Del.icio.us tagcloud
• Evidence-based medicine wordtree via IBM’s ManyEyes
• Mindmap navigation of mindmap in wikipedia
• http://www.wikimindmap.org/
• UM faculty size and salary by dept (IBM’s ManyEyes)
• Pregnancy timeline from xTimeline
• Beatles timeline from Dipity
• Del.icio.us social network tool
• Web page text analysis tool displayed as DNA bars
• ManyEyes bubble visualization (perchlorate in food, FDA data)
• FriendWheel from Facebook
Online Visualization and Organization Tools:
Outliners, Thought Organizers, Mindmapping, Timelines, & More
PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian,
Health Sciences Libraries, [email protected]
Overview
• Organization tools – GTD– Annotation– Outliners– Flowcharts– Mindmapping
• Visualization tools – Clouds– Timelines– Data visualization
• Resources
GTD
• “Get Things Done” tools– To do– Time management– Project management– People management
GTD: TODOIST
• Calendar
• Project management
• Integration
GTD: TODOIST
• Integration– Gmail– Mobile access– Widgets, plugins
GTD: TODOIST
• Gmail integration
GTD: Remember the Milk
• Task management, share or collaborate
• Integrates with Google Calendar, Twitter, iPhone/iPod, Gmail, Blackberry
GTD: Remember the Milk
• Twitter page
• Twitter accessible by web, software, Gmail, phone, and more.
• “Add tasks and send commands by direct message. I can send reminders, too.”
GTD: Sproutliner
GTD: Zoho Planner
• To-dos
• Reminders
• Annotations
GTD: Zoho Planner
• Shareable
• Reminders
GTD: TaskAnyone
• “Email a task. We’ll follow up until they follow through.”
• Reminders
• Project management
• Monitor progress
• Email or web
GTD: BackPack
• Team management
• Group calendar
• Announcements, to-dos, online accessible and editing
GTD - Highlights• To Dos
– TODOIST: http://todoist.com/• Integrates with Gmail, mobile, iGoogle, widgets & plugins
– Remember the Milk (RTM): http://www.rememberthemilk.com/• Integrates with Google Calendar, Gmail, Twitter, Blackberry,
iPhone/iPod
• To Dos & More– Sproutliner: http://sproutliner.com/– Zoho Planner: http://planner.zoho.com/
• People & Project Management– TaskAnyone: http://www.taskanyone.com/– BackPack ($$): http://backpackit.com/
Annotation & Note-Taking Tools
• Annotate the web
• Share your annotations
• Team analysis and markup of documents
• Share class notes
Notes: Zotero
• Not web-based
• Allows bookmarking of webpages
• Saves snapshot of page
• Allows annotation of page saved
• Citation management integrated
Notes: Jjot
Notes: Lino
Notes: Stickis
Notes: WizLite
• Grabs text from web pages as notes
Notes: Kwout
• Grabs screenshots
Notes: EverNote
• Grab snippets (variosu types) from the web
• Text, screenshots, images, search
• “Create, clip, and share notes on the web and see them everywhere”
• Windows, Mac, web, mobile
Notes: Fleck
Notes: A.nnotate
• Private or shared review, indexing, discussion
Notes: Hylighter
• For team review of documents
Notes: Hylighter
• Interface interesting
Notes: Notecentric
• Facebook integration
Notes: Google Notebook
Notes: Gist
Notes: Gist - what it really does
Notes: Assignment idea - Annotate Genes
Annotation & Note-Taking Tools - Highlights
• Annotate your bookmarks - Zotero (not web based)• Annotate the web and share your comments (like sticky notes):
– Jjot, Lino, Stickis• Grab bits of pages
– Wizlite, Kwout, EverNote• Share your comments & notes on web pages
– A.nnotate, Fleck • Teams: Hylighter, A.nnotate• Managing your class notes: Notecentric, Google Notebook• Gist “takes notes” for you• Teach annotation
Outliners & Thought Organizers
• Tools to introduce concepts of structured thinking
• Tools to use for outlining and writing support
• Most free, best fee
Outliners: Persuasion Map
• http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/
Outliners: Persuasion Map
• Advance organizer
• Reminders of process and place in process
Outliners: Boolify
• http://boolify.org/
Outliners: LooseStitch
• http://loosestitch.com/
Outliners: LooseStitch
Outliners: ThinkFold
• Collaborative
• Good for teamwork
• Web-based
Outliners: Scrivener
• Professonal writers tool, $$
Outliners & Thought Organizers
• How to: Persuasion Map, Boolify
• Web-based, personal use: LooseStitch, “publishable”
• Web-based, team use: ThinkFold
Flowcharts
• DrawAnywhere
• Gliffy
• Flowchart
Flowcharts: DrawAnywhere
Flowcharts: Gliffy
Flowcharts: Flowchart.com
Flowcharts: Flowchart.com
Flowcharts: Flowchart.com
Flowcharts: Flowchart.com
Mindmapping & Concept Mapping
• Mindmapping as a way of thinking
• Simple tools
• Collaboration - online, shareable, teamwork
• Downloads
Mindmaps: WikiMindMap
Mindmaps: Bubbl.us
Mindmaps: Mindmeister
Mindmaps: Mindmeister
• Editing view
