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Patterns and Sensemaking: Information Visualization

Patterns and Sensemaking: Information Visualization. George Siemens April 25, 2007. Topics. Information growth and overload Aggregation, syndication – initial attempt to cope Information visualization: make sense of abundance.

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Patterns and Sensemaking: Information Visualization

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  1. Patterns and Sensemaking: Information Visualization George Siemens April 25, 2007

  2. Topics • Information growth and overload • Aggregation, syndication – initial attempt to cope • Information visualization: make sense of abundance

  3. "If you have three pet dogs, give them names. If you have 10,000 head of cattle, don't bother" David Gelernter

  4. Infoluenza “failure to master our information resources and that to achieve contentment at work in solving our business problems” http://knowledgefutures.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/infoluenza/ See also Cures: http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2007/04/18/infoluenza_cures.html

  5. Brains crave patterns • A pattern is • About sense making • Understanding • Temporary “state of” • Evolving, emergent • Aggregation, context, experience

  6. Current state • Information generation tools – exploded • Aggregation tools – growing • Data, information manipulation tools: embryonic

  7. “The beset graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death” E. Tufte

  8. Tags: Web of meaning

  9. Visualization • Grunt cognition • Move to meaning/sensemaking • Shifts perspectives • Provides insight • Memory • New connections

  10. GDP http://www.worldmapper.org/

  11. Population http://www.worldmapper.org/

  12. http://news.com.com/The+Big+Picture/2030-12_3-5843390.html

  13. Exposure of periphery: loose connections http://www.quintura.com/

  14. Collective Voice http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/04/audience_collective_voice_display.html

  15. Network analysis http://www.orgnet.com/netindustry.html

  16. Patterns, history

  17. Patterns, history

  18. Political blogosphere, 2004 Blue Brain 3D File Manager Hierarchy Edge Bundles • http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

  19. Sensemaking • What is it? • What does it mean? • What perspectives are included? • Shared?

  20. Where does “knowledge” reside?

  21. Networks: Downes Decentralized Disaggregated Distributed Disintermediated Dis-Integrated Dynamic Desegregated Democratic http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/paper92/paper92.html Via: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?presentation=45

  22. What impacts network formation?

  23. Spaces of knowledge

  24. Networks & Ecologies • Filter • Foster • Form patterns • Create archive “future repurposing”

  25. Yeah, ok, but what’s the use? • Network models of learning are adaptive • Ecologies must be diverse and enabling • Today’s information is tomorrow’s sensemaking • Sane, digital life • Complex, integrated understanding • Multi-faceted • Multi-ontology

  26. www.elearnspace.org www.knowingknowledge.com www.connectivism.ca

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