"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
   

"The Truth" | Official Kia K900 : A great example of visual storytelling

Watch the Video: "The Truth" | Official Kia K900 Morpheus Big Game Commercial 2014

Note: Kia has not released much information on the 2015 K900 other than the preview image. automobilemag.com

Voice populi (reviews):

Omid Safi:

'I am seriously disappointed in the "Morpheus" character advertisement for the new Kia automobile.
Yes, I get it. Movies are ultimately commercial enterprises.
But I really do hold a special place in my heart for the first (and only the first) Matrix film as an incredibly powerful modern myth. Selling out like this, well, it just hurts.'     

NYTimes: "But why would anyone want a luxury sedan that looks so much like cars that cost one-half or one-third as much?" - $66,400 Answer, but What’s the Question?

On the same shelf: 

• Visual Storytelling: How to Use Visuals, Videos and Social Media to Market Your Business
• Different ways of knowing : Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia — meaning that his perception of words, numbers and colors are woven together into a new way of perceiving and understanding the world. The author of "Born on a Blue Day," Tammet shares his art and his passion for languages in this glimpse into his beautiful mind. 
• Study: We’re all prone to “bias blindness”

Nine Lives of the Library Catalog

STUDY: Cats Not As Effective As Index Cards At Organizing Books, Fluffington Post (image courtesy: Fluffington Post)

"A new study from the Dewey Institute finds that while cats are far more adorable than index cards, they aren’t as effective at organizing books.  While this new study will undoubtedly save some libraries the mistake of investing in all-cat system, the American Library Association tells The Fluffington Post that as many of 175 libraries across the country have collectively already spent over $20 million on these ineffective organizational catalogs."

This significant library product (output format), traditionally called a book catalog (and now OPAC), has at least nine funcitonal names, as used in the library world (with spelling variants in British, American usage). According to Robert Lopresti, the catalog keeps changing. These nine lives, not a final list, are depicted in the following funcational names of this product: 

1. Library catalog (aka Library Catalogue), 
2. Card catalog  (aka card Catalogue =  is an individual record in a library catalog), 
3. Library index (as in a database),  
4. Shelf List (esp., for inventory),
5. Classified catalog (aka subject catalog, Systematic catalog),
6. Dictionary catalog (aka  Keyword catalog),
7. Author catalog
8. Title catalog
9. Online catalog (OPAC) 

Further, this library product must have lived nine lives, from its inception (in pre-print age, with the Arab bibliographer compiling the first library catalog in the Arab World: Abu'l-Faraj Muhammad bin Is'hāq al-Nadim (Arabic: ابوالفرج محمد بن إسحاق النديم‎) (died September 17, 995 or 998) was a Muslim scholar and bibliographer), thence to the card format, microfilm format, microfische  format, etc., to the present OPAC (Web-based Online Public Access Catalog). 

The following image taken from article Nine lives of the catalog, by Robert Lopresti, has one more way to look at the true colours of the nine lives:

 


What are our Tools ? (for input, these are also nine depending on the expression, manifestation, item type, access options, etc.)
"AACR / RDA = content standard for resource description and access MARC / MODS / FISO= communication and exchange format providing a structure for encoding the content of bibliographic and authority data Related to: ISBD = rules that organise the display of a bibliographic description of an item in a catalogue FRBR = a entity-relational model of the data required to find, identify, select and obtain resources"
LC or Dewey Classification number's; LC/ Sears / MLA's Subject Headings; Library of Congress or some other Authority files; WorldCat or OCLC or LC database. [more tool options, here]

Nine Search Options:
"Using the idea that there is ample information in both the brick-and-mortar library and the virtual library, Mann (Library of Congress) develops the volume around nine search methods: (1) using controlled vocabulary, (2) browsing subject-classified books, (3) keyword searching, (4) citation searching, (5) using related records, (6) using published subject bibliographies, (7) Boolean combination searching, (8) using experts, and (9) searching subject literature. Individual chapters cover a specific aspect of research and give numerous examples." (source: The Oxford guide to library research, by  Mann, Thomas)

Nine Browse  Options: cited in an article Bester (2010).


