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Visualizations for

Critical and Creative Thinking

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Visualization Workshop Objectives

Explore 3 Uses of Visualizations:

• To Organize and Highlight Relationships

• To Synthesize and Create New Knowledge

• To Persuade or Argue a Point

Introduce the Basics of Visual Communication

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Visualizations to Organize

Visualizations can be used to organize thoughts or existing knowledge.

Visualizations can be used to internally process and evaluate information as well as externalize findings to others.

Visualizations generally organize elements/information in

relationship to other elements or according to larger orienting

devices such as X,Y, X axis, time, geographic space, etc.

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Pie Charts: Parts to Whole

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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Info We Trust Research by Mason Currey

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BBC Programming

Tree Diagrams: Proportion

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Virtual Water, Water Footprint of Nations, Timm Kekeritz

Proportional Diagrams: Scale

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The Water Footprint of Humanity, Arjen Y Hoesktra and Mesfin Mekonnen

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Word Cloud: Hierarchy

President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union speech, Whitehouse.gov President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union speech, USA Today Tools for Word Clouds: http://www.wordle.net/ and https://tagul.com/

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Line Graphs: Relationships

US Census Bureau, Average Household Size

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Quadrant Maps: Across Spectrums

High Brow, Low Brow – Despicable, Brilliant Quadrant Map, The New York Magazine

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Relationship Trees / Flow Chart

Mafia Family Tree, HowStuffWorks.com

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Allison Cave, Student in ARC 572 Regional Infrastructures

Relationship Trees / Flow Chart

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Timelines

Game of Thrones Infographic : History and Lore Timeline v1.0, HBO

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Timeline of TH!NK Course

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Ideas for the Classroom

● Exercises which connect different topics in the course (great for exam reviews!)

● Diagram to organize supporting arguments in a paper.

● Textual Analysis

● Reading Reflection

● Scaffold visual thinking exercises:

Concept map → Pie chart→ Line graph→

Conclusions

Formulating the Problem

Gathering Information

Generating Ideas &

Alternatives

Reaching Conclusions

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Visualizations to

Synthesize & Create New Knowledge

Visualizations can be used to synthesize information towards understanding new patterns and identifying new possible relationships.

They can be used to show the relationship between different co-variable data

sets through overlay (combining) or editing / isolating information sets.

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London, mid-late 1800’s during the time of Cholera Outbreaks

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John Snow, Cholera Outbreak Map 1854

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Napoleon’s March on Moscow, Minard

Narrative Mapping

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Napoleon’s March on Moscow, Minard overlaid on Google Earth

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Napoleon’s March on Moscow, Minard

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Concept Maps:

A Tool to Uncover Relationships

A concept map is a type of graphic organizer used to help students organize and represent knowledge of a subject. Concept maps begin with a main idea (or concept) and then branch out to show how that main idea can be broken down into specific topics.

Concept Mapping in 3 Main Steps:

1. Start with a main idea, issue, or topic to focus on 2. Determine the key concepts

3. Connect the concepts - using linking words and phrases

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Concept Maps

Concept Map of Concept Maps

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Concept Map of Social Media Concepts

Concept Maps

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Concept Maps:

A Tool to Uncover Relationships

Concept mapping serves several purposes for learners:

 Helping students brainstorm and generate new ideas

 Encouraging students to discover new concepts and the propositions that connect them

 Allowing students to more clearly communicate ideas, thoughts and information

 Helping students integrate new concepts with older concepts

 Enabling students to gain enhanced knowledge of any topic and

evaluate the information

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Concept Map of TH!NK Course:

Critical and Creative Thinking Behaviors

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Ideas for the Classroom

● Exercises which connect or correlate different data/information sets.

● Diagram how authors/case studies are related to/influenced by one another

● Exercises which work from analytial diagrams (looking at things in isolation) and build to synthetic diagrams to identify related ideas/forces/ideas.

● Exercises which diagram different

contexts (social, economic, ecological, etc) over time or space.

Formulating the Problem

Gathering Information

Generating Ideas &

Alternatives

Reaching Conclusions

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Visualizations to Persuade

Visualization can be used to persuade or make an argument.

Visual language, like verbal language, should be purposeful and well crafted to make the author’s argument and consider the audience.

Visual Language relies on a set of conventions and rules, similar to verbal

language.

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Organizing your content intentionally is key to avoid misleading results:

Students should ask themselves “What is the Key Takeaway”?

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Projections of Earth, Bill Rankin

Distortion

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Satellite Imagery based on Buckminster Fuller’s One Continent, One Ocean Dymaxion Map Projections

Orientation

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Harold Fisk, Alluvial Map of the Lower Mississippi River Valley Army Corp of Engineers Map of the River

Editing and Isolating Information

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200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

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Ideas for the Classroom

● Final Presentations

● Diagram an argument in a reading, final report, or website

● Hypothetical Chart Exercise

Formulating the Problem

Gathering Information

Generating Ideas &

Alternatives

Reaching Conclusions

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Hypothetical Chart:

Anticipating the Persuasive Result

Assignment: Ask your students to create chart or visualization that proves/disproves their hypothesis

● Students will need to determine the relevant information (for the audience) and identify (clearly) how they will logically unpack this hypothesis.

● A Concept Map can be used as a primer to insure that they connect the important overarching principles

● The Hypothetical Chart Exercise supports many of the Critical & Creative

Thinking Intellectual Standards

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• Standardized test scores are not strong

predictors of success in a master’s program.

Hypothetical Chart:

Anticipating the Persuasive Result

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