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forkinsocket
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Information Visualization References
« on: Feb 14th, 2004, 8:57pm » |
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Golan Levin teaches a course entitled 'Information Visualization as Artistic Practice,' at Carnegie Mellon:
http://courses.cfa.cmu.edu/%7Ep5admin/infovis/2004s/
The list of referenced projects looks good. Though it is heavily slanted toward noncommercial projects. Can you think of other examples of good information design? Please feel free to add links by replying.
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arielm
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Re: Information Visualization References
« Reply #1 on: Feb 14th, 2004, 10:00pm » |
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The best introductionary paper on Information Design (where interactivity meets epistemology, i.e. how we know what we know) I ever read is this one, by Nathan Shedroff, coiner of the term "Experience Design".
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Ariel Malka | www.chronotext.org
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forkinsocket
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Re: Information Visualization References
« Reply #2 on: Feb 15th, 2004, 1:21am » |
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A book that brought me great joy recently is 'You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination' by Katharine Harmon. It has no new media references at all; however, it is a beautiful book, and a great read for anyone with a love for maps and mapmaking:
http://www.papress.com/bookpage.tpl?isbn=1568984308
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forkinsocket
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Re: Information Visualization References
« Reply #3 on: Feb 15th, 2004, 3:41am » |
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Interesting sources of data to play with:
1. Thomas is a legislative database that lets one search the text of any bill currently in Congress. (Thank you, Marc.)
http://thomas.loc.gov/
2. Country Studies contains comprehensive description and analysis of almost every country in the world. Such analyses typically cover: historical setting, geography, society, economy, political system, and foreign policy. (Thank you, Marc and Davide.)
http://countrystudies.us/
3. The US Patent and Trademark Offices allows one to search current US Patent applications. There are some weird ones in there. (Thank you, Amy and Josh.)
http://www.uspto.gov/
If you are interested in scraping data from web sites such as these, a helpful book is 'Spidering Hacks,' published on O'Reilly Press. I thumbed through it in the bookstore; it seems a nice cookbook, whose recipes are written in Perl.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/spiderhks/
(I am in no way, BTW, condoning web scraping. However, it can be a necessary step toward arriving at a first prototype.)
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forkinsocket
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Re: Information Visualization References
« Reply #4 on: Feb 19th, 2004, 7:27am » |
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Treemaps. Samuel Wan has a short writeup on treemaps here:
http://63.144.246.231/information/archives/000159.html
Also find cute 'blog treemap' component and links to references on Maryland's HCIL site. Source code, papers, etc.
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forkinsocket
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Re: Information Visualization References
« Reply #5 on: Feb 19th, 2004, 7:44pm » |
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Google has some relatively new 'search by number' features, including vehicle information, flight numbers, and product UPC codes. Documentation can be found here:
http://www.googleguide.com/search_by_number.html
(Thanks, Nathan)
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mohn
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Re: Information Visualization References
« Reply #8 on: Feb 21st, 2004, 5:19pm » |
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on Feb 14th, 2004, 8:57pm, forkinsocket wrote:
david - do you know if golin is full time now an CMU i had heard a while back that he had joined the staff, but have not been able to find out if he is still in NYC or has made the move to Pitt (gutsy if he did!)
btw - loved the playshop at YBCA! nice work...
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forkinsocket
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Re: Information Visualization References
« Reply #9 on: Feb 25th, 2004, 4:41am » |
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A map of active hate groups in the US in 2002:
http://www.tolerance.org/maps/hate/
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JonBro
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Re: Information Visualization References
« Reply #11 on: Mar 1st, 2004, 8:46pm » |
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//mohn
yeah, golan is now teaching full time here at CMU.
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forkinsocket
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Re: Information Visualization References
« Reply #12 on: Mar 14th, 2004, 7:05am » |
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Design patterns in information visualisation:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~bxw/vispatts/
An overview of the work at IBM Research's Social Computing Group (Yorktown Heights, NY), much of which involves visualization:
http://www.research.ibm.com/SocialComputing/SCGdesign.html
Also at IBM Research (Cambridge, MA) is the Collaborative User Experience Group, whose project 'History Flow' received a healthy amount of attention in the design/blogger community last year:
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/history/
Does anyone know of interesting commercial groups outside of, say, IBM Research and MS Research, who are working with visualization? At the moment, two come to mind: Visual I|O in Somerville, MA, and Maya in Pittsburgh, PA. Are there others? I'm curious.
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forkinsocket
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Re: Information Visualization References
« Reply #14 on: Jun 18th, 2004, 10:14pm » |
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josh on (of theyrule) has a fantastic blog with an emphasis on info visualization. it is badass.
http://www.theyrule.net/html/index.php
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