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Presentations 2.0

Power-point used to be the gold standard for presentations. Not anymore. Improving the visual appearance of slides, reducing the amount of text and increasing the number of pictures is not enough. Recent development in mapping software now allow anyone to create presentations that are actually maps and not a sequence of slides. Advantages are obviousContinue reading “Presentations 2.0”

7 Classic Foundational Vis Papers

In the post “7 Classic Foundational Vis Papers You Might not Want to Publicly Confess you Don’t Know” the blog author, Enrico Bertini, provides a list of foundation papers of information visualization, with a summary and comments for each paper. In his words it’s a ” collection of classics”: very useful and with a personalContinue reading “7 Classic Foundational Vis Papers”

Visualizing insight: Reactive Business Intelligence book

An interesting description of visualization for business intelligence is provided in a forthcoming book by Roberto Battiti and Mauro Brunato. You can see online the pre-print version of the book “Reactive Business Intelligence. From Data to Models to Insight” , published by the Università di Trento (Italy) in December 2010. The first chapters give aContinue reading “Visualizing insight: Reactive Business Intelligence book”

Geovisualization for predicting avalanche risk

The Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, located in Davos, makes a consistent use of geographic visualization to predict avalanche risk in Switzerland. Unlike weather forecast, they look at the past to make predictions. Very interesting serial mode to visualize information: Thanks to Nicole and her husband for the insights!

Visual Davos

Some interesting visual material from Davos… The picture on the left portraits a sign which seems a bit out of place, given the 60 cm of snow in Davos at the moment 🙂 For the picture on the right side, I need your help to understand what it is… Seems unconventional that the “0” (zero)Continue reading “Visual Davos”

Visualizing Crime in Milan

A “dark” knowledge visualization example: the map of the crimes committed in Milan in 2010, visualized by a journalist, Daniele Belleri, in his blog. This image below is a zoom on the area where I used to live in Milan (near via Padova), as found on il Corriere della Sera. The map provides insights: “RisultatiContinue reading “Visualizing Crime in Milan”

The effectiveness of Knowledge Visualization in India – results preview

In our previous studies we have shown that knowledge visualization is helpful in facilitating meeting and communicating strategy. Is it so only in Europe? We are now expanding our cross-cultural experiment to India. We compare the results of people exposed to a textual or visual content. The results of over 200 subjects in India confirmContinue reading “The effectiveness of Knowledge Visualization in India – results preview”

KV in museums

The new Museo del Novecento in Milan offers a knowledge visualization of its content, color coded by topic. The multiple visualizations and mapping seem a fusion style of architecture and info-graphics. It connects the themes in the abstract circle diagram to the physical map of the museum. Too bad that the words are too smallContinue reading “KV in museums”

Digital pen (and interactive paper)

At the University of Lugano, faculty of Informatics, we just had a nice talk about pen and paper computing, by Nadir Weibel. An ETH gradate, he’s currently a post-doc at UCSD in California, at the Distributed Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction Lab.It seems a great place to be for Human computer Interaction research, experimenting on innovativeContinue reading “Digital pen (and interactive paper)”