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GENERAL REFERENCE
Search Engines:
Google -
WolframAlpha -
Bing - News:
Arts&Letters -
CEO Express - Reference:
Dictionary -
WordNet® -
Wikipedia -
Library -
CIA World Factbook -
Humanities & Social Science Journals -
Google Maps -
File Conversion -
Language Translation -
Books -
U.S. Government - Look Up:
Zip Codes -
AreaCodes -
Telephone Numbers -
People - Health:
NIH -
Cleveland Clinic -
Mayo Clinic/Fitness -
Harvard/Nutrition -
Nutrition and Diet Tools -
Calendar -
Weather -
Time - Entertainment:
Songs -
Movies Imdb -
Free Movies -
YouTube -
Music Stations Travel:
Traffic -
Travel Planning -
Flight Status -
Airport Delays
FREE WEB DESIGN TOOLS
Google
Google Interactive Charts (Visualization API)
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Browserhots: screenshots of your web pages in many different browsers
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CSS Tutorials
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Developing an iPhone App
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Lightbox PopUp Windows
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Nettuts Spoonfed Web Skills
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Video on the Web
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Pattern Browser
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DimDim WEBCASTING
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MOODLE Course MGMT SOFTWARE
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WINK Tutorial Software
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Pixorial Film Editing
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Google Visualization API
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COLOR:
Codes -
Selector
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Cube
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Wheel
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Visibone Palette
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Color Blind Palettes
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Your Site as seen by the Color Blind
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Colors As Seen by the Color Blind
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CONTENT RICH PODCASTS/COURSEWARE
TED: Technology Entertainment & Design
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MIT:
OpenCourseWare
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Lecture Browser
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World
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Long Now Foundation
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University Channels
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NPR
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Harvard:
IIC:Initiative in Innovative Computing
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eLearning: Tech, Business, & Design
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Business Intelligence:
B-Eye Network
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Languages:
Live Mocha
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GREENSPACE
Mother Earth News
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TreeHugger: How to Go Green
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Sierra Green Building Resources
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Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
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Lessons on Beauty in Nature
The Botany of Desire
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Sunflower Renata Scafuro, Bergamo, Italy
The simple beauty of a sunflower belies the sophisticated swirling pattern in the arrangement of its petals. For additional photos and information on
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
,
see
Patterns in Nature
by Scott Camazine. Looking for Botanical Resource Links?
See the
Herbarium of Louisiana State University
Visualization Software: Mapping Tools in Overview
Map of Major Contributors to Visual Literacy Field
GRAPHIC GEMS
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- US Budget Chart
- York
Univ. Gallery of Data Visualization
- Death and Taxes, 2010
and Taxes, 2010
- MetricMash, Visualizing Public DataSets
Visible Human Project
-Placing
History: Introducing geographic information systems in the context
of current humanities research
- Universal Leonardo
- Picasso
- Benjamin Edwards
- Julie Mehretu
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VISUAL ANALYTICS
Biological evolution gave Homo sapiens a relatively large brain. Evolution
in communication methods and technology enhanced our ability to
store and analyze information. But paradigm shifts can confer and
rescind advantages based on the way in which individuals process
information. The shift in emphasis from
...
spoken to written word
- disadvantaged those deemed dyslexic
as well as the blind; for the latter, Braille and speech recognition
software provided some redress.
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printed word to digital data
- created a new divide,
computer literacy; however, graphic user interfaces helped re-level
the playing field
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data to their inherent patterns
- raised the premium
on visual literacy, the ability to perceive and analyze patterns.
Anecdotal evidence (see Negroponte and West below) suggests some
people whose brain structure places them at a disadvantage in terms
of reading may be better wired for visualization. For the rest there
is "
visual analytics
, a contemporary and proven approach
to combine the art of human intuition and the science of mathematical
deduction to directly perceive patterns and derive knowledge and
insight from them."
Pak Chung Wong and Jim Thomas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
The tool set for 21st Century Skills now includes
Visual Literacy,
"the ability to interpret, use, appreciate, and
create images and video using both conventional and 21st century
media in ways that advance thinking, decision making, communication,
and learning."
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory® (NCREL)
SYMPOSIUM
IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST)
the premier forum for data
and information visualization advances for academia, government,
and industry.
Many of the presentations can be found on
IEEE's Visualization and Graphics Community site
or visit the websites for
VisWeek 2008
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VisWeek2009
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VisWeek2010
.
VisWeek 2011
is being held October 23 - 28 in Providence, Rhode Island.
RESOURCES
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Overview
Three Special Events in the History of Technology
for Creating, Organizing, and Sharing Information
by C. Sidney Burrus, Richard Baraniuk
Illuminating the Path: The Research and
Development Agenda for Visual Analytics
text & video available from the NVAC
Visual Analytics: Why Now?
James J. Thomas
,
NVAC
Why Knowledge Visualization?
