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What happens when you combine data and Web 2.0? Mountains of data are piling up in libraries and corporate intranets, but how do we say it visually and make data more useful? Fichter looks at new online tools that enable sharing, analysis, and data visualization to show trends, associations and new insights on your library website that quickly engage, inform, and empower your customers to create their own visualizations. Tools such as Many Eyes go beyond the data visualization and tap into the social dimension encouraging sharing, collaboration, and reuse. Fichter talks about what happens when data goes “social.” From visual dictionaries, textual analysis of works of fiction, to star size and nutritional components of Big Macs, hop on board for this fast-paced look at an amazing set of tools that are at your fingertips.
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OutlineData Visualization
Library Opportunities
Social + Data
Tools
Web 1.0 Realm of folks that knew HTML coding Creators: “geek” gene
Web 2.0 Everyone can participate
Don’t need to know HTML Blog, wiki, ..
“Amateur” professionalsCitizen journalistsPhotographersCartographersQuestion answer services
The rise of the amateur statistician.
New Stage: DIY Data < 5 minutes to set up data collection < 5 minutes to build on tables to create
data visualizatons:charts, graphs, maps, tag clouds
No longer the purvey a select few
Power of Visualization Conveying information visually can open
the hearts, minds and eyes Understanding
What We Eat
http://relevantmagazine.com/releblog/revolution/what-we-eat/
Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07
Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey VillageFood expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03
“Tangible” Visualizations
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/01/rice_demographics_exhibition.html
Google My Maps Go to maps.google.com Click on My Maps Add pushpins plus notes to create a map Embed the code in your library site
Library branchesHistorical buildingsLocations in stories
Easy to use of anyone
Web Site Structure Mapper Blue: links Red tables Green: div
Violet: images Yellow: forms Orange: breaks, paragraphs .. Black: the <HTML> tag Gray: all other tags
www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/
Little Contest
Amazon
www.amazon.com
Phoenix Public Library
www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org
Wired
www.wired.com
Photo by Pascal Vuylsteker CC Attribution 2.5
Data Visualizations Explosion It’s a visual world
Notice the growth of the use of rich information graphics and visualizations in newspapers and magazines
Lots of opportunities and new tools popping up that help display data visually
Population Density of the USA
www.time.com/time/covers/20061030/where_we_live/
Newsmap
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
USA
Canada
Both a mashup and data visualization. Compares news coverage across countries and cultures.
Data “Ecosystem”
Open data Open set of services & applications (APIs) Us (creators, consumers)
*API - set of routines for accessing an application or service
Open Content
Web
Charts, Graphs, Data Visualizations
Applications
How “Free” is Data
Troy Anderson’s from DataPlace – Google Tech Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_7MSaNXp-o (13:23)
Advantages of “Social” Data Idealistic view
Cautiously optimistic
Skeptical
“Idealistic”
Slide from: Bricolage: Data at PlayJoe Hellerstein, UC Berkeley
Now - Future
Slide from: Bricolage: Data at PlayJoe Hellerstein, UC Berkeley
Idealistic “Soon, on Timepedia.org, you will be able
to come join us in building the machine, or visualize, learn, and analyze our shared history, we hope for the betterment of the human condition. Sincerely, Timepedia's Staff”
http://timepedia.blogspot.com/2007/11/chronoscope-released.html
Skeptical/Pessimistic
Data Authority - garbage in, garbage out Deliberate misinformation, spam, errors
Provenance Privacy
“Identifying “banned books” readers or by mining Amazon Wishlists and combining information with Yahoo People …
What Happens When You combine the people
and data and Web 2.0 tools?
