Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Information Visualisation

Information visualisation is the transformation of raw data into visual metaphors, with the intention of communicating some aspect of that data. naught101 (talk) 02:07, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

• {{la|Information graphics}}
• {{la|Information visualization}}
• {{la|Scientific visualization}}
• {{la|Infographic}}
• {{la|Chart}}
• {{la|Cartography}}
• {{lc|Visualization (graphic)}} (number of pages in the category: 86)
• {{lc|Infographics}} (number of pages in the category: 106)
• {{lc|Statistical_charts_and_diagrams}} (number of pages in the category: 100)
• {{lc|Charts}} (number of pages in the category: 39)
• {{lc|Cartography}} (number of pages in the category: 214)

:Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.

• {{lw|WikiProject Computer Science}}
• {{lw|WikiProject Systems}}
• {{lw|WikiProject Journalism}}
• {{lw|WikiProject Geography}}
• {{lw|WikiProject Maps}}

: None of these groups are specific enough to be useful. Information visualisation (and related stats/data sciences) is a large field, and would benefit from having a central organising location.

Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.

1. naught101 (talk) 02:07, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
2. Leutha (talk) 20:48, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

• I notified the 5 linked wikiprojects on their talk pages. --naught101 (talk) 02:31, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

• It's possible that this might be better as a 'data science' wikiproject. I'm not interested in '15 ways to lose weight' "infographics" - I'm just interested in methods of converting hard data into graphics. --naught101 (talk) 02:31, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

• I am particularly interested in the Vienna Method and Figurative Constructivism. I feel that the cognitive aspects of how huamn ebings interact with graphical information is of equal significance as the simple conversion of hard data into graphisc, which I would find as too absrtract. Leutha (talk) 20:52, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

• I am interested in concept maps (I use CMapTools for concept maps and Xmind for mind-mapping), visualisation tools a lot. I have been looking for a project including following features for a long time :

::- a proper file system. No link toward the data, the data itself

::- three-dimensional maps, First-Person-View-style graph parsing, highly customisable projection views (Japanese SigWP offers 2D visualisation for Wikipedia articles http://sigwp.org/en/index.php/Wikipedia_Thesaurus_Visualizer)

::- quality ergonomy

::- client/server architecture

::- advanced ontologies such as RDF and the overall field of semantic web. Looking for taxonomic data modeling, documentary queries, folksonomies

::- workflow

::The only project with such scope that I am aware of at the moment is Watson from IBM, I believe it is time for an open-source competitor, which again I think does not exist yet. I have not much skills to bring to your project proposal, but will keep an eye on it. BR Maxorazon (talk) 17:39, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

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