Explorable Explanations Bret Victor / March 10, 2011 What does it mean to be an active reader? An active reader asks questions, considers alternatives, questions assumptions, and even questions the trustworthiness of the author. An active reader tries to generalize specific examples, and devise specific examples for generalities. An active reader doesn't passively sponge up information, but uses the author's argument as a springboard for critical thought and deep understanding. Do our reading environments encourage active reading? Explorable Explanations is my umbrella project for ideas that enable and encourage truly active reading. This essay presents examples of few initial ideas: A reactive document allows the reader to play with the author's assumptions and analyses, and see the consquences. An explorable example makes the abstract concrete, and allows the reader to develop an intuition for how a system works. 1. Ten Brighter Ideas was my early prototype of a reactive document. drag The way it is now: Analysis:
Gapminder The Sexperience 1000 - Sexperience Welcome to The Sexperience 1000, an interactive journey through the sexual experiences and preferences of one thousand British individuals. What’s the favourite sexual position of iPhone users in the North? Do country music lovers over 55 prefer to do it in the dark? Explore the 20 questions of our survey and discover what the great British public get up to between the sheets… Filter Filter by region, age, etc. and compare to yourself. Track Track particular groups of respondents to see how they answered other questions. Follow Found someone fascinating?
38 visualization api Our API directory now includes 38 visualization APIs. The newest is the Voicebox API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Google Visualization API. We list 26 Google Visualization mashups. In terms of the technical details, REST and XML lead the way. The most common tags within real estate are 10 science visualization APIs, 9 charts visualization APIs and 8 data visualization APIs. On the mashup side, we list 304 visualization mashups. For reference, here is a list of all 38 visualization APIs. BiologicalNetworks API: Biological pathways analysis and visualization service Center for Biological Sequence Analysis API: Biological sequence and molecule analysis services ColoRotate API: Integrate 3D colors to your website or blog COLOURlovers API: Named colors and color palette services DataFed WCS API: Air quality data visualization service FinancialContent Stock Chart API: Stock market charts creation service Geo3DModelService API: Dutch underground geologic mapping service
An Overview of the Euro Crisis - Interactive Graphic Arrows show imbalances of debt exposure between borrowers in one country and banks in another; arrows point from debtors to their bank creditors. Arrow widths are proportional to the balance of money owed. For example, French borrowers owe Italian banks $50.6 billion; Italian borrowers owe French banks $416.4 billion. The difference — their imbalance — shows France's banking system more exposed to Italian debtors by about $365.8 billion. The risk to countries’ debts and economies is indicated by color: More worrisome Greece amassed a huge debt that it has scant hope of repaying. If there is no firewall or if it is inadequate, it would be easy to imagine a run on banks. If no preventative measures are taken, a chain of events like this could unfold: In reaction to a Greek collapse, investors become worried about their exposure to other risks in the region. Italy may not be able to protect its banks if there is a loss of confidence.
Protovis Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction. Protovis is free and open-source, provided under the BSD License. Protovis is no longer under active development.The final release of Protovis was v3.3.1 (4.7 MB). This project was led by Mike Bostock and Jeff Heer of the Stanford Visualization Group, with significant help from Vadim Ogievetsky. Updates June 28, 2011 - Protovis is no longer under active development. September 17, 2010 - Release 3.3 is available on GitHub. May 28, 2010 - ZOMG! October 1, 2009 - Release 3.1 is available, including minor bug fixes. September 19, 2009 - Release 3.0 is available, including major performance improvments, bug fixes, and handy utilities such as scales and layouts. Getting Started How does Protovis work?
Neatline.org | plot your course in space & time Zim : Free Desktop Wiki: WYSISYG Editing Lostalgic Lostalgic This project is based on the entire ABC's LOST TV show scripts, 115 episodes in 7 seasons, that I managed to parse from Lostpedia. I also parsed this page with additional information about hidden characters relations. My aim for this project is not (only) to visualize some properties and patterns out of the script but actually to allow to read and enjoy the series in a different way. I plan to add new views (will inform through twitter), more aimed to reveal global patterns in the script, and I will include cliffhangers and writing teams information. Find more information about Lostalgic in this great article and interview by Greg J. This project is dedicated to the Lost writers, to the open culture and, in particular, to the community that built Lostpedia. created by Santiago Ortiz
Stakeholder Analysis example This guide is continued from stakeholder analysis - power interest matrix. To see how these powerful stakeholder analysis techniques work in practice let’s look at an example based on a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software implementation project. The software was procured from a 3rd party supplier, but to help illustrate the analysis method I haven’t included all of the project stakeholders and I have focussed on the stakeholders in the organisation that bought the software. The following stakeholders were identified during stage 1 Stakeholder Definition and their interest areas added to a stakeholder interest map. Chief Information Officer(CIO)Change ManagerProject ManagerDevelopersOutsourced call-centre managersFinanceLegalNetworking & securityWeb standardsTraining ManagerLegacy systems ownersOutsourced call-centre staffTestersCustomers The CIO is sponsoring the project and identified the need for CRM software. The software will be implemented in an outsourced call centre. .
Wind Map An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US. The wind map is a personal art project, not associated with any company. We've done our best to make this as accurate as possible, but can't make any guarantees about the correctness of the data or our software. Please do not use the map or its data to fly a plane, sail a boat, or fight wildfires :-) If the map is missing or seems slow, we recommend the latest Chrome browser. Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. If you're looking for a weather map, or just want more detail on the weather today, see these more traditional maps of temperature and wind.
dis-moi où tu me plaîs Carte Graphe dis-moi où tu me plaîs exploration des annonces du site croisedanslemetro.com Pierre JdlF a mis tout ça sur Github avec des explications irrationnelles recherche Sélectionner une station Map your moves Data This map distills more than 4000 moves from over 1700 people, collected in an informal survey by WNYC, a New York based public radio station. For generating the geo–coordinates from the entered ZIP codes, I used the free bulk geocoder at gpsvisualizer.com. Mapping As most moves occurred from, to or within the New York area, this area displayed enlarged in the white circle at the center of the graphic. Visual markers Each circle corresponds to one zip code area. Actually, it is consists of two overlaid circles: a red one for people moving out of the area, and a blue one for people moving to the area. Interaction Click one of the circles to inspect only moves to or from this area. Details On the right, you can find some statistics on why and when people moved to the selected areas. You can directly compare the lengths of the red (for people moving away from the selected areas) and blue (for people moving to the selected areas) bars to spot trends and peculiarities.
Public/Private Public/Private is a game that explores the topic of privacy in our cities by focusing on where we find it. By choosing where in your city you seek privacy most often, you produce a visual graph representing those choices. Your graph is then combined with graphs generated by the rest of the global audience, creating a live data-visualization that illustrates how our experience of privacy changes at a local and global level. This game was created to accompany two ongoing research projects undertaken by the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Mumbai in cooperation with Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action & Research (PUKAR) and the Design Cell at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies (KRVIA). The game experience for Public/Private was designed and developed by Collective Assembly and Tom van de Velde.