Visual minuting [stub]

Something I’ve really enjoyed at a couple of conferences I’ve been to is having visual minutes – visual depictions of sessions and discussions (notably at [WikiCon]¹ and the [Society of the Query Conference,]² I also know [someone]³ [far cooler than me] who does this for money). One company wot does this made a nice video And it turns out, there are loads of people who [create visual minutes]⁴, plus people like [Bryan Mathers]⁵ who does ‘visual thinkery’

The T-shaped student…
A visual thought from a talk by @Jisc at #epforall #blog/edchat #education pic.twitter.com/Y8zJLyZs7i

— Bryan Mathers (@BryanMMathers) June 9, 2015

Then of course, my colleague Simon Buckingham Shum et al., have developed systems like [Compendium]⁶ to create knowledge cartography systems which have (amongst other things) been used to [‘live map’ election debates]⁷. So one thing I’ve been thinking about recently is how do people (even ‘non-artistic’ people) think visually and how can we support that? I’m really pleased that Theresa Anderson and I have a poster at LAK 2017 on my ‘dear learner’ idea, based on the fantastic [Dear Data]⁸ hand-drawn data postcard project. I’ve also come across a few great people playing in this space:

Don’t forget your sunscreen ???????? Source: CDC survey, % of white people that said they had been sunburned at least once in the last year, 2004#blog/mdw#blog/datasketch

A photo posted by Mona Chalabi (@mona_chalabi) on May 30, 2016 at 8:13am PDT

• This great pinterest on ‘street-art data murals’ (although, might be http://au.pinterest.com/rahulbot/street-art-data-murals/ * Data Therapy (from MIT) also have some nice ideas on creating a [Data Mural]⁹ and building [data sculptures]¹⁰ So – what else am I missing in the hand-crafted data-art world?

Footnotes

1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014 ↩

2. http://sjgknight.com/finding-knowledge/2013/11/society-of-the-query-conference/ ↩

3. http://www.jackbroughamdrawing.com/ ↩

4. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=visual+minuting&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0CBoQBSgAahUKEwjo8papgo_GAhUpRdsKHR1DADs&biw=1525&bih=680&gws_rd=cr&ei=3ZNeV4fZPIPWjwOqta_wBA ↩

5. http://bryanmmathers.com/ ↩

6. http://compendiuminstitute.net/training/training.htm ↩

7. http://simon.buckinghamshum.net/2010/04/real-time-mapping-election-tv-debates/ ↩

8. http://dear-data.com/ ↩

9. https://datatherapy.org/data-mural-gallery/ ↩

10. https://datatherapy.org/activities/activity-build-data-sculptures/ ↩