1. Patterns and Sensemaking: Information Visualization George Siemens April 25, 2007

2. Topics Information growth and overload Aggregation, syndication – initial attempt to cope Information visualization: make sense of abundance

3. "If you have three pet dogs, give them names. If you have 10,000 head of cattle, don't bother" David Gelernter

4. Infoluenza failure to master our information resources and that to achieve contentment at work in solving our business problems http://knowledgefutures.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/infoluenza/ See also Cures: http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2007/04/18/infoluenza_cures.html

5. Brains crave patterns A pattern is –About sense making –Understanding –Temporary state of –Evolving, emergent –Aggregation, context, experience

6. Current state Information generation tools – exploded Aggregation tools – growing Data, information manipulation tools: embryonic

7. The beset graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death E. Tufte

10. Tags: Web of meaning

11. Visualization Grunt cognition Move to meaning/sensemaking Shifts perspectives Provides insight Memory New connections

12. GDP http://www.worldmapper.org/

13. Population http://www.worldmapper.org/

14. http://news.com.com/The+Big+Picture/2030-12_3-5843390.html

15. Exposure of periphery: loose connections http://www.quintura.com/

16. Collective Voice http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/04/audience_collective_voice_display.html

17. Network analysis http://www.orgnet.com/netindustry.html

18. Patterns, history

20. Hierarchy Edge Bundles 3D File Manager http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ Political blogosphere, 2004Blue Brain

22. Sensemaking What is it? What does it mean? What perspectives are included? Shared?

23. Where does knowledge reside?

24. Decentralized Distributed Disintermediated Disaggregated Dis-Integrated Democratic Dynamic Desegregated http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/paper92/paper92.html Via: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?presentation=45http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?presentation=45 Networks: Downes

25. What impacts network formation?

26. Spaces of knowledge

27. Networks & Ecologies Filter Foster Form patterns Create archive future repurposing

28. Yeah, ok, but whats the use? Network models of learning are adaptive Ecologies must be diverse and enabling Todays information is tomorrows sensemaking Sane, digital life Complex, integrated understanding Multi-faceted Multi-ontology

29. www.elearnspace.org www.knowingknowledge.com www.connectivism.ca