I like to express myself visu­ally. Often this is more effect­ive and comes more nat­ur­ally to me than try­ing to express myself through words. Here are few examples of some of the mater­i­als that I have cre­ated over time to illus­trate con­cepts, ideas or rep­res­ent quant­it­at­ive data. Maps are loc­ated else­where.

Social Net­work Ana­lysis of Apple Tax­onomy
webgraph.jpgThis remains embryonic. My mother and father have two orch­ards at Spring­mead that have a won­der­fully diverse col­lec­tion of spe­cies, both pop­u­lar and some rather rare — but always tasty. You can find out more about the vari­et­ies them­selves at the Spring­mead Apple webpage. To explore the tax­onomy of the spe­cies them­selves I use the pro­gram Pajek, which used for con­struct­ing social net­works. I thought this might be an inter­est­ing way to visu­al­ize the way in whcih spe­cies are related to one another. The SNA dia­gram is dis­played here.

1851 — 1911 Census Divi­sions for Essex County
When I was work­ing with the manu­script census data from Essex County to com­pile a com­pact, focused data­set for explor­a­tion pur­poses, I real­ized that it would be help­ful to cre­ate a visual dia­gram of the way in which census divi­sions sub­divided over time.

Napo­leonic Timeline
Way too much fun! There is a won­der­ful timelin­ing tool avail­able from SIMILE. It takes an XML file as a source and visu­ally dis­plays events and ref­er­ence mater­ial in an inter­act­ive timeline. I recall cre­at­ing an early ver­sion of an inter­act­ive timeline back in the late 1980s of the chan­ging domains of the Haps­burg dyn­asty using Author­ware. I wish I had a Flash ver­sion to show up to con­trast the evol­u­tion of this tech­no­logy. How­ever, I digress. This timeline shows about 500 key events dur­ing the Napo­leonic era. Give it a try.

1878 Mass Model of Guelph
These screen snaps demon­strate one of the bridging pro­jects between my MA and PhD work. I have cre­ated a 3D rep­res­ent­a­tion of the Town/City of Guelph and con­nec­ted the visual rep­res­ent­a­tions with a data­base of census data so that one can vir­tu­ally walk the streets of the town, peer in win­dows and knock on doors to find out who inhab­ited the nine­teenth cen­tury community.

MP Occu­pa­tions 1867, 1871, 2007
This chart shows how the occu­pa­tion that MPs self-identify them­selves as com­ing from has changed over the past 130 years in Canada.