Visual Dictionaries Revisited

Extract:
"What is Visual Dictionary (Literacy Teaching Tools)? Visual dictionaries are a way for students to synthesize all of their newly gained knowledge into one organized and categorized whole. You can use this on a fairly low key level, like the sample included in this packet, or as an end-of-unit assessment. Regardless, students create their own categories for the major events, concepts, and people from your unit. Their visual, writing, reading, summarizing, and synthesizing skills are all used to come up with the finished product – something few tests, if any, will ever accomplish to quite this level."(Source: canyonsdistrict.org)**

One reviewer's insight is far more sufficient to guide us in detecting what is visual and what is simply called as, visual. Reviewing Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science, David Pressman, said:

"Contrary to its title, the Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science is not basically a visual dictionary of the type that can be used to find the names of things from their pictures. I think it is not a dictionary at all. Rather it is a condensed, highly illustrated encyclopedia of science."***

What do the reviewers say about the following:
From School Library Journal: Ultimate Visual Dictionary:
YA-A beautiful dictionary that uses more than 6,000 full-color photographs, illustrations, and cross sections to explore most aspects of the natural world: the universe, prehistoric Earth, architecture, and much more. (Source: Amazon.com)

From Library Journal: FIREFLY Five Language Visual Dictionary
Richer and more detailed than DK's similar Five-Language Visual Dictionary, this brilliant work is essential for students of any of these languages, lovers of language, and any library supporting a language program or multilingual patrons.

From Booklist: Ultimate Visual Dictionary / Merriam-Webster's Visual Dictionary:
If a library has to choose, it's the difference between stilettos and sensible shoes. DK is sexier, but Merriam-Webster, with its clear illustrations and added definitions, is probably a better educational tool.



** What is visual dictionary?

***Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science, David Pressman.

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.

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.”
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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

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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.

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