Its been a while since I posted and it seems I've been knee deep in google! Yes, ok I use it for my email and docs, recently maps (been improving the functionality of the creative maps, awesome btw, post to come) and Youtuube. So without further-a-do... is that how you type that expression?... anyway!
Google is also integrated into my teaching through sharing resources digitally on google docs, to them submitting visual research through blogger. Today a colleague suspected you could use a google (word) doc as a live wiki, I was intirgued and we got the students to input their email address (hence not great quality to read) but we'd not seen how it works.
As you can see from the video you can see how it flickers as with different colour tags which are the different students collaborating on a timeline of research into how we have got to our digital world of today... when zuckerberg invented facebook to when logie baird invented the tele (ok majority are now plasma's as opposed to cathode ray tube).
But to watch it live (the colleges servers and ageing laptops just about survived created a beautiful collaborative document and such a fast, vast resource (ok didint ask to double checkl their sources of data, much in the same respect as a wiki) of info that created such debate that the tutuor could just reflect on to point out the shortening of technological development cycles (there is a better description for it) and key dates etc.
Infographics
Is there a way to track the amount of individual user input into the document other than colour coding each users text? I can imagine a tree diagram to represent the contrasting majorities of users input. I mean its useful in that you can track which user is doing what and who is adding the most useful data, but can we data mine their input?
Anyhow, I can imagine this technique has been done much already and we're hardly new, but I had to record it as it looked so good their collaboration and I'd love anyfeedback as if it is possible to translate this input technique into stats that can be made into infographics (not for the 'eye candy' novelty, though intriguing to innovate, but to assess, evaluate the students learning. Give Curriculum Leaders/Verifiers a clean-sweep-perception to aid the arbitary quantification of un-easy quantifiable currency of creative understanding. Ok, maybe not as deep as the whole of creativity, but still.
Google Teaching
Pixel Rolling
This might be old, but how great is it. Paint your screen. I am intrigued at some point to find out what solenoids are that 'control paint-emission', Audi Design Foundation, Design in Action publication.
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Rock Map
Very good music map shared in response to previous 12 Great Music Visualisations utilising the popular and organised form of tube maps, originally by Harry Beck. The Rockmap is updated regularly by twitter.com/ernestolago and is a good application of the Beck maps. The font for the musicians is clean clear and balanced si es for importance, look like arial rounded, calibri. Not so keen on the red 'rocky' header, the earthy background connotes it well enough, its almost like wolff ollin is it with the highly controversial Olympics logo, no elegance but gets attention and noticed.
- Image via Wikipedia (notice the thames is back I wanna see the sun…. blotted out of the sky!)
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Olympic Infographic
i saw it tweeted from new follower/following http://twitter.com/infojocks/status/2225853051
great use of colour, clean, clear much in the vain of Global Internet Map by roxanna tran and telegeography.com
apologises i dont know more about the author, will ask jeremy (infojocks) more about who made it. might be at the bottom of the infographic.
See more circles, here:
Colour Wheel Associations
&width=400&height=600 "Colour Wheel Associations")
brand associations that are connoted by certain colours. great wheel to help have an awareness of what colours mean what.
see also:
Colour Scheme Harmoniser
Colour in data visualization
Colour in data visualization references
Website as Graph
Made by Marcel Salathe (email me: salathe.marcel AT gmail DOT com)
Type in your website url into the tool here: http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/
Very intersting way to see the structure of your html for websites, the key is below to the colours. The big red blue cluster to the bottom left is my blogroll with table, tr, td, a href TAGS in a big list hence the volume of the cluster. That was an easy part to spot.
What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags
found: http://www.dddinfographic.com/index.php/2006/06/08/websites-as-infographics/
might be old, so apologises for re-showing people
Emotion Map
Worcester Waterfront is an exciting 2 year project to improve the city’s riverside. It will provide more seating and paving,
suitable lighting, interpretation of the natural and social history of everything along the route and linking up all sorts of places and stories along the way. The idea is to also achieve the building of another bridge across the river for pedestrians and cyclists at Diglis Island, to form one of the best two and a half km circular walks in the country.
Through Andy Stevenson at Worchester university the council are using a new form of multimedia visualisation to help develop the Waterfront proposals, both to illustrate the route online, and to gain opinions about the area to inform the design. The method, which involves satellite (GPS) tracking, heart rate monitoring and listening to audio commentaries is helping to show how individuals both utilise and react when out travelling along the riverside paths near Worcester’s City Centre.
The system is being developed to help the progress of the design and to see how stretches of the riverside can be most
effectively enhanced for all users.
Emotimap is great idea and Andy and the team are currently planning how to make this visualisation available commercially. It has some good attempts at linking colour and emotion to geographic location. here is the link to the project for the worchester council http://www.worcester.gov.uk:8080/emotimaps/
An image taken from the map showing the coloured ‘mood’ markers.
Andy has also done an interesting project featured at Movement Mapping on Flickr that is creative capturing a peculiar
variable of the cat.
Good stuff. thanks for the embed link andy.
Web Trend Map 09
looks really good. IA's previous versions were very good, and they have managed
to improve upon them.
loved the isometric, but they have given it further depth like the tubes and it
has the level of popularity with the height dimension explored.
I like how they have brought in the people symbols/isotypes walking in this
new geographic terrain of the web similar to what was done on this
http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2168552%3APhoto%3A2498
I think it is a great improvement, not that it needed it. wish i knew how to
say 'brilliant, thanks' in japanese.
from here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/formforce/3409362834/
previous version here:
Useful recent link/posts I have noticed.
InfoVis design tests. by brad paley
The Importance of colour in data visualization
An Introduction to Visualising Data pdf by Joel Laumans. an excellant beginners
guide, well designed
Colour Scheme Harmoniser
