We are very happy and honored to receive the Best Paper Award of the 17th International Information Visualization Conference in London for our paper on “Knowledge Visualization for Social Entrepreneurs”! Abstract of the paper: “Social entrepreneurship is an emerging field which has the power to change the way we do business and resolve societal challenges.Continue reading “Best Paper Award for our “Knowledge Visualization for Social Entrepreneurs” paper”
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Teaching at the Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing
This is the wonderful class I had the pleasure to teach at the Central University of Finance and Economics, in Beijing, China. Thanks to all the students of the Global Management Communication (summer program) for their kindness and active participation to class. Special thanks to Professor Ge for the invitation, and to Mrs Yu &Continue reading “Teaching at the Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing”
Our research group
Our satisfied research group after a workshop on the topic of Dynagrams.
What do Italy, India and Peru have in common?
Beside being among my favourite countries, they share the same long-term credit rating by Standard & Poor’s, American financial services company. The following graphs is quite surprising, isn’t it? Scarry visual insights.
The best of ICA conference 2013 in London
The ICA conference 2013 took place in London last week, with an unprecedented amount of participants. Those you managed to find the right room in the maze of the Hilton metropole hotel, have been rewarded with great presentations. I appreciated the ‘high density’ poster format, which allowed to have an insights on the research onContinue reading “The best of ICA conference 2013 in London”
Representations of knowledge in Africa
Professor Heike Winschiers has presented her interesting work at the Università della Svizzera italiana. Of German origin, she lives in Namibia since 20 years and conducts research on Human Computer Interaction in Africa. Why is HCI different in Namibia compared to Europe or the U.S.? Because our thinking patter is different, as already proposed inContinue reading “Representations of knowledge in Africa”
Mapping the secret life of cats
BBC Two’s Horizon programme in collaboration with the Royal Veterinary College followed the life of cats for 24 hours and the results are visualized below: the intactive graph shows that cats “timeshare territory to avoid confrontation with neighbouring felines and visit each others houses”.
Organ donations in Europe: Latin countries are the most generous
Spain, Portugal, France, Slovenia and Italy might have severe financial issues, but they are the most generous countries of Europe in terms of organs donations, with over 20 donors per million people. And Switzerland is well below the European average with only 12! Do you see any cultural pattern?
Knowledge Visualization for Decision Making – American University in Bulgaria
Here you can find the material and the presentation for the module on “Knowledge Visualization for Decision Making”, which I will give on June 1-2nd in Sofia for th EMBA of the American University in Bulgaria: Case study: Gartner’s Magic Quadrant and Hype Cycle http://www.ecch.com, ref. no. 908-029-1. (updated version 2010) Software and tools: –Continue reading “Knowledge Visualization for Decision Making – American University in Bulgaria”
Infographics to change the world
An interactive and exciting website is available to “Change the world one map at a time”: it is Show World. Very informative and at the same time fun to play with. I checked out Illiteracy rate: This image shows very cleary – more than 1000 words – why our NGO Kolours is focus on educationContinue reading “Infographics to change the world”
Sabrina Bresciani, Ph.D. 