Visualization Tool - The Upside Learning Blog https://blog.upsidelearning.com Read our Mind. Experiences. Insights. Learnings Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:51:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://d2k0gkbwm0z9hv.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/favicon.ico Visualization Tool - The Upside Learning Blog https://blog.upsidelearning.com 32 32 Visualization Tool – Visual.ly https://blog.upsidelearning.com/2011/07/14/visualization-tool-visual-ly/ https://blog.upsidelearning.com/2011/07/14/visualization-tool-visual-ly/#respond Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:14:32 +0000 https://blog.upsidelearning.comindex.php/2011/07/14/visualization-tool-visual-ly/ In the course of work as an instructional designers, its routine to trawl the web constantly looking at ways people visualize ideas, concepts, processes. It’s an entire wonderland of variety out there on the inter-webs, in addition to the beauty one finds in various books on graphic design. Instructional designers then tend to be ‘inspired’ …

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]]> In the course of work as an instructional designers, its routine to trawl the web constantly looking at ways people visualize ideas, concepts, processes. It’s an entire wonderland of variety out there on the inter-webs, in addition to the beauty one finds in various books on graphic design. Instructional designers then tend to be ‘inspired’ and apply those visualization techniques to whatever it is they seek to communicate.

One emerging aspect of graphic design is the use of the visual tools to represent vast quantities of data. As desktop computers and cloud services become more powerful,they are better able to crunch and represent numbers than is humanly possible. Tufte’s famous work ‘The Visual Design of Quantitative Information‘  shows many of the principles these programs use to visualize data. One such service that’s being talked about recently is visual.ly a site that promises to take your data and provide a push-button approach to to help you visualize it. This kind of tool can be very useful or instructional designers, who I foresee will have to deal with large, even gigantic quantities of data (requiring succinct communication) as the norm. Another aspect is the learning that is made possible through the ability to view relationships/patterns/threads in the data, leading to insights that would otherwise not be possible.

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]]> https://blog.upsidelearning.com/2011/07/14/visualization-tool-visual-ly/feed/ 0 eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #3 https://blog.upsidelearning.com/2009/12/21/elearning-interesting-weekly-finds-3/ https://blog.upsidelearning.com/2009/12/21/elearning-interesting-weekly-finds-3/#respond Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:41:49 +0000 https://blog.upsidelearning.comindex.php/2009/12/21/elearning-interesting-weekly-finds-3/ Device tag support in HTML 5 Yesterday World Wide Web Consortium has reported that HTML 5 will support external devices, directly from your browser. Now your browser will access your webcam, microphone and other USB devices directly, no other software/plug-ins required. WebGL WebGL is a standard specification currently being developed to display 3D graphics on …

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  • Device tag support in HTML 5
    Yesterday World Wide Web Consortium has reported that HTML 5 will support external devices, directly from your browser. Now your browser will access your webcam, microphone and other USB devices directly, no other software/plug-ins required.
  • WebGL
    WebGL is a standard specification currently being developed to display 3D graphics on web browsers. It enables hardware-accelerated rich 3D graphics in web pages without the need for special browser plug-ins, on any platform supporting OpenGL or OpenGL ES. Technically it is a binding for JavaScript to native OpenGL ES 2.0 implementation, to be built in to browsers.
  • Vedea – Visualization Tool
    Vedea is a prototype experimental language designed by Microsoft Research UK that is aimed at helping users create interactive infographics, data visualizations and computational art.
    The kinds of infographics that Vedea is designed to create aren’t the usual pie charts or bar charts. Advanced infographics created using Vedea will combine color, hierarchy, shape and line into new, more complex visuals.
  • Gestural Computing Breakthrough Turns LCD Into a Big Sensor
    Gesture recognition is the area of user interface research that tries to translate movement of the hand into on-screen commands. But the typical gestural system involves use of expensive cameras and special gloves or color tracking tags onto finger.Some smart students at MIT have figured out how to turn a typical LCD into a low-cost, 3-D gestural computing system. Their system uses an array of optical sensors that are arranged right behind a grid of liquid crystals, similar to those used in LCD displays. The sensors can capture the image of a finger when it is pressed against the screen.
  • Heavy Rain
    Heavy Rain is a new game, or rather interactive drama. It promises a completely different type of game play involvement. What we found really interesting is that such interactive dramas have enormous potential in creating simulation environments that let learners practice soft skills. The ability to play different roles giving players varied perspective is also extremely innovative.

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