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Patterns and Sensemaking: Information Visualization
George SiemensApril 25, 2007
Topics
• Information growth and overload• Aggregation, syndication – initial
attempt to cope• Information visualization: make
sense of abundance
• "If you have three pet dogs, give them names. If you have 10,000 head of cattle, don't bother"
David Gelernter
Infoluenza
“failure to master our information resources and that to achieve contentment at work in solving our business problems”
http://knowledgefutures.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/infoluenza/
See also Cures:http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2007/04/18/
infoluenza_cures.html
Brains crave patterns
• A pattern is
– About sense making– Understanding– Temporary “state of”– Evolving, emergent– Aggregation, context, experience
Current state
• Information generation tools – exploded
• Aggregation tools – growing
• Data, information manipulation tools: embryonic
“The beset graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death”
E. Tufte
Tags: Web of meaning
Visualization
• Grunt cognition• Move to meaning/sensemaking • Shifts perspectives• Provides insight• Memory• New connections
GDP
http://www.worldmapper.org/
Population
http://www.worldmapper.org/
http://news.com.com/The+Big+Picture/2030-12_3-5843390.html
Exposure of periphery: loose connections
http://www.quintura.com/
Collective Voice
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/04/audience_collective_voice_display.html
Network analysis
http://www.orgnet.com/netindustry.html
Patterns, history
Patterns, history
Hierarchy Edge Bundles3D File Manager
•http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
Political blogosphere, 2004 Blue Brain
Sensemaking
• What is it?• What does it mean?• What perspectives are included?• Shared?
Where does “knowledge” reside?
Decentralized
Distributed
Disintermediated
Disaggregated
Dis-Integrated
Democratic
Dynamic
Desegregated
http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/paper92/paper92.html
Via: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?presentation=45
Networks: Downes
What impacts network formation?
Spaces of knowledge
Networks & Ecologies
• Filter• Foster• Form patterns• Create archive “future repurposing”
Yeah, ok, but what’s the use?
• Network models of learning are adaptive
• Ecologies must be diverse and enabling• Today’s information is tomorrow’s
sensemaking• Sane, digital life• Complex, integrated understanding• Multi-faceted• Multi-ontology
www.elearnspace.orgwww.knowingknowledge.com
www.connectivism.ca