"The words and images speak for themselves and succeed on their own terms" in Unflattening by Nick Sousanis

 A Doctoral dissertation in graphic novel form:

"The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge."

"Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. "

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Harvard University Press (April 20, 2015)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0674744438
•       Table of Contents
• • 1. Flatness
  • Interlude: Flatland
  • 2. The Importance of Seeing Double and Then Some
  • 3. The Shape of Our Thoughts
  • 4. Our Bodies in Motion
  • 5. The Fifth Dimension
  • 6. Ruts
  • Interlude: Strings Attached
  • 7. Vectors
  • 8. Awaking
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Early Sketches
   

Data exploration through visualisation

Alternative ways to look at  data, interesting approach:

Data exploration through visualisation Posted by Ben O'Steen

Extract: The impact that a thoughtful visualisation has cannot be underestimated. However, it's easy to forget how tremendously useful they are for understanding your own data, before you even know what you have.... 
"Textual cross references found in the Bible" © Chris Harrison http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Visualizations/BibleVizThe questions "Is there...?" and "What if...?" drive the exploration of data. Often, these questions are best answered by creating something in reply: "This is what it looks like in that context." This can be as simple as creating a chart from a spreadsheet, or pulling out all the key words and phrases and putting them all together on a single page. There are also a number of tools that will take structured data and provide different ways to examine them.

Info courtesy: © The British Library`s Digital scholarship blog 

On the same shelf: 

• Visualizing the holy books

Social Graph or Graph Search -- What's in a name?

Mark Zuckerberg Introduces

See also:

Graph Search @ mashable.com



 

On the same shelf:

Facebook Graph Search: The Good, The Bad, The UGLY! by Barbara Starr, http://searchengineland.com  
Extract:

The How: Facebook Graph Search:  Depicted in the figure below, is a user-centric version of the Facebook Open Graph schema. To dig deeper, I used a tool called Gruff, from Franz Inc, which provides beautiful visual displays of information in graph databases. I did take several “views” of the information as there were about 804 triple sets (subject, predicate, object ) which probably form the higher level data structure from which Facebook can derive its structured/graph search....

The What: Facebook Graph Search

A Word Of Caution (The Ugly)

Summary & Takeaways!

continue reading: Facebook Graph Search: The Good, The Bad, The UGLY! by Barbara Starr

Visualizing Level of Access & Level of Trust - Another Trendsetter in Social Networking

Extract: "To do so, WhoDoYouKnowAt offers a unique "Levels of Trust" system which allows your online relationships to more accurately reflect those in the real world. With each connection, you can set their "Level of Trust" to reflect your real life relationship. For example, when sharing a contact's information with some folks, you can choose to remain anonymous. With your more trusted relationships, however, you can choose to share all your network information. For those close connections who you want to invite into your trusted network, you can invite them to "pair" with you, meaning you'll mutually exchange all your contact information. Unlike with LinkedIn, you don't "pair" (aka "friend" or "connect") with all your contacts - just the designated trusted ones. " continue reading: WhoDoYouKnowAt: Because LinkedIn is Too Open, Written by Sarah Perez

See on the same shelf:

• @ Linkedin: WhoDoYouKnowAt

• WhoDoYouKnowAt LLC Selects NIIT Technologies as its Preferred Partner for ERP Integration Products

• Controlling Access to Members of a Class