45 Ways to Communicate Two Quantities Back in 2010, I was giving a workshop on interactive data visualization in Lima, Perú, discussing whether a dataset has a unique or at least an ideal way to be visualized. For a simple data structure — a list of some hundreds of numbers, for instance — around half of 20 participants were convinced that there’s one way that is clearly better in communicating the data, regardless of the unit of the values, their range, meaning, context and possible aim of the visualization. This discussion actually came out as a consequence of another idea, which resonated with most participants, as well: that there should be a guide that indicates the best way to visualize each possible dataset. So I proposed the following exercise: let’s try to find all possible ways to visualize a ludicrously small data set of two numbers. With such a tiny dataset, you would think we would complete both exercises in less than 5 minutes. The following is a list of different ways to visualize two numbers. 75 and 37 5. bars
5 Must Have Steps To Better Collaboration This is not a fluffy-puff collaboration article. You won’t read about team unity, the importance of open and honest dialogue or flattened org charts. This is about big data. This is about the 5 steps you must take if you hope to tap the power of big data and use it drive fundamental improvements in collaboration. This is not about solving problems. So here is what you have got to do 1) Improve Your Collection – Big Data, Big Content There is so much information, chances are what we want is out there, if only something could ensure it was captured and then bubble it up to the surface. Big data analytics systems do it better by scraping and crawling data that has been identified by some kind of integration, ETL process or migration tool. On the Big Content front, over a decade of ECM experience should have taught us by now that adoption suffers and collections aren’t as rich as they might be because of check-in disruption. 2) Improve Your Aggregation – Classification, Grouping, Analytics
The Evolution of the Visual Mapper We don’t make it easy; do we? We mind-visual-knowledge mappers may be our own worst enemies, when it comes to establishing the tools, methods and mindset of our respective interpretations. And the interpretations are so numerous they read like a course in theology. We more than likely use the term mind mapping as an SEO advantage, as it is the most popular term used when searching the web for Visual thinking as a whole. Maybe the term is a semantic issue for some of us too, after all, some use the term mind map and visual map as if they have the same meaning and function. Buzan mind mapping is excellent for those who feel comfortable with using traditional buzan hand drawn radiant maps, the laws of Buzan mapping, and now the rather interesting and successful software from ThinkBuzan named iMindmap. A note of recognition; it is accepted that Tony Buzan formalized Buzan hand drawn Mind mapping. I however call myself a Visual mapper, and not a mind mapper. "The tools are not the problem.
Peer Support for Network Weaving I’m doing some network coaching with a small group of network weavers and thought I would share with you some coaching frameworks and practices that help people quickly adopt and adapt network approaches. Especially with a new domain such as network weaving, people may need some training to learn about network concepts and practices before they can apply them. However, I’ve learned that the smaller the training unit (5-15 minutes max), the more likely it is that people will be able to apply the learning. The next step is creation of peer support. The process of peer support looks like this: · each person gets time to explain a challenge or issue (focal person) · others in the group ask probing questions that help the person better understand the challenge · Others offer advice or resources · The focal person summarizes new insights they have gotten · The focal person describes a next step they will take to address the challenge Peer support groups can be virtual or face-to-face.
Name dropping in Dylan songs Name dropping in Dylan songs Automated mind map analysis of important names (only direct mentions are taken into account, references can not be done in an automated analysis) in Dylan songs. The top mentions are from the categories music, film, writers and poets. I like the double mentions (music/writer) in some Dylan songs. If you would count the references as well, you”ll get much higher scores. Like this: Like Loading... About mastermindmaps I am a professional mindmapper, I help companies map their business, I am author of two mindmap books. Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year On Email - Jordan Weissmann Unless you happen to get some sort of obsessive compulsive satisfaction from keeping your inbox in shipshape -- and hey, if you do, more power to ya -- dealing with email has got to be one of the most deadening aspects of any office job. And if the tedium of Outlook management wasn't already dreadful enough, consider this: There's a good chance you spend more than a quarter of each week reading and answering those emails. That factlet comes courtesy of the McKinsey Global Institute, which broke down how so-called "interaction workers" spend their days. They describe these as people whose jobs require "complex interactions with other people, independent judgment, and access to information." I'm interpreting it as consultant speak for "office stiff." The upshot: we spend 13 hours a week, or 28 percent of our office time, on email. As anyone who has spent an inordinate amount of time typing out a formal email to their boss knows, this is not an efficient state of affairs.
