Visual Analysis of Historic Hotel Visits

Chris Weaver, David Fyfe,

Anthony Robinson, Deryck Holdsworth,

Donna Peuquet, Alan M. MacEachren

GOALS- explore combined geospatial, temporal and abstract info- flexible, interactive graphical environment- requires minimal training- little / no programming

Improvisemultiple views

rapid modification

APPLICATIONS- Visitation patterns in hotel guest registries

APPLICATIONS- Visitation patterns in hotel guest registries

- genealogists & autograph collectors

APPLICATIONS- Visitation patterns in hotel guest registries

- researchers identifying commercial and connectivity patterns

- genealogists & autograph collectors

APPLICATIONS- Visitation patterns in hotel guest registries

- researchers identifying commercial and connectivity patterns

- genealogists & autograph collectors

- Intelligence Analysis- Emergency Response Management

IMPROVISE

- collaborative use: domain and visualization experts- web-enabled- “group, select, filter” live, interactively- multiple coordinated views- no programming but complex setups

Improvised Visualization

RESULTS

- circuit length vs occupation- effects of weather- weekends vs. weekdays- groups and associations- successful integration with external info

Successive selection and filtering to find answers

RESULTS

- circuit length vs occupation- effects of weather- weekends vs. weekdays- groups and associations- successful integration with external info

Successive selection and filtering to find answers

Generate open questions- guests listing horses?

EVALUATION- 3 sets of questions

- results fed into creating successive sets

- usefulness + possible extensions- does if fit design goals?- discussion of answers

EVALUATION- 3 sets of questions

- results fed into creating successive sets

- usefulness + possible extensions- does if fit design goals?- discussion of answers

good: create knowledge, find correlation, interactively find hypothesis

bad: expose uncertainty, clarify concrete outcomes,

CONTRIBUTION- Tool Paper - Emphasis: less programming without decrease in complexity

- Loose Classification: Interaction Technique

ACTIONABLE?- Use of tool for hotel registry analysis? Yes- Use of tool for more general analysis? Yes- Improvise as design paradigm? Yes

CONVINCING?- Strong contribution, despite lackluster subject