Difference between revisions of "ASB Un-Plugged - Infographics & Data Visualization"
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<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> | <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 | + | http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/979bdf30ab8516e9710818fbbaf144a0_normal.jpeg 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. 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. Part of that competition was price, and what we pay for information, is the time that it takes to understand the information. That's what infographics and data visualization do. They make the data less expensive - in terms of time.</span> | <span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">In a real way, it was. 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. Part of that competition was price, and what we pay for information, is the time that it takes to understand the information. That's what infographics and data visualization do. They make the data less expensive - in terms of time.</span> | ||
| − | http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dcfb1c2f1af3f46129ec2ed75146e1a5_normal.jpeg jenn -- Cool beans<br/>27 Feb 2014 - 23:03:47 | + | [http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dcfb1c2f1af3f46129ec2ed75146e1a5_normal.jpeg jenn http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dcfb1c2f1af3f46129ec2ed75146e1a5_normal.jpeg jenn] -- Cool beans<br/>27 Feb 2014 - 23:03:47 |
| − | http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/979bdf30ab8516e9710818fbbaf144a0_normal.jpeg 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 | + | [http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/979bdf30ab8516e9710818fbbaf144a0_normal.jpeg Waciuma http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/979bdf30ab8516e9710818fbbaf144a0_normal.jpeg 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. Columnar data is handled in a number of ways, when published on the web. 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:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">This is the hard part, because there is not a single answer. Columnar data is handled in a number of ways, when published on the web. 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> | ||
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[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Thanks, I didn't know about this one!</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 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 | + | [http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/979bdf30ab8516e9710818fbbaf144a0_normal.jpeg Waciuma http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/979bdf30ab8516e9710818fbbaf144a0_normal.jpeg 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. Here is a link to the visualization tools I have collected over the years </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> | [[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. Here is a link to the visualization tools I have collected over the years </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 Elizabeth Perry -- A cool and OPEN tool for extracting data from PDF tables: [http://tabula.nerdpower.org/ http://tabula.nerdpower.org/]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:10:42 | + | [http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg Elizabeth http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg Elizabeth] Perry -- A cool and OPEN tool for extracting data from PDF tables: [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> | [[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 Waciuma -- Wikipedia edits audio-lized [http://listen.hatnote.com listen.hatnote.com]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:10:48 | + | [http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/979bdf30ab8516e9710818fbbaf144a0_normal.jpeg Waciuma http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/979bdf30ab8516e9710818fbbaf144a0_normal.jpeg Waciuma] -- Wikipedia edits audio-lized [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. I just added this one to </span>[http://landmark-project.com <span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Landmarks for Schools</span>]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">.</span> | [[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Very cool. I just added this one to </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 Elizabeth Perry -- Chartsbin has an interactive global nutrition and macronutrient chart - [http://chartsbin.com/view/1162 http://chartsbin.com/view/1162]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:15:02 | + | [http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg Elizabeth http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg Elizabeth] Perry -- Chartsbin has an interactive global nutrition and macronutrient chart - [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. It's saved on [http://landmark-project.com Landmarks for Schools] now.</span> | [[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Another one I didn't know about. It's saved on [http://landmark-project.com Landmarks for Schools] now.</span> | ||
| − | http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg 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 | + | [http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg Elizabeth http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg 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]] anonymous bob -- For more images of big numbers try chris jordans website or his TED talk<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:25:11 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] 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 Elizabeth Perry -- [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 | + | [http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg Elizabeth http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg Elizabeth] Perry -- [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! This is why I do this backchanneling.</span> | [[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Thanks! This is why I do this backchanneling.</span> | ||
| − | http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg Elizabeth Perry -- Site which provoked our questions about who is writing, dating, and geotagging this history...<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:34:53 | + | [http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg Elizabeth http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg 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]] Jay -- Google music visualisation - [http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/ http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:35:48 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] Jay -- Google music visualisation - [http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/ http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:35:48 | ||
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[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Very Cool!</span> | [[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Very Cool!</span> | ||
| − | http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg Elizabeth Perry -- For a beautiful visualization of Twitter and moods, see "We Feel Fine," [http://www.wefeelfine.org/ http://www.wefeelfine.org/] an art/data research project.<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:41:42 | + | [http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg Elizabeth http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg Elizabeth] Perry -- For a beautiful visualization of Twitter and moods, see "We Feel Fine," [http://www.wefeelfine.org/ http://www.wefeelfine.org/] an art/data research project.<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 0:41:42 |
[[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">This is one I use to show. It's one of many MANY examples of being able to see ourselves in ways that we never could before.</span> | [[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">This is one I use to show. It's one of many MANY examples of being able to see ourselves in ways that we never could before.</span> | ||
| − | http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7a1148cb993a75172a5bae945955fe8e_normal.jpeg Patrick -- Google public data explorer [https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 1:00:08 | + | [http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7a1148cb993a75172a5bae945955fe8e_normal.jpeg Patrick http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7a1148cb993a75172a5bae945955fe8e_normal.jpeg Patrick] -- Google public data explorer [https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 1:00:08 |
[[File:Generic.jpg]] anonymous bob -- Google bought gapminder in 2007. Cost unknown. Trendalyzer was the outcome.<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 1:02:07 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] anonymous bob -- Google bought gapminder in 2007. Cost unknown. Trendalyzer was the outcome.<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 1:02:07 | ||
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[[File:Generic.jpg]] anonymous bob -- More examples of what not to do here [http://www.worstinfographic.com/ http://www.worstinfographic.com/]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 1:11:13 | [[File:Generic.jpg]] anonymous bob -- More examples of what not to do here [http://www.worstinfographic.com/ http://www.worstinfographic.com/]<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 1:11:13 | ||
| − | http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg 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 | + | [http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg Elizabeth http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f000808f6cecd4adca2afeb1110ab51b_normal.jpeg 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. Here is a visualization I did years ago, using the data from the earthquake site I showed you earlier.</span> [http://youtu.be/Lm-qG1SgbRk Earthquake Visualization] | [[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">I played with it a few years ago. Here is a visualization I did years ago, using the data from the earthquake site I showed you earlier.</span> [http://youtu.be/Lm-qG1SgbRk Earthquake Visualization] | ||
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| − | http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6bdc23c2367a8bde395d6d709c27081a_normal.jpeg Maggie -- It is going to be fun trying out this new tool.<br/>28 Feb 2014 - 22:48:30 | + | [http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6bdc23c2367a8bde395d6d709c27081a_normal.jpeg Maggie http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6bdc23c2367a8bde395d6d709c27081a_normal.jpeg 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. I have certainly learned from yesterday's backchannel.</span> | [[File:Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">I hope that you did learn something new. I have certainly learned from yesterday's backchannel.</span> | ||
