Vizthink conference (Jan 27-29, 2008)

from: http://vizthink.com/index.html

 Our goal at VizThink is to bring together a broad cross section of the visual thinking community. We’re bringing content from each of the visual arts disciplines together to create a unique mix of content. Here’s just a small sampling of some of the topics you’ll find at VizThink ‘08:

• Moving beyond bullet points…using storytelling for presentations
• Aligning individuals using visualization
• Visualization in 3D? When does it matter
• Facilitation using photographs
• Designing compelling and effective information graphics
• Virtual worlds: future or fad
• Creating a global visual language
• Organizing your world with visuals
• Using visuals for powerful presentations
• Storytelling through comics and graphic novels
• Visual techniques for analyzing data
• Visualization principles for software design
• Facilitation through live sketching
• Can there be a true language with grammar and structure that uses visuals?
• Visualization as a brainstorming tool

Information Visualization Journal

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.html

Forthcoming in 2007 is our special issue on Visual Analytics by Guest Editor: Pak Chung Wong. Free online access to these papers will be available to you upon publication.

Included in the Visual Analytics special issue:

• Interactive Wormhole Detection and Evaluation;
  Weichao Wang, Aidong Lu
• NetLens: Iterative Exploration of Content-Actor Network Data;
  Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Bongshin Lee, Benjamin B. Bederson
• ScentIndex and ScentHighlights: Productive Reading Techniques for Conceptually Reorganizing Subject Indexes and Highlighting Passages;
  Ed H. Chi, Lichan Hong, Julie Heiser, Stuart K. Card, Michelle Gumbrecht
• Ewall: A Visual Analytics Environment for Collaborative Sense-Making;
  Paul E. Keel
• A Visualization Testbed for Analyzing the Performance of Computational Linguistics Algorithms;
  Stephen G. Eick , Justin Mauger, Alan Ratner
• An Automated Approach for the Optimization of Pixel Based Visualizations;
  Jörn Schneidewind, Mike Sips, Daniel A. Keim
• Visual Analysis of Historic Hotel Visits;
  Chris Weaver, David Fyfe, Anthony Robinson, Deryck Holdsworth, Donna Peuquet, Alan M. MacEachren

List of Graph Visualization tools

List of Graph Visualization tools from http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/community/tools.cfm

Easy - Bubbl.us - MindGenius - MindMapper - ConceptDraw - Axon - MindManager - Freemind - HMC concept map - Microsoft Visio - Visual Mind - XML 3D Node Diagram Medium - Inxight StarTree - Wandora - Hypergraph - JGraph - aiSee - Graph Visualization Framework - GUESS - Welkin Advanced - Adobe Flash - Processing - VVVV: A multipurpose toolkit - Prefuse            - Graphviz - H3Viewer - yFiles - Walrus

Other Resources

- CAIDA Directory - SourceForge Directory - INSNA Directory - Google Directory - Wikipedia Directory - graphdrawing.org - List of Mind Mapping Software - List of Concept Mapping Software - Open Source Graphs in Java

visualcomplexity.com

from http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
methods: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/method.cfm
trends: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/trend.cfm

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

 

From:  http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
One page PDF with links to EACH example: periodic_table-one-page.pdf
Full paper: a-periodic-table-of-visualization-methods.pdf

Counter:

Anyone looking for an encyclopedic reference for data visualization should consider Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference, by Robert L. Harris. (from http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=81)

Fascinated about visualization models and tools (Gallery 1)

 http://prefuse.org/

DocuBurst by Christopher Collins Uncertainty Lattices by Christopher Collins   sense.us by Heer, Viégas, and Wattenberg   StudiAnalyse by Christoph Gerstle and Florian Moritz   Enron Explorer by Trampoline Systems   Social Action by Adam Perer Nearword by Gregory Vaughan 34all by Martin Dudek Zone Manager by Martin Dudek timeVis by Can Altineller Small-World Networks by Stephen Frowe Ingram

NameVoyager by Martin Wattenberg, rebuilt by Jeffrey Heer ¢ongress by Jeffrey Heer zipdecode by Ben Fry, rebuilt by Jeffrey Heer TreeMap Demo by Jeffrey Heer RadialGraphView Demo by Jeffrey Heer TreeView Demo by Jeffrey Heer GraphView Demo by Jeffrey Heer FisheyeMenu Demo by Jeffrey Heer DataMountain Demo by Jeffrey Heer Vizster by Jeffrey Heer and danah boyd Flow Map Layout by Doantam

 PDF archive: vis.pdf

GetHiredNow.TV Blog

http://www.gethirednow.tv

This is an informative video and text blog offering up tips and advice for resumes and cover letters.

Some examples from the blog:

1) Shows how to get hired faster by improving your resume and for more info check out the clip below:

 

2) Remember, everyone wants to hire an expert, so write about 500 words about a topic in your field to be published on the web and searchable by potential employers. Steps: (a) do some research in a new topioc or past work, (b) write a bio for yourself, and (c) upload your articles to a free online directory such as ezinearticles.com, goarticals.com or searchwarp.com. For more info check out the clip below:

Don’t Send a (regular) Cover Letter

http://www.startribune.com/205/story/1318663.html

Tip #1: Always use a PS at the end of your cover letter… Click on the link for more info.

Work: Siemens

2006-current

Project Failure Rates

Consider this:

1. On average, about 70 percent of all IT-related projects fail to meet their objectives
2. Nearly half of respondents reported at least one project failure in the past year
3. Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) stated 35% of IT projects fail
4. 35% of all requirements change within the duration of any given project

References

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsurvival.html
http://www.it-cortex.com/Stat_Failure_Rate.htm
http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?s=stating%20the%20obvious