The Future of Visualization and Intelligence
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Collaborative Visualization for Collective, Connective and Distributed Intelligence
The Future of Visualization and Intelligence
The "Collaborative Visualization for Collective, Connective and Distributed Intelligence" was a Wallenberg Hall Summer Institute, sponsored by Media X and held at Stanford University on August 12-14, 2009. The event was organized by Jeffrey Heer, Bonnie DeVarco, and Katy Borner. More information is available at http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/convergence.html.
The Event
Twitter Feed
rdcormia #mediax - my idea will be a sensor network to monitor degradation and decomposition of the cryosphere - ice sheet movement and methane gas4 minutes ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - Johan Bollen - MESUR - www.mesur.org/services 22 minutes ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - Johan Bollen - usage events from publishers, aggregators, institutions serving scientific community 30 minutes ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - Johan Bollen - MESUR project: study science from large-scale usage data 32 minutes ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - Andre Skupin - 1st law geog: Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. 33 minutes ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - Andre Skupin - 1st law of geography invalidated with auto spatial correlation 38 minutes ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - Andre Skupin - building tag types based on region about 1 hour ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - Andre Skupin - cartogram on n-dimensional space about 1 hour ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - Andre Skupin - project spaces onto each other about 1 hour ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - Andre Skupin - Towards Computing Deja Vu - surrogate travel, sense of place, feminist viz about 1 hour ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - thesheepmarket.com - paid people 2 cents to submit a sheep. Here they are! about 1 hour ago from web
askpang Aaron Koblin does some pretty amazing work. Anyone who can work with both FAA data and Thom Yorke is, by definition, amazing. #mediax
pschales #mediax tools - emergent cartographies: Processing 1.0 - made Google maps mashup about 1 hour ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - emergent cartographies: proximity renderings about 1 hour ago from web
accarmichael Awesome data visualizations by artist Aaron Koblin of Google Creative Lab - flight patterns etc http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work.html #mediax about 1 hour ago from Tweetie
pschales #mediax tools - emergent cartographies: Aaron Koblin from Google: Processing 1.0 programming tool for designers and artists about 1 hour ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - macroscopes: More sites: MAEviz wiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu.display/MAE/Home, Testrend textrend.org about 1 hour ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - macroscopes: Cytoscape cytoscape.org, Taverna Workbench taverna.sourceforge.net about 1 hour ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - macroscopes: NWB: can get graphical rep of citation networks about 2 hours ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - macroscopes: Network Workbench: http://nwb.slis.indiana.edu about 2 hours ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - macroscopes: Network Workbench Tool study of biomedical, social and behavior science, physics, other networks about 2 hours ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - macroscopes: interface is plugin, core vs. plugins about 2 hours ago from web
askpang Martin Rees: Future of science is the very small (microscope), the very large (telescope), and the very complex (macroscopes). #mediax about 2 hours ago from TwitterFon
pschales #mediax tools - macroscopes: division of labor, ease of use, Plugin content & interfaces, central data models about 2 hours ago from web
askpang Katy Börner: Renaissance had microscopes and telescopes. Today we need "macroscopes," systems to handle massive data sets. #mediax about 2 hours ago from TwitterFon
pschales #mediax tools - macroscopes: share data sets, new algorithms, transparency, modular code - structures and patterns in data streams about 2 hours ago from web
accarmichael Jeff Heer's visualization tool reco's: http://www.tableausoftware.com/, http://flare.prefuse.org/, http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ #mediax about 2 hours ago from Tweetie
pschales #mediax tools - tableau: spatial or temporal display, interact to discover trends. about 2 hours ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - tableau tool from Stanford, db info listed, interact with data and see results via graphics, build up views, find patterns about 2 hours ago from web
pschales #mediax tools - viz analysis tools: interactively constructed about 2 hours ago from web
pschales #mediax moving from mad lib world to lego world about 2 hours ago from web
rdcormia #mediax - Jeff is showing a visualization tool called flare - animations around different views about 2 hours ago from web
rdcormia #mediax - projecting multidimensional data down to flat surfaces about 2 hours ago from web
rdcormia #mediax - Jeff is talking about the need for interactivity in classifying data and analysis - old methods were very manual about 2 hours ago from web
rdcormia #mediax - Jeff is going over more signage - and talking about marks - relative to semiotics - we just guessed area - I yelled an algorithm about 2 hours ago from web
accarmichael "Resemblance, order and proportion are the three signifieds in graphics" - Bertin's semiology of graphics #mediax about 2 hours ago from Tweetie
rdcormia #mediax - Jeff Heer is the lead off speaker this morning - talking about Bertin's Semiology of Graphics - basic informatics about 2 hours ago from web
rdcormia #mediax - arrived late today - parking at stanford is better - get all day passes to the metered parking - but finding the kiosk is a pain! about 2 hours ago from web
pschales #mediax spatial history lab - visit the web site: spatialhistory.stanford.edu
pschales #mediax spatial history lab - create a dynamic regional database. Build up from case studies. Create interactive web atlas.
