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Some examples of how you can have a visual chat with unknown data sets, and how to persuade them to tell you some of their hidden stories,,,
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Visual Conversations with Data
Tony HirstDept of Communication and Systems,
The Open University
TXR175/TXR120
Figure 1 Sensor Traces
is a chart that’s designed to be read
IT TELLS A STORY
IT TELLS THE ROBOT’S STORY
http://www.musik-therapie.at/PederHill/Structure&Plot.htm
Data conversations
Conversations around what’s not there…
Presentation Graphicsvs.
Visual Analysis
Explanatory visualizationData visualizations that are used to transmit information or a point of view from the designer to the reader. Explanatory visualizations typically have a specific “story” or information that they are intended to transmit.
Exploratory visualizationData visualizations that are used by the designer for self-informative purposes to discover patterns, trends, or sub-problems in a dataset. Exploratory visualizations typically don’t have an already-known story.
Visual Analysisor
Presentation Graphics?
Writing Diagrams
GraphViz
Algorithmic Visualisation
ggplot2 (R)
d3.js (Javascript)
ggplot2
ggplot() + geom_linerange(data = d1,aes(x= car, ymin = ymin,ymax = ymax)) + geom_point(data = d2,aes(x= car, y= value,shape = variable),size = 2) + opts(title="F1 2011 Korea \nRace Summary Chart", axis.text.x=theme_text(angle=-90, hjust=0)) + labs(x = NULL, y = "Position", shape = "")
Bertin’s Visu
al Variables
http://eagereyes.org/blog/2011/you-only-see-colors-you-can-name
Exploiting Structure
Structure in data - h
ierarchies
Hierarchical data and treemaps - medals
Pivot tables
IBM Many Eyes
Macroscopes
aka “seasonal subseries”
Gource
Show me the difference…
Let me see the difference…
Can I see the difference..?
Where exactly..?
Emergent views of structural properties
[ Freemind ]
gephi.org
No truth, many truths
#bbcqt & #newsnight
#bbcqt & #newsnight
#bbcqt & #newsnight
Have you had a visual conversation with any of YOUR data lately?
blog.ouseful.info
@psychemedia