thinkfetti

Via Boing Boing, a “periodic table of visualization,” itself a knowledge map — simply roll your mouse over an element to see that method of vizualizing exemplified.

Add this to Edward Tufte’s Visual Explanations, and we’re coming up with lots of ways to communicate visually. If we had this down well enough to employ the optimal (or at least a very good) visualization method whenever we needed it, I think our ability to communicate in print and other document forms would jump to a whole new level.

Socorro, in addition to being the town where I live, is the Spanish word for “help!” as all my friends in other places know by now.

I’m back in Socorro from my holiday travels and preparing for the new semester, which means, among other things, that I’m digging out from the piles of emails and next-actions waiting for me.

I’m feeling pleased with the Getting Things Done system I got going in December – I have it to thank for the fact I’m only feeling that I have many, many things to do, instead of feeling overwhelmed with the many, many things I have to do.

I expect to have a more active posting schedule soon, with news of networks, probability, music history, conducting, and creativity/art/design – well, lots.