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Text visualization
Lucas Rizoli CPSC 533C, November 2006
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Text visualization Lucas Rizoli CPSC 533C, November 2006 Web-pages - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Text visualization Lucas Rizoli CPSC 533C, November 2006 Web-pages - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Text visualization Lucas Rizoli CPSC 533C, November 2006 Web-pages Email Instant messages Digitized books, articles 2 Why use text in visualization? 3 Green Blue Blue Blue Red Red 4 Reading is fast 5 New York Justice Five [from
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Why use text in visualization?
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Red Blue Blue Green Red Blue
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Reading is fast
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New York Five
[from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Statue-Of-Liberty.jpg]
Justice
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Text can be a dense representation Text can be inexact
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Fast Dense Inexact
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Difficulties of using text
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Space Arrangement Orientation Legibility Meaning
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[from http://www.futureofthebook.org/mitchellstephens/]
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[from http://www.textarc.org/]
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[from http://www.textarc.org/]
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Index Searching Explicit in data
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[from http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/]
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[from http://jheer.org/enron/]
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[from http://jheer.org/enron/]
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[from http://www.idlewords.com/2004/03/your_literary_masterpiece_was_delicious.htm]
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Graph Analyzing Derived from data Human supervision of automated processes
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Reliance on meta-data Says little about content
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[from Tat, A., & Carpendale, M. S. T. (2002)]
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[from Tat, A., & Carpendale, M. S. T. (2002)]
Wordiness Direction of conversation CAPS Exclamations
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[from Tat, A., & Carpendale, M. S. T. (2002)]
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[from Havre, S., Hetzler, E., Whitney, P., & Nowell, L. (2002)]
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[from Viégas, F. B., Golder, S., & Donath, J. (2006)]
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[from http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/projects/themail/study/index.htm]
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[from Viégas, F. B., Golder, S., & Donath, J. (2006)]
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Unique visual representation Exploration Derived from data Increasingly semantic Greater reliance on human users
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Trouble pre-processing data Many assumptions made
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Finding meaning in text is difficult
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Adjusting for word frequency Full semantic processing
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Take-home lessons
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Text in visualization Fast, dense, inexact Complicated to apply
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Visualizing text Range of levels and methods Meta-data adds structure Pre-processing is hard, important
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- Ceglowski, M. (2004). Your Literary Masterpiece Was Delicious. Retrieved November 6, 2006
from http://www.idlewords.com/2004/03/your_literary_masterpiece_was_delicious.htm
- Havre, S., Hetzler, E., Whitney, P., & Nowell, L. (2002). ThemeRiver: Visualizing Thematic
Changes in Large Document Collections. Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions, 8, 9-20.
- Heer, J. (2004). Exploring Enron: Visualizing ANLP Results. Retrieved November 6, 2006 from
http://jheer.org/enron/v1/
- Paley, W. B. (2002). TextArc: Showing Word Frequency and Distribution in Text. In Wong, P. C.,
& Keith Andrews (Eds.), Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (Infovis '02) Poster Compendium. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Press.
- Paley, W. B. (n.d.). TextArc.org Home. Retrieved November 6, 2006 from http://textarc.org/
- Tat, A., & Carpendale, M. S. T. (2002). Visualizing Human Dialog. Proceedings of the IEEE
Conference on Information Visualization (Infovis '02). London, UK: IEEE Press.
- Trampoline Systems (n.d.). Trampoline Enron Explorer. Retrieved November 6, 2006 from
http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/
- Viégas, F. B., Golder, S., & Donath, J. (2006). Visualizing Email Content: Portraying
Relationships from Conversational Histories. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '06). Montréal, Québec, Canada: ACM Press.