Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

Confused about how to visually display your data?

The Periodic table of Visualization, a nifty resource from Visual-Literacy.org, can help you identify the appropriate type of chart to display your information.

Chris Wallace has added functionality to the table by enabling you to show and print the mouse-over diagrams here: Visualization Methods from the Periodic Table. He has also provided a link the to the Wikipedia page for the explanation of the methodogy for each diagram.

Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe

Here is a great find for the meta data maven. This site elegantly visualizes the most heavily used metadata standards in the cultural heritage community. The standards are evaluated on their strength of application to defined categories in each of four axes: community, domain, function, and purpose. The work is licensed under a Creative Commons license, so you can take the image file and print out a poster size hard copy locally.

A metadata standard glossary is available in poster or pamphlet form. This is a metadata gem.

Oil Spill Information

The current oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to have an enormous environmental and economic impact for the gulf region. This is provides updated information regarding the spill, information specific for each State effected, social media links, area contingency plans, and more.

Tudor Effigies

Finding resources for researching period clothing can be difficult. One researcher has taken a novel approach to researching and providing information regarding 16th century dress, especially the dress of the middle class.

Tudor Effigies provides a database of Church effigies as a resource for researching period clothes covering the sixteenth century. Church effigies often offer life-size details of middle class clothing which is generally absent in other resources.

Dr Jane Malcolm-Davies of the Textile Conservation Centre, Winchester School of Art, provides the research methodology that went into this project.

Recovery.gov

Recovery.gov is the U. S. government's web site providing access to data related to Recovery Act spending and allows for the reporting of potential fraud, waste, and abuse. Search options include grants, contracts, loans, agency, state, and amount. Information regarding how job data is estimated is provided via a link to a pdf document. Tables provide information regarding the top ten agencies which have paid out the most money and funding for all states and territories. Information regarding awards granted near you can be obtained by zipcode. Information regarding transparency, accountability, and agency reporting is also available.

The Academic Blog Portal

This wiki provides access to the academic blogosphere. Access blogs by academics according to subject, university, language, and country.

One of my favorite finds on this site: Information Literacy Land of Confusion.

The VerySpacial.com blog had an entry for Mapping Halloween Action. Who says geospacial imaging can't be fun!

So, whether your interest is art, public policy, history, language, bioethics, law, or some other discipline, check this portal out and have a little fun.

Data.gov

Data.gov provides access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the U. S. Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Information in searchable data catalogs can be accessed in three ways: through the raw data catalog, the tool catalog, and the geodata catalog.

This is a great site for info geeks. Search by keyword, single or multiple categories, and/or single or multiple agencies. There are datasets for a wide range of subjects including agriculture, business, climate, ecology, administrative and political boundaries, imagery and base maps, military, locations and geodetic networks, oceans and estuaries, transportation networks, utilities and communications, and much, much more.