VISUALIZATION OF CULTURAL PATTERNS
general
infoviz portals - some of the projects use cultural data /
show cultural interactions :
VisualComplexity
Infoaesthetics
Viz4All
dataisnature
eagereyes
definitions and
techniques:
Wikipedia "visualization" article
Wikipedia "folksonomy" article
modern visualization techniques and
resources
Ben Fry: Visualizaing Data (2008
book).
Ben Fry:
COMPUTATIONAL INFORMATION DESIGN (2004 PhD
dissertation).
Programming Collective Intelligence (2007
book).
visualizaing
culture - theory:
books by Edward Tufte
Franco Moretti. Graphs, Maps, Trees:
Abstract Models for a Literary History. Verso, 2007
(paperback edition).
relevant fields
and subfields of computer science / information
science:
knowledge discovery
data mining
concept mining
web mining
information visualization / knowledge
visualization / visual analytics
software
tools for information
visualization:
an easy way to collect data in a group - use Google doscs spreadsheet - also allows to
define forms
web based:
Google docs charts
Many Eyes
swivel
Visualizing timelines
desktop - no programming required:
Excel graphs
Coghead
desktop - scripting or programming languages:
Google visualization API
Flex
Matlab
Processing
Prefuse
Google socialgraph
other software recommended as Alternative to
Prefuse and Processing:
Piccolo - A Java toolkit for structured 2D graphics using a
scenegraph abstraction.
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) - A 3D graphics and
visualization toolkit.
JUNG - A Java graph processing and visualization
library.
The InfoVis Toolkit - A Java toolkit supporting a number of
visualization techniques.
Improvise - An application for end-user authoring of
interactive visualizations.
software for network analysis and
vsiualization
list of visualization software
taxonomies:
Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps!
- Making sense of it all
folksonomy
open
directory - largest directory of websites put together
by human editors ( useful as a taxonomy)
data
sources:
theinfo
data
360
DBpedia
world population
ethnicity and migration
UC
census
UNdata
Worldbank data
m:metrics
Big
Champaign online media measurement
blog about social media measurement
list of companies whcih measure social
media
cinemetrics
theory articles
about artistic and cultural
visualization:
Lev Manovich: Data Visualisation
as New Abstraction and Anti-Sublime, 2002 articles by Wattenberg and Fernanda B.
Viégas (designers of History Flow)
Andrew Vande
Moere: Form Follows Data
Andrea Lau and Andrew Vande Moere: Towards
a Model of Information Aesthetics in Information
Visualization
Other Andrew Vande Moere's papers
Warren Sack: Aesthetics of Information
Visualization
to appear in Context Providers, Christiane Paul,
Victoria Vesna, and Margot Lovejoy, Editors
(forthcoming)
other articles by Sack
Robert Kosara: Visualization Criticism
- The Missing Link Between Information Visualization
and Art
Zachary Pousman, John T. Stasko, and
Michael Mateas: Casual Information Visualization:
Depictions of Data in Everyday Life
Infoaesthetics- look at linked texts
books on
digital art which contain some discussions of visualization
projects by artists:
Christiane Paul. Digital art.
Stephen Wilson. Information Arts:
Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology
Bruce Wands: Art of the Digital
Age.
Mark Tribe, Reena Jana, Uta Grosenick, eds.
New Media Art.
Joline Blais + Jon Ippolito At the Edge of
Art.
Richard Colson: The Fundamentals of Digital
Art.
Tricia Austin + Richard Doust: New Media
Design
artcies about infovis
in media:
Dreaming in Code: Jonathan Harris
Business Week article about Lisa
Strausfeld
Business Week article about Martin
Wattenberg