More on the same shelf:

• Visual Catalog : Innovative Practices to Connect Every Book, Its Reader [This is a survey about advances in content management for creating visual catalogs]
• 10 Cats Who Live at the Library

Visual Literacy is an elephant, we are like the six blind... Meaning, Message and Medium Revisited

PS. Before we go to visualize the complexities, here are illustations of using the elephant in real time visual literacy training:

I. Lesson 7, Description:

Have students work in pairs. Ask them to choose an object to study the parts of, the way the blind men studied the elephant. For example, if they choose a car, they may study the tires, windows, headlights, and bumpers. Have them write:

A ____ is like a ______.

SAY:

Work with a partner. Choose an object and describe a few of its parts. For

each one, write:

A ____ is like a ______. [source: Unit 6 - Pearson Longman]

II. Developing Visual Literacy in Science: "Suppose you were to ask your students (before showing them the photograph) this thought-provoking question: “What do you think a jungle looks like to a person riding on the back of an elephant?” What might they say?" [source: Developing Visual Literacy in Science K-8 - PB279X  by  Jo Anne Vasquez]

The term Visual Literacy is not so simple, given the shades of meanings it brings in the eyes of the beholder....

Facebook's next Graph Search expansion will reveal post content, locations

The Globe and Mail  Oct 1, 2013
Facebook is making it even easier to search the posts and status updates of your friends (and other people who leave their posts unprotected) months after first introducing its Graph Search feature.

On the same shelf:

• Social Graph or Graph Search -- What's in a name? Mark Zuckerberg Introduces

• Facebook 'Graphic App' Privacy Warning Hoax @ Hoax-Slayer

• Infographic: Google Search VS Facebook Graph Search

Merchandising the Circ Desk: the importance of visual cues

By Brian Mathews

Extract:

wanted to share an interesting observation. I hosted an exercise reviewing a wide variety of service spaces—banks, hotels, trade shows, retail, etc— and we considered the visual cues of those different environments.

What’s the visual cue here?

One of the slides featured a jewelry store. What’s the visual cue here? Browsing! Maybe you know what you want and can point right to it. Or maybe you’re not sure and prefer to try several options. The point is that the items are in full view. This is a perfect solution for a growing development at our circulation desk.  We’ve recently started lending a handful of adaptors to accommodate SCALE-UP, media:scape, and other technology needs. Instead of keeping them locked away in a backroom it seems we could emulate the jewelry store experience by showcasing them. The expert user can point right to the item she needs, while the novice can try on different adaptors to find the right fit. It’s good for users, but also helpful for library staff may not understand the complexity of all the hardware and related accessories. Continue reading

Smelling is believing @ Google Nose -- Visual Search Revisited

Extract:

The new scentsation in search

• Coming to your senses: go beyond type, talk, and touch for a new notation of sensation.
• Your internet sommelier: expertly curated Knowledge Panels pair images, descriptions, and aromas.
• Take a wiff: the Google Aromabase - 15M+ scentibytes.
• Don't ask, don't smell: For when you're wary of your query - SafeSearch included. 

On the same shelf:

• April Fools: YouTube shut down, Google adds smells

• Complete list of smells in Google Nose? - Stack Overflow

   
• Observation Deck: Why I Want a ‘Google Nose’ By Adam Rogers
• Round Up: All of Google's Jokes for April Fools' 2013 -- from Google Maps treasure hunting to YouTube closing
• Google Nose Hacks
• Google launches new search: Nose -- adverblog.com/

The Library Catalogue as Social Space - Visual Catalog revisited

Sample of the emerging visual catalog (more details in the book: The Library Catalogue as Social Space)

Library Catalog Now on iPhone / Touch / iPad image courtesy: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

The Library Catalogue as Social Space: Promoting Patron Driven Collections, Online Communities, and Enhanced Reference and Readers' Services, by Laurel Tarulli,Libraries Unlimited, 2012.

What do reviewers say:
>>"With the growing use of Web 2.0 by library patrons, integrating this technology into the catalog is the best way to reach patrons, and Tarulli helps both novice and seasoned librarians to achieve success in any library setting." - Booklist Online
>> "If you are thinking about what to do with your catalog to make it more interactive and relevant, this book is for you. Recommended." - Teacher Librarian
Extract:

This book is a guide to the library catalogue that all public library professionals will find enlightening and useful. Its technical services perspective provides a different point of view as compared to traditional public library literature, which is often written by frontline professionals. For example, it poses and examines this thought-provoking question: should library catalogues be considered the primary gateway to the library's information, rather than the library website? Author and collection access librarian Laurel Tarulli examines next-generation or "social" catalogues, discussing the theories and concepts behind them, their impact on core library services, and their potential in shaping future libraries and library services. Geared toward frontline and backroom staff, this book helps readers understand next-generation catalogues and see the collaborative opportunities that are possible between the frontline and backroom. Written to be much more than a "one-time" read, this resource book provides practical ideas for beneficial collaboration and implementation of social features in library catalogues.

