VISUALIZATION OF CULTURAL PATTERNS -
SELECTED RESOURCES:
general infoviz portals - some of the projects use cultural data / show cultural nteractions :
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
taxanomies:
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
selected visualizations of cultural processes:
Visualizing the structure of artistic works:
W. Bradford Paley: TextArc
Ben Fry: Valence
Stefanie Posavec: Jack Kerouac’s literary space
Capturing and visualizing one's "media life":
MyLifeBits
Reality Mining
Slife
LastGraph
sharme
visualizing social media:
projects by Stamen design
flickrvision
WikapediaVision
history flow
paper about history flow project by the authors
other projects by Martin Wattenberg
Golan Levin: dumpster
listening post
moveable type
visualizing atttention:
tag clouds graph tool
Tagclouds and cultural changes (analysis of results obstained with tag cloud tool)
tracking popularity:
google.com/trends
google zeitgeist
technorati.com
tracking buzz:
Blogpulse
blogscope
automatic news generators:.
newspond.com
spotplex.com
blogrunner.com
Use of visualizations in public spaces:
IAC building in NYC / student projects done for the screen at IAC building
imaginary Forces - MOMA project
Mobiglobe
Legrady's visualization for Seattle Public Library / other visualization projects by Legrady
moveable type
projects by Futurelab (Ars Electronica Center)
selected museum exhibitions and commissions of vis projects:
MOMA: Design and Elastic Mind, 2008
Whitney Museum Artport
Whitney Museum gatepages
Whitney Museum: Data Dynamics and Whitney Biennial 2002 Net Art Selection
Prix Ars Electronica
web analytics:
www.google.com/analytics/
Other relevant visualization work:
visualization of statistics on development:
Hans Rosling - TED Lecture / Gapminder software
social networks visualizations:
videomap
social networks projects @ visualcomplexity.com
knowledge networks visualizations:
projects at visualcomplexity.com
mapofscience.com / map of science still images
Cultural
Mapping:
(IM)MOBILITY / BORDERS, LABOR, MIGRATION
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
Ursula Biemann's projects