This project out of IBM’s Visual Communication Lab (VCL) allows anyone to upload a dataset and use several powerful tools to visualize the data. What is interesting is that the datasets become (optionally) shared so that other community participants can create new visualizations of the same dataset.

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Sharedegg presents a diagram of subcultures based on data collected from the people who make up those cultures. People categorize themselves based on what they own — and through their categorization are linked to the other people participating in the project. What has resulted is a deeply complex image showing social trends and unknown bonds between people through those trends.

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This pattern is used to put information into ONE of TWO categories. When using this pattern, there is a source (or multiple sources) of information where each element in the source needs to be categorized. Each element in the source is analyzed and ultimately categorized as either Category A or Category B. Items may NOT be categorized as BOTH A and B. Items may not be categorized as NEITHER A nor B.

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The Law of Closure says that the mind may perceive elements it does not physically experience through sensation in order to complete a regular figure (that is, to increase regularity). The law of closure is applicable to shapes, images and words.

Shapes.
The most typical example of this is the perception of dashed and dotted lines. Though [...]

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Gestalt theorists believed that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In other words, the perception of a car is an entirely different experience than the atomic perception of tires, bumpers, glass, metal and headlights. Gestalt psychologists codified a number of key concepts and “laws” of human perception. These concepts and [...]

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Founded in 1970, The International Association of Business Communicators provides a professional network of over 15,500 business communication professionals in over 80 countries. IABC’s web site contains a robust library of how-to articles and case studies of successful communication in the real world. Available to members only and accessible 24 hours a day, this content [...]

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The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is an umbrella organization set up initially to coordinate more closely the activities of the Association for Computers in the Humanities (founded in 1978) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (founded in 1973). The effort to establish ADHO began in Tuebingen, at the ALLC/ACH conference in [...]

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