Help teach robots to see - with your Kinect

Visual Dictionary and Visual Browsing revisited by Devin Coldewey

EXTRACT:

Swedish researchers are hoping to create a visual dictionary to improve the ability of robots to understand the world around them, but they can't do it alone. They need your help — if you've got a Kinect.

Robots are smart in that they can store tons of information and process it quickly, but unlike humans they haven't been walking the Earth for long, and have very little practical knowledge of common objects. How heavy is a coffee mug? No data, though a human could easily size it up and make a good estimate. What's that thing on the floor? A human would recognize it as a shoe, but to a robot, it could be anything.

A project called Kinect@Home is being led by Alper Aydemir at Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology. Aydemir hopes that by outsourcing that common knowledge to humans, robots will develop a better idea of their surroundings. To that end, he has started a database of 3-D models of everyday objects like books and shoes, captured with the cheap and effective Kinect. continue reading

Altmetrics in the Wild: Towards Creating a Live CV

PS. It is again about Visual Resume and Bibliometrics (aka quantification, numbers, figures) with creataive imagination!!!

Extract:

March 22, 2012 by Katarina Lovrecic  
The more scholars move their work online from where it was once ephemeral and hidden, the more they are integrating social media to their communication, the closer we are to telling what is the value that they themselves add to their content – and to blending these isolated factors to create a certain taste, a flavor.
Jason Priem, whose talk on finding an n-dimensional impact space I recently examined on our blog, and Heather Piwowar (Research Remix), who studies the behavior of shared article clusters and post-publication datasets, together with Bradley M. Hemminger, have just presented a preprint to their manuscript on Altmetrics in the Wild: Using Social Media to Explore Scholarly Impact.
“Articles cluster in ways that suggest different impact flavors,” they suggest in their work, sampling more than 20,000 articles, in search of a tool that would be complementary to traditional bibliometrics – that would measure process, instead of simply counting product, that would add a rich scale to the product, instead of simply keeping count.
From the abstract: “In growing numbers, scholars are integrating social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley into their professional communications. The online, public nature of these tools exposes and reifies scholarly processes once hidden and ephemeral. Metrics based on this activities could inform broader, faster measures of impact, complementing traditional citation metrics. Alternative metrics,” Piwowar et al. explain later on, “or “altmetrics” build on information from social media use, and could be employed side-by-side with citations — one tracking formal, acknowledged influence, and the other tracking the unintentional and informal “scientific street cred”. The future, then, could see altmetrics and traditional bibliometrics presented together as complementary tools presenting a nuanced, multidimensional view of multiple research impacts at multiple time scales.”
Continue reading ...

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Time to spring clean your digital footprint
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How social networks sold your privacy
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Executive 'forced out of job' over LinkedIn CV - Telegraph

Managing your online footprint
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5 Tips to Leverage Social Media to Get a Job

Seven Steps to Secure Successful Employment Using Social Media
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Resume, Cover Letter And Your Facebook Password?
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Reading now: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures

Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2010. ISBN-13: 9780393072952 @ Amazon.com


About the author:
Dona M. Wong has a MFA degree from Yale University, where she completed her dissertation on information design with thesis advisor Edward Tufte, a recognized authority on data visualization. Today she is the strategy director for information design at the global consulting firm Siegel+Gale, a pioneer in simplifying customer communications. She lives in New York City.

Recommendations by readers @ Amazon:
This book provides a handy desk reference for anyone who has to present data in graphical form - one might think of it a visual AP Style Book for graphics... [C. Muser]
Written with a style and clarity that reflects her approach to infographics, it provides an outstanding guide to creating visuals that are clear and to the point. The book is itself an example of communicating without excess whilst delivering a message effectively. (If you have every read Edwarde Tufte's seminal books you will appreciate Dona's clarity)... [Lee Featherby]

PS. Reviews are in magazines and in journals:

Bowen, L. (2010). The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics. Communication Arts, 51(6), 218.

"Siegel+Gale; Business Charts often Fail to Communicate Intended Message, Says Siegel+Gales Dona Wong, Author of Newly Published the Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics." Marketing Weekly News.(Feb 13, 2010): 112.

