Most of my conference presentations over the last two months have focused on information visualization (see this recording from a session I did for elluminate). Visualizing information and data is a key resource to dealing with information overload. When technology manages and displays the relationships between data (does the cognitive grunt work for us), we ramp up to pattern recognition and reflection of implications. Here are a few additional resources I've recently come across:
Gallery of Data visualization
Modern approaches to data visualization
16 awesome data visualization tools
Debunking Third world myths with the best stats you've ever seen (Hans Rosling - amazing!)
New insights into poverty and life around the world (also Hans Rosling, and also amazing).
I downloaded two of Rosling's programs for use during my keynote in Lisbon in July: Dollar Street and World Health Chart...both very addictive tools, great for exploring complex data sets most people would typically walk. Rosling's company - Gapminder - has since been purchased by Google.
Posted by gsiemens at August 9, 2007 12:53 PM | TrackBackGeorge,
I think you'll find that it is not the Gapminder Foundation (a charity that Rosling and others set up) that Google purchased last March, but the Trendalyzer tool that the Gapminder Foundation had developed.
Seb Schmoler
Thanks for the exceptional links, particularly to the gapminder based talks by Rosling.
Posted by: Han van Loon at August 20, 2007 4:04 AM