Online Northwest 2009 presentation materials

Here’s the “meta handout” and the slides from my Online Northwest talk: Handout Slides (Both are PDFs, of course).

License plates – good for analogy and cool as designed objects

When I teach about Library of Congress call numbers, I like to show a photo of an Oregon license plate – the discussion that results – why do states need to use letters AND numbers? so there are enough combinations so every car gets a unique plate! – really helps to explain why LC is [...]

Suggestion maps – Gnod and TuneGlue

Here are some really slick tools to introduce you to new entertainment, based on what you already like: Gnod designs “self-adapting systems” to suggest music, books, and movies: Gnoosic Literature-Map Movie-Map And TuneGlue does a similar trick for Music, but also links to album info. It was a little bit creepy how closely this matched [...]

Gapminder World – visualize changing trends worldwide

I first heard about Gapminder and its Trendalyzer software from the TED talks by Hans Rosling. Gapminder offers a striking representation of worldwide (or national) trends in population, health, economy, and other indicators. Check it out: http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/applications/ Free: Yes

VisualLiteracy.org – “A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods”

The folks at VisualLiteracy.org have designed a great primer for anyone who wonders what the heck data visualization is and why anyone gets excited about it. Check it out: http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html