http://www.computational-journalism.com/symposium/2008/01/11/sensemaking-information-visualization-panel/

John Stasko
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VAST 2007

VASTcontest07

http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/ii/jigsaw

Sensemaking is visualisation - it's not about pretty pictures, it's a cognitive process. Visual cortext is temporary memory.
We are wonderful pattern matches. Use the visual memory.

e.g "I see what you're saying"

Spotfire - TIBCo product.

http://conferences.computer.org/infovis

Entities within documents

Jigsaw - visualises documents and the entities in them - "putting the pieces together"

Visualisation, statistics and anecdotes - what is the most compelling

Jeff Heer
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Gapminder - acquired by Google

HCI

"improve the analysis and communication of informaiton using interactive visualisation"

vizster - Dana Boyd - wrote a scraper and visualised it.

Users adjusted settings and the declared the computers was smart.

Users in groups were much more active than alone - people would challenge and investigate

http://sense.us

Voyagers and Voyeurs...

Swivel.com - online data visualisation

Many-Eyes - IBM visualisation

http://prefuse.org

http://jheer.net

Xaguin G.V.
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Newsweek visualisation

Visualisaiton of Whitbread race?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/70906
http://www.newsweek.com/id/43595
http://www.newsweek.com/id/43257