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Information Visualization Crash Course (AKA Information Visualization 101) Chad Stolper, Georgia Tech chadstolper@gatech.edu 1 5 th Year Computer Science PhD Student 2 John Stasko, Interactive Computing Polo Chau, Computational Science and

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Information Visualization Crash Course

Chad Stolper, Georgia Tech

chadstolper@gatech.edu

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(AKA Information Visualization 101)

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5th Year Computer Science PhD Student

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John Stasko, Interactive Computing Polo Chau, Computational Science and Engineering

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What is Infovis? Why is it Important? Human Perception Chart Basics

(If Time, Some Color Theory)

The Shneiderman Mantra Where to Learn More

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Questions Encouraged!

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Questions Encouraged!

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What is Information Visualization?

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Information Visualization

“The use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition.” Card, Mackinlay, and Shneiderman 1999

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Communication Exploratory Data Analysis

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Communication

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Communication Gone Wrong

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Space Shuttle Challenger

January 28, 1986

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Morning Temperature: 31°F

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What happened?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rwcbsn19c0

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How did this happen?

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Morton Thiokol’s Presentation

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On the other hand…

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Exploratory Data Analysis

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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

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Mystery Data Set

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Mystery Data Set

Property Value mean( x ) 9 variance ( x ) 11 mean( y ) 7.5 variance ( y ) 4.122 correlation ( x,y ) 0.816 Linear Regression Line y = 3 + 0.5x

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Anscombe’s Quartet

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet

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Anscombe’s Quartet Sanity Checking Models Outlier Detection

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Anscombe’s Quartet Sanity Checking Models Outlier Detection

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Anscombe’s Quartet Sanity Checking Models Outlier Detection

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Anscombe’s Quartet Sanity Checking Models Outlier Detection

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Human Perception

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Name the five senses.

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Sense Bandwidth (bits/sec) Sight 10,000,000 Touch 1,000,000 Hearing 100,000 Smell 100,000 Taste 1,000

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/287907/information-theory/214958/Physiology
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A (Simple) Model

  • f Human Visual Perception
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A (Simple) Model of Human Perception

Parallel detection of basic features into an iconic store Serial processing of

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identification and spatial layout

Stage 1 Stage 2

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Stage 1: Pre-Attentive Processing

Rapid Parallel Automatic (Fleeting)

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Stage 2: Serial Processing Relatively Slow (Incorporates Memory) Manual

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Stage 1: Pre-Attentive Processing

The eye moves every 200ms

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Stage 1: Pre-Attentive Processing

The eye moves every 200ms (so this processing occurs every 200ms-250ms)

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Example

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Example

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A few more examples from

  • Prof. Chris Healy at NC State
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Left Side Right Side

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Raise your hand if a RED DOT is present…

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Color (hue) is pre-attentively processed.

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Raise your hand if a RED DOT is present…

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Shape is pre-attentively processed.

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Determine if a RED DOT is present…

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Hue and shape together are NOT pre-attentively processed.

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Pre-Attentive Processing

  • length
  • width
  • size
  • curvature
  • number
  • terminators
  • intersection
  • closure
  • hue
  • lightness
  • flicker
  • direction of

motion

  • binocular

lustre

  • stereoscopic

depth

  • 3-D depth

cues

  • lighting

direction

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Stephen Few “Now You See It”

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Pre-Attentive à Cognitive

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Gestalt Psychology

Berlin, Early 1900s

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Gestalt Psychology

Goal was to understand pattern perception

Gestalt (German) = “seeing the whole picture all at once”

Identified 8 “Laws of Grouping”

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http://study.com/academy/lesson/gestalt-psychology-definition-principles-quiz.html

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Gestalt Psychology

  • 1. Proximity
  • 2. Similarity
  • 3. Closure
  • 4. Symmetry
  • 5. Common Fate
  • 6. Continuity
  • 7. Good Gestalt
  • 8. Past Experience
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How many groups are there?

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Proximity

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How many groups are there?

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Similarity

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How many shapes are there?

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Closure

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How many items are there?

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Symmetry

[ ] { } [ ]

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How many sets are there?

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Common Fate

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How many objects are there?

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Continuity

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How many objects are there?

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Good Gestalt

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What is this word? (Please Shout)

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FLICK

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Past Experience

FLICK

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Past Experience

FLICK

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Pre-Attentive Processing Gestalt Laws

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Detect Quickly

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Detect Quickly

Detect Accurately

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Positions Rectangular areas

(aligned or in a treemap)

Angles Circular areas

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Crowdsourced Results

1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8 T9

Log Error

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An example analysis for area perception is shown in Figure 16. The top line shows that a series of decreasing areas can be used to encode a tenfold quantitative

  • range. Of course, in a real diagram such as Figure 13, the areas would be laid out

randomly, making it more difficult to judge the relative sizes of different areas accurately (hence, area is ranked fifth in Figure 14). Nevertheless, small mis- judgments about the size of an area only leads to small misperceptions about the corresponding quantitative value that is encoded. The middle line shows that area can encode three ordinal values. However, one must be careful to make sure

ACM Transactions
  • n Graphics, Vol. 5, No. 2, April
1986.

