"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”

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....

Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test -- It's Not Just In The Eyes of The Beholder

Ps. This is very close to the art and sciecne of face reading or Physiognomy-- see books on the subject in the Library of Congress. Some may call it 'the language and assumptions of phrenology.'

The Well Quiz October 3, 2013,
Can You Read People’s Emotions? By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Are you tuned in to the emotions of others? Or have you been accused of being insensitive?
If you are among those people who are mystified by moods, new research offers hope. A new study shows that certain types of reading can actually help us improve our sensitivity IQ. To find out how well you read the emotions of others, take the Well quiz, which is based on an assessment tool developed by University of Cambridge professor Simon Baron-Cohen.
For each photo, choose the word that best describes what you think the person depicted is thinking or feeling...   Continue with The Well Quiz

Understanding Your Score:

The average score for this test is in the range of 22 to 30 correct responses. If you scored above 30, you may be quite good at understanding someone’s mental state based on facial cues. If you scored below 22, you may find it difficult to understand a person’s mental state based on their appearance.

(If no final score appeared, please double check to be sure you didn’t skip a question. 

                                More more is in 'Can You Read People’s Emotions?' By THE NEW YORK TIMES

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• Reading the mind in the eyes - Glenn Rowe's home page
• Is your personality written all over your face? Revealed in a new ...
• The Ancient Art of Chinese Face Reading - China Gaze
• Spiritual Seeker (Face Reading (Physiognomy): Eyes Since eyes ...  
• How to Read Others' Emotions | eHow
• Face Reading in Chinese Medicine, 2e
  Lillian Bridges
• Amazing Face Reading: An Illustrated Encyclopedia for Reading Faces
  Mac Fulfer
• The Face Reader: Discover Anyone's Personality, Compatibility, Talents, and Challenges Through Chinese Face Reading
  Patrician McCarthy
• Face Reading: How to Know Anyone at a Glance
  Barbara Roberts
• Faces Around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face

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.

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• 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

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

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. 

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• 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

Find what speaks to you - - Visualizations

One phrase, but multi-faceted, as seen in the following links

Pier 1 Imports: Find what speaks to you -- The world of advertising…. sometimes it produces great ads, sometimes it doesn't

ART: Find what speaks to you

What Speaks To You,`www.alwaysworthit.com

Poems - Peace Leaves: Day 22: Find What Speaks to You, http://lilyshineboutique.blogspot.ca

Are We There Yet? « Fox Interactive Consultant

Pier One – Loved the creative ads and the tag line about ‘Find What Speaks To You’! It’s such a clever way to show how customers engage with companies they love.Take a look at Pier One’s latest ads that have been running this holiday season.

Advertising the way we don’t see it -- World from the Otherside!!!

Excellent visualization, from the world of Advertisements and the world of Mass Media...

Extract:

The World as We Don’t See it
The other side of the normal things that arent normal

continue reading more from The World as We Don’t See it

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• View From The Other Side Of The Fence - DivineCaroline

• Watch Out for Online Ads That Watch You
  

  Online ads are not only booming--and scrolling, spinning, shaking, shouting, and singing--they are also watching you even as you are viewing them, capturing your click patterns to create more detailed profiles than traditional browser cookies do. ... Extract from: PC World

• Google’s Convergence Re-visited

  What's in the news, about: "We're changing our privacy policy.""This stuff matters,"
  says a news story:

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.

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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

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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

Visual difference between a sunrise and a sunset

by Elizabeth M. Young

HeliumVisual difference between a sunrise and a sunset

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.

Google is making people stupid, Revisited

Original article: Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008)
Noe: The Internet can make you smarter, experts say, CNET News, February 22, 2010

Responses to a tension pair about whether 'Google is making people stupid'

"Responses to this 2020 scenario were assembled from Internet stakeholders in the 2010 Pew Internet & American Life/Elon University Future of the Internet Survey. Some respondents chose to identify themselves; many did not. We share some—not all—of the responses here. Workplaces of respondents who shared their identity are attributed only for the purpose of indicating a level of expertise; statements reflect personal views. If you would like to participate in the next survey, mail andersj [at] elon dotedu; include information on your expertise. "

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Deconstructing the Learning Pyramid

To start with, till yesterday, I did not know about the existence of a Learning Pyramid.

Thanks to IT Coaching and their visualization "What I hear, I forget; What I see, I remember; But what I do, I understand". Their site has a graphic image of Learning Pyramid.

Thanks to Google it brought me to the following: Deconstructing the Learning Pyramid
"Presentation given to Berkeley Library staff at the Instructor Development Program's Active Learning Lightning Talks in April 2009. Debunks the "learning pyramid" and suggests that instructional strategies should be made more "active" by considering the experience level of the audience and the strengths of the instructor:

Deconstructing the Learning Pyramid

View more presentations from char booth.

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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