Information+Visualisation+(simple)

Visualisation without computers
[|Lego cartograms show immigration and migration]

Static Visualizations : Infographic or Visual Information Design
Infographics are static visualizations.

Examples: Theory: Edu Use:
 * [|Infographics at Good]
 * [|35 Great Visualizations] (many Geographical & Historical)
 * [|How Does the Brain Retain Information?]
 * [|Communicating Through Infographics]
 * 35 informative and creative infographics
 * [|Infographics, Exploring Visual Information Design]
 * Infographics, a great way to communicate
 * [|Make the Complex Understandable: Show, Don't Tell]
 * [|Technology Enhances Learning]
 * [|Does education lead to happiness]
 * 10 Jaw-Droppingly Awesome Infographics on Education
 * Infographic: Does Facebook make you a better student?

Data Visualization
Example: [|stats R gallery]

Types:
 * [|Visualization Design Patterns]
 * [|Chart Chooser] by Juice Analytics. Shows you what type of data representation should be used for Comparison, Distribution, Trend, Relationship, Table.
 * [|Types of Information Visualization]
 * [|Visualization Options Available in Many Eyes]
 * [|A periodic table fo visualization methods]
 * [|How to Find the Right Chart Type for your Numeric Data]

Theory: Design Techniques: Software:
 * Look out for [|Edward Tufte]. He published books like "Envisioning Information", "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi", "Visual Explanations"
 * [|Design Patterns for Data Graphics]


 * Google Fusion Table

Information Visualization
When static, infographics (see above).

[|Visual Complexity]

[|The Facts and Figures of 2010 in 30 Amazing Infographics]

Collecting and Storing Data
Standard: s00103 Use data entry skills to input data

For teachers to start their own visualisation. Google recently added a new project to its lab. DataWiki. You can create datasets easily and a basic search interface will be automatically created to let you interact with data. [|datawiki]

[|manyeyes] is a community portal that let you upload dataset and apply visualisation to them.

Images +Text, beginners
Any office software like Powerpoint / Present that let you import images and shapes.

Images +Text, advanced
[|Gimp]

Data Graphs
[|Create Graphs Online with Google Chart Maker], with a link to [|ChartMaker]

A few web apps or community website have started to appear that let you upload your dataset and visualize it online. [|ManyEyes] is a great example. Create your own or explore the numerous visualizations created by other users.

Graph generation itself can be done easily with any opensource library. Most of them provide simple ways to specify the data list. I provided an example of a [| javascript barGraph] – This could be relevant to: s90641, Determine the trend for time series data, level 3,1S, credits 3, Internal

Stats R [|statsR]. You can write and save scripts that will automatically generate graphs for data. I had used it a few years ago to rapidly generate distribution graphs for a [|urvey on webCT use in my department]. The survey itself had been prepared and run by students.

[|Orange Widgets] Open source data visualization and analysis for novice and experts. Data mining through visual programming.

Prefuse Library (Actionscript) [|Prefuse Visualization Gallery]

Information Graphic
[|Make Your Own Infographic]

**Design Tips**
[|Designing Quality Infographics: Tips, Resources and Inspiration]

Visualization in Education, Tips
[|Rethinking Data Visualization: From Dynamic Illustration to Analytic Narrative] by Ruben R. Puentedura, author of numerous articles on how to integrate technology and education.

[|Mapping Science], meant to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. Provides a gallery of infographics on scientific data.

[|BBC - KS1 Bitesize Games - Numeracy - Data handling interactive]

[|BBC - KS2 Bitesize: Maths - Interpreting data - activity]

[|Statistics Canada]
 * [|Statistics: Power from Data!] - published primarily for secondary students of Mathematics and Information Studies, although it is expected that the product will find a wider use among other students, teachers and the general population.

Visualization outside Education

 * [|Daily Infographic]
 * [|Information Architecture and Data Visualization Resources]
 * [|InfoGraphic Designs: Overview, Examples and Best Practices]
 * [|Vizlist] entries on Max Kiesler's blog
 * [|Visual Complexity] - VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.
 * [|Infosthetics] - "Where form follows data".
 * [|Random Etc.], Tom Carden's blog
 * [|Simple Complexity] - "Making Simple Sense From Complex Data"
 * [|Accuracy and Aesthetics]
 * [|Information and Visualization] - A blog is all about "information and visualization, but not in the restricted sense of the academic information visualization community".
 * [|Flowing Data]
 * [|Perceptual Edge], a blog by Stephen Few, expert in (Business) Data Analysis.
 * Delicious (blacklisted, link not allowed) - /popular/visualization
 * [|175+ Data and Information Visualization Examples and Resources]
 * visual.ly