Visuals lets you make interactive data visualizations. The application is part of the broader Mandala Suite of Tools: you can use it at visuals.shanti.virginia.edu.
Visuals integrates with your Google Drive. To make a visualization, you first create a data spreadsheet in Google Sheets, then add it to Visuals. Each chart type has different data format rules, which you can learn about at the Visualization Index. You can then share your graph with viewers outside and inside Mandala.
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Definition:
SHANTI Interactive Visualizations Application (SHIVA) is an online application that makes it easy to produce interactive visualizations from various media - photographs, videos, texts - or easy to create structured data in the form of rows and columns within Google spreadsheets
SHIVA was inspired by David Weinberger's Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A unified theory of the Web; it is a simple and consistent interface that allows easy and integrated access to open source and open access tools on the web, such as Google's Visualization Toolkit and Maps, YouTube, Vimeo, and Kaltura videos, the SIMILE timeline from MIT, and images from ARTstor, Flickr, and Picasa
Use SHIVA to create charts, maps, images, timelines, video, and networks
- The visualizations can be used as stand-alone webpages without requiring a website to store them, embedded into existing WordPress and Drupal sites, or combined into fully interactive visualizations, where sophisticated interactions between them can be easily made
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Menu Block 1: Creating SHIVA Visualizations
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