Ramadan Highway Code - Visualization - Do's & Don'ts

see also:

Ramadan visual symbology

IDH Ramadan by Visual Dhikr wallpaper

Info courtesy: Mohammed Ibrahim

Concept Map / Mind Map Re-visited

Brainstorming for fun and profit.

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: creativity brainstorming)

>>NB. information courtesy: .:: Peta Konsep Anak Bangsa ::.
>>Older posts on the same shelf: Mind map / Concept Map

Visualising Complexity & KM Communications Strategy: Mind maps

PS. The following info. is from Green Chameleon and Straits Knowledge Website.

• Visualising Complexity

For those interested in visualisation of complex information, or the visual power of mapping networks, here’s a wonderful resource unearthed by my iKMS colleague Kong Heng Sun.

• How to Plan a KM Communications Strategy

This concept map catalogues all the elements of a KM communications strategy that we’ve found useful, with some ideas for messages, media and audiences. Download the pdf version formatted for A3 size printing for easier reading!

Browse articles visually with WikiMindMap

via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on Jul 09, 2007

Web site WikiMindMap turns complex Wikipedia articles into a visual representations of ideas (i.e., a mind map) to give you an overview of the important concepts and topics related to an idea.

Browsing a Wikipedia article with WikiMindMap may seem a bit confusing at first, especially if you don't regularly use mind maps, but it offers an interesting way to get a broad understanding of a topic and explore some of the related topics.




see also:

Mind map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Using Mind Maps to Reach Visual Thinkers

Mindmapping as a tool for assignments

Using Mind Maps to Reach Visual Thinkers

Posted by gail mcgovern on December 18, 2005 @ clioinstitute blog
Not only does the article, Seven Steps for Effective Problem Solving in the Workplace, present a clear and concise approach to problem solving, it also includes a link to a companion mind map that makes its concepts more appealing to visual thinkers.

Think about how you could use this type of technique to engage visual thinkers on your library's website.

Related posts from my blog:

Mindmapping as a tool for assignments

FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization

Concept Mapping Technology - Tool to create HTML pathfinders?

Mindmapping as a tool for assignments

Bryan is a senior manager who recently qualified as an MBA. During the course, he was given a very tough assignment - to analyze the business opportunities and related ethical considerations arising from cancer in society

See also:

Using Mind Mapping to plan an Assignment

Tool Helps Map Out Complex Subjects

Google for more and much more

PS. Thanks to Roy Grubb for the mapping info., and about ways that add fun to the learning process.

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Information Visualization - Web of Idea Nodes

I’d like a 3-d, navigable, web of ideas. Much like TiddlyWiki which is “a non-linear personal web notebook”. Only I’d like my creation to be visual. I want to see the nodes connect, like a mindmap (like FreeMind).

This is a diagram (click for a better, larger real example of the diagram):

Each node in the web would be an idea. The highlighted node would be displayed in full. Linked nodes, depending on their degree from the highlighted node, would display limited information.
Each node would contain:

A title
(eg “Changing Media”)
On all displayed nodes
A summary
(eg “Data decay is accelerating man’s fall from the Golden Age by obscuring the Great Conversation [GC].”)
On nodes directly connected to the highlighted node.
The idea explained in full ...

This is a tool that visualizes semantic categories, in a 3D context--title, summary and explanation.

For a librarian it is all about cataloging the content, viz., title of the document, description of the document, analyzing the content.

While these look-alike, but there is creativity in 3D visualization--are librarians also creative?
PS. I do admit that all librarians are not alike.

Information Visualization [Live Blogged Notes from UX Week 2006]

[Michal Migurski of Stamen]

Data Viz: Why Now?

Because the tools and the audience have caught up.

Starting with Map of the Market from the let nineties. This was inspirational but largely alone. This tree map uses size and color.

Our palette of visualization is pretty sparse.

So why now? ....

Visual Communication Vistas Revisited

What a co-incidence (serendipity is not in fashion, any more)!!!

Oops! Some including the founder of the Web, nevertheless comfortably call this process of finding the unexpected Web resources, as serendipity.
View his words:

"You get this tremendous serendipity where I can search the internet and come across a site that I did not set out to look for." Tim Berners-Lee, in Web inventor warns of 'dark' net, BBC News, To Listen to him voice and watch the video here

But, let me add a message (before it is lost in the medium). I did a post in my previous blog on anti-social networking (READ: Isolatr Vis-a-Vis unifier on the Web ). And, today I found a blog that links social communication using the media and a medium.
Thanks to Dave for such a thoughtful blog, viz., Communication Nation.

Anyways, I found three interesting Visual Communication resources:

A quote that is very relevant here:

“The events communicate in a variety of ways -- the spoken word, the visual -- and we don't bypass the opportunity to communicate in the visual. In fact we invest in it. After all, sometimes it's the visuals that get you into the news,” Rob Stutzman at thinkexist.com

Communication Nation, by dave gray, Founder and CEO of XPLANE, the visual thinking company.
Herein, I enjoyed Visual thinking with Legos

Visual Mind - Mind Mapping Software:

Visual Mind is a powerful tool that will help you in your daily work, whether the purpose is business or personal related.

