I ran across this cartogram in 2005.

(Original post)  For
my final project I am working on visualizing newspaper’s editorial content
during the early nineteenth century. 
While I am unsure of the particular event that I may try to map its
flow, I will most likely be using maps to visualize the newspaper routes that
editorial content took.  There is some
relevant information within Edward Tufte’s book. 

Manyeyes offers a visualization that closely resembles the data representation I proposed for a research design, though the site version does not provide the dynamism I hope to bring to the data set. Nor does the project, as proposed, render information in a multidimensional way that could bring several facets of the VOA program data together in a compelling (“dense”) representation. Stay tuned.

Among this week's readings, I found the articles on ThemeRiver and Arc Diagrams particularly interesting for the story board project that I came up with last week. ThemeRiver is designed to identity patterns and themes and seems applicable a model to the story board. For example, each story line in the narrative can be taken as a theme, and one can identify which storylines/themes occur at any given moment of the film and how or if they intersect.

For this week's assignment I thought I'd try out a couple visualizations available on the Many Eyes site. Following on the post from last week where I created a sparkline graphic with an accompanying photograph, I thought it might be interesting if producing sparklines might be accomplished (eventually) using natural language processing tools and application macros, such as those that allow us to insert graphs of Excel or SPSS data into our documents. Wouldn't that be neat, eh?

This is something I could not complete last week and have attempted to do so this time. At the same time, I am not very satisfied not very sure that this is really helpful/useful or whether it would be more confusing... but because i did try to figure it out, thought I would put it up for criticism... (and from readings for this week, while what I have is not sublime, and while it may not also be utilitarian, may be even absurd, but I am sure, all your criticism will be nothing but constructive).

Description of the visual method:

For those who are interested in the audio recordings from class from the past few weeks, I've posted them here:

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/critz1/Shared/SPCM529CS/

For a while I've been thinking about ways to present "reliability" of Wikipedia articles to the users inline with the text. One of the measures of reliability could be length of time that text has sat unedited, since one of the claims of Wikipedia is that its articles are reliable because its many users quickly find and edit errors.

I’m working on a paper about news flows and global news agencies in the post-WWII and cold war eras. This work depends on a fundamental understanding of the radical changes in the geopolitical map of the world starting in the late 1940s and continuing through the 1960s. Applying some of Tufte’s concepts, a multivariate analysis of post-colonial independence declarations could be useful for showing the rapidity of changes. Multiples are good for showing change. In this case I could use repeated images of the world map that correspond to years.