Less “going with what my gut says”
“Workable” data Reproducible results Borrow from others Level the playing field(corporations & communities) Disseminate expertise
Photo by .eti Creative Commons
Spontaneous Communities Conversations around collections of data Example: flickr - High Dynamic Range
photo HDR is two or more exposures Comments, community, practicesGreater dynamic range of exposures
Photo: The last sunray – Barcelona by Mor (bcnbits) licensed under Creative Commons
Look at Some Examples
How to put pretty stuff in those drops. Tutorial below: Photo by Steve Took It Creative Commons
DataPlace™ Data and maps Assemble your own geographies from
neighborhood to nation Connect. Discuss. Collaborate.
Host Important Discussions Online Share a Calendar Save and Distribute Important Files Share Uploaded Datasets
www.dataplace.org
Under the Hood Many activities to create “Free
Harmonized Data to the People” Take data that doesn’t crawl as well Harmonize it
Riddle
Troy Anderson’s from DataPlace – Google Tech Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_7MSaNXp-o (34:00)
EveryBlock
Civic information
— building permits, crimes, …
News articles and blog entries
Web stuff – Craigslist, Yelp
www.everyblock.com
Timepedia & Chronoscope Stories about our past Chronoscope is a visualization platform
under development for time series datasets. Their goal is create an experience of Google
Maps or Google Earth to time series data
timepedia.org/chronoscope
TracknGraph Walking Tracker Investment Tracker Mood Tracker Baby Sleep Schedule Breastfeeding Tracker Weight Tracker Child Growth Tracker Calorie Counter Workout Tracker Blood Pressure Monitor
www.trackngraph.com
Social Features Share
Control accessGroup updatingPublish anywhere
Create team trackers
Tabular Data Search and Display
Find tabular data and chart it Upload tables Going social end of 2008
Almost 3 million tables & 179 million graphs
Political Contributions by State
www.graphwise.com/?dn=GoogleMapGadget
Freebase 3.38 million topics Facts and statistics “built by the community and for the
community—free for anyone to query, contribute to, built applications on top of, or integrate into their websites”
Creative Commons “attribution” license
www.freebase.com
Social Sites for Data Visualization
Allows new kind of data analysis Caters to the curious and
serious, statistician and the citizen
Important new medium
Social Data Sites
Photo by maqrollSlide: Tom Coates, Yahoo!
Social Data Tools
Gapminder
Swivel
Many Eyes
Swivel
Swivel – Tasty Data Goodies
http://www.swivel.com
Does bowling really burn the most calories?
Data Badge
Many Eyes from IBM Alphaworks
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home
Why is the Sun Called a Dwarf Star?
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SJjqGFsOtha6ICEU6EQIF2-
Love – Analyzing Textual Works
Many Eyes
1. View and discuss visualizations2. View and discuss data sets3. Create visualizations from existing data sets
If you register, you can also: 4. Rate data sets and visualizations5. Upload your own data
6. Create and participate in topic hubs7. Select items to watch8. Track your contributions, watchlist, and topic hubs9. See comments that others have written to you
Trendalyzer / Gapminder
Video of Hans Rosling showing the gapminder software and lively animations of world development trends.
Like to Play with Code
illustrator Howard V Brown Photo: Radio Rover Creative Commons
Google Visualization API Uses the visualization techniques from
Gapminder - motion charts flashy 3D funnels pyramids, pie & donuts time series charts (stock prices) data gauges geographical heat maps Gantt charts
Supported in Google Docs Spreadsheets & some new Gadgets
Yahoo Charting API
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs/module_charts.html
More Tools Emprise JavaScript Charts
http://www.ejschart.com/ PHP/SWF Charts
http://www.maani.us/charts
Getting Started with Data Visualizations is Easy
Step 1 – Get an idea
Step 2 – Create an account
Step 3 – Read the fine print about use
Step 4 – Create it!
API: Sign up for a developer tokenhttp://aws.amazon.com/http://www.google.com/apis/maps/http://api.search.yahoo.com/webservices/register_application
Three Ideas Chart a week
DataPlace Google Maps
Library, Historical Buildings etc. Frappr
Pushpins to mark places in our town mentioned in fictional works
Frappr
http://www.frappr.com/blogginglibrarians/
Easy to use of anyone
