Taxonomy of Patterns

There are many different ways to organize or map information. Here is a very good shortlist of some classic relational data patterns.

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss98/patterns-taxonomy.html

Cluster - presents related aspects of a central idea/element

Hierarchy - Categories and subcategories; organization by relationship, ownership, levels of granularity, top-down, deductive, movement from top to bottom

Venn Diagram - Membership in overlapping categories, shared commonality

Timeline - temporal map or sequence/change over time

Flowchart - Steps in a procedure or process

Concept map - Labeled relationships

Causal Loop Diagram - Systems of cause and effect

Comparison Matrix - Table of comparisons

Inductive Tower - Building inferences and generalizations from data (reverse hierarchy; bottom up, rather than top-down movement