Online Visualization and Organization Tools

Slide 1: Del.icio.us tagcloud

Slide 2: • Evidence-based medicine wordtree via IBM’s ManyEyes

Slide 3: • Mindmap navigation of mindmap in wikipedia • http://www.wikimindmap.org/

Slide 4: • UM faculty size and salary by dept (IBM’s ManyEyes)

Slide 5: • Pregnancy timeline from xTimeline • Beatles timeline from Dipity

Slide 6: • Del.icio.us social network tool

Slide 7: • Web page text analysis tool displayed as DNA bars

Slide 8: • ManyEyes bubble visualization (perchlorate in food, FDA data)

Slide 9: • FriendWheel from Facebook

Slide 10: Online Visualization and Organization Tools: Outliners, Thought Organizers, Mindmapping, Timelines, & More PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, pfa@umich.edu

Slide 11: Overview • Organization tools – GTD – Annotation – Outliners – Flowcharts – Mindmapping • Visualization tools – Clouds – Timelines – Data visualization • Resources

Slide 12: GTD • “Get Things Done” tools – To do – Time management – Project management – People management

Slide 13: GTD: TODOIST • Calendar • Project management • Integration

Slide 14: GTD: TODOIST • Integration – Gmail – Mobile access – Widgets, plugins

Slide 15: GTD: TODOIST • Gmail integration

Slide 16: GTD: Remember the Milk • Task management, share or collaborate • Integrates with Google Calendar, Twitter, iPhone/iPod, Gmail, Blackberry

Slide 17: 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.”

Slide 18: GTD: Sproutliner

Slide 19: GTD: Zoho Planner • To-dos • Reminders • Annotations

Slide 20: GTD: Zoho Planner • Shareable • Reminders

Slide 21: GTD: TaskAnyone • “Email a task. We’ll follow up until they follow through.” • Reminders • Project management • Monitor progress • Email or web

Slide 22: GTD: BackPack • Team management • Group calendar • Announcements, to-dos, online accessible and editing

Slide 23: 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/

Slide 24: Annotation & Note-Taking Tools • Annotate the web • Share your annotations • Team analysis and markup of documents • Share class notes

Slide 25: Notes: Zotero • Not web-based • Allows bookmarking of webpages • Saves snapshot of page • Allows annotation of page saved • Citation management integrated

Slide 26: Notes: Jjot

Slide 27: Notes: Lino

Slide 28: Notes: Stickis

Slide 29: Notes: WizLite • Grabs text from web pages as notes

Slide 30: Notes: Kwout • Grabs screenshots

Slide 31: 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

Slide 32: Notes: Fleck

Slide 33: Notes: A.nnotate • Private or shared review, indexing, discussion

Slide 34: Notes: Hylighter • For team review of documents

Slide 35: Notes: Hylighter • Interface interesting

Slide 36: Notes: Notecentric • Facebook integration

Slide 37: Notes: Google Notebook

Slide 38: Notes: Gist

Slide 39: Notes: Gist - what it really does

Slide 40: Notes: Assignment idea - Annotate Genes

Slide 41: 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

Slide 42: Outliners & Thought Organizers • Tools to introduce concepts of structured thinking • Tools to use for outlining and writing support • Most free, best fee

Slide 43: Outliners: Persuasion Map • http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/ persuasion_map/

Slide 44: Outliners: Persuasion Map • Advance organizer • Reminders of process and place in process

Slide 45: Outliners: Boolify • http://boolify.org/

Slide 46: Outliners: LooseStitch • http://loosestitch.com/

Slide 47: Outliners: LooseStitch

Slide 48: Outliners: ThinkFold • Collaborative • Good for teamwork • Web-based

Slide 49: Outliners: Scrivener • Professonal writers tool, $$

Slide 50: Outliners & Thought Organizers • How to: Persuasion Map, Boolify • Web-based, personal use: LooseStitch, “publishable” • Web-based, team use: ThinkFold

Slide 51: Flowcharts • DrawAnywhere • Gliffy • Flowchart

Slide 52: Flowcharts: DrawAnywhere

Slide 53: Flowcharts: Gliffy

Slide 54: Flowcharts: Flowchart.com

Slide 58: Mindmapping & Concept Mapping • Mindmapping as a way of thinking • Simple tools • Collaboration - online, shareable, teamwork • Downloads