Conectivitiz : Fantastic map from one of... The “Four Cs” of 21st Century Education | Entrepreneur the Arts Most of us know that “there is a profound gap between the knowledge and skills most students learn in school and the knowledge and skills they need in typical 21st century communities and workplaces.” So states the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a national organization comprised of both business (Apple, Intel, Adobe, HP) and education (National Education Association, Pearson, Scholastic) leaders, committed to “fusing the three Rs and four Cs.” As an advocate for the skills of innovation, I’m thrilled to see attention now placed on these Four Cs, with 14 states, including Illinois, having signed on to adopt the Partnership framework as a way to ready K-12 students for the 21st century. Most of us know the three Rs are reading, writing and arithmetic, but what are the Cs? In the Partnership framework above, the Four Cs make up the “Learning and Innovation Skills” and are as follows: 1. More from Adam on his Innovation on my Mind blog
5 Best Applications For Adding Mind Maps To Your Presentations Everyday people engaged in different occupations require creating diagrams and models that can represent their ideas, tasks or plans. For example a business professional may require creating an organizational chart for a company or an engineer may need to produce a basic model for his project. One of the best ways to bring out these ideas and to translate them in the form of a diagram is to create a mind map. A mind map can be used to portray an idea in the form of a diagram or model which can provide an overview of the task at hand or the structure of an organization, production process, business plan or the like. In this post we will explore a few of the best desktop and web based mind mapping applications that you can use to visualize your ideas and to add them to your presentations. 1. MindGenius is a desktop software for business professionals that has been designed to meet business needs. Windows VistaWindows 7 Download Mind Genius 2. Download NovaMind 3. 3D Mind Mapping 4. 5.
Employee Education Is Key to Social Business Adoption Last week I posted a story about how TD Bank Group planned for, chose and launched its enterprise collaboration platform. Key to its success was the partnership IT had built with the business: The business supported the initiative from the start and worked in concert with IT to develop a list of requirements it wanted to fulfill. TD Bank CIO Glenda Crisp named two additional reasons the deployment to more than 65,000 users was so successful: strong senior executive sponsorship as well as the investment and support from its technology partner, IBM. And while these three factors were important in the success of the project, there was one other step TD Bank took to combat a common problem many enterprises face in a social business implementation: lack of engagement. That's where the "genius program" came in. This group of employees, called the Geniuses, has more than 600 members today. TD Bank's Geniuses aren't necessarily managers or executives.
The 3 Phases of Infographic Design | Conspire: A @Mindjet Publication Ever wondered about what goes into the process of making an infographic? Try Google-ing “process of creating a data visualization” and you’d be hard pressed to find a good explanation. Maybe the reason why it’s so difficult to find a good resource is because no real formal process exists. I recently came across a great article from Visualy, where freelance information visualizer,Jan Willem Tulp, discusses just how these popular visualizations are made. Phase 1: It’s all about the data Not surprisingly the first step in the process is all about data collection. Is it a large dataset or a small one? Taking some time and answering these questions helps give the people involved a sense and the complexity of the data. Phase 2: Analysis and Finding that Story Sometimes the story is clear at the onset. However in most other cases, a project will start with a data set and the question “can you create something interesting from this data set?” Phase 3: Put the Pieces Together Related
FOCAS 2012: Towards Open and Innovative Governance The 2012 Forum on Communications and Society (FOCAS) convened August 5-8 in Aspen, Colorado to discuss the movement towards open and innovative governance and develop tangible proposals and recommendations to increase transparency, promote smarter governance and enhance democracy. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation sponsored the Forum. Participants included media and technology experts, government officials, academics, and leading NGO directors. Notably joining the conversation was President of the Republic of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, White House Digital Strategist Macon Phillips, Ushahidi Executive Director Juliana Rotich and a number of up-and-coming technology innovators with expertise in designing platforms and applications for open governance systems. FOCAS12 Presentations: FOCAS12 Video Library: For more information about this forum, please contact senior project manager Sarah Eppehimer at (202) 736-5851 or sarah.eppehimer@aspeninstitute.org.
Brainstorming techniques to unleash your creativity With the design brief completely understood and our research data at hand, its time to create & evaluate concepts that may solve our design problem. But how can we get started? Well there several brainstorming techniques we can utilize to help us generate an idea, and we are going discuss some of the most famous in this article. (**Updated 26 Aug 2013**) As David Sherwin, successfully describes in his book: “Creative Workshop” “Being creative on demand is, well demanding. And it’s quite true. Tools Let’s start by examining some famous brainstorming tools. Credit for inventing brainstorming for creative idea generation goes to Alex Osborn of the legendary ad agency BBDO. S – Substitute it C – Combine it A – Adopt it M – Magnify or Modify it P – Put in other uses E – Eliminate something R – Rearrange or reverse The scamper checklist can be used to parse ideas generated by the other methods we’ll see confirm their strength and maybe help generate new ideas. Cubing Techniques Mind mapping 11.
Social curation is much more than just a market In 2010, “curation” popped up on tech blogs and VCs’ radars. Since then, people have been asking whether curation is a legitimate trend, a new market to be exploited, or just the latest buzzword. Some people, including GigaOM writer Bobbie Johnson, have wondered if curation is a bubble, and if it is, when is it going to burst? One of the characteristics of online activities that transcend simple markets is that they are analogous to behaviors that seem to be hardwired into humans. Humans also love to collect things — from tiny stamps to shiny cars. Compared to creating original content, curation is even easier. Our love of curation is being further democratized on the Web with the explosion of tools and startups that approach curation in different ways and with different business models. Some examples of curation services include the following sites: Pinterest, in case you’ve been living under a rock, is a site for collecting and sharing photos and videos. I agree with his perspective.