pschales #mediax spatial history lab - consortium of california herbarium - holy grail!
pschales #mediax spatial history lab - space is a container for social history
pschales #mediax spatial history lab - collaborative, projects open ended,conceptual focus on space.
pschales #mediax spatial history lab - If we can see possibilities from the past then we can see possibilities around us.
rdcormia #mediax - Katy Borner is showing how science is used using a clickstream analysis map
pschales #mediax science viz - temporal analysis - reference system
pschales #mediax science viz - conceptualization of data, instead of a lake it is lakeness, several ways to describe it.
NadineLuiA #mediax - The Power of Maps - four early maps of science and six early maps of the world - how would a map of science work? What metaphors? about 16 hours ago from API
rdcormia #mediax - The Power of Maps - four early maps of science and six early maps of the world - how would a map of science work? What metaphors?
pschales #mediax science viz - Old maps left areas blank when data unknown. Honest maps
pschales #mediax science viz - Power of maps vs 6 early maps of science
pschales #mediax science viz - maps for scholars, viz interfaces to dig libs, for kids, forecasts, how to lie with science maps
pschales #mediax science viz - Mapping Science Exhibit - 10 interations in 10 years.
pschales #mediax science viz - scimaps.org - places and spaces exhibit
rdcormia #mediax - tsunami of knowledge, and the human brain is not getting any bigger - in fact it might be getting smaller!
pschales #mediax science viz - map help to navigate, manage things, utilize space, organize
rdcormia #mediax - Katy Borner presenting an evening talk 'Knowledge from Above' - the problem: mankind's knowledge is much larger than a human brain
pschales #mediax science viz - being lost in knowledge space - need maps
rdcormia #mediax - afternoon breakout sessions on visualization tools, existing challenges, and identify approaches for leverage
pschales #mediax Philosophy Breakout - holistsic science
pschales #mediax Philosophy Breakout - leverage:observer has impact on observation.. Need to be more careful when observing
pschales #mediax Philosophy Breakout - leverage: data ink vs emotion ink
pschales #mediax Philosophy Breakout - science should accept paradoxes
pschales #mediax Philosophy Breakout - science: reliable predictions
askpang "Reality has always been mixed. It's just that in the digital age we can reconfigure the mix more easily." #mediax
pschales #mediax Philosophy Breakout - reproducibility of data, cartesian anxiety
pschales #mediax Philosophy Breakout - conceptualization vs. experiential practice
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - Challenge: data needs context Web MD vs medical social network
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - state of the art: social context for data
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - data is good but how to sort through it is lacking
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - looking at data more than people, in hospitals
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - circular referencing in Wikipedia
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - expert knowledge vs lay knowledge
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - more people supplying data makes data more valuable.
