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Emerging Technologies - Making Meaning out of Data through Data Visualization

At the annual EDUCAUSE ELI meeting, Professor George Siemens - University of Manitoba shared several new web spaces that are offering ways to visually represent data. As he notes, "data visualizations help make meaning and communicate the trends hiding in data. While visualizations have existed for years as graphs and figures, open access to data and the ability to create mashups is allowing a resurgence in visualizations". To review a few of these web spaces, visit:

http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home

http://www.quintura.com/

http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html

http://www.xobni.com/

Posted by Fran Smith on February 14, 2008 3:02 PM |

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