http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
A good example of how a simple graphic aids in learning something new.
Think of something you have written about lately and add an graph, image, doodle, etc. as a visualization of the main point(s) that you are presenting.http://agile101.net/2009/09/08/the-difference-between-waterfall-iterative-wat...
Gini-coefficient of inequality: This is the most commonly used measure of inequality. The coefficient varies between 0, which reflects complete equality and 1, which indicates complete inequality (one person has all the income or consumption, all others have none).
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPA/0,,contentMD...
from Richard Darell www.bitrebels.com
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to visualize Twitter in a whole different way? I am not talking about a new client on which you use Twitter, no. I am talking about a whole new way of visualizing your connections and the things they share with you. Well, VIZoSPHERE is exactly that and more. Its intended use is to visualize your networkthrough the topics that your followers and followings are sharing and are influential about.
"In may 2011, Imano conducted a survey of two thousand iPad users in the UK."
48% ?!? Which Internet connected device do you spend the most money with? 48% !?! More than Laptop and Computer combined? Granted, this is a survey of iPad users, but considering the short time the device has been on the market it's impressive that it has become the vehicle for commerce for nearly half of its users.
http://idea.imano.com/2011/06/uk-ipad-usage-infographic/
Today Google announced a new Gmail People Widget to provide contextual information about the people in your address book from within Gmail.
Everyone's got something to say about it - CNET, TechCrunch, Mashable, TechCrunch, LifeHacker, Techmeme, thenextweb, ...
I'm trying to keep abreast of the developements that provide visualization of social networks, ie. widgets that present generalizations of these structures: Facebook's Social Graph and LinkedIn's Maps.
Interactive infographics will add dimension to our understanding of the nuance and ambiguity of data, information and social connections. The challenge is to maintain integrity of such a systems to deliver transparency and accountability.
My thanks to Henry Brown for posting these links on govloop.com, both of which are from ComputerWorld.
22 free tools for data visualization and analysis and the accompanying Chart.
Clicking about, looking for infographics on the U.S. budget deficit, I came across the second part of The New York Times interactive infographic, Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget. NYT published the puzzle on 11/13/2010, which I recall, but I didn't see the follow up of a week later, How Twitter Users Balanced the Budget.
Not a scientific sampling but a good example of informing and engaging a citizenry on a complex issue, "more than one million page views, and more than 11,000 posted Twitter messages about the puzzle, most including their own solution". And the Times had several good accompanying pieces on the subject and exercise including a transparency piece, Behind the Times Deficit Project.
I'd like to see a mashup of Meetup, Study Circles, and a Games For Change mobile app, that generates actual recognition and street cred like the buzz a YouTube video gets for going viral.
NYT Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget, 11/13/2010
NYT How Twitter Users Balanced the Budget, 11/20/2010
More resource for the equation of addressing wicked problems and civic engagement...
While sitting at Whole Foods, downtown Austin, TX, having coffee and getting to 'inbox zero' I discovered that just north of me the ISOJ2011 was going on. Went to the link to find that it's on livestream.com/isoj2011 along with captures of the previous sessions.Online journalism has become an integral part of building the link between transparency and civic engagement.