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - leverage: disparate data mashups,.. http://bit.ly/279vTF
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - must start with a question rather than just messing with raw data.
pschales #mediax Philosophy Breakout - holistsic science
pschales #mediax Philosophy Breakout - leverage:observer has impact on observation.. Need to be more careful when observing
pschales #mediax Philosophy Breakout - leverage: data ink vs emotion ink
pschales #mediax Philosophy Breakout - science should accept paradoxes
pschales #mediax Philosophy Breakout - science: reliable predictionsaskpang "Reality has always been mixed. It's just that in the digital age we can reconfigure the mix more easily." #mediax about 19 hours ago from TwitterFon
pschales #mediax Philosophy Breakout - reproducibility of data, cartesian anxiety
pschales #mediax Philosophy Breakout - conceptualization vs. experiential practice
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - Challenge: data needs context Web MD vs medical social network
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - state of the art: social context for data
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - data is good but how to sort through it is lacking
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - looking at data more than people, in hospitals
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - circular referencing in Wikipedia
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - expert knowledge vs lay knowledge
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - more people supplying data makes data more valuable. about 20 hours ago from web
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout -don't be limited/driven by the data set.
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - oil info is politicized data set, unbiased view possible?
pschales #mediax Challenges Breakout - Peak oil, hording behavior, panic behavior, normal models don't hold
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - Challenges: Demographics, under-represented groups, growing majority
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - Challenges: don't learn yourself into a corner, x-ferable skill/knowledge
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - leverage - crowd sourcing, higher level taxonomy/data vocabulary
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - leverage: gaming engines: spore, daisy world, foldit, gwap
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - leverage: disparate data mashups, higher level taxonomy, data vocabulary, smart data self-cleansing
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - Tools : simearth (gaia creator)
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - Easy tools to use: Processing, open source, flare, protovis, prefuse
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - Tools for data wrangling lacking
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - Challenges - usability, tools for common man
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - gwap.com - Play games, trains computers to solve problems
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - fold.it/portal - protein folding, harness the power of the masses for discovery, done as a game
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - vvv.org - easy to add external libs, connect modules, used for museum installations, custom projections, realtime
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - Open Frameworks - C++ based, (openframeworks.cc) evolving
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - processing.org - community shares examples! open source core libraries, syntax like javascript
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - Processing.org - GIS, animiation..., easy to use
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - Google flight patterns in graphic representation - uses Processing (language for artists & teachers)
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout- JPL Eyes on the Earth 3D - query what satellites are doing
pschales #mediax Tools Breakout - game engine in educational environment?DigiArchivist Interesting data visualization tools: swivel.com/ & manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/ & hci.stanford.edu/jheer/projects/vizster/ #mediax
rdcormia #mediax - Jeffrey Heer - Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information VisualizationDigiArchivist Digital visualization as not only output tools but input tools as well. #mediax
rdcormia #mediax - Jeffrey Heer shows web visualization tools Gapminder.org, swivel.org, ManyEyes.com and discusses Social Data Analysisrdcormia #mediax - Social Data Analysis Gapminder.org Al Gore's movie Spotfire Decision Desktop Wallpaper - groups generating diagrams for anallysis
rdcormia #mediax - Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization - Jeffrey Heer / IBM publication (pdf) 2007
accarmichael Very cool data visualization tools by Jeff Heer - http://sense.us, http://flare.prefuse.org/, how to apply to health information? #mediax about 21 hours ago from Tweetie
askpang Extremely cool tool for visualization and collective sensemaking of US Census data: http://sense.us #mediax about 21 hours ago from TwitterFon
rdcormia #mediax - Jeffrey Heer shows interactive information / informatics tool for visually rendering results to queries - published in 2007 (IBM)
askpang Jeff Heen: "Visual sensemaking can be SOCIAL as well as cognitive." YESYESYESYESYES!!! #mediax about 21 hours ago from TwitterFon
rdcormia #mediax - Jeffrey Heer posits that visual sense making can be social as well as analytical. sense.us analysis of jobs, names, demographics.
pschales #mediax sense.us - census data with visualizationsDigiArchivist Visual sensemaking can be social as well as cognitive...so says Jeffrey Heer at #mediax
pschales #mediax visual sensemaking can be social as well as cognitiveaskpang "People would choose a view that seemed right to them, then talk about how smart the algorithm was." (Jeff Heer on users of Vizter) #mediax about 21 hours ago from TwitterFon
pschales #mediax groups spent more time in front of visualizations than individualsrdcormia #mediax - Jeffrey Heer shows a linkage based clustering diagram at vizster - interesting visual analysis tools.
