Data and Information Presentation and Communication

Info Graphics/ Data Visualisation

Examples of Infographics

• International Monetary Fund's "Advanced economy" countries By Flowing Data (Page) - (Singapore's poor results in income inequality, well being and prison population)
• Countdown to usage of IE6 By Microsoft (Page) - (Singapore contributes worlds 4.4% of users! That's alot!)
• Health Supplements Efficacy (Page) - Information is Beautiful
• Glacial Movement Movie (Page) - And Air Visualisation by Zurich University
• Information Explosion and Cloud Storage (Page) - Wikibon
• What is Consciousness? (Page) - Information is Beautiful
• Time to Redesign Medical Data (Page) Infosthetics and TED
• Live Singapore (Site) - Project by MIT to provide Realtime information on Singapore
• Singapore GE2011 Tracker (Site) - Collaborative project from Swarm and JamiQ to track media buzz words during GE2011
• What's the state of the Economy (Page) - Economic Indicators Dashboard
• Global Inflation Rates (Page) - Ongoing WSJ dashboard
• London Underground (Page) - Transitioning map of Past/Present, pictorial and geographic map.
• Handmade Visualisation Tool Kit (Page)
• Interesting Physiology (Page)
• Biggest Losers (Page) - World's Biggest Gamblers by the Economist
• Visualising Humanity (TED)
• World Energy Flows Sankey Diagram (Page) - 2010 Energy Source - Conversion Devices - Passive Systems - Final Devices
• State of Wikipedia, 10 years later (Page)
• Big Tech Company Organisation Charts (Page)
• National Geographic's World of 7 Billion (Page)
• Augmenting Paper Retail Receipts with Simple Infographics (Page)
• Gender Divides in Philosophy and Other Disciplines (Page) Phd by Disciplines by Gender.
• Elements of Happiness (E-Book) by Harvard Research on Adult Happiness
• The Future of the Space Race (Video) - Animated text presentation.
• How to: Spruce Up a Boring Resume (Page) - Infographic
• Periodic Table on Visualisation Methods (Page) - Info graphic on Visualisation information.
• The State of The Internet Now (Page) - Continually updated infographic on internet statistics and profiles.
• http://submitinfographics.com/all-infographics/are-video-games-addicting-this-infographic-says-so.html
• http://hellboundbloggers.com/2011/06/12/internet-is-revolutionizing-education/
• Education Infographics Collection (Page) By EdTech Toolbox
• BBC Knowledge Visual (Video)
• Global Adaptation Index (Site) Global Index on Resilience for Economy, Governance and Social Resilience
• User Experience Careers (Infographic)
• Evolution of the Internet (Infographic)
• Who Owns Our Modern Mythologies (Infographic)
• Virtualisation Driving Ethernet Fabrication Architectures (Page) - Comparisons and Trends between Vendors

Organisations

Visual Knowledge

• http://www.visual-literacy.org/ - Visual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on Visualization for Communication, Engineering and Business
• Ushahidi (Site) - Non Profit Organisation that develops OPEN-SOURCE software for information COLLECTION, VISUALISATION and INTERACTIVE MAPPING

• ChronoZoom (Site) - Microsoft project that visualises scale of time over cosmic, geologic, biological and social periods.

• Gapminder (Site) - Non Profit Organisation promoting Sustainable development and achievement of UN's Millenium Development goals

Reviews

Modern Trends

• Rapid growth of unstructured data:
  • Information and Cloud Storage Infographic showing that in 2010 1.2 zettabytes in data universe exist
    • Need to be verified:
    • Need to be contextualised: 78 billion ipads, 4.24miles high,
• EMC² IDC Presentation: Are you ready for the Digital Universe Decade (2020): (Video and Transcript)
  • Questions
    • How will we find the information we need when we need it?
    • How will we know what information we need to keep and how will we keep it?
    • How will we follow the growing number of government and industry rules about retaining records, tracking transactions and ensuring information privacy
    • How will we protect the information we need to protect?
  • To think about
    • New Search Tools
    • Ways to add structure to unstructured data
    • New storage and information management techniques
    • More compliance tools
    • Better security
    • Cloud Computing
    • Consumerization of workplace
      • Process (manage, store, protect, dispose)
      • Information overload (Type, Source, Purpose)
    • Growing share of information from China and India
    • Growing Diversity in content type and container type
  • IDC Solutions
    • 'Information in the Clouds'
    • 'Protected and Unprotected Data'
    • 'Future of Digital Info. Storage'
    • 'Consumers without borders'
    • 'Bucks and Bytes'
    • 'Call to Action'
      • Deploy new IT Tools for information management and security
      • Develop a sense of urgency in top management and the business units
      • Develop a long term plan
      • Increase the bond with the business unites
      • Offload work to the cloud