Through a mind friendly and simple to use interface, you can visualize your thinking, quickly arrange and organize your work, all to benefit you as well as people around you.

What do you think about this content, as well as, approach to communications? Does the above help you in adding value to business & / or daily life; or what have you to add on, please bring in, asap.

Note: This is a sequel to my previous Visual Communication vistas
Similar entries:

Books and senses - visualization conceptualized again

Guided Imagery / Visualization - Uses with the Cancer Patron

The Technique of Song and Sound Visualization

See also, my other blog's post: Knowledge Management Applications in Multifaith & / or Multicultural Transactions

Isolatr Vis-a-Vis a Unified Theory of Web 2.0

This will be a running post: Updated 19 Oct, 2006

The term "Web 2.0" (pronounced "web two point Oh") was conceived in 2005 to describe a new breed of websites that use newer web authoring tools, are low learning curves (for the user) and support a collaborative environment ... usually free and usually just all done in a web browser. source: Web Two Point Oh

Here, I wish to talk about a nascent Web-based movement called anti-social network (ASN) - i.e., the isolatr(s) who are in a crowded mall. The domain name, www.isolatr.com, was registered in March 2006, but the movement is getting stonger by day and is also supported by technocratis, business people, and the like. This is one side of our story. The other side, synchoronously active and up, is about pro-social and pro-technical development in sustaining the infrastructure and infostructure of the Web. It is about a proposed theory of strengthening the network by Ajit Jaokar and those associated with the Internet backbone. The question is: Whose practice & / or theory is consolidating the network (s)? And, which sort of network(s) will last longer? To hear these stories you will have to bear with the narration of a librarian-cum-techie.

In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with God, called 'isolate.'
Oxford English Dictionary, says: i·so·late
• v. cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others: a country that is isolated from the rest of the world.

And, then, God wanted to be Known. Or, as some others would put it, know yourself.
So ended isolation, I suppose? And this movement continued till I was alerted to diagnose my blogging spree.
A creative minority among the Netizens wish to give me a break. And the story of their move, going with introverts, is making waves. Lets' begin with my acquaintance with the word: isolate.

As a student of library and information science, I was taught of common isolates.***

As a student of Multifaith world, I learnt about Solitude (also seclusion, isolation). An interesting quote is here: "May you discover solitude in a crowd." A blessing by: Swami Veda Bharati.
Now, comes from the blues, yet another isolatr:

"Link my blog! Link my blog. This shit is like gang rape sometimes. With Isolatr I can finally tell all these schmucks to get bent." source: Isolatr--the Anti-social Network

Thanks to Jen for the tip about the Isolatr.

And thanks to Tate for thinking loudly about a middle path, to any one who is looking around:

Is it possible to want to be in Isolatr and Linked-In at the same time? I want the best of both worlds. Give me access to people wanting to help or learn without being bombarded by people demanding to sell or preach.

My Sixty Four Dollar opinion and question: I don't like the analogy of 'gang rape' for a professional activity that is loved by all: also known as, citations, reference and linking. Dr. S R. Ranganathan's Third Law of Library Science says, Every book its reader (read as, every information its user). By this law of dissemination, asking other bloggers to index my blog is not akin to any kind of begging, let alone exhibitionism or leading to temptations of getting raped.
Moreover, a request to say "link my blog" is something which the faithful cherish to do forever. Because it directly fulfills the Divine plan of being known - collectively and individually. In short, to be known you have to know, and cannot remain in isolation or in a self-contatined well.

However, I like the creative visualization of the minds behind the Isolatr Web site.
And, you will agree: see a sample from the FAQs:
.Q: Can I invite you be [...] at this random web related conference I'm organizing?
.A: No.
.Q: Can I invite some of my friends to join me on isolatr?
.A: NO.

Anyways, this ASN phenomenon is catching up speed -- may grow or not, is not the question. The question is based on two other premises: First, the Web has gone deep into our daily life; second, Web has reduced the distances of both time and space. Based on this two factors, can we even think of going back into self-imposed (or randomly selected) categories of solitary confinement??? Will we be willing to loose the competitive intelligence (as well as the business intelligence) skills and competencies that we have built and brought so far?
And, what is this about the Web in our daily life? This may amaze some. And, those may like to read my review of the following book: The Internet in Everyday Life, by Barry Wellman (Editor), Caroline Haythornthwaite (Editor)

I think the Internet (despite it being both a bane and boon) with the forces of convergence that the technology today facilitates is likely to last longer.
And, all this visualization of a stong, connected and networked social capital is not in isolation - nor my own juxtaposition against the practices of the Isolatr.
See the other side of the coin: A unified theory of Web 2.0 loaded with a conceptual (social, technical, and infrastructural) framework is at A Unified Theory of Web 2.0
I like this mind-map and would love to share with my audience:

Ajit Jaokar, a member of the Web 2.0 Workgroup has made an attempt to formulate a unified theory of Web2.0 based on re-arranging the seven principles layed outlined by O’Reilly:

.The Web As Platform
.Harnessing Collective Intelligence
.Data is the Next Intel Inside
.End of the Software Release Cycle
.Lightweight Programming Models
.Software Above the Level of a Single Device
.Rich User Experiences

What about Ajit’s wrap up then?
.What is web 2.0? It’s the intelligent web.
.What makes it intelligent? We do.
.How does it happen? By harnessing collective intelligence
.What do you need to harness collective intelligence? The other six principles!

