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Gapminder
http://www.gapminder.org/
Type: Map
Status: Public
Source: Gapminder
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A, FlashPlayer required.
Language: English
Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualises human development. This is done in collaboration with universities, UN organisations, public agencies and non-governmental organisations.
Maplight.org
http://www.maplight.org/
Type: Map
Status: Other
Source: MAPLight.org, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A, FlashPlayer required.
Language: English
The best way to understand this map/tool is to view the demo: http://www.maplight.org/video/2/FedTourMay1662007.html
"MAPLight.org brings together campaign contributions and how legislators vote, providing an unprecedented window into the connections between money and politics. We currently cover the California Legislature and U.S. Congress."
Biomapping
http://www.biomapping.net
Type: Map
Status: Other
Source: Christian Nold (christian@softhook.com)
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A, FlashPlayer required for interactive maps.
Language: English
You can view several of the example maps without plug-ins (as pictures), but the interactive maps require Flash.
Bio Mapping is a community mapping project in which over the last three years almost 1000 people have taken part in. In the context of regular, local workshops, participants are wired up with an innovative device that records the wearer's Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), which is a simple indicator of the emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location. People re-explore their local area by walking the neighbourhood with the device and on their return a map is created which visualizes points of high and low arousal. By interpreting and annotating this data, communal emotion maps are constructed that are packed full of personal observations which show the areas that people feel strongly about and truly visualise the social space of a community.
Swivel
http://www.swivel.com/
Type: Map
Status: Other
Source: Swivel
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A
Language: English
Most of the examples are fairly simple and straightforward. You can think of this as the "YouTube" of graphing/mapping. The main attraction about this site is that it's easy to share your graphs and communicate with other users. More advanced users could get Swivel's API and play with it.
Breathing earth
http://www.breathingearth.net/
Type: Map
Status: Other
Source: David Bleja (Stillwater). www.ecofoot.org
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A, FlashPlayer required.
Language: English
A simple animated geographical visualization that shows the relative impact different countries have on climate change. Different icons represent the statistical time-varying data of all countries (i.e. birth rate, death rate & carbon dioxide emission), which are 'simulated' in real time.
6 pli
http://www.sixpli.com/
Type: Map
Status: Other
Source: bestiario.org
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A, FlashPlayer required.
Language: English
6pli (still in Alpha version) lets you navigate a set of del.icio.us tags in a dynamic network environment. The interactive tool produced on flash delivers a fascinating output with different visualization methods such as elastic net 3D, elastic net 2D and circles 2D.
Map of future Forces Affecting Education
http://www.kwfdn.org/map/map.aspx
Type: Map
Status: Other
Source: KnowledgeWorks Foundation (KWF) and the Institute For The Future (IFTF)
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A, FlashPlayer required.
Language: English
This is a graphical concept map that forecasts a consistent view of how future forces will affect the components of public education in the US. The map was created by aggregating the opinions of relevant experts who create intensive case studies based on field research.
The vertical side shows 6 categories driving all trends, such as "smart networking", "strong opinions" or "the end of cyberspace". The horizontal direction illustrates 5 key areas of activity where major trends are revealed, such as "family", "institutions", or "educators". Different rectangular zones depict the dilemmas, trends or hot-spots that will impact public education.
MIGration MAP
http://www.transitmigration.org/migmap/
Type: Map
Status: Other
Source: German Federal Cultural Foundation and Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland and the Aargauer Kuratorium.
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A, FlashPlayer required.
Language: English
A rich collection of virtual maps illustrating current European migration policies. In particular, MigMap conveys a picture of how and where the production of knowledge is taking place in the area of migration, looking, for example, at how European standards in politics and civil society are implemented.
The 4 different maps, titled "Key Players", "Discourses", "Europeanisation" & "Places + Practices" provide access to a broad range of information on players, debates, processes and events that together comprise Europe's present day migration policies.
Nodediagram
http://www.lukelab.com/lab/noder/
Type: Map
Status: Other
Source: Luke Murph
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A, FlashPlayer required.