Visual-Literacy.org
Practitioners & Organizations
- NVAC, Natl Visualization & Analytics Center
- IEEE Visualization & Computer Graphics
- Gapminder-visualizing human development
- IBM's Many Eyes - Social Networking for Visualizers
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iCharts
- Infovis.net
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InfoVis Wiki
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Visual Complexity
- interdisciplines: adaptation & representation
- Image & Meaning, Harvard's Initiative in Innovative
Computing (IIC) Envisioning Science Program
- LBNL, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Laboratory
Visualization Group
- NECSI, New England Complex Systems
Institute, Interactive and Visual Representations
- NYAS, The New York Academy of Sciences
Visual Arts & the Brain
Imaging Related e-Briefings
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National Science Foundation
Science & Engnrg Visualization
Challenge
Video of award winning visualizations
(Music lovers may skip to minute: 20)
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SciDAC, Scientific Discovery thru Adv.
Computing - Visualization & Data Mgmt
- PIIM, Parsons Institute for Information Mapping &
PJIM, Parson's Journal for Information Mapping
- Alice.org
- Ben Fry
- Ben Schneiderman, U of Maryland
video:"Info Viz for Knowledge Discovery"
- Blaise Aguera y Arcas
- Colin Ware
- Edward Tufte
- Enrico Bertini, U of Konstanz
and his "I Feel in Love with Data" site
- Felice Frankel
- Hans Rosling, Gapminder
- John Stasko, Georgia Tech
- Jorge Camoes, ExcelCharts.com
- Martin Wattenberg
- Manuel Lima, Visual Complexity
- Nathan Yau, Flowing Data
- Robert Kosara, UNC
and his "Eager Eyes" site
BOOKS THAT OPEN OUR EYES
In the Mind's Eye
:Visual Thinkers,Gifted People
With Dyslexia and Other Learning Difficulties,
Computer Images and the Ironies of Creativity
by
Thomas G. West
Krome Barratt,
Logic & Design in Art, Science & Mathematics
György Doczi,
The Power of Limits
, Proportional Harmonics in Nature, Art, And Architecture
Being Digital
, by
Nicholas Negroponte
Design and the Elastic Mind
Suggestions for inclusion on this page are welcome
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Business Analytics
Overviews and Updates:
-Stephen Few's site, Perceptual Edge
-UC Berkeley VisualizationLab,
N.B.
...Collaborative Visual Analytics
...sense.us
(Economists, take note!)
- Taxonomies of Visualization Tools
Visualization Products & Companies:
- KapLab data viz for Flex Community
- Eye-sys
- GeoTime
(video)
- inxight's TableLens™
- Oculus Tech
&
white paper
- Palantir Technologies
- Prefuse Information Visualization Toolkit
- Spotfire
- Space Syntax
- Tableau
- TheBrain.com - for two examples visit
+ Ray Kurzweil's site and
+ James Burke's The Knowledge Web
Podcast Part 1
Part 2 - Just Highlights
Help on Using Spreadsheets for Visualization:
- Contact Liz Webbink at inkweb
- Peltier Charting Tips
- Mr. Excel's Daily Podcasts
- Dick Kusleika's Daily Dose of Excel
- Data Visualization from ProcessTrends.com
- Rummler Brache Chart Example
- DuPont Chart Example
- Financial Spreadsheets
Course Materials Online (no fee/open access)
- MIT: Scientific Visualization across Disciplines
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Georgia Tech: Visual Analytics Digital Library
&
Software Visualization Page
- Stanford: Pat Hanrahan's Visualization Course
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Columbia: Barbara Tversky: The Art & Science
of Visual Communication
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Brown U. Andy Van Dam's Computer Graphics
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Rice U: Connexions
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e.g.
Education for the New Millenium
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The Charlotte Visualization Center at UNCC
+ Visual Analytics
+ Introduction to Computer Graphics
+ Information Visualization Techniques for Exploring Large Databases
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Visual-Literacy.org: VizBiz
BUILDING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
, Richards J. Heuer, Jr., Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA, 1999.
For a concise, but detailed checklist on "How to Think Critically" see Roger Darlington's website
The Critical Thinking Community
Gelder, T.J.
Enhancing and Augmenting Human Reasoning
(pdf file). Paper presented at Cognition, Evolution and Rationality: Cognitive Science for the 21st Century. Oporto, September 2002. To appear in a volume based on that conference edited by Antonio Jose Teiga Zilhao
Excerpt from
Mindtools: Affording Multiple Knowledge Representations for Learning
, David H. Jonassen, Chad S. Carr, Pennsylvania State University
Computers as Mindtools for Engaging Learners in Critical Thinking
, David H. Jonassen, Chad S. Carr, Hsiu-Ping Yueh,
TechTrends
, v43 n2 p24-32 Mar 1998
INSPIRATION FOR WEB SITE DESIGN
2006 Webby Award
Winner-Jonathan Yuen
Best Design Aesthetic
See also:
Annual Webby Awards Gallery
Experimental Media & Movement Arts (EMMA)
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