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CONTENT-RICH PODCASTS/COURSEWARE
TED: Technology, Entertainment & Design
MIT: OpenCourseWare
& Lecture Browser
& World
Long Now Fdtn
- University Channels
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NPR
Harvard: IIC:Initiative in Innovative Computing
eLearning: Tech, Business, & Design
GREENSPACE
Mother Earth News - TreeHugger:
How To Go Green - Sierra
Green Building Resources -
Barbara Kingsolver's
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Photo by 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
"Heron Go Bragh" - Ron Promboin
Great Blue Heron taken at Great Falls, MD
Pentax digital SLR (K10D) w/ zoom telephoto
Pentax 50-200 mm DA - Click to enlarge
-Monterey
Bay Aquarium Live Web Cam
doubleclick image for full screen viewing
-2006
SandHill Crane Migration-Nebraska
Kate Webbink video clip
"Moon Jellies" - Kate Webbink taken at the Henry
Doorly Zoo, Omaha, NE - Click to enlarge
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 GRAPHIC GEMS
-Universal
Leonardo
-US Budget Chart
-Picasso web site
-Benjamin Edwards
-2006
Webby Award Winner-Best Design Aesthetic, Jonathan Yuen
-Placing
History: Introducing geographic information systems in the context
of current humanities research
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Rummler Brache Chart Example
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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.
... printed word to digital data - created a new divide,
computer literacy; however, graphic user interfaces helped re-level
the playing field
... 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). VisWeek
2008 is the premier forum for data
and information visualization advances for academia, government,
and industry. OCTOBER 19 - 24, COLUMBUS, OH
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
Colin Ware
Edward
Tufte
Felice Frankel
Gapminder-visualizing
human development
IBM's
Many Eyes - Social Networking for Visualizers
Infovis.net
- InfoVis
Wiki -
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
National Science Foundation
- Science
& Engineering Visualization
Challenge
- Video of award winning visualizations
music lovers may skip to minute: 20
Redwood
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
- watch Jeff
Hawkins: Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing
(TED 2007)
SciDAC, Scientific
Discovery thru Adv.
Computing - Visualization & Data Mgmt
Visit
this Tool on the Visual Literacy Site for a Map of Major Contributors
to the Field
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!)
-Visualization
Taxonomies of Visualization Tools
-Visualization
Software: Mapping Tools in Overview
Commercial Visualization Products & Companies:
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Tableau
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inxight's TableLens™
- Oculus
Tech & white
paper
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Palantir Technologies
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Spotfire
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Space Syntax
- TheBrain.com -
for two good examples visit
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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
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Peltier Charting Tips
- Mr. Excel's Daily Podcasts
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Dick Kusleika's Daily Dose of Excel
- Data
Visualization from ProcessTrends.com
Course Materials Online (no fee/open
access)
MIT:
Scientific Visualization across Disciplines
Georgia Tech: Visual Analytics
Digital Library
Stanford:
Pat Hanrahan's Visualization Course
Barbara
Tversky: The Art & Science of Visual Communication
Rice U: Connexions
e.g. Education
for the New Millenium
UNC:
Visual Analytics
Visual-Literacy.org:
VizBiz
n.b., very quick login procedure
required
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
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