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/