Presentation given to MIMAS staff regarding open data visualisaiton utilities

1. The ‘Participatory Web’ and Data Visualisation Tools Stuart Macdonald EDINA National Data Centre & Edinburgh University Data Library

3. Data Visualisation: The set of techniques used to turn a set of data into visual insight. It aims to give the data a meaningful representation by exploiting the powerful discerning capabilities of the human eye*. * Edinburgh Online Graphics Dictionary – http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/GRDICT/grdict.htm

9. Numeric Data Visualisation Utilities http://graphwise.com/ http://numbrary.com/ http://www.swivel.com/ http://www.statcrunch.com/ http://www.data360.org/ http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/ http://infochimps.org/ http://graphs.gapminder.org/world/ http://dabbledb.com/

11. Horizontal Bar Chart Pie Chart

15. Google Squared – a Google Labs project – looks for facts from webpages, pulls them together, and organises them into a table with rows and columns e.g. search for Scottish Islands

16. Other Semantic innovations Powerset - http://www.powerset.com/ (Microsoft) Hakia - http://www.hakia.com/ Calais - http://www.opencalais.com/ (Reuters) AdaptiveBlue - http://www.getglue.com/ Twine - http://www.twine.com/ Freebase - http://www.freebase.com/ (Metaweb)

18. Thank You DISC-UK DataShare [email_address]