Presenting Information - Creating Visualisations

Some useful stuff about making information visual

A visualisation about visualisation styles in the form of the periodic table (thanks for the reminder John).


[click on picture for interactive table]

If you are a fan charts:



A visualisation creation tool from Many Eyes.

With GMapCreator you can map thematic data onto Google Maps (good link Seraphim).

US demographics visualizer

A short piece about information

[if you like the style of presentation see this previous post on kinetic typography]

Some examples/ideas

Nine ways to visualise consumption as found on Flowing Data

Many mind maps.

Youtube and Geography

Youtube has an increasing number of videos available that are useful for students, and that can complement lectures and seminars. Here are a selection:

Edward Said - an interview with Said and analysis of his work by Prof. Sut Jhally of the University of Masachusetts



David Harvey - A brief history of Neoliberalism



See also the excellent davidharvey.org which has videos of his course on reading Marx as well as comments on recent events.

The European Graduate School has a series of videos of talks from a range of theorists, including Donna Haraway , Judith Butler, and Jean Baudrillard.

There are numerous conversations with, and videos of Michael Porter

Not a video, but an audio recording of Doreen Massey's Radio 3 lecture is available to download, along with a transcript from the OU.