Content tagged with "research tools" http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/taxonomy/term/3654/all en Data Visualisation: Google Fusion Tables Workshop http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/blog/research/2014/07/data-visualisation-google-fusion-tables-workshop <div class="vud-widget vud-widget-utslibvote vud-widget-utslibvote-new" id="widget-node-21315"> <a href="/vote/node/21315/1/vote/utslibvote/d_x4QACkwWZJuooI5ZtZKQ0TVrSGDqW6uxzHPlVA23c/nojs" rel="nofollow" class="vud-link-up use-ajax"> <span class="up-inactive utslibvote-up" title="I like this post">Vote up!</span> </a> <div class="utslibvote-score"> <span class="utslibvote-current-score" title="10">10</span> </div> </div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span>This blog post supplements the exercises distributed in the Google Fusion Tables workshop presented during Library Research Week. It is designed to make it easier to navigate to the various links given in those exercises.</span><br /><br /><span>In the workshop we use Google Fusion Tables to create a "heat map" of NSW highlighting crime hotspots. In order to accomplish this we will draw in and combine data from two sources.</span><br /><br /><span>The first is a comma-separated-values (CSV) file containing crime statistics for all Local Government Areas (LGAs) in NSW. The 152 LGAs in NSW are variously referred to as shires, councils, cities, etc. You can read all about them here:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_areas_of_New_South_Wales">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_areas_of_New_South_Wales</a><br /><br /><span>The crime statistics, meanwhile, can be obtained here:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/J47gkw">http://bit.ly/J47gkw</a><br /><br /><span>The second data source is a keyhole mark-up language (KML) file that describes the boundaries of all the LGAs in NSW using geospatial coordinates. This dataset is available here:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.tallyroom.com.au/maps">http://www.tallyroom.com.au/maps</a><br /><br /><span>We have made some 'tweaks' to this dataset to make the workshop exercise run more smoothly. The modified dataset is available for download here:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/Ntvncs">http://bit.ly/Ntvncs</a><br /><br /><span>You'll need a Google Account to complete this exercise. If you don't already have one, you can create one here:</span><br /><br /><a href="https://accounts.google.com/NewAccount">https://accounts.google.com/NewAccount</a></p></div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-blog field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"> <a href="/blog/research" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Research</a></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden clearfix"> <ul class="field-items"> <li class="field-item even"> <a href="/tag/data-visualisation" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">data visualisation</a> </li> <li class="field-item odd"> <a href="/tag/research-tools" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">research tools</a> </li> </ul> </div> Sun, 06 Jul 2014 22:04:55 +0000 admin 21315 at http://www.lib.uts.edu.au New text visualisation tool http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/blog/research/2012/10/new-text-visualisation-tool <div class="vud-widget vud-widget-utslibvote vud-widget-utslibvote-new" id="widget-node-24069"> <a href="/vote/node/24069/1/vote/utslibvote/rhhqz10sRDFeUQ6Hg1jML5ugcle9LAU4ijcViU_Xiz4/nojs" rel="nofollow" class="vud-link-up use-ajax"> <span class="up-inactive utslibvote-up" title="I like this post">Vote up!</span> </a> <div class="utslibvote-score"> <span class="utslibvote-current-score" title="2">2</span> </div> </div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>It seems like there are more fantastic visualisation tools to play with all the time! This morning I discovered <a title="textexture" href="http://textexture.com/index.php" target="_blank">textexture</a>, a new tool that helps you visualise text both in terms of frequency (like wordle) and as a network graph. What does that mean, and why is it cool? Well, imagine you wanted to analyse some text, and determine not just how often a certain word appears, but also see which words that word appears with. You can do that with textexture! </p><p>There are some great examples on the textexture website already, but as an experiment, I copied in the transcript of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's recent 'misogyny' speech. It looked like this: </p><p><iframe src="http://www.textexture.com/index.php?text_id=3037&amp;embed=1&amp;width=500&amp;height=500" frameborder="0" width="500" height="500"></iframe></p><p>The larger the 'node', the more frequently that word appears, and the connecting lines indicate the relationships between that word and others in the text. </p><p>What I really like about textexture, is that when you click on one of the 'nodes', you get to see the passage/s of text where that word appears - and you can then build on this buy selecting other words and see where they appear together. You can also search for certain words and the network graph responds and changes accordingly. See the full range of features and have a play with this visualisation <a href="http://textexture.com/index.php?text_id=3037" target="_blank">here</a> (you may need to create a free account for some functionality - you definitely will if you want to create your own network graph from scratch). </p><p>textexture is in early beta, so it does have a couple of quirks still to be worked out - being able to add some attribution details would be helpful for instance, particularly if you want to make your graph public. But it's certainly worth a look and a play. </p></div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-blog field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"> <a href="/blog/research" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Research</a></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden clearfix"> <ul class="field-items"> <li class="field-item even"> <a href="/tag/data-visualisation" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">data visualisation</a> </li> <li class="field-item odd"> <a href="/tag/research-tools" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">research tools</a> </li> </ul> </div> Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:38:04 +0000 24069 at http://www.lib.uts.edu.au
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