Week 5, Thing 11

I finally figured out how to insert a screen shot!!! I pasted the screen to a Power Point slide and then saved the slide as a jpeg which you can insert into the blog. Yay!

I took a look at the site called Swivel
It has some great possibilities. Below I copied and pasted the explanation for how it works below and of course, above, is a screen shot from Swivel showing a graph that someone created using an image as the background template. The visual aspects for presentations and implied meaning to the presentation seem to be limitless. An interesting graph too in light of our own blogging. Click on the picture and check out the data for blogging.

It would be a great place to pass along to faculty and instruct students in the library and classroom on its potential applications. Basically, it allows you to upload your data and create your own graphs and spreadsheets. You can also add images and share the information with others. WOW!

There are sample graphs to look at to get ideas under different subject tabs like Science, Entertainment, etc. I'm thinking it would be fun to create a graph of circulation stats or even a graph at the end of the year illustrating library usage during the school year for presentation to administration.

Explore

I'll know it when I see it.

• Compare data from multiple sources.
• Sort & Filter data according to simple criteria.
• Map geographical data.
• Plot pie, bar, scatter and line graphs.
• Download data into a spreadsheet for analysis

  Share

  Eureka! I've found it.

• eMail graphs to friends and colleagues.
• Blog data and graphs.
• Bling your graphs by choosing a background image
  

Upload

I have data to be analyzed.

• Upload & Update data from a spreadsheet.
• Copy & Paste data from the Web.
• Integrate data from Google Spreadsheets