The Center for Graphic Facilitation

Many Eyes

Visualization Options Available in Many Eyes
Finding the right way view your data is as much an art as a science. The visualizations provided on on this beta site from IBM range from the ordinary to the experimental.




ManyEyes is deliberately providing a wide array of possibilities since this is an experimental site—and expect to see more soon. The podcast below traces the history of this data visualization project.

Bruce Flye at Crisis Leadership Forum

Graphic facilitator Bruce Flye describes his experience at the Crisis Leadership Forum capturing the stories of crisis and leadership during and after Hurricaine Katrina. To see video of the presentations, including a walkthrough of the images created by Bruce, click here and scroll to the bottom. 

Quick Primer on Graphs and Networks

The power and flexibility of a network--whether a simple group of casual neighbors or a complex next generation communication network--depends not just on the number of connections, but on the quality of the nodes, and more important, the type of nodes. Below is a fantastic intro to the concept of graphs and networks. It helps in understanding the a social graph and how it differs from a social network.   

Innovation Conversations

As designers and facilitators of rich conversations, we serve a valuable role in innovation.

As facilitators, we can create the "safe container" for authentic (and often times emotional or caustic) conversations to occur, and for subtle, deep cultural shifts in thinking to begin.

Visualizing Flow

Graphic Facilitator, Bruce Flye, recommends an article Going with the Flow about a mechanical engineer at Duke who works with broad concepts in flow and does it visually. Adrian Bejan is a Romanian-born American professor of mechanical engineering and inventor of the constructal theory of global optimization under local constraints. The theory explains why a river delta looks like a tree or blood vessels.

Digital Divide Simulator

clipped from mediacology.com Ever wanted to know what it’s like to drive in the Information Highway’s slow lane? The International Centre for Physics has created one so you can see how it feels to be in the losing spectrum of the digital media revolution. Click on the link below to try it out.

The Art and Practice of Graphic Facilitation and Recording

Presented by Deirdre Crowley

clipped from www.cbodn.org This hands-on workshop at the 2008 Chesapeake Bay OD Network Conference in Washington DC will feature practice, discussion and  demonstration to provide an introduction to graphic recording – an inspiring  and creative technique that uses words and images to capture key content in  meetings. Graphic recording allows participants a means of visually working  with information while also providing a visual record of the process - a  "group memory" - for attendees and a communication tool to share your  meeting results with others. Thursday, March 6,    2008 3-HOUR WORKSHOP 5:30-8:30 p.m. Ranges from $150 to $325. You will be  given tools and techniques that you can instantly apply to your next meeting.       For over a decade, Deirdre Crowley has been providing  innovative graphic facilitation, graphic recording and communication design  services to clients throughout North America, Europe, Africa, and Latin  America.

VizThink '08

David Gray, founder of Xplane, demonstrates in this simple slide show why any business-oriented visual-thinking person would want to go to this annual conference created, er... for them! 

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SEE: Communication Nation: Why go to VizThink?

ALSO: Check out David's Infography Manifesto.

Biomapping Cities

Christian Nold thinks we should pay more attention to how our environment shapes our emotional and physiological states.

His work with Bio Mapping—which measures people’s responses to their environment and connects those feelings to their physical location—suggests that a map of emotional landscapes represents a powerful tool for analyzing the relationship between place and broader social issues.

Debunking 3rd World Myths with Animated Statistics

You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world" using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation. The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop. Asian countries, as colorful bubbles, float across the grid -- toward better national health and wealth. Animated bell curves representing national income distribution squish and flatten. In Rosling's hands, global trends -- life expectancy, child mortality, poverty rates -- become clear, intuitive and even playful.