Other (More Complex) Data Visualizations

Global Demographic Trends

Gapminder

http://www.gapminder.org/

Dr. Hans Rosling

"No More Boring Data" (TED, 2007)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w

"New Insights on Poverty" (TED, 2007)

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html

"Let my Dataset Change your Mindset" (TED, 2009)

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_at_state.html

"Hans Rosling: Asia's rise—how and when" (TED, 2009)

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_asia_s_rise_how_and_when.html

"Hans Rosling on Global Population Growth" (TED, 2010)

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth.html

"Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?" (TED, 2010)

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_good_news_of_the_decade.html

"Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine" (TED, 2011)

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html

Geological Visualizations

US Geological Survey (USGS)

http://glovis.usgs.gov/ (Global Visualization)

USGS Seamless Data Warehouse

http://seamless.usgs.gov/

USGS EarthExplorer

http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

Disease Distribution and Spatiality

OIE: World Organization for Animal Health / Interactive Disease Distribution Maps

(World Animal Health Information Database / WAHID Interface)

http://web.oie.int/wahis/public.php?page=disease_status_map&WAHIDPHPSESSID=e898489703716cef784208fdfd399f64

CDC Arbonet Maps

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/USGS_frame.html

Educational Knowledge Tracking

Khan Academy

http://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard

http://www.khanacademy.org/login?continue=http%3A//www.khanacademy.org/profile

The Analysis of Large Data Sets (Terabytes of Data, Billions of Records)

Google BigQuery (2010)

https://developers.google.com/bigquery/

Google Research Blog

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/

Using Excel for Web Visualizations

Data Wiz Blog

http://datawiz.wordpress.com/

Dr. Shalin Hai-Jew

Instructional Designer

Kansas State University

785-532-5262

shalin@k-state.edu

Note: This presentation was built using SoftChalk 7. The Flash animation was built with Adobe AfterEffects. Microsoft Visio was used for the annotated screenshots with the pull-outs of information. Adobe Photoshop was used for minor photo editing. A Web-based ASCII-art generator was used to create the ASCII-text art.

This was updated in May 2012.

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