Online Visualization Tools, November 11, 2008

Overview
Visualizing concepts
Visual search engines
Clouds
Mindmapping
Visualizing data
Timelines
Data visualization
Resources

Visualization: Why?
Chris Jordan: http://www.chrisjordan.com/

Visualization: Why?
http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/debates/
“ Palin has the longest sentences, Biden repeats himself the most and has the smallest vocabulary, while patterns for Obama and McCain are eerily similar.”

Visualization: Why?
World Wide Telescope: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

Visualization: Why?
Edward Tufte: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

Visual Search Engines
Visualize concepts for:
Navigation
Visualization
Concept generation
Background images
Discussion tools

Search: Words & Meaning
Curehunter (Dictionary)
http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do

Search: Concept Relationships
Curehunter: http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do

Search: Similarities
Literature-Map.com

Search: Visualizing the Answers
PubMed Faceoff: http://www.postgenomic.com/faces/index.php

Search Generating Visualization
AmazType: http://amaztype.tha.jp/

Search News
Spectra News Reader: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/components/spectra/index.html

CoolIris
http://www.cooliris.com/

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: Wordle

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

Clouds: TagGalaxy Words
http://www.taggalaxy.de/

Clouds: TagGalaxy Pics
http://www.taggalaxy.de/

Mindmapping
Mindmapping as concept visualization tool > WikiMindMap
Mindmapping online tool for collaboration > MindMeister
Offline personal mindmapping tool > FreeMind

WikiMindMap
http://www.wikimindmap.org

MindMeister
http://www.mindmeister.com

MindMeister Example

FreeMind Example
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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: Dipity
http://www.dipity.com/

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: xTimeline
http://www.xtimeline.com/
Features
Searching
Groups
Public editing

Timelines: xTimeline - Example
Pregnancy timeline
Single author

Higher education entry into Second Life
Multiple authors

Detail - entry point view

Privacy restrictions

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: Vispedia.stanford.edu

Visualization: Gapminder

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

EBM word tree

University of Michigan faculty size and average salary by department

FDA Survey Data on Perchorate in Food, 2005-2006

Visualization: Circos
http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/circos/

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

Mashups: SpotCrime
http://www.spotcrime.com/

Mashups: Extispicious
http://kevan.org/extispicious.cgi
A gazillion GoogleMap mashups

Mashups: Dipity+Flickr

Mashups: Dipity+YouTube

Mashups: EDIS
RSOE: EDIS (Emergency & Disaster Information Service): http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/?area=&lang=eng

Examples: Mapping
Worldkit.org

Examples: Mathematics
Garrett Lisi: Deferential Geometry: e8 polytope: http://deferentialgeometry.org/epe/

Examples: Table of Condiments
http://backtable.org/~blade/fnord/condiments.html

Examples/Resources: Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

Resources: VisualComplexity.com

Resources: FlowingData.com

Resources: StrangeMaps
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

Resources: Information Aesthetics
http://www.infosthetics.com/

Resources: Eager Eyes
http://www.eagereyes.org

Resources: Mind-mapping.org

Resources: NCIBI
Collection of life science visualisation tools: http://portal.ncibi.org/gateway/tools.php?category=4&sortedBy=name&order=ASC&suite=false

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
Data Visualization - Modern Approaches (Smashing Magazine, August 2007): http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/

Trends? Sprint
Sprint Widget: http://now.sprint.com/widget/

Trends? Google
Google: Code: BirdEye: http://code.google.com/p/birdeye/

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