Showing posts with label Visualisation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Visualisation. Show all posts
A Taxonomy of CyberWeapons
von Clausewitz (the great military strategist) suggested that it is vital to grasp the fundamentals of any situation in the "blink of an eye" (coup d'œil). In a military context the astute tactician must immediately grasp a range of implications and has to begin to anticipate plausible and appropriate courses of action, they do this by understanding the class of problem they are facing. There is an analogous requirement in computer security, whereby the people protecting the system need to be able to understand the type of attack and defend against it. To help achieve this it would be helpful to have a website (wiki) that developed an easy-to-understand classification for cyberweapons, with a visualisation, that was searchable in a variety of ways and easy to add to.
Knowledge Visualisations
Creating Visualisations in the knowledge domain is a very interesting and fun challenge, with the advent of tools like Adobe Flex visualisations are a bit easier to create, but the hard bit is conveying a clear meaning using these visualisations.
One visualisation that I would be very interested in seeing get created is a tool that allows students to project a course pathway through a modularised course, so let's say you want to do a degree part-time over 6 years, give them a visual representation of which modules they will be doing in each of the six years.
Another project to look at would concern the use of Word Clouds to visualisation tagging, and to measure conceptual drift.
Another project concerns the visualisation of how wikipedia articles can over time, this would be based on a previous student;s work available here (please note the tool will take a minute to load);
The Heraclitus Mosiac
The great pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus is said to have written one of the most important philosophical books that mankind ever produced. Unfortunately, no copies of this book survive, but what does is about 100 fragments from the book quoted in other sources. Today's philosophers each have their own views on how these fragements fits together and what the themes of Heraclitus' book were. This project seeks to create a database of these quotes that is queriable on the basis of a word or theme and presents the relevant quotes. Additionally this tool should allow a user to group quotes together based on their own views of how thefragements link together into chapters, and explore the quotes (a la http://tcup.currentform.com/explore.php). Would require a student willing to study 2500 year old philosophy with good database and user interface design skills, and an ability to discuss issues such are information represention, data storage, etc.
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