To show multiple forms of visuals using 1 set of data.
1 - Charts
2 - Spiderwebs
3 - Interactive Links
4 - Geographical Maps
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Abstract
Data visualization is the newest
form of global communication through a series of organized visuals that form
connections between information and users. With the advent of the Internet and
the wealth of information that is has brought to us, we as users are bombarded
with great amounts of information on a daily basis. Attempting to sift through
all of this information can be quite taxing, so the combination of information
with visual design has helped create a place where we can view the information
in one visual arena.
My goal is not to write a research
paper on what data visualization is, but to create a series of visual designs
that embodies what it looks like and how it can offer an organized and
compacted form of what it essentially is. I will probably create several
animated flash files and create a mini film about what data visualization is.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Cindy's Fiber Shed
Blog Link:
http://thoughts-to-threads.blogspot.com/
A thought about how to show your map. If you are able to get each place to send you swatches of fabrics that they create and cut them out into shapes of the animals, mountains, farm buildings, etc to represent each company. Then sew them onto a large piece of muslin or some other fabric to make your map.
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Thought this was something interesting you might want to check out:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2PySDE/inhabitat.com/wind-powered-knitting-machine-lets-nature-knit-scarves/
http://thoughts-to-threads.blogspot.com/
A thought about how to show your map. If you are able to get each place to send you swatches of fabrics that they create and cut them out into shapes of the animals, mountains, farm buildings, etc to represent each company. Then sew them onto a large piece of muslin or some other fabric to make your map.
Examples:
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Thought this was something interesting you might want to check out:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2PySDE/inhabitat.com/wind-powered-knitting-machine-lets-nature-knit-scarves/
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Data Visualization Topic Ideas
1. Making / Displaying Connections
- Creating Global Webs
2. Visual Communication
- Content + Graphics = Visual Data
Newsmap's objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media.
Currently, the internet presents a highly disorganized collage of information. Many of us are working in an information-soaked world. There is too much of everything. We are subject everywhere to a sensory overload of images, bombarded with information; in magazines and advertisements, on TV, radio, in the cityscape. The internet is a wonderful communication tool, but day after day we find ourselves constantly dealing with information overload. Today, the internet presents a new challenge, the wide and unregulated distribution of information requires new visual paradigms to organize, simplify and analyze large amounts of data. New user interface challenges are arising to deal with all that overwhelming quantity of information.
3. Paradigm Changing: Conveyance of Messages to Readers
- Leaving search method of perusing text to perusing gathered visuals
4. New Marketing Tool
- Heat Signatures of User Viewing Patterns
- "We Feel Fine" Site:
We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine's Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.
At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what's on our blogs, what's in our hearts, what's in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.
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A Heatmap is an easy way to understand what users do on your site. It’s a visual representation showing you where users click and what they do.
5. New Way of Presenting Statistical Data
- Taking large amounts of information and compressing it into
smaller more visual arena
- Company promises that the days of mining through pages and
pages of tiny thumbnails in an effort to find the item you are
looking for are over.
- Creating Global Webs
2. Visual Communication
- Content + Graphics = Visual Data
Newsmap's objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media.
Currently, the internet presents a highly disorganized collage of information. Many of us are working in an information-soaked world. There is too much of everything. We are subject everywhere to a sensory overload of images, bombarded with information; in magazines and advertisements, on TV, radio, in the cityscape. The internet is a wonderful communication tool, but day after day we find ourselves constantly dealing with information overload. Today, the internet presents a new challenge, the wide and unregulated distribution of information requires new visual paradigms to organize, simplify and analyze large amounts of data. New user interface challenges are arising to deal with all that overwhelming quantity of information.
3. Paradigm Changing: Conveyance of Messages to Readers
- Leaving search method of perusing text to perusing gathered visuals
4. New Marketing Tool
- Heat Signatures of User Viewing Patterns
- "We Feel Fine" Site:
We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine's Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.
At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what's on our blogs, what's in our hearts, what's in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.
------------------------------------------------------------
A Heatmap is an easy way to understand what users do on your site. It’s a visual representation showing you where users click and what they do.
5. New Way of Presenting Statistical Data
- Taking large amounts of information and compressing it into
smaller more visual arena
- Company promises that the days of mining through pages and
pages of tiny thumbnails in an effort to find the item you are
looking for are over.
Data Visualization Info Sites
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TED Talks
Friday, August 31, 2012
Notes for Bryan
Blog Link:
After reading your blog, my thoughts would be to have more of a focal point - I felt kind of confused while reading because there were some tangents that seemed to start whole other new conversations. Maybe it is due to my lack of understanding of your topic from the beginning (which is more to do with me & my difficulty with philosophical conveyances vs your writing ;) but I would start getting into the meat of one subject and begin understanding and then get thrown into a different one where I had to start all over again. I guess if you could start by stating your main goal in a little more detail, which I'm thinking was describing a structure/process, that would help someone like me understand better. Hope this makes sense o.O
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Another thought, might be totally off topic, but thought I'd send it to you anyways in case it springboards other ideas for you - Emoto's claim that human consciousness has an effect on the molecular structure of water. Since, as humans, we are largely made up of water, how does our consciousness affect our bodies at a molecular level?
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This is the octopus chromatophores video I had told you about:
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Data Visualization Examples
Here are some examples of what data visualization looks like and how it displays information in a visual format.
Last.forward: Is a downloadable, open-source tool to visualize any Last.fm user’s social network, including relationships between other users.
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