What happens when you combine data and Web 2.0? Mountains of data are piling up in libraries and corporate intranets, but how do we say it visually and make data more useful? Fichter looks at new online tools that enable sharing, analysis, and data visualization to show trends, associations and new insights on your library website that quickly engage, inform, and empower your customers to create their own visualizations. Tools such as Many Eyes go beyond the data visualization and tap into the social dimension encouraging sharing, collaboration, and reuse. Fichter talks about what happens when data goes “social.” From visual dictionaries, textual analysis of works of fiction, to star size and nutritional components of Big Macs, hop on board for this fast-paced look at an amazing set of tools that are at your fingertips.

1. Data Visualizations Darlene Fichter [email_address] April 8, 2008 Computers in Libraries 2008

2. Photo by Mark Witton , Creative Commons

3. Outline Data Visualization Library Opportunities Social + Data Tools

8. What We Eat http:// relevantmagazine.com/releblog/revolution/what -we-eat/ Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide Food expenditure for one week : 375.39 Euros or $500.07

9. Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03

10. “Tangible” Visualizations http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/01/rice_demographics_exhibition.html

13. Little Contest Amazon www.amazon.com Phoenix Public Library www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org Wired www.wired.com Photo by Pascal Vuylsteker CC Attribution 2.5

15. Population Density of the USA www.time.com/time/covers/20061030/where_we_live/

16. Newsmap http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm USA Canada Both a mashup and data visualization. Compares news coverage across countries and cultures.

19. How “Free” is Data Troy Anderson’s from DataPlace – Google Tech Talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_7MSaNXp-o (13:23)

21. “Idealistic” Slide from: Bricolage: Data at Play Joe Hellerstein, UC Berkeley

22. Now - Future Slide from: Bricolage: Data at Play Joe Hellerstein, UC Berkeley

27. Photo: The last sunray – Barcelona by Mor ( bcnbits ) licensed under Creative Commons

28. Look at Some Examples How to put pretty stuff in those drops. Tutorial below: Photo by Steve Took It Creative Commons

32. Riddle Troy Anderson’s from DataPlace – Google Tech Talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_7MSaNXp-o (34:00)

33. EveryBlock Civic information — building permits, crimes, … News articles and blog entries Web stuff – Craigslist, Yelp www.everyblock.com

38. Political Contributions by State www.graphwise.com/?dn=GoogleMapGadget

42. Social Data Sites Photo by maqroll Slide: Tom Coates, Yahoo!

43. Social Data Tools Gapminder Swivel Many Eyes

44. Swivel

45. Swivel – Tasty Data Goodies http://www.swivel.com Does bowling really burn the most calories?

46. Data Badge

47. Many Eyes from IBM Alphaworks http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home

48. Why is the Sun Called a Dwarf Star? http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SJjqGFsOtha6ICEU6EQIF2-

49. Love – Analyzing Textual Works

51. Amazon API -shows relationships between movies, actors, directors ... **mashup and visualization**

52. Trendalyzer / Gapminder Video of Hans Rosling showing the gapminder software and lively animations of world development trends.

53. Like to Play with Code illustrator Howard V Brown Photo: Radio Rover Creative Commons

55. Yahoo Charting API http:// developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs/module_charts.html

59. Frappr http://www.frappr.com/blogginglibrarians/ Google API Community contributed content Easy to use of anyone