On the same shelf:

Visual Resume - Revisited

Is This the Coolest Student Journalist Resume Ever? J-School Buzz,

Extract:

We think it is, but we don't know anything about design. This is Convergence Senior Chris Spurlock's resume, and it's the best resume for a student journalist we've ever seen. But like we said, we're not design-minded people, so we want to get the input of people who do know a thing or two about design. That's where you come in! continue reading

On the same shelf:

My own visual resume samples, here (Web sight), here (timeline) and here (text-based).

Visualizing Facebook Friendships Across the Globe According to Paul Butler

By Ben Parr, Mashable, CNN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* A Facebook intern created a visualization of Facebook connections around the globe
* Using a sample of 10 million friend pairs, he correlated them with their current cities
* The U.S. has the highest concentration of Facebook friendships while Africa has the lowest
Continue reading Facebook relationships visualized

Here is what Butler had to say @ newsday.com:
"After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw. The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world. Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well. What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn't represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line might represent a friendship made while travelling, a family member abroad, or an old college friend pulled away by the various forces of life."

Facebook staffer Paul Butler has created this beautiful map of the millions (billions?) of friendships stored in the social network, using something that looks like edge bundles to create the beautiful map. Says, Randall Hand @ | VizWorld.com

On the same shelf:

Tim Berners-Lee says Facebook 'threatens' web future

Facebook Q&A Update: Sorry, we're not ready for you just yet

Google Alerts' mybookface! And, the true colors of Internet Explorer and Firefox Web Browsers in dealing with Web forgery

Facebook penetration: a whopping 40% in Canada - with UK a close second

I want to download your mind…

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Eva Schiffer @ Net-Map Toolbox:

Descartes "Mind and Body" source Wikipedia Commons

When doing qualitative research there are so many nuances in the answers, that it often feels like: If you weren’t there, you won’t be able to really get it. Unless you can download the interviewer’s mind. Which – so far – is not possible. When I started developing and using Net-Map this didn’t matter much, because projects where small and basically I would be the person doing both, the interviewing and the analysis. Or I’d teach another research who would do another small project, doing both, the interviewing and the interpretation. But with this model you can only grow so far and I know we should be able to do better than this, to work in a bigger team of researchers, facilitators, interpreters and benefit from each others’ experience and insight, without plugging a USB cord into each others’ ears. continue reading

text-free user interfaces - Medhi interface

Indrani Medhi brings the power of computing to illiterate, first-time users in India.

“It really came as a very pleasant surprise,” says Medhi, an associate researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets group at Microsoft Research India whose work in text-free user interfaces is being featured by MoMA. “From the beginning, we did not think of this as an art project. We just thought of it as solving a particular problem.

Subliminal Advertising - What you see is what you get, but not necessarily what you want to know

WYSIWYG --(What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get)-- (pronounced /ˈwɪziˌwɪg/), and it's true colors are here.

"A clip from the movie, Josie and the Pussycats, explaining subliminal advertising through music"



Subliminal Messages Busted:



Creepy Subliminal Messages:


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Metropath(ologies) -- Mining yourself

social networking sites / the way data mining is being used, etc, etc. it is all about: Mining yourself


Watch this video here

Visualization of Google Barcodes: Happy birthday barcode

2009: Google bar code logo latest in ‘doodle’ line

Google celebrates the 57th anniversary of the first bar code patent.

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2008:
Google Barcodes

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2007:


It's Springtime For Symbology - Everything Is Coming Up Color

On the same shelf, a barcode for our blog and our site:

by Barcodes Inc

by Barcodes Inc

Visualizing Online Content Ranking: PostRank

Info courtesy: Gerry McKiernan / >>> Best Viewed In Firefox <<<

PostRank™

"PostRank is a scoring system developed by AideRSS to rank any kind of online content, such as RSS feed items, blog posts, articles, or news stories. PostRank is based on social engagement, which refers to how interesting or relevant people have found an item or category to be. Examples of engagement include writing a blog post in response to someone else, bookmarking an article, leaving a comment on a blog, or clicking a link to read a news item." continue reading

On the same shelf:

• Visualizing Beyond SEO And SEM

• SROOGLE: webserver for integrative, user-friendly visualization of splicing signals

• 123di Content Visualization Engine

• Enhanced Web Page Content Visualization with Firefox

• Proposed PostRank Model:

Information Visualization Blog

This Blog is the only one according to Google's Timeline:

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