pschales #mediax Vizster - added analytics for sense making, user controls for parameters, like communityaccarmichael http://twitpic.com/dnhna
pschales #mediax Jeffrey Heer - Vizster (friendster.com) social networking. Force directed layout, ego-centric, view by category of info
pschales #mediax sci.slis.indianna.edu cyberinfrastructure
pschales #mediax John Bernal physicist, produced first map of science in 1939DigiArchivist Five basic types of maps: temporal, semantic, geographic, network, and mixture #mediax
pschales #mediax sociometry->lady bountiful->world encyclopedia
rdcormia #mediax - Katy Borner - following Bonnie Devarco - shows maps of science - interaction maps, k-space topic maps, and inverse distance maps
pschales #mediax base map of science
pschales #mediax show uncertainty is important
pschales #mediax geo-maps can be a template for other datardcormia #mediax - early maps of the world vs. early maps of science, 3-D vs. N-D, physical based vs abstract based centuries vs decades experience
pschales #mediax mapping of science - abstract, accuracy difficult, 2-d projections neglect lots of data - template for other data
pschales #mediax Katy: mapping scienceDigiArchivist Transparency, egalitarianism, open access, curation, mentorship, synthetic minds...will get us to collective knowledge. #mediax
pschales #mediax map of time: spiral
pschales #mediax connective part of collective intelligence:transparency,egalitarianism, access to info & tools,curation,mentorship,synthetic mindsDigiArchivist Interesting concepts: connective intelligence. Information trails. Data tracks. Information mentorship. Grow our collective wisdom. #mediax
pschales #mediax curation, mentorship
pschales #mediax human stories become realtime conversations
pschales #mediax 6 degrees of connective intelligence
pschales #mediax wisdom of connected knowledge, crowd sourcingDigiArchivist Following the thread at #mediax and learning about various trees of knowledge and how visualization has changed but borrowed from history.
pschales #mediax visualizing data in flowsrdcormia #mediax - Bonnie DeVarco reviews evolution of lineages of disciplines and thinking, compares and contrast to Darwin's approach and religion
pschales #mediax dissection, now must integrate (sciences)
pschales #mediax social groups are affinity groups
pschales #mediax New tree of life, earth is living organism
pschales #mediax we are networked, big shift going on right now!
pschales #mediax hierarchical representation of tree of life early on, moved to radial description
pschales #mediax tree of life and the super organism, Darwin's sketch first network sketchaccarmichael Early human maps were based on wind patterns! At Stanford #mediax workshop on collaborative data visualization, Bonnie DeVarco speaking.
askpang Bonnie De Varco: trees of Nature, trees of Knowledge, trees of social life-- all are ancient and being transformed today. #mediax
pschales #mediax cosmogramaskpang Any conference where someone says "it's very ludic," and you can talk about data visualization atop Hoover Tower, is a good one. #mediax
pschales #mediax diagrams lost, tried to bring them back in 12th century.
pschales #mediax we are stewards
pschales #mediax visual history: layers of perception, micro to macro.
pschales #mediax tree of life, tree of knowledge, tree of human relationshiprdcormia #mediax - boxed lunch - yummy!
askpang A windmil is just a glider with a good bearing. Or maybe a glider is a windmill with a bad bearing. (Jack Park) #mediax
rdcormia #mediax - (intro) futurists - what are current / future problems to solve? Disruptive technologies - combine digital media with social tools
askpang People are holding a lavalier mic as they introducing themselves. But they're not speaking into it. The social affordance is key. #mediax
pschales #mediax data mining for relevant information, use visualization to show lots of info
rdcormia #mediax - intro: design, build, run and support consulting / communication / collaboration tools and environments (consulting services)
rdcormia #mediax - human-human collaboration and decision support - seeing processes and interaction of humans with the world with augmented support
pschales #mediax lots of data how to you manage it and make sense of it?
