Data Visualization Lab

There are many ways to visual data: as a table, as a graph or chart, as word art, etc. This site has a lot of links to to websites that allow you to present data in non-traditional ways. For my latest CEP 812 assignment, I visited this website and investigated a few options that personally interest me. Below are my reflections on each.

SITE: Survey Monkey
ADDRESS: http://www.surveymonkey.com
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BRIEF REFLECTION:This website is used to create surveys. I do not like the feel of Google Forms personally, and do not feel it does a good enough job for analyzing data. Survey Monkey is a website I have heard people talk about, and so I thought I would give it a try. In January I need to survey all of my parents, and I think I might have them use this webpage to do it. The format option for this site is greater than those for forms, so I think there is some exciting potential here.




SITE: Text 2 Mind Map
ADDRESS: http://www.text2mindmap.com/
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BRIEF REFLECTION: This website is for making information maps. I have never seen a website like this, and find it very curious. I will certainly bring this page into my classroom at some point and working as a class to map an idea. I like how this map allows you to color code your layers. I tried many of the other mind maps as well, but none felt as clean, nor as easy to use, as text2mindmap. For the image above I was attempting to mind map what my 6th grade course is all about by categorizing the various topics we study.



SITE: Tagxedo
ADDRESS: http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html
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BRIEF REFLECTION: I have used Wordle in the past as I think it is a cool way to evaluate a large amount of text. I didn't know how Tagxedo would be different, but what I discovered was that it lets you determine the shape of your word art too. The picture above is from my MATC final synthesis paper. I thought it was neat putting it into the shape of something that means something as well, as opposed to a simple oval. The best thing about Tagxedo is that it lets you save the image as oppose to simply giving your a web address for how you can share. The day before break I had all my students using Wordle. I taught them how to take screenshots in order to save their picture into a word document they were writing, but it felt like a burden. On Tagxedo share is an easy to access option. I will probably start using Tagxedo from this point forward.