Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Harnessing New Data Visualization Tools

A fascinating and lightning fast overview of trends in data visualization by Darlene Fichter from the University of Saskatchewan.  She went through the basics of data sources, their trustworthiness, the power of data presentation when done effectively, and attitudes regarding the availability of vast quantities of information.  She then covered about a dozen sites that do interesting stuff with that data.  The last three major sites she mentioned that were particularly impressive were.
  • Swivel

  • Many Eyes from IBM Alphaworks

  • Gapminder

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