• Selected Thinkmap Examples

This is a simple presentation of the taxonomy of life. It contains over 2.1 million taxa, from kingdoms (e.g. Animalia, Plantae) to individual species (e.g. Skinax albicans, Euphorbia ziahnii) . With Thinkmap, you navigate through this structure, and in certain cases, you see images based on the taxonomic name. One advantage of this structure is that a layman can quickly see visual similarities between organisms that have phylogenetic relationships. Simply drag the mouse down the list of taxa in any one row, and look at the images.

The Hierarchy Visualization

This Thinkmap uses a Hierarchical visualization to present the data. Each level of the hierarchy is represented in one vertical row, with the rows lined up based on their depth from the root node. In this way, a row of the hierarchy visualization is typically from a particulary rank of the taxonomy.

Combines Two Different Data Source

Some of the data comes from a SQL database that represents specific information about each taxonomic name and its relationship. This is combined with information pulled from a Google-provided web service with images based on keywords.

Things to Try

• Roll the mouse over a node to see an image.
• Right or Apple-click on a node to see the source.

Source Data

The taxonomy of life comes from Species 2000's Catalogue of Life's Annual Checklist. Images are from Google Images. Note: due to the fact that we are only using the scientific name to choose images, some of the images do not match the taxon exactly.

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