Examples of Data Visualization (incl Text and Social Networks)
- Visualization of Stanford Digital Humanities programs
- Kim's Ringu Transmission Timeline
- created with Simile Timeline
- http://kimknight.com/ring/ring.html
- Twitter Conversations, Visualized
- Data Visualizations - Examples (via Smashing Magazine)
- Visualization of Every Cause of Death in England and Wales
- Flowingdata.com
- lots of different visualizations
- http://flowingdata.com/
- Visualizing.org
- "Making sense of complex issues through data and design"
- http://www.visualizing.org/
- Information is Beautiful
- Info viz with attention to design / aesthetics
- http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
- Visualization of #jan25 hashtag
Further Reading / Resources
Where to Find Data
- Data.gov
- Government data sources
- http://www.data.gov/
- ManyEyes
- user uploaded data sets for use on the ManyEyes site
- http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/
- Amazon Public Datasets
- for use with Amazon Web Services
- https://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/#2
- Datamob
- aggregates public data sets
- http://datamob.org/
- Natural Earth
- map data sets
- http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
- Various Data Sets on mathforum.org
- These can be downloaded as Excel spreadsheets
- http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum96/data.collections/datalibrary/data.set6.html
- US Census
- Census Data Sets (Free)
- http://www.census.gov/
- BYU Text Corpora
- includes American English texts from 1990 forward, British English from the late 20th century, TIME Magazine, and an alternative interface to the Google N-grams corpus
- http://corpus.byu.edu/
- Data about UT Dallas
- http://www.utdallas.edu/ospa/stats/index.html
- You can request data not listed here by submitting a request via email
Reading
- Top 10 Visualization Tools for Social Media, Blogosphere, Internet and News
- 10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics
- Types of Map visualizations
Tutorials
- Brian Croxall Tutorial on building interactive timelines
Data Visualization and Analysis Tools (alphabetical)
- ArcGIS
- Create and Analyze Spatial Data.
- 60-Day Free Trial http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgis10/trial.html
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- Public data sets available for use; You pay for the computing power and storage of your project; Probably overkill for this class.
- https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
- Bookworm
- http://bookworm.culturomics.org/
- "Search for trends in hundreds of thousands of books on OpenLibrary.org"
- CartoDB
- create map based data visualizations. Licenses range from free to enterprise.
- http://cartodb.com/visualize/
- Crowdmap
- https://crowdmap.com/
- "1. Collect information from cell phones, news and the web. 2. Aggregate that information into a single platform. 3. Visualize it on a map and timeline."
- Cytoscape
- http://www.cytoscape.org/
- Basically, it is Gephi. You can use it to import excel documents, etc. to make visualizations
- Create your own data visualization
- http://daytum.com/
- Dipity
- create timelines
- http://www.dipity.com/
- EduServ Twitter Summarizer
- analyzes and creates visualizations from twitter and twapperkeeper
- http://summarizr.labs.eduserv.org.uk/
- Gephi
- Free, open source visualization software; possibly more firepower than needed for this class...
- http://gephi.org/
- Google Fusion Table
- Google Fusion Table is a data visualization tool. It can combine with other data on the web, collaborate, visualize, and share. All data organization is automatically saved and stored in Google Drive.
- http://www.google.com/drive/start/apps.html#fusiontables
- Google NGrams
- Search usage history of terms and phrases from 1800 forward.
- http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/
- Google Public Data
- Google Refine
- "Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase."
- http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
- Google Trends
- Hohli
- Hohli is an intuitive, simple online chart maker. Users pick chart type, add some data, vary the sizes and colours and see the finished chart.
- http://charts.hohli.com/#cht=p3&chs=320x240&chd=s:&chf=bg,s,FFFFFF|c,s,FFFFFF&max=100&agent=hohli.com
- Tool Review Page - Hohli
- IBM's ManyEyes
- DataVisualization tools - add your own data, or use one of the public sets
- http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/
- Import.io
- Cloud-based Web Data Platform & Web Scraping Tool
- https://www.import.io
- Leaflet
- a javacript library for making interactive maps
- http://leafletjs.com/
- MediaCloud
- http://www.mediacloud.org/dashboard/view/1?q1=94946
- Map news stories visually
- "Media Cloud is an open source, open data platform that allows researchers to answer quantitative questions about the content of online media. Using Media Cloud, researchers, journalism critics and interested citizens can examine what media sources cover which stories, what language different media outlets use in conjunction with different stories, and how stories spread from one media outlet to another." (mediacloud.org)
- Muse
- perform sentiment and network analysis on your email
- http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/muse/
- Neatline
- "allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps and timelines"
- http://neatline.org/
- Netlytic
- Web-based to analysis text-based interaction social media interaction.
- http://netlytic.org/
- Piktochart
- A web-based tool to use photos to graphics (free version)
- http://piktochart.com
- http://digitaltextuality.pbworks.com/w/page/93199857/Pikochart%20Tool%20Review
- RAW
- Open web vector-based visualization tool.
- http://raw.densitydesign.org
- SALT
- Determine a person's functional language ability
- http://www.saltsoftware.com/
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Simile Timeline
- use a google spreadsheet or other database form to create a temporal layout of your data
- http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/
- Tutorial by Brian Croxall of Emory University
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Tableau
- TagCrowd
- Web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud or text cloud.
- http://www.tagcrowd.com
- TAGS (Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet)
- uses google spreadsheets to archive tweets by user, hashtag, etc; has rudimentary analysis and visualization tools
- http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/01/twitter-archive-tagsv3/
- Tagxedo
- Custom Shape Word Cloud generator
- http://www.tagxedo.com/
- TAPor
- Text Analysis Portal allows users to select web pages or import their own text and use several analytic tools on the texts.
- http://portal.tapor.ca/portal/portal
- TAToo
- Text Analysis for Me Too
- TAPor lite for embedding on websites, etc.
- http://ra.tapor.ualberta.ca/~tatoo/
- Text 2.0
- Analyzes where you look while you read, allowing authors the opportunity to know which passages readers found interesting and whether pictures are useful, etc.
- http://text20.net/
- http://www.businessinsider.com/eye-tracking-changing-world-2012-12 (for further reading on Text 2.0 and other eye-tracking developments)
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TextGrid
- Text-image.com
- http://text-image.com
- Produces colored and shaped text to replicate a user photo.
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ThinkUp
- http://thinkupapp.com/
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"ThinkUp is a free, open source web application that captures all your activity on social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Foursquare."
- Timeline.js
- build interactive timelines
- http://timeline.knightlab.com/
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creates a persistent archives of tweets by user, hashtag, etc.; data can be exported to excel
- http://twapperkeeper.com
- Visible Tweets
- creates visualizations based on Twitter searches; They are real-time and not exportable/savable, so not really right for portfolios.
- http://visibletweets.com/
- Visuwords online graphical dictionary
- Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
- http://www.visuwords.com/?word=fight
- Voyant
- http://voyant-tools.org/
- Text analysis including word frequency and word clouds. Exportable.
- Wordle
- Tool for creating "word clouds" from text you provide.