DATA VISUALIZATION

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Brendan Griffen created a giant network of people , using every profile on Wikipedia that had an "influenced by" or "influences" field.

Graphing every idea in history

Statistical Studies of Peer Production » Open Data

Raw data sets from various surveys are separated to two sections: longitudinal and single-survey. Data formats used are: SPSS, CSV and ODS.

http://surveys.peerproduction.net/open-data/

blooms, learning styles and thinking organisers

How do thinking/graphical organisers or mind mapping tools fit with Learning styles and Bloom's Revised taxonomy . The key element to a thinking or graphical organiser is, in my opinion, the key or focusing question.

Pegasus Data Project | Platform for Experimentation in digital humanities / digital, social networking, Twitter, influence on the web and data visualization

"Remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images." RUDOLF ARNHEIM

Envisioning Information

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_ei

Information Visualization Manifesto

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/blog/?p=644

Posted: August 30th, 2009 | Author: Manuel Lima | Filed under: Uncategorized |

Over the last few years I’ve created a few popular visualizations , a lot of duds , and I’ve learned a few lessons along the way.

How to create a visualization

http://strata.oreilly.com/2012/02/how-to-create-visualization-facebook-vacation.html

Jeffrey Heer, Stanford University Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, College Park The increasing scale and availability of digital data provides an extraordinary resource for informing public policy, scientific discovery, business strategy, and even our personal lives.

Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2146416

Taxonomy for interactive visual analysis

Interactive visualization continues to grow more useful and prominent in every day analysis.

INFOGRAPHICS

http://spatialanalysis.co.uk/2012/03/fast-thinking-slow-thinking-visualisation/

Last week I attended the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference and heard a talk by Robert Groves , Director of the US Census Bureau. Aside the impressiveness of the bureau’s work I was struck by how Groves conceived of visualisations as requiring either fast thinking or slow thinking . Fast thinking data visualisations offer a clear message without the need for the viewer to spend more than a few seconds exploring them.

Fast Thinking and Slow Thinking Visualisation

VIZoSPHERE (launched)

When we build models of the world, we often think of it broken down into pieces, such as cities, counties, and countries. In their newly funded project The City of 7 Billion , architects Joyce Hsiang and Bimal Mendis aim to model the world as one city , to study the impact of population growth on the environment and natural resources on a larger scale.

Visualization