Part of my work is in business — and all writers know that business people measure everything and then put what they measure into a chart. Most likely in PowerPoint. We lack Presentation Zen.
While looking for some tools for visualization, I came across this interesting web page called A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. Essentially, this page has all of the different types of visualization charts out there listed into a table by color. Each color represents a type of visualization (e.g., Metaphor Visualization).
Then, putting your mouse over one of the boxes will cause the web site (not the image below) to provide a pop-up window that has an example of what is trying to be shown in the box. Here’s what it looks like:
There are some interesting ones specifically to help out writers in the visualization process:
- Timeline
- MindMap
- Story Template
- Tree
- Concept Skeleton
- Perspectives Diagram
- Cause - Effect Chains
- Concept Map
You may or may not use these charts for your writing, but I found that being able to quickly see different types of charts and a fast example of one already completed would lead me to getting the right framework around the visualization I was doing.
Scot
[tags]organization, organizing, planning, technology, technology-for-writers, ten-keyboards, writing-tools[/tags]
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