Difference between revisions of "ASB Un-Plugged - Infographics & Data Visualization"

Here is the transcript of your backchannel conversation for $eventID. This is a wiki page. As such, you can edit this page and insert text into the transcript, contining the conversation, as I have done. To edit, click the EDIT link at the top of the page. The password is ''teacher''.

[[File:AsbUnPlugged.jpg|right|300px|AsbUnPlugged.jpg]][[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;David -- I look forward to reading your conversation.<br/>27 Feb 2014 - 22:43:19

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;jeff -- Gre-ahtts<br/>27 Feb 2014 - 22:43:41

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;rhona -- Goes in as a wiki. David will insert answers. conversation extends beyond class.<br/>27 Feb 2014 - 22:45:22

<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">That's the way it works. &nbsp;It's a learning experience that extends beyond this place and time. &nbsp;It's 21st century education.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">I say that it is a learning experiences because I learn from reading your comments, which I'm certain will be true of your backchannel.</span>

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/979bdf30ab8516e9710818fbbaf144a0_normal.jpeg&nbsp;Waciuma -- Pedagogies of the information abundant. This sounds like a discussion for today!<br/>27 Feb 2014 - 22:50:18

<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">In a real way, it was. &nbsp;When we are all overwhelmed by information, the information has to compete for attention, in much the same way that products on a store shelves of the industrial age. &nbsp;Part of that competition was price, and what we pay for information, is the time that it takes to understand the information. &nbsp;That's what infographics and data visualization do. &nbsp;They make the data less expensive - in terms of time.</span>

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dcfb1c2f1af3f46129ec2ed75146e1a5_normal.jpeg&nbsp;jenn -- Cool beans<br/>27 Feb 2014 - 23:03:47

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/979bdf30ab8516e9710818fbbaf144a0_normal.jpeg&nbsp;Waciuma -- Cleaning data efficiently, to transpose rows to columns, text to tables, etc. is a literacy I've never seen explicitly taught.<br/>27 Feb 2014 - 23:13:15

[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">This is the hard part, because there is not a single answer. &nbsp;Columnar data is handled in a number of ways, when published on the web. &nbsp;It's a matter of what seperates items in a single row, what seperates the columns (tabs, commas, returns, spaces), and what seperates the rows (returns or multiple returns).</span>

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;Scot --&nbsp;[http://www.elearnspace.org/KnowingKnowledge_LowRes.pdf http://www.elearnspace.org/KnowingKnowledge_LowRes.pdf]<br/>27 Feb 2014 - 23:16:38

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;Alethea -- I am teaching Hamlet in Grade 10. I'm thinking about treating the soliloquies as data that can be analzyed with the use of Tagcrowd<br/>27 Feb 2014 - 23:34:42

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Taking a second at&nbsp;''IBM's Many Eyes'', I've found that the problem there is more global, not the school's network filtering software. &nbsp;Trying, unsuccessfully, to find an alternative to the site's&nbsp;''Phrase Net''&nbsp;feature, I ran acros Voyant, a fairly rich free text analytical tool. &nbsp;It not only creates a an attractive word cloud, but it also enables the analysis of specific words, including their frequence along a time line of the text.</span>

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Thanks, I didn't know about this one!</span>

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/979bdf30ab8516e9710818fbbaf144a0_normal.jpeg&nbsp;Waciuma -- Looking forward to learning how to build these visualizations. Hope that's the bulk of our time spent.<br/>27 Feb 2014 - 23:41:25

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Unfortunately, we didn't spend as much time doing the tools during the first day's workshop. &nbsp;Here is a link to the visualization tools I have collected over the years&nbsp;</span>[http://goo.gl/7XMk55 <span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Visualization Tools @ Landmarks for Schools</span>]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">.</span>

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg&nbsp;Elizabeth Perry -- A cool and OPEN tool for extracting data from PDF tables:&nbsp;[http://tabula.nerdpower.org/ http://tabula.nerdpower.org/]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:10:42

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">This was very powerful, and a huge benefit to journalists</span>

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/979bdf30ab8516e9710818fbbaf144a0_normal.jpeg&nbsp;Waciuma -- Wikipedia edits audio-lized&nbsp;[http://listen.hatnote.com listen.hatnote.com]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:10:48

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Very cool. &nbsp;I just added this one to&nbsp;</span>[http://landmark-project.com <span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Landmarks for Schools</span>]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">.</span>

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg&nbsp;Elizabeth Perry -- Chartsbin has an interactive global nutrition and macronutrient chart -&nbsp;[http://chartsbin.com/view/1162 http://chartsbin.com/view/1162]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:15:02

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Another one I didn't know about. &nbsp;It's saved on&nbsp;[http://landmark-project.com Landmarks for Schools]&nbsp;now.</span>

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg&nbsp;Elizabeth Perry -- Chartsbin - older - but you can still create an account, upload a data set, and create your own interactive mapped graphic.<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:17:41