Language: English
XML 3D Node Diagram is a flash piece that allows anyone to load an xml file and see its structure drawn in a 3D cone diagram, tree form or branching structure which can then be rotated along the three axes, X, Y and Z. One can also zoom in the dynamic diagram in order to find and drag particular nodes. Changing the controls changes the form of the diagram; for example, by changing the sub node angle, the spread of the nodes automatically readjust. If one doesn't want to load their own xml file, this flash application has already various sample feeds and data available for further analysis. The user can for instance visualize feeds from Yahoo News, Boing Boing, Slashdot, BBC World News, among others.
Social network visualisation
(Based on the relation browser)
http://der-mo.net/relationBrowser/RB_v1.15_demo/social%20network/index.html
Type: Map
Status: Other
Source: Moritz Stefaner.
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A, FlashPlayer required.
Language: English
See also http://getoutfoxed.com/visualization
An open source will be released soon.
Based on Radial Visual Browser: A semantic data visualisation that shows the relationships within complex concept network structures. In this example, the diagram represents the connotations (e.g 'has a border to', 'is part of', 'is spoken in') between countries, languages, continents & oceans based on CIA factbook data. The centre node can be clicked for detailed information, while adjacent nodes can be selected to put them in the centre. Another variant of this visual browser is capable of visualizing social networks in outfoxed, a Firefox extension for social browsing.
Tracking Map
http://www.snibbe.com/scott/public/youarehere/index.html
Type: Map
Status: Other
Source: Scott Snibbe, scott@snibbe.com
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A
Language: English
"You Are Here" is an interactive visualisation which tracks and displays the paths of visitors travelling through a large public space. The system displays the aggregate paths of the last two hundred visitors along with blobs representing the people currently being tracked. When viewers approach the work, they can display the live video image with the paths of currently tracked visitors superimposed. It provides an understanding of surveillance systems' through the visual representation of information that is normally only accessible as dry statistics.
Mapping the Internet (Internet Map)
http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/InternetMap/index.html
Type: Map
Status: Other
Source: Chris Harrison
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A
Language: English
"The Dimes Project provides several excellent data sets that describe the structure of the Internet. Using their most recent city edges data (Feb 2007), Chris Harrison created a set of visualizations that display how cities across the globe are interconnected (by router configuration and not physical backbone). In total, there are 89,344 connections.
The renderings shown here represent network connections among the globe, focusing on Europe (first image) and North America (second image). The intensity of edge contrast reflects the number of connections between the two points. No country borders or geographic features are shown. However, it should be fairly easy to orient yourself. The second image is also part of a full rendering of the world shown on the site.
Note: No projection has been applied to the geographical data. Latitudes and Longitudes were rounded to the nearest whole number and used in a flat coordinate system. This means that the planetary surface area represented by each point varies, skewing how the data (and densities - both point and edge) is shown."
Unilock
http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/
Type: unknown
Status: unknown
Source:
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Language: English
Audio/visual experience as a world map interface representing the geographical location & amount of users & views of the website, along with personal links & blogs of the visitors.
Naming Names
Names used by major presidential candidates in the series of Democratic and Republican debates leading up to the Iowa caucuses.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/12/15/us/politics/DEBATE.html
Type: Map
Status: Public
Source: NYT
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A
Language: English
Jonathan Corum and Farhana Hossain created a network visualization that shows readers who has spoken about who in presidential debates. Scroll over each candidate name to isolate the connections; important/interesting points are highlighted. Candidates are coloured blue and red for their respective political parties.
There are three main things that this thing shows -- who has spoken about who (lines), who has been talking the most (circle segments), and finally, attention by party (red and blue). In usual fashion, The New York Times churns out another beautiful graphic. Not only is the visualization attractive, but unlike so many network diagrams before it, this graphic is also useful and informative.
Periodic Table of Visualization
http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
Type: Map
Status: Other
Source: Patrizia Schettino, Christian Milani. Uni St. Gallen, Uni. de Geneve, et al
Difficulty: N/A
Compatibility: N/A
Language: English
An interactive periodic table. Very useful and well done too see all the different visualization process.
"This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations. After this tutorial, students should be able to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of visual representations, to improve their shortcomings, to use them to create and communicate knowledge, or to devise new ways of representing insights."