rdcormia #mediax - professor from Pratt Institute - researcher from GE - design in the augmented everyday life
askpang Someone just asked if anyone was tweeting the conference. Umm, yeah. #mediax
askpang Everybody here, in one way or another, is interested in how visualization can be used to deepen the "shadow of the future." #mediax
rdcormia #mediax - introductions include historians, environmental historians, ecological visualization, computer science
rdcormia #mediax - new word - info-graphics or infographics - visualization of information for people who don't read - data visualization
askpang Interesting transitional moment we're in with conference media: Post It, Powerpoints, Prezis, paper spaces are all in the landscape. #mediax
rdcormia #mediax - RDC is working on data visualization in climate systems, sustainability, nanosystems, and visualizing emergent molecular systems
rdcormia #mediax - doing introductions - what are the topics and burning questions people are working on? Where and how does data visualization fit?
pschales #mediax each person will talk about how their work and how it relates to visualization
pschales #mediax participants have varied backgrounds, science, social science, library science
rdcormia #mediax - taking the pulse of the crowd - who we are - sciences, computing, data modelers, UI / AI people
rdcormia #mediax - Jeffrey Herr - #1 – address questions, #2 – choose tools/ languages #3 – build analysis tools for group inquiry and collaboration
pschales #mediax Katy Bomer - macroscopes, lets you see lots of data and see patterns emerge
pschales #mediax Jeffrey Heer work, create tools to help people make sense of data, collaborate
pschales #mediax Jeffrey Heer, asst prof at Stanford, human computer interaction
rdcormia #mediax - Jeffrey Herr is announcing workshop goals
pschales #mediax Bonnie DeVarco, was curator of Buckminster Fuller institute, intro to data visualization
rdcormia #mediax - Bonnie DeVarco is making the introduction - we are vanguards of visualization
pschales #mediax Visualization Vanguard Collaboratory Into
rdcormia #mediax - starting the workshop at 9:00 a.m. - right on time!
Future Exercise
Instructions
GC: Collaborative sense-making
If you use Twitter
Objective
Twitter users should tweet their ideas starting with GC, Nu, Do, or WC (indicating whether the thing is a grand challenge, new enabler, thing we need to do, or wild card), and ending with the hash tag #media. ( "Do: Find out if collective intelligence really exists or not. #mediax" )
The Process
1. Write short, headline- or Twitter-length ideas
2. We'll organize them on the map
3. We'll generate a clearer, collective vision of the future of the field
How can we reach the grand challenges necessary to make collaborative visualization for collective, connective and distributed intelligence a reality in the next decade?
We'll use a map to visualize those challenges, the state of the art in technology and visual practices in the 2010s, and help identify the biggest opportunities and needs.
Categories
Human Life
GC = GRAND CHALLENGES. Big issues or challenges that aren't already up on the map, but they think should be.
Nu = NEW ENABLERS. Technologies, social practices, or institutions that will be available within a decade that will have an impact on our ability to visualize, share, and comprehend data. This could involve a wide range of things (e.g., high-performance cloud computing; proliferation of Semantic Web tools; a generation of scientists who've grown up with Web 2.0 and open source; cheap OLEDs that let you have huge, flexible, persistent, low-energy displays).
Do = THINGS WE NEED TO DO. These are technologies, practices, institutions, etc. that need to dealt with for visualization and distributed collective intelligence to flourish.
WC = WILD CARD. These are events with a low probability of occurring, but have a high impact if they do occur-- e.g., the collapse of the Web.
Do: Apply behavioral economics to human-computer interaction? #mediax
Nu: Dashboards for everything. #mediax
About the Tool
GC: Learn to present complex information in ways that enables, not overwhelms, action. #mediax
WC: Direct projection to optic nerve? #mediax
Nu: Cheap, large flexible displays enable more collaborative sense-making. #mediax
Nu: tenure committees recognize online activities as professional service #mediax
Prezi, a zooming browser/presentation tool
Developed by Kitchen Budapest
http://www.prezi.com /
elumenati: #mediax community immersive visualization and values-based dialogue facilitation: http://orgs.unca.edu/nemac/...
` #mediax NU : community based visualization centers
elumenati #mediax GC=self-reflexivity in science and visualizing non-Aristotelian logic models
scenarioguy #mediax -- we need a rhetoric/media grammar for engagement - motivating deliberation over a single point of view
stereotype of data and data handlers is that they're unemotional; we need to bring emotion into our practice... without having that collapse into pure subjectivity
http://www.digitalexploration.org
"its all about scaling perceptual prosthetics"
severoon GC - how to represent human problems as #computable problems (a la Wolfram's New Kind of Science defn)? - http://is.gd/2gYdz #mediax
GC: Creating / presenting / using data in context.
