I spent some time the last couple of days looking for definitions of the items I had listed as “disciplines” in version 1 of my concept map. Specifically, I was looking into data visualization, information visualization, scientific visualization, information graphics and information design. There seems to be a whole lot of overlap and/or fuzzy boundaries [...]

Last night I was googling and checking out web sites about data visualization. Tons of really cool data visualization stuff out there that I’ll have to blog about in another post. But one of the most intriguing to me was the Web Trends mind map from Information Architects. I’ve seen this covered already on [...]

Last night I learned that the way I was trying to represent my idea of a visual thinking taxonomy was called a Concept Map. I had thought that a mind map would work and had started one in SpinScape, hoping to get some collaboration on it. Sadly, the collaboration hasn’t really happened. And, I was [...]

I came across this great little article titled Napkin Sketches 101 from ThoughtForm. Nine tips to make better napkin sketches. Great stuff! Makes me want to grab a pile of napkins and start drawing.

I got a little more time to work on my online video explanation project this weekend. In Take One, I created a mind map of the ideas and elements that I wanted to include and started on a script. Over the last week or so I spent some time here and there editing the [...]

Another discipline of visual thinking that I think is really cool is scientific visualizations. I’m on the Apple RSS feed and that had a cool article about scientific visualizations being done at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The article is essentially a Mac promotion piece, but it has some interesting observations [...]

It’s becoming painfully obvious to me how ignorant I am about the visual thinking world. Searching for terms about mapping information space I’ve come across all sorts of terms I wasn’t aware of that relate somehow to what I’m looking for but don’t seem to quite characterize it exactly; cybercartography, data visualization, information visualization, to [...]

Following Monday’s blog post, I spent some time reviewing the websites that I linked to and exploring a little more. I was a bit disappointed with what I found exploring the Cybercartography thread. It seems to be very closely tied to real world geography, which is all well and good, but not what I’m looking [...]

At the recent VizThink conference, I attended a couple of breakout sessions on mapping; Bruce Daniel’s “VizMaps: An Alternate Approach to Describing Where” and John Grimwade’s “Mapping the Possibilities.”

At the time, I wasn’t really sure what attracted me to these two mapping sessions, but reflecting upon it now, I think I was hoping that one [...]

Finally got some time this weekend to get back to getting “vizzy.” I came away from VizThink ’08 with a long list of visual thinking projects I wanted to get working on. One was online video explanations, inspired by Lee and Sachi LeFever’s breakout session. I brainstormed a list of potential subjects to do [...]