I thought it would be interesting to get a measure of the topics at VizThink 08. First I started manually going through the program and highlighting “business” terms vs. other terms with the idea of making a tag cloud or heat map of the various terms used in the breakout session descriptions. Then it occurred [...]

For Tuesday afternoon’s breakout session, I attended John Grimwade’s “Mapping the Possibilities.” I arrived early while John was still setting up and testing. He expressed relief that someone had shown up for his session and echoed that each time a few more people entered. He needn’t have worried as his session was pretty full.

The majority [...]

By far the session I was looking forward to most was Lee and Sachi LeFever’s, “Solving Explanation Problems with Simple Online Videos .” Sometime back before VizThink when I was checking out the sessions, I checked their CommonCraft website and watched some of their videos. Absolutely Brilliant! If you haven’t checked out any of [...]

My Monday afternoon session was Bruce Daniel’s VizMaps: An Alternate Approach to Describing Where. I’m not sure why I chose this session since I don’t do any map-making, perhaps because I’ve always loved looking at maps. Regardless, it turned out to be a fun and informative session and I’m glad I went.

Reviewing the session [...]

Videos of the general sessions at VizThink08 have just been posted on the VizThink website.

Monday Morning General SessionMonday Afternoon General Session

Tuesday Morning General SessionTuesday Afternoon General Session

Since these are posted it doesn’t make much sense for me to blog about those. I’ll try to get a blog about my Monday afternoon [...]

For the Monday morning breakout session I chose Dan Roam’s “The Back of the Napkin: Solving Business Problems with Pictures.” This turned out to be a well-attended, lively, active session. The hook for this session was, you’re in the airport lounge after VizThink and someone asks why you’re in San [...]

Here’s a photo of Bob Horn being interviewed by Nancy Duarte and Cliff Atkinson. Thanks to my wife Karen for providing the photo.

Karen also did a simple quick mind map of the interview. Here’s that:

Here’s more details on the Dave Gray drawing exercise in the Monday morning general session.

So, picking up where I left off with the last post – summarizing the sessions. First up, Monday morning general session. My first inclination was to just write about what happened. But wait! I’m supposed to be trying to re-awaken my inner visual thinker. So, I better do some drawing. Here we go…

By the second day of VizThink, my brain was already overloaded with new information and I found myself confusing elements of different sessions. How can I remember what’s happened and keep it all sorted out? What better way than with a kind of graphical summary of the sessions I attended. So, Tuesday evening I sat [...]