VisualEyes

VisualEyes is web-based authoring tool developed at the University of Virginia to weave images, maps, charts, video and data into highly interactive and compelling dynamic visualizations. Click on the image above to watch a short screen-cast about VisualEyes. VisualEyes enables scholars to present selected primary source materials and research findings while encouraging active inquiry and hands-on learning among general and targeted audiences. It communicates through the use of dynamic displays – or "visualizations" – that organize and present meaningful information in both traditional and multimedia formats, such as audio-video, animation, charts, maps, data, and interactive timelines. The effective use of the visualizations can reveal and illuminate relationships between multiple kinds of information across time and space far more effectively than words alone. This project was started at the Virginia Center for Digital History and is partially funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities with continued support from the University of Virginia's Sciences, Humanities & Arts Network of Technological Initiatives (SHANTI). VisualEyes is freely available for academic and non-profit use. We are currently working an a new project called SHIVA (the SHANTI Interactive Visualization Application), which makes it easy to create interactive visualizations and uses the new HTML5 web standard. You can find the alpha version here. Some projects made using VisualEyes Click on image to view project
		Jefferson's Travels to England A visualization of Thomas Jefferson's 1786 trip to England	Jefferson's Travels while in London in 1786	Querying of property appraisals	Vinegar Hill: MemoryScape Visualization of a 1960's urban renewal project

		Notes on the Future of Virginia The letters between Jefferson and Short by Scot French	A discourse analysis of the letters (1787-1826)	Mapping of slaveholders and slaves by county	Texas Slavery Project A mapping of slave ownership by Andrew Torget

		UVa's First Library A visualization of the 1828 University of Virginia Library and 1895 fire	Mapping the library in the world	Parksley lot map 1904 sales	Origins of a railroad town Parksley, VA 1884-1904 by Brooks Miles Barnes

		The Spaces of Khacloe Drubling A visualization on the lives of Tibetan nuns by Kate Hartmann	Location of the nuns at 9:15am	The personfication of slaves over time	Bleak House The personification of slaves over time by Alice Cannon, CVHR

		Morven Farm A cultural landscape report on Morven Farm	The farm book by season	New maps of the empire	New Map of Empire Maps from the colonies of early America by Max Edelson
	Flash required:The live visualizations require Adobe's Flash plug-in v9 or later. You can download it for free here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer Other VisualEyes projects Hagley Museum A visualization of the Dupont Company's gunpowder works on the Brandywine river 1804-1842 Jefferson's Travels to Poplar Forest Thomas Jefferson's travels to his retirement home The life of James Smithson A look at Smithsonian benefactor James Smithson More information about VisualEyes A screencast tour of some VisualEyes Projects A Historian's View of VisualEyes (née, HistoryBrowser) How VisualEyes Works Overview of Making VisualEyes Projects VisualEyes in the Classroom Tools VisEdit: VisualEyes Project Tool A tool to create projects in VisualEyes VisualEyes ProjectSampler Collection of VisualEyes features with expanatory screencasts Documentation VisualEyes Project Guide How to create projects in VisualEyes VisualEyes XML Reference Reference guide to VisualEyes XML structure VisualEyes GLUE Reference Reference guide to VisualEyes GLUE scripting VisualEyes Tutorial Step-by-step project tutorial by Lisa Rosner/Stockton College Spreadsheets 101 How to use spreadsheets to organize information for visualization VisEdit ScreenCast A 15-minute ScreenCast explaining VisEdit VisualEyes in the news NY Tirmes mention 3/22/11 Bill Ferster on NPR's Kojo Nnamdi show 1/12/11 NY Times mention 11/16/10 UVA Today 12/8/09 Contact Bill Ferster, VisualEyes Project Director Sciences, Humanities & Arts Network of Technological Initiatives The University of Virginia bferster - @ - virginia.edu Twitter: @bferster +1 (540) 592-7001 Bill Ferster's website Funded in part by: