I’d like to start with a website that I found while just looking around the web. I think this site exhibits good use of visualization for several reasons. First let me point out that it does not necessarily refer to maps or to assembly instructions, such as the article we read this week does. However, it is clear and concise, but what really turns me on to it is that it presents information in many different formats, allowing me to visualize the data in varying ways.
Here it is: http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/which-blogging-platform-do-you-use/
Here is a website that fits more with the article that we read. It is a How to site. Specifically, it teaches how to tie a tie. What makes the visualizations good is that there are both textual and pictoral steps. There is a video for each method, although as the article says, this would be less effective if it were not for the discrete steps drawn out below it. The one thing that may make the diagrams more effective would be morphisms, showing which way the tie was being pulled and turned, etc.
http://www.tie-a-tie.net/
Keeping with tying ties… The following site is quite ridiculous, really. The site purports to tell you how to tie a tie, and that’s what it does. It TELLS you how to tie one. No where on the site is an image that is in any way trying to aid in the process. It is strictly textual. I know how to tie a tie, and I still cannot follow the directions exactly.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/instructions-on-how-to-tie-a-tie.html
