15 Minutes A Day: Rethinking the Visualization of Data

Data presentation can be more than tables, pie charts and bar graphs.  To convey the message you want to present, you might want to be a little more creative to catch your audiences attention.  Here are a few creative approaches to help you reconsider your average pie chart.

found via Libology from VisualLiteracy.org

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods is a great resource if you have information you need to present visually, but don’t know the best way to express it. Simply go to the site and let your mouse hover over the examples in the different categories.  Note the creative use of the Periodic Table structure…”

Other great resources on the visual display of information worth reviewing:

Handy Reference: Cleaning up Word Files and Adding Images to Your Blog

Cleaning Up Word Files

  • The character codes used in your word documents are not necessarily the same as those used on the web. If you want to use the contents of a word document use the Paste from Word button rather than cutting and pasting directly

Kitchen Sink Toolbar

  • To the left of the Flash icon (white circle with the letter “F” on it) in the post toolbar is a button that looks like paint sample cards (similar to the type you would get from a hardware store) turned sideways.  This button is called “the kitchen sink”
  • When you hover over the “kitchen sink button” you will see the message “Open Kitchen Sink.” Click the button until you see a second row on your formatting toolbar.
  • Click the button of a clipboard with a Word icon superimposed on it (from the second row).  It is called the “Paste from Word” button.  Click the “Paste from Word” button to paste your content in from your Word document.
  • This method should clean up any gobbly gook or weird formatting you may have.

Uploading Office Documents, Images, Audio Files

  • 10mb storage space

Linking to Shared Media Websites

If you want to Embed the Image

  • select html tab
  • type <img src=”paste your image link here” alt=”image description here”>
  • What it looks like after you do this

Ghastly Beast Drawings

If you want to Embed Audio or Video Files (link to an mp3, mov, Google, YouTube”)

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/TPAO-lZ4_hU" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

  • MP3’s (streamed audio files from the web – The College of Charleston’s Language Resource Center is using stream.cofc.edu to host course audio files for enrolled students.

Listen to Introduction to Con Fantasia

Download Title NerdTV MP3 Podcast

Handy Reference: International Accent Marks and Diacriticals

Theory, Charts,& Tips

There are a variety of methods. The International English Keyboard is preferred by those who know the qwerty keyboard, while the specific language keyboards are useful to those who are familiar with them.

Word 2007 has excellent features which one can reach by choosing the Insert Tab and then going to the symbols section of the “ribbon”.

In Word 2003, many non-English characters, as well as icons for food, holidays, activities, signs, math, and much more, are found in the Insert menu, then select Symbol. Within this Symbol Window, the font Lucida Sans Unicode provides many accented and other characters for numerous languages.

Platforms, software applications, operating systems, versions, and user preferences influence how one works with accent and other marks.

The ALT key codes or the Character Map can save the day when nothing else works.

For More information and printable charts visit http://www.starr.net/is/type/kbh.html

Reference for EVERY Character Key on a Mac

Ever wanted to type the copyright icon, or do an accent over an A without having to resort to some character palette?

Liquidicity has put together a series of help sheets that reference all of the characters that aren’t listed on your keyboard, along with their shortcut keys to make your life easier.

For more information visit http://www.gosquared.com/liquidicity/archives/172


Handy Reference: Every Key On A Macintosh

Fri, 24 Aug 2007  |plusmo.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Liquidcity have published a very handy crib-sheet of every accented or special character available on an Apple Macintosh keyboard along with the key combinations required to use them.

There are three sheets and they’re available as JPEG images and PDF files, either of which you can download and print. What you get are accented characters, accents, dashes, apples, dipthongs, ligatures, question marks, money symbols, mathematical symbols and more.

Downloadable files are available at: http://www.gosquared.com/liquidicity/archives/172