Connecting the Dots: Information Visualization and Text Analysis of the Searchlight Project Newsletters
Organisation: The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
Publish Date: February 2012
Country: Global
Method: Foresight
Type: Other publication
Language: English
Tags: Searchlight project, emerging trends, Rockefeller Foundation, Searchlight newsletter
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University was one of three organizations from around the world selected to analyze and create visual representations based on information found in nearly 100 monthly Searchlight newsletters. These newsletters outline emerging trends and signals on selected development issues (poverty, donor issues, social, economic, political, environmental, science, technology, and innovation) in particular regions of the world.
The Pardee Center team developed a project-specific methodology and software to score, analyse and visualize information presented in these reports (Figure 2.1). The project goal was to textually identify and visually represent the key ideas and themes emerging from regional trend analyses in a way that is user-friendly, globally accessible, visually interpretive, policy relevant, and useful. The trends were analyzed for the signals they send about each region, but were also reviewed collectively to extract signals that may be of significance on a global scale.
Connecting the Dots Information Visualization and Text Analysis of the Searchlight Project Newsletters.pdf
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