Twitter + Prezi as an example of the challenge
GC: Rooms as interfaces: Visualization and sense-making as physical, embodied cognition
early example: Wolfram Alpha
The Past
Project Natal-- computer vision-based gesture recognition
severoon NU - touchable #holography [warning: a/v] - http://is.gd/2gXmC #mediax
virtual-digital breakdown/merger allow creating instant visualizations of places, objects that correspond to each other, create opportunity for multi-sensory experience
severoon DO - composable, separable UI components (think graphical unix pipes) - http://is.gd/2gXwN
collaborative surfaces / spaces to exchange ideas together-- e.g., collaborative whiteboarding (like shuffleboard or curling, where ideas are the puck)
GC: Data-wrangling remains essential (and challenging)?
scenarioguy #mediax -- we need a rhetoric/media grammar for engagement - motivating deliberation over a single point of view
Trees of Knowledge
physicalized nature of perception-- how do you get bodies communicating in the physical world? Or rather, how do you make use of the fact that we do that?
Trees of Human Life
The Present
GC: how will our understanding of the interaction of brains, groups, and tools-- moving past our model of brains as locked within bodies-- change?
severoon DO - extract 3D from 2D (can play well with holography!) http://photosynth.net/ #mediax
multi-sensory systems for representing different kinds of signals, information?
Nu: Tactile interfaces for chemists-- VR + reactive gloves that let you "feel" van der Waals forces.... Suggest ways of feeling through process insights.
The Future
"deep listening" as a model: it encourages people to respond rather than react
GC: Macroscopes!!!
tools are getting easier to use (and more fun)
Knowledge
???
elumenati #mediax GC=self-reflexivity in science and visualizing non-Aristotelian logic models
GC: Symbol maps
Social Web socializes conversations, reduces anxiety, allows for / reveals paradox and perspective-- but need to visualize it!
"we need a Google Earth for real-time collaborative human knowledge and connective intelligence"
World of Warcraft and its norms and technologies-- they already have their own culture and syntax, and it's going to move into the business world.
eileenclegg #mediaX GC Structured conversation tools: scalable collaborative discussion tools that support synthesis (Jeff Heer)
http://cohere.open.ac.uk/
asha New enablers for data viz Nu - 3D TV #mediax
enactive theory as a source of knowledge about how all learning is learning by doing, is participative and social
"Are we chimps or bonobos online?" (violence or sociability as preferred solutions to problems
DavidWalczyk #mediax NU : community based visualization centers
eileenclegg #mediaX Grand challenge -- A visual taxonomy flexible enough to enable "fuzzy" (in a good way) interpretation
eileenclegg #mediax There is a shape of thought that has its own integrity -- it emerges beautifully from well-organized data
The development of visualization tools isn't just about hardware, software and screens.
eileenclegg #mediax words capture ideas, images free them (Bonnie DeVarco)
"slippery slopes and Cartesian anxiety"
Like giving people Dynabooks... giving communities tools to visualize their own neighborhoods has self-empowering, educational benefits
teaching visualization and GIS to younger audiences-- K-12
eileenclegg #mediax WC = The next generation does not want to sit in front of a screen
Trees of Nature
Nu: Gathering cultural information in Harlem, adding geo-coding... learn by doing
severoon NU - touchable #holography [warning: a/v] - http://is.gd/2gXmC
How do you use that to inform community planning, decision-making?
"the map is not the territory"
Understanding the sociability of visualization (as one part of the social life of information)
Learning how to integrate that content into decision-making
@Tech: Adobe Youth Voices gave kids media tools, showed videos in the IMAX theatre... will build next around energy, then health, environment, media.
Community-located GIS systems (e.g. Decision Theatre at ASU)
Who's going to be in the conversation? How do you communicate sophisticated issues to a lay audience? Creating new insight into a shared problem is the ideal.
behavioral economics and neuroscience / neuroeconomics tells us a lot about subjectivity and real decision-making...
Nature