online visualization tools
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Podcast session for the IT Bootcamp series now archived in iTunesU as part of Open.MichiganTRANSCRIPT
Online Visualization Tools
PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian,
Health Sciences Libraries, [email protected]
© 2008 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.
Overview
• Visualizing concepts– Visual search engines – Clouds– Mindmapping
• Visualizing data– Timelines– Data visualization
• Resources
Visual & Clustering Search Engines
• AmazType• Ask • Boolify• Clusty • CureHunter• Don Busca• Exalead• Gigablast• GoPubmed• Grokker• iBoogie • IncyWincy
• Kartoo• KillerInfo • KoolTorch• ManagedQ• MedStory• Mooter• Quintura• RedZee• TouchGraph• Ujiko• Vivisimo• Walk2Web
iBoogie
Gigablast
Mooter
Quintura
MedStory
GoPubmed.org
GoPubmed.org
Boolify
Kartoo
Walk2Web
Touchgraph
AmazType
• http://amaztype.tha.jp/
Curehunter (Dictionary)
• http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do
Curehunter
• http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do
Visual Search Engines
• Visualize concepts for:– Navigation– Visualization– Concept generation – Background images – Discussion tools
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
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
MindMeister Export
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: 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: Gapminder
Visualization: Mashups
• Expilicious, take 2
• A gazillion GoogleMap mashups
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
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
• http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
VisualComplexity.com
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/
Resources: Eager Eyes
• http://www.eagereyes.org
Resources: Information Aesthetics
• http://www.infosthetics.com/
Resources: Mind-mapping.org
Want more?
• Discovery - Del.icio.us– http://del.icio.us/tags/visualization– http://del.icio.us/tags/visualisation
• These slides will be at:– http://slideshare.net/
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