Mackinlay, 1986

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Stephen Few “Now You See It”

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What does this tell us?

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Barcharts, scatterplots, and line charts are really effective for quantitative data

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(and for statistical distributions) Tukey Box Plots

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Median Outliers Largest < Q3 + 1.5 IQR Smallest > Q1 - 1.5 IQR Largest < Q3 Smallest > Q1

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Tufte’s Chart Principles

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Edward Tufte

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Edward Tufte

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Tufte’s Chart Principles

DO NOT LIE!

Maximize Data-Ink Ratio Minimize Chart Junk

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Tufte’s Chart Principles

DO NOT LIE!

Maximize Data-Ink Ratio Minimize Chart Junk

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http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=790

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Tufte’s Chart Principles

DO NOT LIE!

Maximize Data-Ink Ratio Minimize Chart Junk

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No pie charts. No 2.5D charts.

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Barcharts, scatterplots, and line charts are really effective for quantitative data

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Anyone else bored by my color choices?

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In fact, grayscale can be risky…

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In fact, grayscale can be risky…

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Color is Powerful

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Call attention to information Increase appeal Increase memorability Another dimension to work with

Color

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How many of you have heard of RGB?

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We see in RGB, but we don’t interpret in RGB…

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How many have heard of HSV?

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HSV Color Model

Hue/“Color” Saturation/Chroma Value/Lightness

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Hue

Post & Greene, 1986

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Hue

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Hue and Culture

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours-in-cultures/

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Hue and Colorblindness

10% of males and 1% of females are Red-Green Colorblind

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May be better to consider a third model:

Hue – Saturation - LUMINANCE

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Saturation Luminance values Hue

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Corners of the RGB color cube L from HLS All the same Luminance values

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Luminance

Hello, here is some text. Can you read what it says? Hello, here is some text. Can you read what it says? Hello, here is some text. Can you read what it says? Hello, here is some text. Can you read what it says? Hello, here is some text. Can you read what it says? Hello, here is some text. Can you read what it says? Hello, here is some text. Can you read what it says?

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Color and Quantitative Data

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Color and Quantitative Data

Can you order these (lowàhi)?

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Binary Diverging Categorical Sequential Categorical Categorical

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Color Scales

Color Brewer

http://colorbrewer2.org/

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Overview Zoom+Filter Details on Demand

Shneiderman Mantra (Information-Seeking Mantra)

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http://visual.ly/every-single-death-game-thrones-series

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William Playfair, 1786

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John Snow, 1854

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Charles Minard, 1869

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Where to learn more?

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CS 7450 Information Visualization Every Fall

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How to Make Good Charts

  • Edward Tufte’s One-Day Workshop

– http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses

  • Edward Tufte, Visual Display of Quantitative

Information

– http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

  • Stephen Few, Show Me the Numbers:

Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

– http://www.amazon.com/Show-Me-Numbers- Designing- Enlighten/dp/0970601972/ref=la_B001H6IQ5M_1_ 2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385050724&sr=1-2

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Visualization Theory “Books”

  • Tamara Munzner VIS Tutorial and Book

– http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/talks.html – http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/vadbook/

  • Colin Ware, Information Visualization: Perception for Design

– http://www.amazon.com/Information-Visualization-Perception-Interactive- Technologies/dp/1558605118

  • Stephen Few, Now You See It

– http://www.amazon.com/Now-You-See-Visualization- Quantitative/dp/0970601980/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_z

  • Edward Tufte, Envisioning Information

– http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_ei

  • Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations

– http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_visex

  • Edward Tufte, Beautiful Evidence

– http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_be

  • Tamara Munzner, Visualization Analysis & Design

– http://www.amazon.com/Visualization-Analysis-Design-AK- Peters/dp/1466508914

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Perception and Color Websites

  • Chris Healy, NC State

– http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/PP/index.h tml

  • Color Brewer

– http://colorbrewer2.org/

  • Maureen C. Stone (Color Links, Blog,

Workshops)

– http://www.stonesc.com/color/index.htm

  • Subtleties of Color by Robert Simmon of

NASA

– http://blog.visual.ly/subtleties-of-color/

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Visualization Blogs

  • Flowing Data by Nathan Yau

– http://flowingdata.com/

  • Information Aesthetics by Andrew Vande Moere

– http://infosthetics.com/

  • Information is Beautiful by David McCandless

– http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

  • Visual.ly Blog

– http://blog.visual.ly/

  • Indexed Comic by Jessica Hagy

– http://thisisindexed.com/

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Infographics

Visual.ly/view

(wtfviz.net)

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Visualization @GeorgiaTech

vis.gatech.edu

(less under construction than before... but still under construction)

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Thanks!

Chad Stolper

chadstolper@gatech.edu

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Questions?

Chad Stolper

chadstolper@gatech.edu

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