May the breed of thinking reative minds for social networking grow fourfold - Amen.
For those who wish to re-view the above theoretical perspectives, might get food-for-thought from Netanel Jacobsson's questions

***[That is, some isolates can be like minded, to be called common and unlike others. F.Y.I. This is the knowledge that matters in classification of documents, and defined by Dr. S R Ranganathan, in his Colon Classification. Ranganathan, a genius, had many isolates, including space, time, etc., that would go along with his pack of the Five fundamental categories in a book classification process, viz., Personality, Matter, Energy, Space, and Time]

Information visualization

The central mantra of information visualization
"The central mantra of information visualization states that one should always showcontext and detail together. The following properties are due to applying this mantra rather strictly:The information density is very high. All graphical views are visible in parallel. There is no scrolling in graphical views. Each tree-node indicates the number of its children."

"The visual information seeking mantra: overview first, zoom and filter, then details on demand provides a good starting point, but interpreting the mantra has produced a remarkably diverse set of research and commercial interfaces" (Shneiderman, 1998; Card, Mackinlay and Shneiderman, 1999;http://otal.umd.edu/Olive). source

"By applying information visualisation to DLs’ interfaces, the aim is to shift the user’s metal load from slow reading to faster perceptual processes such as visual pattern recognition." [in "a report from the Centre for HCI Design, City University to the JISC for the results of a foundation study in Information Visualisation."]

"Combine the over abundance of information with our amazing ability to synthesize concepts visually, and you’ve got Information Visualization. Information Visualization is the growing field of visualizing large amounts of information simply and understandably." in Trends to Watch in 2006 - Part 3

Information can be viewed, mapped, touched, felt, (percieived by taste, shape, vision, audition, presence, etc.) and what else could you imagine?
Think outside the box, this is not just VirtualMatter
Wikipeida says:
"As a subject in computer science, information visualization is the use of interactive, sensory representations, typically visual, of abstract data to reinforce cognition"
See a growing base:

Information Visualization resources by John Goodall

Visualize Yahoo Results with Grokker.

Can You Visualize the Web?

Information Visualization, by Aneeta

Information Visualization and My One Word, by Charles Thill

Visualization

http://www.librarian.net/stax/1473

Information Visualization Blog

Making visible the unvisible: [more about the Seattle Public Library ...]

Online systems as information visualization

Quality data for visualizationists

Think of other perspectives.
PS. I am not taking you about HAYSTACK SYNDROME (Sifting Information Out of the Data Ocean, by Eliyahu M Goldratt)*.
Concept Map - Try it!

"The process of animating the thoughts started to make me think of how you could map peoples’ record of ideas and perhaps start to map thought patterns. Hence, to use Dodge and Kitchen’s explanation, this workshop experimentation became ‘concerned with what might be termed as “people centred” information visualisation.’ (2002: 154)." see: Beginner-user, October 10th, 2005 by Dom

Semantopic Map sense includes, people, places, Tools, Organizations, Events, Projects, etc.. These can be also considered under what librarian's feel: Classification and categorization: a difference that makes a difference


And this visualizing is applied not just in material and physical domains. It is evident everywhere, including, architecture (aesthetics), Meditation (or spirituality) ideas, events, etc. "He has endowed man with special aptitudes, faculties and capacities, and special excellencies which raise him at his best to the position of vicegerent on earth. The Meaning of THE HOLY QURAN, Translation and Commentary by ABDULLAH YUSUF ALI
See the relevant notes, (or in a printed source: chapter 64, verse 3, note no. 5481)

Expand the vision, see the whole picture: from inside, outside, top, bottom, back, & front.
Then, information, data, knowledge and ideas depend on how, where, when, the viewer gets and transmits it.
Libraries can move with a better goal: to improve their inner-self and outreach. Libraries can improve their inner-self by data mining and outreach by making their catalogs more explicits. See Innovative Practices to Connect Every Book, Its Reader and Mining The Library Catalog.
Read more, in above page, about the UBCs Visual catalog and data mining in libraries.
Information is both tangible and intangible.

Try The Visual Thesaurus, built using Thinkmap, a data visualization technology
Information visualization as field is growing.... See my directory at DMOZ.

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My Listmania Amazon.com: Information visualization (s)
Any suggestions, rants on this subject?

Click here for CURRENT Information Visualisation Conference
Past conferences: including IEEE Visualization [See also in this same link information about, 1st, MMVis04, 2nd, M2Vis 2005 i.e., "International Conference on Non-visual & Multimodal Visualization"]
Information visualization articles

Some interesting work by the Information visualization guru: Dr. Shneiderman and his On-line Library of Information Visualization Environments

Mapping the Design Process: Visualizing What We Don't See
Daniel Boyarski, Virginia Howlett, Scott Mathis, David Peters