Cool Text Visualizations and Reminder….


Text Visualization by Stefanie Posavec Hi Res images

Choose Your Own Adventure Visualization

Album Visualization: Illinois/Sufijan Stevens by Jax De Leon

(ALSO)

REMINDER…
End of semester course evaluations~
You can access their course-rating surveys in three ways: through a link in the email you receive, by clicking on a link you see when they log into Blackboard, and through a mobile app for Apple and Android smartphones. Complete your course evaluations before December 19th.

Thanks!
Zannah

Project Progress Update due by the end of the day 11/28!

Post a SHORT note on your project progress here. Please post by tomorrow night, 11/28. Include a sentence or two about what you’ve been up to, and links to any reference material (such as existing example visualizations or projects that inspired you, etc) that you’ve found useful, and be sure to note any challenges that you might have encountered!

Example Update: “This week I cleaned my data and made a plan to return to the library to take photos on Saturday. My main difficulty so far is determining which fields I will use in the visualization– is the media type important? I found this review of using maps in visualization helpful.”

 

 

Final Project Proposal and Plan! Due 11/21/2012

Write a final project proposal and post it as a comment below.  I would like you to work with the BHS data; if you have another interest we can discuss. In your proposal, be sure to write three or four sentences on each of the following points:

  • Target Users and user behaviors/goals
  • Data set (source, description, parameter)
  • Question you hope to answer, ideas or concept you plan to explore
  • Approach (visualization of whole/detail, interface redesign, data-artwork)
  • Potential problems or challenges
  • Modes of interaction
  • Aesthetic approach

Also, include a list of steps and delivery dates for completing your project in the weeks that remain in the semester, an example of this plan narrative might be:

  • by the 22nd I will have completed the project proposal and acquired the data I need, cleaned it up as a CSV file, and be ready to visualize (chosen tools and software to work with, written pseudocode, and requested Processing help from Zannah or Sepand (if needed))
  • by the 29th I will have returned to BHS and taken photos of xx materials in the collection, plus I will have taken a first pass at visualizing the data in Many Eyes, Processing, or another tool, and have several examples to show
  • by the 6th I will have refined my visualizations and incorporated class/user feedback, and started work on designing special graphics and interactive elements (roll-overs, etc).
  • 13th: presentation prepared, showing my product and describing my process, background considerations, problems/challenges, and what I did to solve them.

If you have any questions, please let me know ASAP. We’ll do progress check-ins throughout the process, and I can tailor class lectures to meet specific needs.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Your thoughts and comments on the Brooklyn Historical Society field trip

map

Before our next class meeting, take some time to look at the data sets provided (via my email to you) and think about your experience with the materials on-site. What was most interesting or striking to you about the materials? What would kind of questions or connections came to mind as you looked at specific materials? What questions came to mind when you considered the collection as a whole? Of the sets data we’ve been provided, what parameters or combination of parameters (dates, call numbers, titles/descriptions, subjects, locations, names, tags, etc) are most interesting, and what formats might be best to visualize them?

Comment on this post with your thoughts! (I will be approving the comments as they come in, so if yours doesn’t show up immediately it just means it’s been held for approval.)

Adam’s Presentation Links on Visualizing Social Networks

Presentation
New York Times R&D – Project Cascade: http://nytlabs.com/projects/cascade.html
Project Cascade Video (Silent): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPr3x9CRDDw
Bonus: TEDxVancouver – Jer Thorp (New York Times R&D) – The Weight of Data: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q6aA5qdCzU
My Linked InMap: see attached
Bonus: DJ Patil explaining LinkedIn social graph visualizations - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se2u5RyGaNE
Facebook Engineering Intern Paul Butler – Visualizing Friendships – https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=469716398919
Facebook Engineer Jack Lindamood: https://www.facebook.com/jack?ref=blog
Facebook Visualization – Project Palantir (Facebook Hackathon): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTQf8MqEfg0
Non-releated Bonus

Bonus: Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg, IBM Visual Communication Lab - Democratizing Visualization- PARC Forum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2BoolESJf4
Bonus: Palantir (not related to the Facebook project above) CEO Dr. Alex Karp on Charlie Rose (on the power of data in global politics) –  http://www.palantir.com/what-we-do/

Searches, Maps, etc.

Analyzing Google Searches to Predict Voting Behavior

Finding data:
USGS
NYC Open Data
Data.gov

Geo-Mapping projects:

Stamen Design: Energy Efficiency in the San Gabriel Valley
Is “efficiency” negative or positive? What’s the community vs. individual resident impact? Note grid density encoding.

State of the Polar Bear
Data density, multiple forms, compare across small multiples. “Drilling down.” Interface cues, multiple access points for the same data. Audience?

Personal Mapping Projects
Everywhere I’ve been
and
Altas of the Habitual

More GPS visualizations
Infrastructure/supply chain visualizations from PBS
Welcome to the Anthropcene
3D visualization movie with graph overlay and voice over.

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Reverse Sonification:
Microsonic Landscapes

Misc Network/Relationship Map-Art Project:
Mark Lombardi Scandal Maps
Mark Lombardi Article

Some SVG files (Brooklyn, NYC, USA) should you need them…

Brooklyn Historical Society’s Collection of Maps (sent via email)
Visualizing a “collection.” User goals: directed search vs. serendipitous interaction.
NYPL’s “Explore” functionality