More visualisation Research and notes.. still trying to nut out a good theme

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You will also select a theme to be explored visually, which represents an awareness of

dynamic media content and considers data visualization. Contemporary social issues

often involve many facts, events, opinions and locations with potentially large data sets

being tracked dynamically. How will you visualize a complex issue

and facilitate an ease of navigation for the (target) audience to engage with your chosen

topic? There are numerous approaches to explore the relationship between selected

dynamic data and its visual representation, linear or nonlinear, first person/autobiographical form, documentary, abstracted or historical formats.

http://www.coolinfographics.com/ I really like the

combination of the Venn diagram in the center and the

mind map nodes that extend outward. The sizes of the

circles doesnt have any meaning, just sized to fit the text.

This is a really good way for Habitat for Humanity to tell

their story with a visual explanation.

A cool infographic is one that not only forces you to stop

and stare at it with awe, but also and above all one thatgives you insights that you would not get otherwise. Cool

infographics reveal patterns and trends that lie buried

below mountains of data and facts. They make complexity

clear without compromising its integrity.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/gallery/2012/sep/27/information-beautiful-awards

The first image above is has a strong message, it keeps the stats intertwined with the fact these stats are

about people. The above right image is a beautiful display of data I don't know that I could read it super

easily but could find general trends etc easily.


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(Below) Data Visualisation, Lunar Calandar, Dimitre Lima

The name of the month is in the outside circle and the number of what day of the month it

is makes the circular band. It looks beautiful

This (below) is awesome! Web of Science, Olivier Beauchesne build an intricate map of

scientific collaborations between cities all over the world, between 2005 and 2009. The

brightness of the lines is a function of the logarithm of the number of collaborations

betweena pair of cities and the logarithm of the distance between those same two cities .http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=747&index=747&domain=

OR http://collabo.olihb.com/

see next page too


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http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=759&index=759&domain=

and https://dhs.stanford.edu/spatial-humanities/visualizing-databases/

(below)These just caught my eye, very organic, pretty..and .. bird like.

"Top Contributors to the Catalogue of Life and their associated species, references and

databases" is what this visualisation means, I have no idea what that means, and couldn't

gain any further insight from the text that accompanied it so will leave it as a beautiful

network come graph. Other than - he uses gephi.org "Gephi is an interactive visualization

and explorationplatformfor all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and

hierarchical graphs." AND THAT APPARENTLY YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE?!!?

"Gephi is a tool for people that have to explore and understand graphs. Like Photoshop but

for data, the user interacts with the representation, manipulate the structures, shapes and

colors to reveal hidden properties. The goal is to help data analysts to make hypothesis,

intuitively discover patterns, isolate structure singularities or faults during data sourcing. "
http://gephi.org/features/http://gephi.org/features/http://gephi.org/features/http://gephi.org/features/


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AND http://tinyurl.com/55tlpz

(imgs below)

!! I WANT TO DO THIS !! LOL. well i guess i could do it in a mall?? maybe?? .. or public

rest room, see how long people spend looking at them selves in the mirror compared to

in the toilet cubical or washing their hands.

Project Description:This is a simple, curious and imaginative experiment. On Christmas 2006, bumblebee

(flickr name) decided to build a visual summary of his son, daughter and cat's movements

in their living room over a period of an hour.

To have an accurate understanding of their paths in space he used a marked-out equally-

spaced grid in masking tape and then filmed the protagonists moving across the grid for

one hour. He then reviewed the video and plotted their movements on each minute of

the video's timecode onto a 'room map' with corresponsing grid.

"Thanks for the comments :) The cat's story is one of moving from heat source to heat

source and then food. It starts at the heat source -radiator- behind the armchair and then

moves over (right) towards the french window where the sun's shining through. It then

moves off towards it's food outside of the room - for the diagram's sake this shows it

lingering by the door (contrary to the way it looks I didn't lock them in) :-) I liked the little

underlying micro narratives that you could take from the map - much like Denis Wood's

'Pumpkin Map'. As for the movements - candy/cake-fuelled/TV-addled kids and sitting still

(for any length of time) don't really fit comfortably in the same sentence ;-) Add in the cat

who's two big wants are heat and food and you can see how even only an hour generates

much movement in this context."

"Cool, yr living room seems very active. There's no sense of when someone's at rest or

when they're wandering though. Maybe the size of the dot could indicate amt of time

spent in that location?"

-This is fantastic - I tried doing something at uni to plot different activities (like making a cup

of tea) on a long exposure by getting someone to carry lights around. Only one of the

photos came out well - I wish i'd seen this though!

-Some new movement maps coming online soon. First

one looks at the activity over 10 minutes of a busy

lunchtime food counter.


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I like the colour palette below..

Strong imagery, Information is Beautiful awards: Cost of War


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or http://weeplaces.com/foursquare/

Weeplace maps an individual's shared locations on Foursquare. Blue circles depict popular

places, which grow depending on the number of visits, while yellow lines connect current

and previous locations with the goal of charting one's movement. A timeline on the bottom

also provides additional information on the volume of check-ins over time. Anyone with a

Foursquare account can simply login to Weeplaces and start mapping their trails.


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I quite like the paper 3D feel of the below info

graphic.

I like how the below looks so delicate and in motion

from a distance, not so much up close. But the

colour coding really gives user an easy and quick

understanding of patterns etcwww.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=748&index=748&domain=

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