Reading emails and scanning blogs can get mind-numbing after working on a computer all day. Especially for kinesthetic or non-read-write learners, heavy verbiage can leave one’s brain aching for a different way to interpret data. To combat mental latency, and to promote the “proliferation of public data,” visualizing.org has launched with a mission to provide alternate ways to translate information. Marketed as a tool for journalists, teachers, students, as well as the general public, all are invited to create and share knowledge through the visible mediums of diagrams, line graphs, and pie charts, etc.For now, the topics are mostly concentrated on the stat-heavy subjects of public health, energy usage, and the environment…but we did manage to sniff out a technical analysis of vampires in pop culture diagram. After doing a little browsing, we found a striking pictograph depicting the US’s oil usage and economic stats in relation to the comparable data of our suppliers — the visual proving to be an excellent deviation to an otherwise tedious and wordy explanation.(Sick of this explanation already? We posted a video explaining the data visualization phenomenon a while back.) Furthermore, anything you decide to upload and share on visualizing.org is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical Share Alike License, and other people’s work is easy to download, embed or share on social networking. They’re hosting an inaugural Visualizing Marathon for students October 22-24th at Eyebeam in NYC, where a topic will be presented and solved (with a visual) within a 24-hour time period. The registration deadline is Oct. 10th, so make sure to be a part of the action.Wondering how you learn best? Click here to find out your learning style.
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