Oregon Impact

Oregon Impact

Working with UO’s Government and Community Relations, Institutional Research departments, and the Location Innovation Lab, the InfoGraphics Lab team created a custom javascript web mapping application that presents the geographic distribution of UO’s impact throughout the state. Legislators and citizens have easy access to data for their district – ranging from the number of students, alumni, or amount of financial aid received.

Project Collaborators

UO Government and Community Relations
UO Location Innovation Lab
UO Office of Institutional Research

InfoGraphics Research Assistants

Greg FitzGerald
Roane Mullins

Just Futures Initiative

The Atlas of yellowstone, Second Edition tells diverse stories about Yellowstone through maps, data visualizations, photography, and text that is accessible and useful to park visitors and scientists alike. The atlas was created by the InfoGraphics lab in collaboration with hundreds of topic experts.

The publication of the Atlas of Yellowstone, Second Edition celebrates the 150th anniversary of the founding of Yellowstone National Park—the first national park in the world. The atlas is an accessible, comprehensive guide that presents Yellowstone’s story through data-rich and beautiful maps and data visualizations. The Atlas of Yellowstone, Second Edition explores Yellowstone’s contribution to preserving and understanding natural and cultural landscapes, to informing worldwide conservation practices, and to inspiring national parks around the world while also learning about the many struggles the park faces in carrying out its mission. Ranging from Indigenous Americans and local economies to geysers and wildlife migrations, from the life of one wolf to the threat of wildfires, each page provides leading experts’ insights into the complexity and significance of Yellowstone.

Chronographics

This project is a collaboration with Daniel Rosenberg, University of Oregon Professor of History. Together we are transforming Joseph Priestley’s Chart of Biography (1765) and New Chart of History (1769) into interactive infographics. Priestley, a prominent scientist and theologian created what are arguably the first modern timelines, and New Chart of History is one of the most influential artifacts not only in historiography but also in the history of infographic design.

Atlas of Yellowstone Cover

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By creating digital versions of the charts, using a data driven process, we seek to 1) facilitate interactive exploration of the charts, 2) analyze Priestley’s methods of infographic design in themselves and in relation to modern graphic techniques, and 3) investigate the assumptions Priestley made about the world when he created the charts.

For related work on this project, please see:

Rosenberg, D. “Joseph Priestley and the Graphic Invention of Modern Time.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 36 no. 1, 2007, pp. 55-103. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/sec.2007.0013

Rosenberg, D., Grafton, A. Cartographies of time: A History of the Timeline. 2010 New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

 

To see more historical tools for visualizing time, presented in interactive digital formats, visit http://timeonline.uoregon.edu.

 

Network Startup Research Center

Network Startup Resource Center

The UO InfoGraphics Lab is collaborating with the Network Startup Resource Center to help them visualize their spatial data and tell their story. The NSRC cultivates collaboration among a community of peers to build and improve a global Internet that benefits all parties. They facilitate the growth of sustainable Internet infrastructure via technical training and engineering assistance to enrich the network of networks.

Products made by InfoGraphics Lab include the NSRC’s interactive activity web map, a map for a GÉANT Connect magazine article, and multiple posters showing worldwide activities of the NSRC. Posters are on display at Internet2 headquarters in Washington DC and at the National Science Foundation (NSF) headquarters located in Alexandria, VA.

Project Collaborators

Network Startup Resource Center

InfoGraphics Lab Team

Ben Elan
Dylan Legg
Jack Lei
Roane Mullins
Lucy Roberts
Abby Whelan

NSRC Interactive Web Map Screenshot

UO Sustainability Dashboard

UO Sustainability Dashboard

The InfoGraphics Lab partnered with the Office of Sustainability to develop the University of Oregon’s Sustainability Dashboard. This dashboard provides data visualizations and context around the university’s sustainability performance over time. This information provides transparency on the university’s sustainability efforts, showcases our successes and areas for improvement, and fosters benchmarking and goal setting.

Each graphic was custom designed to best share the story the data told. As a result, they range from pie charts and line graphs to flowcharts, illustrative graphics, and maps that build upon and expand UO’s existing GIS map structure. The interactive, dynamic visualizations showcase the myriad ways to tell data stories and engage a public audience in understanding complex sustainability information.

Project Collaborators

UO Office of Sustainability

InfoGraphics Lab Team

Ben Elan
Dylan Legg
Jack Lei
Roane Mullins
Lucy Roberts
Abby Whelan

 

UO Sustainability Dashboard Screenshow