Author Archives: Sabrina

KV blogs

It seems that the interest for knowledge visualization is growing in the blogosphere. I came across a couple of interesting blogs on the topic of conceptual visualizations: First discipline, by Joseph Manuel, India: “The FD framework is a collection of visual frames as a tool to provide inputs for discussion and convergence Reality is perceivedContinue reading “KV blogs”

Visualizing at the Emergence conference on India

This year the Emergence conference, organized by the University of St. Gallen, has focused on India. The amount of knowledge on India of the speakers was astonishing, a conference of really high quality. I was pleased to see a large use of visual representations and sketching to moderate workshops. In the picture below the speakersContinue reading “Visualizing at the Emergence conference on India”

Logic + Emotion visual blog

The Logic+ Emotion blog by David Armano is a valuable source of knowledge visualizations applied to the field of digital marketing. This popular and peculiar mix of social media and graphics emerges by the background of the author, vice president of the interactive arm of a global communication agency, who studied graphics and visual communication.Continue reading “Logic + Emotion visual blog”

Knowledge map of online communities

Randall Munroe, the young and famous  author of the xkcd webcomic, has just released a beautiful knowledge visualization. It’s the update of its online communities map. “Size on map represents volume of daily social activity”. The map is very well done showing both how the map is embedded into a bigger context (spoken language, email,Continue reading “Knowledge map of online communities”

PowerPoint and the military

PowerPoint is under military investigation. The New York times reports: “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint” with an eloquent and provocative title, inspired by the so called spaghetti slide (see figure below). The leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan comment on the regards of this slide: “When we understand thatContinue reading “PowerPoint and the military”

Gartner Hype Cycle

Gartner has always made use of diagrams and visual representations to support managers in taking better decisions about technology investments.If you’d like to know more, have a look at our case study on Gartner (published at ecch) They keep updating and improving their products, such as the Magic quadrant and the Hype Cycle, to includeContinue reading “Gartner Hype Cycle”

The Web is dead. Is it?

In September (2010) WIRED has published a controversial cover with the headline “The Web is dead“, referring to statistics provided by Cisco on the share of Internet traffic by the Web and other applications. The article, several pages long, claims that “Two decades after its inception, the World Wide Web has been eclipsed by skype,Continue reading “The Web is dead. Is it?”

Swiss trains going visual

Swiss people are always efficient. Not to talk about Swiss trains, with their notorious punctuality and cleanness. Now they are going one step further, employing useful visual representations  to decorate the train! Indeed they printed the map of the train  route on the tables, so passengers can entertain themselves looking at the map, learn aboutContinue reading “Swiss trains going visual”

WEIRD people: cultural differences in reasoning style and visual perception

When we travel to exotic countries, especially developing nations, we often find the locals to be kind of weird. But let’s be honest, we are the weird ones, because we are the minority. I was very glad to find that some scholars had the same thought, and just published their research on the dangers ofContinue reading “WEIRD people: cultural differences in reasoning style and visual perception”