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;anonymous bob -- For more images of big numbers try chris jordans website or his TED talk<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:25:11

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg&nbsp;Elizabeth Perry --&nbsp;[http://flowingdata.com/2011/03/21/history-of-the-world-in-100-seconds-according-to-wikipedia/ http://flowingdata.com/2011/03/21/history-of-the-world-in-100-seconds-according-to-wikipedia/]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:33:48

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Thanks! &nbsp;This is why I do this backchanneling.</span>

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg&nbsp;Elizabeth Perry -- Site which provoked our questions about who is writing, dating, and geotagging this history...<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:34:53

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;Jay -- Google music visualisation -&nbsp;[http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/ http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:35:48

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Very Cool!</span>

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg&nbsp;Elizabeth Perry -- For a beautiful visualization of Twitter and moods, see "We Feel Fine,"&nbsp;[http://www.wefeelfine.org/ http://www.wefeelfine.org/]&nbsp;an art/data research project.<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:41:42

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7a1148cb993a75172a5bae945955fe8e_normal.jpeg&nbsp;Patrick -- Google public data explorer&nbsp;[https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 1:00:08

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;anonymous bob -- Google bought gapminder in 2007. Cost unknown. Trendalyzer was the outcome.<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 1:02:07

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Good to know!</span>

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;anonymous bob -- Is this the worst infographic?&nbsp;[http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/dec/18/is-this-the-worst-ever-infographic http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/dec/18/is-this-the-worst-ever-infographic]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 1:07:28

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;anonymous bob -- More examples of what not to do here&nbsp;[http://www.worstinfographic.com/ http://www.worstinfographic.com/]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 1:11:13

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg&nbsp;Elizabeth Perry -- Is anyone here using the Processing programming language for data visualization? I'm trying to teach myself, and would love to ask about it.<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 1:32:37

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">I played with it a few years ago. &nbsp;Here is a visualization I did years ago, using the data from the earthquake site I showed you earlier.</span>&nbsp;[http://youtu.be/Lm-qG1SgbRk Earthquake Visualization]

Elizabeth Perry -- definately using&nbsp;[http://www.easel.ly/ http://www.easel.ly/]&nbsp;for my elementary students!<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 2:21:36

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== Day 2: ASB Elementary School ==

Here is the transcript of your backchannel conversation for $eventID. &nbsp;This is a wiki page. &nbsp;As such, you can edit this page and insert text into the transcript, contining the conversation, as I have done. &nbsp;To edit, click the EDIT link at the top of the page. &nbsp;The password is&nbsp;''teacher''.

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6bdc23c2367a8bde395d6d709c27081a_normal.jpeg&nbsp;Maggie -- It is going to be fun trying out this new tool.<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 22:48:30

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">I hope that you did learn something new. &nbsp;I have certainly learned from yesterday's backchannel.</span>

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;joel -- Fantastic tool for faculty meetings!<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 22:51:15

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Again, I never do this backchanneling when I don't learn something new. &nbsp;It's all about the learning. &nbsp;I would suggest that a school has adopted a true&nbsp;''learning culture''&nbsp;only when the professional conversations shift from bet teaching practice to best learning practice.</span>

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;Kevin -- I'm not sure if the purpose of contemporary Literacy is any different from before - it just seems to be more accessible.<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 23:25:50

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">In a sense, I agree with you. &nbsp;There are two differences. &nbsp;One is that the information environment has changed. &nbsp;Information is digital, networked and abundant now. &nbsp;Second, learning has changed. &nbsp;It's no longer something that you do in a classroom. &nbsp;It's a lifestyle. &nbsp;Not that it wasn't before. &nbsp;But it's different. &nbsp;We are constantly encountering new things, which require us to learn, in order to understand and adapt.</span>

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;aaa -- what tool/software was used to show the new timeline<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 23:38:09

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">That was probably done with some video production software. &nbsp;it could be done with iMovie or even Keynote.</span>

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;jrem --&nbsp;[http://socrative.com/ http://socrative.com/]&nbsp;Love this service for surveying students in real-time and having backchannel chats<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 23:38:31

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;aaa -- Links to Visualizations Shown in Presentations Links to Visualization Tools are not working<br/>1 Mar 2014 - 0:08:29

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">[http://landmark-project.com/index.php?lookupTag=&title=Visualizations Here]&nbsp;is a link to visualizations that I've collected over the years and made available through Landmarks for schools. &nbsp;Here are some&nbsp;[http://landmark-project.com/index.php?lookupTag=&title=Infographics infographics]&nbsp;links and links to&nbsp;[http://landmark-project.com/index.php?lookupTag=&title=Vsualization%20(Tools) tools].</span>

[[File:Generic.jpg]]&nbsp;jrem --&nbsp;[http://goo.gl/JZPzZF http://goo.gl/JZPzZF]&nbsp;- 10 Infographic apps<br/>1 Mar 2014 - 0:53:35

[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Too True!</span>