Online Visualization Tools

PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian,

Health Sciences Libraries, pfa@umich.edu

© 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

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