Data+Visualization

toc =Data Manipulation= Look at this link. I am not a numbers guy, although I try to be. What makes the difference for me in seeing the relationship between numbers and statistics is if I can see it visually and actually relate to the data. In my travels throughout the classroom, I am finding most people are more like me than I realized. Web 2.0 offers many ways to represent your data visually. Several sites out there allow you to input your own data sets and they will create hundreds of different plots for you. Here are a few to look at:
 * [[image:workshoponestop:swivel.jpg align="center" caption="swivel.jpg" link="http://swivel.com/"]] || [[image:workshoponestop:manyeyes.jpg align="center" caption="manyeyes.jpg" link="http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home"]] ||
 * [[image:workshoponestop:chartall.jpg align="center" caption="chartall.jpg" link="http://www.chartall.com/"]] || [[image:workshoponestop:gapminder.jpg align="center" caption="gapminder.jpg"]] ||
 * [[image:workshoponestop:socialexplorer.jpg caption="socialexplorer.jpg" link="http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx"]] ||  ||


 * [|Swivel]
 * [|Many Eyes]
 * [|ChartAll]
 * [|Gapminder]
 * [|Social Explorer]

Many Eyes
Here is an example of a data set that I uploaded into Many Eyes from a Schoolwires survey I did with a group of students who used a wiki for a class project. I wanted to represent the data visually for the teachers who initiated the project so they could see how it looked.



Here is another I did using the data from a recent wiki class. I asked the teachers to rate the class and give general comments on the class in the form of a summary. However, using Many Eyes, I can see the relationship between the answers and the overall feeling in much more meaningful way to me. media type="custom" key="137087"

Swivel
Here is a graph I created after a new teacher workshop last June. I asked them two questions: Which technology do you plan on using in your classroom next year? and Which technology do you feel you need the most professional development in? With the answers to those questions, I created the following graph: media type="custom" key="137095" =Visual Search Engines=

Grokker
The phrase "chunking" comes to mind when I look at Grokker. Have you ever wished that your students' Google searches could be broken up into smaller, more manageable chunks of relevant information? Grokker solves that.

Here is what you get.

By clicking on the topic in the left column, only the pages that deal with it are displayed.

Others like it:
 * [|Quintara]
 * [|Kartoo]
 * [|searchCrystal]