online visualization and organization tools

Del.icio.us tagcloud

• Evidence-based medicine wordtree via IBM’s ManyEyes

• Mindmap navigation of mindmap in wikipedia

• http://www.wikimindmap.org/

• UM faculty size and salary by dept (IBM’s ManyEyes)

• Pregnancy timeline from xTimeline

• Beatles timeline from Dipity

• Del.icio.us social network tool

• Web page text analysis tool displayed as DNA bars

• ManyEyes bubble visualization (perchlorate in food, FDA data)

• FriendWheel from Facebook

Online Visualization and Organization Tools:

Outliners, Thought Organizers, Mindmapping, Timelines, & More

PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian,

Health Sciences Libraries, [email protected]

Overview

• Organization tools – GTD– Annotation– Outliners– Flowcharts– Mindmapping

• Visualization tools – Clouds– Timelines– Data visualization

• Resources

GTD

• “Get Things Done” tools– To do– Time management– Project management– People management

GTD: TODOIST

• Calendar

• Project management

• Integration

GTD: TODOIST

• Integration– Gmail– Mobile access– Widgets, plugins

GTD: TODOIST

• Gmail integration

GTD: Remember the Milk

• Task management, share or collaborate

• Integrates with Google Calendar, Twitter, iPhone/iPod, Gmail, Blackberry

GTD: Remember the Milk

• Twitter page

• Twitter accessible by web, software, Gmail, phone, and more.

• “Add tasks and send commands by direct message. I can send reminders, too.”

GTD: Sproutliner

GTD: Zoho Planner

• To-dos

• Reminders

• Annotations

GTD: Zoho Planner

• Shareable

• Reminders

GTD: TaskAnyone

• “Email a task. We’ll follow up until they follow through.”

• Reminders

• Project management

• Monitor progress

• Email or web

GTD: BackPack

• Team management

• Group calendar

• Announcements, to-dos, online accessible and editing

GTD - Highlights• To Dos

– TODOIST: http://todoist.com/• Integrates with Gmail, mobile, iGoogle, widgets & plugins

– Remember the Milk (RTM): http://www.rememberthemilk.com/• Integrates with Google Calendar, Gmail, Twitter, Blackberry,

iPhone/iPod

• To Dos & More– Sproutliner: http://sproutliner.com/– Zoho Planner: http://planner.zoho.com/

• People & Project Management– TaskAnyone: http://www.taskanyone.com/– BackPack ($$): http://backpackit.com/

Annotation & Note-Taking Tools

• Annotate the web

• Share your annotations

• Team analysis and markup of documents

• Share class notes

Notes: Zotero

• Not web-based

• Allows bookmarking of webpages

• Saves snapshot of page

• Allows annotation of page saved

• Citation management integrated

Notes: Jjot

Notes: Lino

Notes: Stickis

Notes: WizLite

• Grabs text from web pages as notes

Notes: Kwout

• Grabs screenshots

Notes: EverNote

• Grab snippets (variosu types) from the web

• Text, screenshots, images, search

• “Create, clip, and share notes on the web and see them everywhere”

• Windows, Mac, web, mobile

Notes: Fleck

Notes: A.nnotate

• Private or shared review, indexing, discussion

Notes: Hylighter

• For team review of documents

Notes: Hylighter

• Interface interesting

Notes: Notecentric

• Facebook integration

Notes: Google Notebook

Notes: Gist

Notes: Gist - what it really does

Notes: Assignment idea - Annotate Genes

Annotation & Note-Taking Tools - Highlights

• Annotate your bookmarks - Zotero (not web based)• Annotate the web and share your comments (like sticky notes):

– Jjot, Lino, Stickis• Grab bits of pages

– Wizlite, Kwout, EverNote• Share your comments & notes on web pages

– A.nnotate, Fleck • Teams: Hylighter, A.nnotate• Managing your class notes: Notecentric, Google Notebook• Gist “takes notes” for you• Teach annotation

Outliners & Thought Organizers

• Tools to introduce concepts of structured thinking

• Tools to use for outlining and writing support

• Most free, best fee

Outliners: Persuasion Map

• http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/

Outliners: Persuasion Map

• Advance organizer

• Reminders of process and place in process

Outliners: Boolify

• http://boolify.org/

Outliners: LooseStitch

• http://loosestitch.com/

Outliners: LooseStitch

Outliners: ThinkFold

• Collaborative

• Good for teamwork

• Web-based

Outliners: Scrivener

• Professonal writers tool, $$

Outliners & Thought Organizers

• How to: Persuasion Map, Boolify

• Web-based, personal use: LooseStitch, “publishable”

