March 25, 2011 - 11:32 visualising large data sets
Facilitator: Daniel Pettet (contact)
Reference Project: Environment And Society Portal (run by the Rachel Carson Center)
The Content
Demonstration of existing research and techniques used for building and exploring visualisations for the environment and society portal. These visualisations included time and map based display as well as keyword or tag cloud substitutes for finding keyword based data relationships.
Outcomes/links
Search text/keyword relationship tool: “Google Wonder Wheel” (an option available when searching google in the left sidebar)
Facetted Browsing (or filtering) of data sets: Amazon.com, ebay.com lusini.de/search/
Map based visualisation: Geocommons (the most advanced system so far?)
Google maps: geocode service, maps API
Tree cloud: www.lirmm.fr/~gambette/treecloud
Graph dice?: www.aviz.fr/graphdice
Visualisation website/blog compiling many different types and examples (user/design based): infosthetics.com/