scanning all of the estimated 130 million books published in modern history.• And the world wide web itself contains more than 7 billion pages. But unfiltered access to unlimited sources is useless if you can’t find what you need. The development of sophisticated systems of organization—helping us retrieve the one piece of information we need from the endless expanse of data—is one of humanity’s most significant accomplishments (con’d after graphic.)

Click here to see how info has been organized throughout the ages You’re welcome to embed this image on your blog, the code is here: But it doesn’t always get the recognition it deserves, and very few of us are concerned with the complex algorithms employed by modern search engines. Related. [PDF] The Knowledge Cycle: How Universities Works. Oracles Past and Present: Our Means of Managing Information | Anthropology in Practice. Bright ideas/iStock. Our ability to find and share information today is potentially limitless. But how did we get here? From cave paintings to the iPad—how does human innovation bring us here? Go Ask the Oracle We live in an amazing time: We never have to wait to know. At this very moment you could be on a smart mobile device, in which you have available nearly the sum of all human knowledge at your fingertips —think of the means you have in your pocket!

I’m willing to bet our capacity to find and share information would make citizens of the Ancient World jealous. The Rise of New Oracles Understanding the ritual of information consumption. Getting answers is a formulaic process consisting of three parts: posing a question, identifying sources, and sharing understanding. Things have changed, but the idea of the Oracle hasn’t really disappeared. Making a Point Language may have freed hands for other purposes. Permanent Records Painting at Lascaux/Wikimedia Commons Early Telecommunication? Infographic Of The Day: Could A Tool Like This Turn Every M.D. Into Dr. House? | Co. Design. When you visit the doctor complaining of a cough or stomach pain, they usually seem to know what to do: They'll ask if you have trouble breathing, or check your heart rate.

But it's all a little baffling: What are they checking for? What illnesses could it be? This remarkable new infographic by GE, working with MIT's SENSEable City Lab, peels back how various symptoms of illness are linked, giving you a tantalizing look into the mind of a doctor. The interactive chart is powered by 7.2 million medical records, gathered between 2005 and 2010. Using these, MIT's data wizards were able to figure out how often one symptom was linked to another. Here, for instance, are the common things that might happen after a routine medical exam: [Click to see interactive version] And here are the symptoms most commonly linked to a cough: The color coding, as you can guess, indicates the basic category that a symptom falls under. Click here to visit the interactive chart. Home: Knowledge management technologies and applications for healthcare. Save Our Inboxes! Adopt the Email Charter! 4 Reasons Why Email Overload Is Your Own Fault [OPINION]