Slide 59: Mindmaps: WikiMindMap

Slide 60: Mindmaps: Bubbl.us

Slide 61: Mindmaps: Mindmeister

Slide 62: Mindmaps: Mindmeister • Editing view • Team editing

Slide 63: Mindmaps: Mindmeister • Exports to a variety of formats

Slide 64: Mindmaps: Cmap • Cmap (Download): http://cmap.ihmc.us/ http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/

Slide 65: Mindmaps: FreeMind • FreeMind (Download, Java): http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/inde x.php/Main_Page

Slide 66: Mindmaps: FreeMind • FreeMind: screenshot - computer knowledge

Slide 67: Mindmaps: FreeMind • FreeMind: screenshot - German language

Slide 68: Mindmapping - Highlights • What is mindmapping illustration: WikiMindMap • Simple, online shareable: Bubbl.us • Sophisticated, online, shareable: Mindmeister • Downloads: Cmap, FreeMind

Slide 69: Tag & Word Clouds • Exploration • Concept generation / distillation • Analysis

Slide 70: Clouds: Images (Flickr) • Flickr: Explore Tags

Slide 71: Clouds: NewsFlashr

Slide 72: Clouds: Extipicious (Delicious) • http://kevan.org/extispicious.cgi

Slide 73: Clouds: Cloudalicious

Slide 74: Clouds: TagCrowd

Slide 75: 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

Slide 76: Clouds: TagCrowd • Cloud of “Leaves of Grass by Wal Whitman, top 50 words.

Slide 77: Clouds: ManyEyes • Cloud of “Leaves of Grass by Wal Whitman, top 200 words

Slide 78: Clouds: ManyEyes • Interactive cloud, allows navigation of text body

Slide 79: 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

Slide 80: Timelines: CircaVie • http://circavie.com/

Slide 81: Timelines: CircaVie Example • Beatles timeline

Slide 82: Timelines: Dipity • http://www.dipity.com/

Slide 83: Timelines: Dipity - Example • Beatles timeline

Slide 84: Timelines: Dipity - Example • Equipment recalls • Set up with an rss feed to add new events?

Slide 85: Timelines: Dipity - Example • Equipment recalls • Eample of event detail view

Slide 86: Timelines: Dipity - Example • Recipes and diet management

Slide 87: Timelines: Dipity - Example • Recipes and diet management • Example of detail view - recipe

Slide 88: Timelines: xTimeline • http://www.xtimeline.com/ • Features • Searching • Groups • Public editing

Slide 89: Timelines: xTimeline - Example • Pregnancy timeline • Single author

Slide 90: Timelines: xTimeline - Example • Higher education entry into Second Life • Multiple authors

Slide 91: Timelines: xTimeline - Example • Detail - entry point view

Slide 92: Timelines: xTimeline - Example • Privacy restrictions

Slide 93: Timelines: xTimeline - Example • Groups • Sharing / commenting

Slide 94: 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

Slide 95: 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

Slide 96: Visualization: Print • Edward Tufte • Wallstats

Slide 97: Visualization: Gapminder

Slide 98: Visualization: Mashups • Expilicious, take 2 • A gazillion GoogleMap mashups

Slide 99: Visualization: Opte Project QuickTimeﾪ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture.

Slide 100: Visualization: Music

Slide 101: Visualization: Guess

Slide 102: Visualization: Lexipedia

Slide 103: Visualization: Swivel • http://www.swivel.com/

Slide 104: Visualization: Swivel Example • Beckett analysis of the Unnameable

Slide 105: Visualization: Swivel Example • Pesticides in Broccoli

Slide 106: Visualization: ManyEyes • http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/man yeyes/

Slide 107: Visualization: ManyEyes Example • Word Cloud - Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman

Slide 108: Visualization: ManyEyes Example • EBM word tree

Slide 109: Visualization: ManyEyes Example • University of Michigan faculty size and average salary by department

Slide 110: Visualization: ManyEyes Example • FDA Survey Data on Perchorate in Food, 2005-2006

Slide 111: 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

Slide 112: Additional resources • Perez, Sarah. The Best Tools for Visualization. March 13, 2008 9:25 AM. http://www.readwr iteweb.com/archiv es/the_best_tools _for_visualization. php

Slide 113: Resources: Eager Eyes • http://www.eagereyes.org

Slide 114: Resources: Mind-mapping.org

Slide 115: Discovery - Del.icio.us • http://del.icio.us/tags/visualization • Browse by tags: – Annotation – Visualization / visualisation – Outliners – Organizers – Timelines+tools

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