Our Ideas Made Visible: Tools for Visualizing Data

1. Our Ideas Made Visible:Tools for Visualizing Data CALI Conference 2014 June 20, 2014 Presented by Michael Robak Associate Director Leon E. Bloch Library and Director of Information Technologies University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law

2. Law Libraries are… DOOMED!

4. Why Data Visualization • As author, data journalist and information designer David McCandless said in his TED talk: • "By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you're lost in information, an information map is kind of useful."

5. The Master: Edward Tufte • http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/index • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information • http://www.amazon.com/The-Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information/dp/0961392142

6. Tufte’s “Principles of Graphical Excellence” • Graphical Excellence is the well-designed presentation of interesting data – a matter of substance, of statistics, and of design. • Graphical Excellence consists of complex ideas communicated with clarity, precision, and efficiency. • Graphical Excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space. • Graphical Excellence is nearly always multivariate • And Graphical Excellence requires telling the truth about the data

7. Tufte • Napoleon’s March • http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters

8. Tufte • PowerPoint is Evil • http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html

13. Richard Saul Wurman and Walter Mossberg • http://www.businessinnovationfactory.com/iss/video/bif3-richard-saul-wurman

14. Google ngram

15. In the fields of computational linguistics and probability, an n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given sequence of text or speech. The items can be phonemes, syllables, letters, words or base pairs according to the application. The n-grams typically are collected from a text or speech corpus.

18. http://books.google.com/books?id=VoA8AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=william+taylor+hughes+technology+of+law&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5jtEUtWuFozs8ATRgYHYBQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=william%20taylor%20hughes%20technology%20of%20law&f=falsehttp://books.google.com/books?id=VoA8AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=william+taylor+hughes+technology+of+law&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5jtEUtWuFozs8ATRgYHYBQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=william%20taylor%20hughes%20technology%20of%20law&f=false

21. Go to Chrome • https://books.google.com/ngrams

22. Wordle

24. Wordle http://www.wordle.net/

25. Dean’s Welcome

37. Local tools

38. Excel

39. Community analyst online http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/search~S3/j Video explanation: http://video.arcgis.com/watch/3079/using-the-find-location-tool-in-community-analyst

40. Google Maps https://maps.google.com/?mid=1393537505

42. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=112814580544975292567.000463ecdfc0c9c200ddb&ie=UTF8&ll=39.909736,-102.128906&spn=29.823004,56.601563&z=4&dg=featurehttps://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=112814580544975292567.000463ecdfc0c9c200ddb&ie=UTF8&ll=39.909736,-102.128906&spn=29.823004,56.601563&z=4&dg=feature

45. Some free or low cost visualization tools

46. Tableau Public http://www.tableausoftware.com/public

47. Visualize free http://visualizefree.com/index.jsp

48. Many Eyes http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/

49. Infographics

50. Easel.ly http://www.easel.ly/