How Do We Visualize Community?

A few InfoViz examples Compiled by Ida C. Benedetto

New Orleans Chase Competition :: March 28, 2006

All text taken from Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design

by John Emerson

http://www.backspace.com/notes/2008/02/15/x.html

Maps are useful for showing spatial issues or locations.

Travel time in London© Crown copyright. Department for Transport 100020237 2006http://www.mysociety.org/2006/travel-time-maps/

Charts are useful for showing quantities and trends over

time.

Edits to the Wikipedia entry on “Capitalism” organized by version and authorhttp://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/gallery.htm

Diagrams and flowcharts may best illustrate processes or

relationships.

41 most frequent characters from different Holy Scriptureshttp://similardiversity.net/

When designing your graphics, consider using

contrasting thicknesses, tints, line styles or shapes first, before considering color.

Fidg’t’ : Live interactive visualization of Flickr and lastFM networkshttp://www.fidgt.com/visualize

The style of your elements can convey meaning. Too

many styles may clutter the page. Thin lines are generally

preferable to thick lines.

Stock Market Ticker Gardenhttp://infosthetics.com/archives/2006/04/

ticker_garden_stock_market_visualization.html

You don’t need a computer to create great design. Design graphics with pen, paper or

collage.

Ted Talks Big Viz Bookhttp://blog.ted.com/2008/03/

visualizing_ted.php

Show the actual data, as much as you can. People can

deal with much greater information density than you think. Your job is to help them see the patterns in the data.

How Scientific Paradigms relate: W.B. Paleyhttp://wbpaley.com/brad/mapOfScience/

index.html

Death and Taxeshttp://www.thebudgetgraph.com/

ResourcesInformation Aesthetics - http://infosthetics.com

Visual Complexity - http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc

Social Design Notes - http://backspace.com/notes

Processing.org Exhibition - http://processing.org/exhibition

Good Magazine - http://www.goodmagazine.com

Eager Eyes - http://eagereyes.org