Data visualization should portray this "life" in data that it represents. This calls for visualization that goes beyond standard graphs, that seem to capture the factual part of the data and disregard all else a lot of the time. The numeric value of a data point is only part of the story. Don't forget the who, what, when, where and why.
Source: FlowingData - One Death is a Tragedy; a Million is a Statistic
I just discovered the spiffy Mac OS X Flickr utility Photo Grabbr, which is great for downloading any or all IDs (or anything else on Flickr) by set. After downloading & installing Photo Grabbr do the following steps to download any ID set(s):
1. Change the preference Download the Original size of the photo
2. Type slark next to Look up Username
3. Click Search
4. Click the checkbox next to the set(s) you want (choose Integral Diagrams (ID) at the top for all of them)
5. Click Download
Photo Grabbr seemed to stall every so often when I downloaded all 721 diagrams that are on ID as of today, but every time it continued after a short delay.
Downloadr seems to be the main Flickr downloading utility for Windows. Flickr Downloader for Windows might be okay as well. I would appreciate feedback on these Windows utilities, I'll take down Integral Diagrams downloads soon if I get reports that downloadr and/or Flickr Downloader work for downloading ID sets.
Cross-posted here:
Linked from the Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution:
Organize the world's values/morality
Organize the world’s truth
The integral approach is an attempt to organise values/morality, truth, and much more besides. I have collated over 700 hundred diagrams from over 50 sources that use the integral approach in an ongoing project called Integral Diagrams, which cover the following realms of human endeavor and inquiry:
art
astrology
Christianity
city
community
consciousness
conspiracy theory
consulting
culture
ecology
economics
education
health care
ILP (integral life practice)
international development
law
leadership
magick
open space
peace
politics
psychaitry
psychology
psychotherapy
science
sex
social work
software development
sustainability
TSK (time space knowledge)
I have blogged about my vision for Integral Diagrams here and here.
It would seem that I've hit the integral big time with ID being mentioned in What Is Enlightenment? magazine. Woo hoo! (Thanks for the heads up Luke. :)
I was going through my old integral e-mails today and came across a reference to this:
Andrew Cohen's interactive model is a clear summation of his teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment. A visual metaphor for two profoundly different relationships to life, it conveys the stark distinction between the perspective of the radically free authentic self and that of the narcissistic ego. As Cohen explains, “It's literally the difference between heaven and hell. And if you are willing to make the effort to look at your own self-sense through the clear lens of these dramatically opposing perspectives, you will be amazed to discover how close at hand is your own potential for liberation.”
Source: Interactive Teaching Model of Evolutionary Enlightenment
Update: Here's two low-res diagrams related to the Heaven & Hell interactive models above, from the recent book about Andew Cohen 11 Days at the Edge. Search for "evolutionary enlightenment" and click on the first hit to see them on successive pages.
Another part of it is this - adapting to a radically changed world is going to involve people finding a way of understanding that world. Taking away people’s maps of the world means giving them new ones.
Source: Casaubon’s Book - Sharon Astyk’s Ruminations on an Ambiguous Future
I hope to be, in my role of maintainer of ID and involved in what will be based on ID in the future, a part of making new and better maps for all of humanity. I am particularly inspired by the following presentations at TED:
TED - Hans Rosling - Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
TED - Hans Rosling - New insights on poverty and life around the world
TED - Blaise Aguera y Arcas - Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo
TED - Johnny Lee - Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote
I would like to use something like these tools to help implement an AQAL Gapminder, or an AQAL Seadragon, or an AQAL Photosynth powered by Seadragon. My vision is to use hacked haptic devices such as the Wiimote and the iPhone/iPod Touch with these AQAL tools to implement naviagation tools. These are tools to help people and collectives navigate through the journey of their lives, navigate through the journey of the Kosmos, and navigate through every holon in between.
These two videos have integral diagrams in them:
The Evolution of Consciousness (5 min)
The Pattern That Connects (10 min)
Source: Sexy Models - Videos! by Photizo
Source: Similar Diversity by Andreas Koller and Philipp Steinweber
I have set up my FeedBurner settings so that photos that I upload to Flickr that are tagged "integral", that is new integral diagrams, will appear in the RSS feed for this blog.
There are now three collections of ID sets:
ID sets sorted alphabetically by author
ID sets sorted alphabetically by subject
ID sets sorted by number of diagrams
These three collections are all accessible from here. I'm particularly excited to have the sort by subject, as this collection hints at the breadth of subject matter that people worldwide are covering using integral theory in general and AQAL in particular.
This doesn't affect me on Flickr (or does it?), but it sucks nonetheless.
Boing Boing: Hong Kong: the Flickr'd photo that got blogger Oiwan in trouble
Update: Hong Kong, obscenity laws, and Flickr's regional censorship
I have uploaded a new version of Integral_Diagrams_Windows.zip that I created in PKZIP on a Windows XP machine. Download it from here and add a comment to this blog post as to whether this file extracts OK or whether there are any more issues with it.
I've disabled the link for the Windows version of ID downloads because several people have had the problem with the file being corrupt. Unfortunately I don't have ready access to a Windows machine for testing, until then you Windows people will have to miss out on integral diagrams galore. Sorry about that folks :(
I've uploaded all the diagrams on Flickr & ones linked from there to here:
http://slark1.googlepages.com/integraldiagramsdownloads
Just choose the operating system type you have (some filename characters are not valid depending on the OS) and you're away.
I added some diagrams tonight that are in German, this makes diagrams in three languages other than English, with these also in German, these ones linked from the set page are in Spanish (I think) and this one has an Italian version.
Welcome back to the blogosphere Ken, looking forward to some groovy diagrams in the new books :-P .
For all you graphics file format nerds out there I have replaced all the diagrams on ID that were GIFs with non-alpha channel PNGs, this is because GIF has (or at least had) pathological interiors and PNG is technically superior (i.e. has healthy exteriors).
Snipshot is another browser-based image editing utility, this one is designed for photos.
Update: Here's a comparative review of several more browser-based image editing utilities.
"Flickr is for photos"
So then why does Flickr support GIF and PNG file types (which are specifically not designed for photos)?
In the future I would like to migrate ID from Flickr to a visual Wiki site that uses SVG to do the diagrams in such a way as machine-readable metadata can be added to the diagrams so that, for example, looking at a diagram that has LL blue information (using SD colours) can link to other diagrams with LL blue info, or can switch to LL amber (using the spectrum colours). Just vague ideas at this stage, does anybody have any comments to make? Something like CogMap using mxGraph is what I'm thinking of with some sites I've discovered, again, any comments?
Update: Gliffy is a much more powerful tool than mxGraph.
Tonight I finished trawling through all the essays on Integral World to see which ones had diagrams to add to ID, that was a tedious job but I'm glad it's finished. Other sources of diagrams are the usual suspects like formlessmountain (currently undergoing a site renovation) and wilber.shambhala.com, other sites I discovered via a trawl with Google & Yahoo Image Searches with the 'integral' and 'AQAL' keywords. I happen to have a good visual memory so I can notice when a new diagram comes up. I've discovered some good integral sites that way.
This is a blog for the Integral Diagrams (ID) project which I maintain. ID is a collection or collation of conceptual diagrams that pertain to the integral movement as pioneered by Ken Wilber, amongst others. These diagrams have been created by people all over the web in order to explain the ideas of the AQAL & underlying holonic frameworks in theory and practice, in as well as other non-AQAL integral frameworks. In this blog I am sharing my insights as to how ID came to be, updates as to where it is at the moment, and ideas as to how ID will develop in the future.
