For class on 3/29. The Ultramapping Community
Your full assignment overview is on Facebook and on this site. For today:
What is data?
What is data visualization?
What is mapping?
Can mapping be reporting? Explain.
With video and mobile and tablets pushing reporting and writing into more visualization, what is the future of data vis and journalism? Start here:
http://goo.gl/7pT8a (explainer maps) Listen/view this together:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/ (download this and play with it for next week) In this tutorial, we'll look at some of the surprising capabilities locked away in Google Spreadsheets, including creating simplified data entry forms and applying Google Gadgets to spreadsheet data for visualization purposes. The first page of the tutorial shows a series of visualizations pulled in real-time from a Google spreadsheet. The pages that follow show exactly how to create them.
http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/intro-dataviz/related/
(skip the sections about gadgets for now) Group messaging, sharing, and augmented reality viewing:
http://goo.gl/nfjvR
http://color.com/
http://www.junaio.com/ Mapping social networks:
http://flowingdata.com/2008/03/12/17-ways-to-visualize-the-twitter-universe/ QR codes – leaving tracks, making trails
http://goo.gl/2jjJN (CNN on why and what are QR codes)
http://goo.gl/MWnL (five cool uses of QR codes) The easiest and basics
google maps
http://www.geoprinter.com/catalog/mapmaker_process.php
Your full assignment overview is on Facebook and on this site. For today:
What is data?
What is data visualization?
What is mapping?
Can mapping be reporting? Explain.
With video and mobile and tablets pushing reporting and writing into more visualization, what is the future of data vis and journalism? Start here:
http://goo.gl/7pT8a (explainer maps) Listen/view this together:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/ (download this and play with it for next week) In this tutorial, we'll look at some of the surprising capabilities locked away in Google Spreadsheets, including creating simplified data entry forms and applying Google Gadgets to spreadsheet data for visualization purposes. The first page of the tutorial shows a series of visualizations pulled in real-time from a Google spreadsheet. The pages that follow show exactly how to create them.
http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/intro-dataviz/related/
(skip the sections about gadgets for now) Group messaging, sharing, and augmented reality viewing:
http://goo.gl/nfjvR
http://color.com/
http://www.junaio.com/ Mapping social networks:
http://flowingdata.com/2008/03/12/17-ways-to-visualize-the-twitter-universe/ QR codes – leaving tracks, making trails
http://goo.gl/2jjJN (CNN on why and what are QR codes)
http://goo.gl/MWnL (five cool uses of QR codes) The easiest and basics
google maps
http://www.geoprinter.com/catalog/mapmaker_process.php
Barbara K Iverson 