As enterprise supply chains and consumer demand chains have beome globalized, they continue to inefficiently share information “one-up/one-down”. Profound "bullwhip effects" in the chains cause managers to scramble with inventory shortages and consumers attempting to understand product recalls, especially food safety recalls. Add to this the increasing usage of personal mobile devices by managers and consumers seeking real-time information about products, materials and ingredient sources. The popularity of mobile devices with consumers is inexorably tugging at enterprise IT departments to shifting to apps and services. But both consumer and enterprise data is a proprietary asset that must be selectively shared to be efficiently shared.
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As a follow-up to Moritz Stefaner's 2007 master's thesis, Visual tools for the socio–semantic web, as highlightedin Elastic Tag Mapping and Data Ownership, I am blogging here another noteworthy thesis coming out of the same university.
The Form of Facts and Figures is an unpublished master's thesis presented in early May, 2008 by Christian Behrens at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Department of Design.
"The topic of my Master thesis project is the development of a design taxonomy for data visualization and information design. In its core, the project consists of a collection of 55 design patterns that describe the functional aspects of graphic components for the display, behavior and user interaction fo complex infographics. The thesis [when made available will be] in the form of a 200-page book that additionally includes a profound historical records of information design as well as an introduction into the research field of design patterns."
There is a slide-show presentation of parts of his unpublished book at niceone.org.
In the meantime Behrens has currently posted 26 visualization examples from his thesis coupled with descriptions, layouts, implementations and real-world examples to a separate, well-designed website called Information Design Patterns. These very interesting data visualizations run the gamut from Thread Arcs to Data Tips to Stacked Area Charts to Facet Browsing to the following Bubble Chart ....
Again, but this time essentially in Behrens own words, this website is a design pattern browser consisting of a set of modules that reflect the characteristics of the pattern systematics described in his thesis, and providing the user with a set of useful tools to navigate and explore the collection.
Here is a screen shot (and accompanying hyperlink) to a demonstration overview of the visualization and interaction experiments produced by Moritz Stefaner for his 2007 master's thesis, Visual tools for the socio–semantic web.*
When you run this demo, click on any one of the data sets in the drop down box in the upper right-hand corner. The screen shot above is from the 'avatar_1' data set but there are fourteen data sets in all.
Notice in the upper left-hand corner that you can choose to view the tag mapping in either 2-D or 1-D.
Run your pointer over any of the mapped words or terms. Chose one ... see what happens when you grab it and move it ... and see how other terms remain connected with the chosen word according to frequency. Really cool!
There are actually two representations of frequency. One representation is according to the size of each connected word or term. The other is in the bar graph in the lower left-hand corner. When you run your point over that bar graph, you will also see additional frequency information according to the chosen word or term. Notice how this bar graph changes with the selection of a chosen term.
What does this have to do with data ownership?
At page 5 of his paper Stefaner says this:
"The digital turn and the explosive growth of possibilities for information access and publishing fundamentally changes our way of interaction with data, information and knowledge. This process is neither finished nor understood, but currently, generally observed phenomena are:
an acceleration of information diffusion
an increasing process of chunking information into small, reusable bits (micro–content)
a shift towards a larger population of people producing and sharing information
along with an increasing specialization of topics, interests and the according social niches
leading overall to a massive growth of space for action, expression and attention available to every single individual" [emphasis added]
Imagine using what Stefaner demonstrates in his demo to easily ...
visualize, and therefore govern, your own personal health records in whole or in granular parts (like immunizations or special health conditions),
conduct an audit as to whether those physicians, hospitals, insurance companies, and other healthcare providers whom you have permitted to view all or granular parts of your personal health records are the only ones who have accessed those records, and
determine the frequencies, dates and times of their accesses.
It is critical that with technological data ownership we also be provided with data visualization tools that make it easy to directly determine to our satisfaction whether, when and how frequently our data is being used and accessed according to our permissions. See and compare Personal Health Records, Data Portability and the Continuing Privacy Paradigm.
*If you think you might be interested in downloading Stefaner's master's thesis, please find it in the references to this blog entry.
Visual tools for the socio–semantic web Author - Moritz Stefaner Master’s Thesis Published: June, 2007 Pages: 112 PDF file size: 13.79 MB Interface Design Programme University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam Supervisors: Prof. Boris Müller and Prof. Danijela Djokic.
Table of Contents:
1. OVERVIEW 2. ANALYSIS: THE EMERGING SOCIO–SEMANTIC WEB 2.1. THE RENAISSANCE OF THE SOCIAL WEB
THE WEB AS A PLATFORM, SITES AS APPLICATIONS
RICH INTERACTION, CASUALTY AND USER EXPERIENCE
THE READ–WRITE WEB
THE ANATOMY OF THE PARTICIPATORY WEB
USER GENERATED CONTENT — OR METADATA?
2.2. THE LONG TAIL
THE STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION
THE LONG TAIL OF WEB ECONOMICS
2.3. MICROCONTENT
CHUNKS, SNIPPETS, MICROCONTENT
PUBLISHING IMPLICIT INFORMATION
2.4. WEB FEEDS
GO GET VS. COME TO ME
WHAT ARE WEB FEEDS?
USAGE PRACTICES
PERSPECTIVES
2.5. TAGGING AND FOLKSONOMIES
TAGGING SYSTEM DESIGN FEATURES
A COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE ON TAGGING
WHY TAGGING WORKS
HOW ARE TAGS USED?
2.6. A NEW VIEW ON METADATA
THE SEMANTIC WEB
PACE LAYERING
CONCLUSION
3. GUIDELINES AND MAXIMES 4. SYNTHESIS: EXPERIMENTS, VISUAL ANALYTICS AND APPLICATION DESIGN. 4.1. EXPERIMENTS AND VISUAL ANALYTICS
UNDERSTANDING TAGGING STRUCTURES
TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF TAGGING AND CONTENTS
LIFESTREAMS AND MASH–UPS
INTERSUBJECTIVITY AND COMMUNITY AGREEMENT
4.2. MULTI–FACETED FOCUS & CONTEXT FOR LONG–TAIL NAVIGATION
ELASTIC LISTS FOR FACET BROWSERS
FACET BROWSING FOR TAGGING STRUCTURES
4.3. KONDUIT—A MODEL FOR A WEB FEED HUB APPLICATION
BACKGROUND
KONDUIT — A CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR A WEB FEED HUB APPLICATION
APPLICATION DESIGN
4.4. OUTLOOK 5. APPENDIX 5.1. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL 5.2. REFERENCES 5.3. EIDESSTATTLICHE ERKLÄRUNG
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 2:30AM 