New Zealand/Information Visualisation

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We try and reflect as much as possible what is being done in the industry.

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Key words in standards like "investigate" or "collect" tend to point to activities that could give way to a report that includes data or information visualization for an Internal assessment.

"collect"

Collect doesn't mean more than obtain and store data. This can be done with Google or Office Spreadsheet or new Google DataWiki. But plotting data can help spot abnormal data that come from encoding errors. It may also help to see patterns more clearly.

For instance:

"compare"

For instance:

"investigate" or "investigation"

  • 16px 14259, Investigate the social construction of body image and the impact on well-being 12px 12px 12px
  • 16px 6633, Investigate legal requirements for the packaging and labelling of food 12px 12px 12px
  • 16px 6649, Investigate the relationship between food and lifestyle and the food and nutrition guidelines 12px 12px 12px
  • 16px 90437, Investigate the sociological significance of a sporting event, physical activity or festival 12px 12px 12px
  • 16px 12554, Carry out an investigation into leisure participation 12px 12px 12px

For instance:

"analyse" or "data analysis"

For instance

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Infographic or Visual Information Design

Infographics are static visualizations.

Examples: Infographics at Good, 35 Great Visualizations (many Geographical & Historical)

Theory: Infographics, Exploring Visual Information Design

Dynamic Visualization

Visualization that changes over time. Typically governed by some timeLine.

Dynamic Visualization: Introduction & Theory

Interactive Visualization

Visualization that changes with user interaction.

Examples:

Real-time Visualization

The visualization is computed on the fly, depending of the data available at the moment. Involves programming (what some call Computational Information Design), at the very least access to a webservice that will provide the real-time data.

Example: Twitter network Visualisation

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Data Visualization

Example: stats R gallery

Types:

Theory:

Design Techniques:

Network Graphs

Twitter Graphs

TweetWheel – Twitter Social Graph

webpages as Graphs

Social Data and Data for social activitism

MashBlock, demographic data from the last NZ Census for a particular Meshblock, Area Unit or Council.

Social Explorer (US)

MapLight.org, charts the links between politicians and money.

Social Media Research Foundation

Personal Data

Reviews of submissions for an award for best personal visualization project 2008, at Flowing Data.

Information Visualization

When static, infographics (see above).

Visual Complexity

The Facts and Figures of 2010 in 30 Amazing Infographics

32px Finding Data and Information to show

Consider using data directly relevant to the learner - have them record data about themselves

Data relevant to course content

Data about NZ Education

NZ data across the board:

Worldwide Data

  • DataMarket, with their motto "Visualize the world's economy, societies, nature, and industries, and gain new insights".
  • Pachube, Store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and environment data from objects, devices & buildings around the world.
  • Manyeyes and the various datasets uploaded by members of its community.

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Collecting and Storing Data

Standard: s00103 Use data entry skills to input data

For teachers to start their own visualisation. Google recently added a new project to its lab. DataWiki. You can create datasets easily and a basic search interface will be automatically created to let you interact with data. datawiki

manyeyes is a community portal that let you upload dataset and apply visualisation to them.

Images +Text, beginners

Any office software like Powerpoint / Present that let you import images and shapes.

Images +Text, advanced

Gimp

Data Graphs

Create Graphs Online with Google Chart Maker, with a link to ChartMaker

A few web apps or community website have started to appear that let you upload your dataset and visualize it online. ManyEyes is a great example. Create your own or explore the numerous visualizations created by other users.

Graph generation itself can be done easily with any opensource library. Most of them provide simple ways to specify the data list. I provided an example of a javascript barGraph – This could be relevant to: s90641, Determine the trend for time series data, level 3,1S, credits 3, Internal

Stats R statsR. You can write and save scripts that will automatically generate graphs for data. I had used it a few years ago to rapidly generate distribution graphs for a urvey on webCT use in my department. The survey itself had been prepared and run by students.

Orange Widgets Open source data visualization and analysis for novice and experts. Data mining through visual programming.

Prefuse Library (Actionscript) Prefuse Visualization Gallery

Information Graphic

Make Your Own Infographic

Interactive Content, no computing

I haven’t tried it out much, but there is an open source project providing more complex visualisation of relevance to education: simile widgets. Plenty of open source visualisation software exist but they tend to be more specialized and more difficult to use in an education context.

Interactive Content, computing involved

processing (simplified Java integrated environment)

Real-time Computing

Drawing graphs programmatically doesn’t necessarily require complex skills. Probably within the reach of any kid enrolling in some program to help them learn basics of programming. This can also be used as an assignment: s18740 Create a simple computer program to meet a set brief, level 2, credits 3, Internal or s18741, Create a computer program to provide a solution, level 3Once the plugin behaves as expected, non-technical users only need to edit the html portion. A webform of some kind could be used to make the task even less confusing to first graders.

The challenge is to present data that are directly relevant to the kids. That is, data about themselves. Something to investigate is the ability to interact with google spreadsheets with webservices: saving form data to google spreadsheets. One possible use is the automatic generation of graphs based on data entered by kids on the spreadsheet. Another possible use is to create a personalized clicker device for your classroom (assuming your are in a computer lab, with kids having access to computers or mobile devices). You ask a question. Kids answer anonymously, on their device, their get immediate feedback on their screen. When they all answered, you show them a distribution graph (with the rule that if less than 50% got it right, you clarify the answer). Or you keep the graph for yourself.

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Visualization in Education, Tips

Rethinking Data Visualization: From Dynamic Illustration to Analytic Narrative by Ruben R. Puentedura, author of numerous articles on how to integrate technology and education.

Mapping Science, meant to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. Provides a gallery of infographics on scientific data.

BBC - KS1 Bitesize Games - Numeracy - Data handling interactive

BBC - KS2 Bitesize: Maths - Interpreting data - activity

Statistics Canada

  • Statistics: Power from Data! - published primarily for secondary students of Mathematics and Information Studies, although it is expected that the product will find a wider use among other students, teachers and the general population.

Visualization outside Education

Information Architecture and Data Visualization Resources

InfoGraphic Designs: Overview, Examples and Best Practices

Vizlist entries on Max Kiesler's blog

Visual Complexity - VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.

Infosthetics - "Where form follows data".

Random Etc., Tom Carden's blog

Simple Complexity - "Making Simple Sense From Complex Data"

Accuracy and Aesthetics

Information and Visualization - A blog is all about "information and visualization, but not in the restricted sense of the academic information visualization community".

Flowing Data

Perceptual Edge, a blog by Stephen Few, expert in (Business) Data Analysis.

Delicious (blacklisted, link not allowed) - /popular/visualization

175+ Data and Information Visualization Examples and Resources

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