• Web-based, team use: ThinkFold

Flowcharts

• DrawAnywhere

• Gliffy

• Flowchart

Flowcharts: DrawAnywhere

Flowcharts: Gliffy

Flowcharts: Flowchart.com

Mindmapping & Concept Mapping

• Mindmapping as a way of thinking

• Simple tools

• Collaboration - online, shareable, teamwork

• Downloads

Mindmaps: WikiMindMap

Mindmaps: Bubbl.us

Mindmaps: Mindmeister


• Editing view

• Team editing


• Exports to a variety of formats

Mindmaps: Cmap

• Cmap (Download): http://cmap.ihmc.us/ http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/

Mindmaps: FreeMind

• FreeMind (Download, Java): http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Mindmaps: FreeMind

• FreeMind: screenshot - computer knowledge

Mindmaps: FreeMind

• FreeMind: screenshot - German language

Mindmapping - Highlights

• What is mindmapping illustration: WikiMindMap

• Simple, online shareable: Bubbl.us

• Sophisticated, online, shareable: Mindmeister

• Downloads: Cmap, FreeMind

Tag & Word Clouds

• Exploration

• Concept generation / distillation

• Analysis

Clouds: Images (Flickr)

• Flickr: Explore Tags

Clouds: NewsFlashr

Clouds: Extipicious (Delicious)

• http://kevan.org/extispicious.cgi

Clouds: Cloudalicious

Clouds: TagCrowd

Clouds: TagCrowd• as topic summaries for speeches and written works• for visual analysis of survey data• as brand clouds that let companies see how they are perceived by the world• for data mining a text corpus• for helping writers and students reflect on their work• as name tags for conferences, cocktail parties or wherever new collaborations start• as resumes in a single glance• as visual poetry

Clouds: TagCrowd

• Cloud of “Leaves of Grass by Wal Whitman, top 50 words.

Clouds: ManyEyes

• Cloud of “Leaves of Grass by Wal Whitman, top 200 words

Clouds: ManyEyes

• Interactive cloud, allows navigation of text body

Timelines

• Obvious uses: – History – Biography – Individuals & institutions

• Creative uses– Clinical case study presentation– Track epidemiology of disease spread in community– Project planning– Any kind of temporal or process-oriented data– Storytelling or narrative process

Timelines: CircaVie

• http://circavie.com/

Timelines: CircaVie Example

• Beatles timeline

Timelines: Dipity

• http://www.dipity.com/

Timelines: Dipity - Example

• Beatles timeline


• Equipment recalls

• Set up with an rss feed to add new events?


• Equipment recalls

• Eample of event detail view


• Recipes and diet management


• Recipes and diet management

• Example of detail view - recipe

Timelines: xTimeline

• http://www.xtimeline.com/

• Features

• Searching

• Groups

• Public editing

Timelines: xTimeline - Example

• Pregnancy timeline

• Single author


• Higher education entry into Second Life

• Multiple authors


• Detail - entry point view


• Privacy restrictions


• Groups

• Sharing / commenting

Timelines - Highlights

• CircaVie & Dipity – Lightweight, easy to use, community based, intended

for social purposes & personal use– Multimedia

• Dipity – Integrates with other social media (Twitter, Picasa,

Flickr, Google, etc.)

• xTimeline– Wiki-style– Team work, collaboration– Multimedia

Data visualization

• Visualization helpful in analysis of a variety of types of data.

• Many types of data, many types of analysis, many types of display of data =

• Many tools

Visualization: Print

• Edward Tufte

• Wallstats

Visualization: Gapminder

Visualization: Mashups

• Expilicious, take 2

• A gazillion GoogleMap mashups

Visualization: Opte Project

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Visualization: Music

Visualization: Guess

Visualization: Lexipedia

Visualization: Swivel

• http://www.swivel.com/

Visualization: Swivel Example

• Beckett analysis of the Unnameable

Visualization: Swivel Example

• Pesticides in Broccoli

Visualization: ManyEyes

• http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/

Visualization: ManyEyes Example

• Word Cloud - Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman


• EBM word tree


• University of Michigan faculty size and average salary by department


• FDA Survey Data on Perchorate in Food, 2005-2006

Data visualization - Highlights

• Variety of tools available for different domains

• Swivel especially strong in generating graphs

• ManyEyes especially rich source of various visual analyses, flexible, interactive, various types of datasets allowed

Additional resources

• Perez, Sarah. The Best Tools for Visualization. March 13, 2008 9:25 AM. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_best_tools_for_visualization.php

Resources: Eager Eyes

• http://www.eagereyes.org

Resources: Mind-mapping.org

Discovery - Del.icio.us

• http://del.icio.us/tags/visualization

• Browse by tags:– Annotation – Visualization / visualisation– Outliners– Organizers– Timelines+tools

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