Category Archives: visualisation
GeoMaker – text to map in a couple of clicks
I found this little web app a month or so ago and it is just a little to good to let pass by with as little recognition as a tweet and a bookmark on delicious. GeoMaker is a quick way of taking text (cut and paste or from a URL), extracting the geo-spacial data within [...]
Visualisation for deep understanding
Why visualisation? Juxtaposing datasets (mashing) to form visualisations is a marvelous way of extracting a deep understanding of an issue or topic from students. To create a meaningful visualisation students must know the data they wish to represent. They must understand its origin, collection method and any manipulation it may have undergone. This intimacy with data lends itself [...]
How to create a data visualisation/mashup
There are many ways to create visualisations using tools found on the web. The following explains just one way using data documenting Australian Government stimulus spending over the past few years mashed up with Australian electoral boundaries. Step 1 – Get some data The stimulus data we’re going to use can be found here. It [...]
