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Online Visualization Tools
PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian,
Health Sciences Libraries, [email protected]
November 11, 2008© 2008 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.
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
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: 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
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
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: 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: VisualComplexity.com
Resources: FlowingData.com
Resources: StrangeMaps
• http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
Resources: Information Aesthetics
• http://www.infosthetics.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/
Want more?
• Discovery - Del.icio.us– http://del.icio.us/tags/visualization– http://del.icio.us/tags/visualisation
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Want more?
• These slides will be at:– http://slideshare.net/
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