STAR Discovery Educator quick media access(must be logged into DE)
Song Stats.001.jpg & I_See_an_Elephant_in_the_Sky.mp3
Interest in this came right from my PLN via Plurk, Twitter and the blogs. I saw a quick post that linked me to an unusual flickr group, not that an unusual flickr group is that hard to find, but this is something that makes perfect sense: SONG CHART. The majority of images in this group are charts/graphs showing data from various songs. Take the example I created above. I took a song from DE streaming, “I See an Elephant in the Sky” by Twin Sisters, listened to the lyrics and created a graph that highlights some of the data in the song. This is a great way to introduce the importance of graphs by illustrating a use outside of the norm. Would love some feedback on this. Have you ever used graphs this way? If you’ve used this with your students, how’d it go?
Chris Ryan in our office brought this site to my attention. Thanks Chris.
The internet is full of data. Maybe it’s in the form of a report, a spreadsheet, an online database, … this just keeps going. In-house, we use dabbledb to help capture, organize and report data. It rocks and if you’re looking for a easy to use database, you know get rid of the 20 or so copies of that one updated spreadsheet, then I suggest giving dabbledb a chance. The one component of Dabbledb I wish was a little slicker is the visualization of the data.
In comes, Many Eyes with a very cool interface for visualizing large and small amounts of data. Check out my quick visualization above, Many Eyes is a part of IBM’s alpha works. A ton of data has already been uploaded by users. Data you can pick through and create you’re own visualization with or, like I did, upload your own data set. The data set I uploaded comes from The National Center for Education Statistics.
I’d love to hear what you think about the site as well as see some visualizations you create.
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