• Team editing
Mindmaps: Mindmeister
• Exports to a variety of formats
Mindmaps: Cmap
• Cmap (Download): http://cmap.ihmc.us/ http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/
Mindmaps: FreeMind
• FreeMind (Download, Java): http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Mindmaps: FreeMind
• FreeMind: screenshot - computer knowledge
Mindmaps: FreeMind
• FreeMind: screenshot - German language
Mindmapping - Highlights
• What is mindmapping illustration: WikiMindMap
• Simple, online shareable: Bubbl.us
• Sophisticated, online, shareable: Mindmeister
• Downloads: Cmap, FreeMind
Tag & Word Clouds
• Exploration
• Concept generation / distillation
• Analysis
Clouds: Images (Flickr)
• Flickr: Explore Tags
Clouds: NewsFlashr
Clouds: Extipicious (Delicious)
• http://kevan.org/extispicious.cgi
Clouds: Cloudalicious
Clouds: TagCrowd
Clouds: TagCrowd• as topic summaries for speeches and written works• for visual analysis of survey data• as brand clouds that let companies see how they are perceived by the world• for data mining a text corpus• for helping writers and students reflect on their work• as name tags for conferences, cocktail parties or wherever new collaborations start• as resumes in a single glance• as visual poetry
Clouds: TagCrowd
• Cloud of “Leaves of Grass by Wal Whitman, top 50 words.
Clouds: ManyEyes
• Cloud of “Leaves of Grass by Wal Whitman, top 200 words
Clouds: ManyEyes
• Interactive cloud, allows navigation of text body
Timelines
• Obvious uses: – History – Biography – Individuals & institutions
• Creative uses– Clinical case study presentation– Track epidemiology of disease spread in community– Project planning– Any kind of temporal or process-oriented data– Storytelling or narrative process
Timelines: CircaVie
• http://circavie.com/
Timelines: CircaVie Example
• Beatles timeline
Timelines: Dipity
• http://www.dipity.com/
Timelines: Dipity - Example
• Beatles timeline
Timelines: Dipity - Example
• Equipment recalls
• Set up with an rss feed to add new events?
Timelines: Dipity - Example
• Equipment recalls
• Eample of event detail view
Timelines: Dipity - Example
• Recipes and diet management
Timelines: Dipity - Example
• Recipes and diet management
• Example of detail view - recipe
Timelines: xTimeline
• http://www.xtimeline.com/
• Features
• Searching
• Groups
• Public editing
Timelines: xTimeline - Example
• Pregnancy timeline
• Single author
Timelines: xTimeline - Example
• Higher education entry into Second Life
• Multiple authors
Timelines: xTimeline - Example
• Detail - entry point view
Timelines: xTimeline - Example
• Privacy restrictions
Timelines: xTimeline - Example
• Groups
• Sharing / commenting
Timelines - Highlights
• CircaVie & Dipity – Lightweight, easy to use, community based, intended
for social purposes & personal use– Multimedia
• Dipity – Integrates with other social media (Twitter, Picasa,
Flickr, Google, etc.)
• xTimeline– Wiki-style– Team work, collaboration– Multimedia
Data visualization
• Visualization helpful in analysis of a variety of types of data.
• Many types of data, many types of analysis, many types of display of data =
• Many tools
Visualization: Print
• Edward Tufte
• Wallstats
Visualization: Gapminder
Visualization: Mashups
• Expilicious, take 2
• A gazillion GoogleMap mashups
Visualization: Opte Project
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Visualization: Music
Visualization: Guess
Visualization: Lexipedia
Visualization: Swivel
• http://www.swivel.com/
Visualization: Swivel Example
• Beckett analysis of the Unnameable
Visualization: Swivel Example
• Pesticides in Broccoli
Visualization: ManyEyes
• http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/
Visualization: ManyEyes Example
• Word Cloud - Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
Visualization: ManyEyes Example
• EBM word tree
Visualization: ManyEyes Example
• University of Michigan faculty size and average salary by department
Visualization: ManyEyes Example
• FDA Survey Data on Perchorate in Food, 2005-2006
Data visualization - Highlights
• Variety of tools available for different domains
• Swivel especially strong in generating graphs
• ManyEyes especially rich source of various visual analyses, flexible, interactive, various types of datasets allowed
Additional resources
• Perez, Sarah. The Best Tools for Visualization. March 13, 2008 9:25 AM. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_best_tools_for_visualization.php
Resources: Eager Eyes
• http://www.eagereyes.org
Resources: Mind-mapping.org
Discovery - Del.icio.us
• http://del.icio.us/tags/visualization
• Browse by tags:– Annotation – Visualization / visualisation– Outliners– Organizers– Timelines+tools