Visual Literacy

http://www.visual-literacy.org/pages/articles.htm

Data Visualisation Sites

• Info Chimps (Site) - A place to find, sell and share data with others in the form of Data Sets and Data APIs
• Digital Element (Site) - IP technologies and GeoTargetting
• Platforia (Site) - Owner of Big Data

Mass Media

• Patrick Cain (Site)- A journalist who makes maps for the web
• Owni (Site) - French Digita Journalism
• Guardian Data Store (Site)
• London Data Store (Site)
• www.informationweek.com

Databases and Visualisation Tools

• Data Science Toolkit - http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/
• Cluster Exploratory (Site) - program that analyses massive data to search for patterns
• Tableausoftware (Site) - Paid Software
• Timetric (Site) - Time based economic Data + create your own
• Infochimps (Site)
• Data Market (Site) - Collective site includes data from BP, CDIAC, UN, Gapminder, World Bank, Eurostat, Eia, Xignite, Worldbank etc
• Touch Graph - Produces visual relationship maps on facebook and spreadsheets.
• Data Wrangler (Site) - Data Cleaning and Transformation
• Dotspotting - http://dotspotting.org/ - Tool for gathering information and visualizing cities
• Mapping Tools (Tool) - Visual Tools (with links) mapped on a radar chart by Visual-Literacy.Org
• Free Base (Site) - Knowledge Community Database of People, Places, Things based on Open Data (Data/ Schema/ Apps/ Docs)

• Video:RoCC Management Insights - Prof. Martin Eppler on Visualizing Knowledge for Management
  • Use of Visual Metaphors help improve memory retention during knowledge transfer.
  • Examples of Iceburg for strategic planning and a tree for BSC
• Video: Research demonstrates the Value of Visualization for Knowledge Sharing (for Researchers)
• Video:Improving Meetings through Interactive Visualization: Evidence managers can use (for Managers)
  • How do we make management meetings more productive?
    • Tradition Vs modern:
• Religion

http://sg.christianpost.com/

Others to review

http://onpurpose.uk.com/what-we-do/placements

http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/

http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&jfkl=true&cf=all&ned=en_sg&ar=1312769332

http://www.howlifeworks.com/a/a/?cid=7060gg&AG_ID=520

http://www.paul-gagnon.com/

http://www.hypnospa.com.sg/index.php?page=testimonials

http://www.aweber.com/0y609da2a05cc54&n=l

http://www.focalprice.com/ID167B/Multifunctional_EVA_Sleeve_Case_Pouch_Bag_for_Apple_iPad.html

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Presentation Software

• Software similar to Prezi (Alternativeto.net)
  • Nonlinear - iPad App (Site)
  • Ahead (Site) - USD10 a month
  • Sozi - (Installing Sozi on a Mac)
    • Install Macport
    • Install Inkscape
    • Install Macport Dependencies for Inkscape

• Google Public Data Explorer (Site) - makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.

Web Apps

• Visual Thesaurus (Site):
• Visual Dictionary (Site):
• All Roads Lead to Philosophy (Page / App)
• Spezify (Site) - Visual Search Tool

Software Solutions and Examples

Presentations

• Information Visualisation For Knowledge Discovery (Youtube)

Tutorials

• Using Tile Mill for Processing: http://tillnagel.com/2011/06/tilemill-for-processing/

Methods of Presenting Information

Types of Information Presentation

• Tables
  • Comparison Tables
  • Decision Matrix
• Charts
• Diagrams
• Infographics

Planning Tools and Presentation

(http://web2.concordia.ca/Quality/tools/13flowchrt.pdf)

• Action Plan/ Gantt Chart
• Bar Chart/ Block Diagrams
• Box Plots
• Cost of Poor Quality
• Criticality Analysis
• Decision/Selection Matrix
• Failure Mode Analysis
• Fishbone/ Cause and Effect
• Fault Tree Analysis
• Inter-relationship Diagram
• PERT Chart
• Pie Chart
• Planning Matrix
• Radar/ Spider Chart
• Scatter Diagram
• Scenario Based Strategic Thinking
• Tree/ Structure Diagram
• Voice of the Customer
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Data and Data Collection
  • Checksheet
• Generating Ideas and Identifying Opportunities
  • Brainstorming
  • Pairwise Ranking
  • Forcefield Analysis
• Basic Tools for Analysing Data
  • Cause and Effect Diagram
  • Progressive Analysis
  • Run Chart
  • Paretochart
  • Histogram
  • Flow Chart
  • Control Chart

Adaptive Hypermedia

(Wiki)

Zooming User Interface

(Wiki)

• Software
  • TopicScape http://www.topicscape.com/ - Check the video demonstration