This document provides an overview and summary of an information visualization lesson. It discusses topics covered in the previous lesson such as D3.js and creating blog posts. Guidelines for data visualization best practices are presented, including an overview of perceptual abilities and limitations of humans. Common mantras and techniques like overview first, zoom and filter, and details-on-demand are covered. The document concludes with an exercise to visualize a small dataset and assigning a practical project to create an interactive visualization.
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Les 2 - Informatie Visualisatie
1. Informatie visualisatie:
Les 2
Joris Klerkx - Erik Duval
http://hci.cs.kuleuven.be
joris.klerkx@cs.kuleuven.be
Human-Computer Interaction
Dept. Computerwetenschappen
KU Leuven
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2. Opdracht vorige week
Individueel:
d3.js aanleren
d3.js van spreadsheet als simpele case study
kort presenteren in volgende sessie
Spreadsheet aanvullen
Per team:
blog opzetten en op slack aankondigen
Wiki pagina aanvullen
Infovis van de week posten op blog
(digitaal/analoog, individueel)
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4. Infovis vd week
VISUALEYESGROUP Joren Sigert Wander
The Tufters Yannick B Yannick L Yves
InfoFish Sus Vincent Maxim
Ex Machina Tom Wietse Eline
The Info Mob Glenn Carmen Birgit
Game of Simplicity Gert-Jan Sebastiaan Michael
Postgraduwhat Max Wouter Evert
INNOV8 Matteus Victor Jean-Baptise
15/02/2015 - 14u13
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10. Humans have advanced perceptual abilities
Our brains makes us extremely good at recognizing visual patterns
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Humans have little short term memory
Our brain remembers relatively little of what we perceive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY&gl=BE
16. Real data is ugly and needs to be cleaned
http://hcil2.cs.umd.edu/trs/2011-34/2011-34.pdf
http://www.netmagazine.com/features/seven-dirty-secrets-data-visualisation
https://code.google.com/p/google-re鍖ne/
http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/Pre-process your data
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20. Use small coordinated graphs to add variables
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Forget about 3D graphs (on a 2D screen)
Source: Stephen Few
21. Which student has more blogposts?
Size & angle are dif鍖cult to compare
Without labels & legends, impossible to show exact quantitative
differences
Limited Short term (visual) memory
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22. Source: Stephen Few
Save the pies for dessert (S. Few)
Try using either of the pies to put the slices in order by size
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27. 0" 10" 20" 30" 40" 50" 60"
Student"1"
Student"2"
Student"3"
Student"4"
blogposts"
tweets"
comments"on"blogs"
reports"submi:ed"
0%# 20%# 40%# 60%# 80%# 100%#
Student#1#
Student#2#
Student#3#
Student#4#
blogposts#
tweets#
comments#on#blogs#
reports#submi;ed#
Use Common Sense
What are you comparing?
What story do you get from it?
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28. Which graph makes it easier to focus on the pattern of change
through time, instead of the individual values?
Choose graph that answers your questions about your data
28Source: Stephen Few
50. Tegen volgende week
Individueel:
Spreadsheet aanvullen
Infovis van de week
Per team:
Blogpost - oefening 75 - 37 ( scan met visualisaties/ wat geleerd)
Publiek - Data - Verhaal
Data - ruwe feasibility (eg omvang/formaat/etc. )
Visuele alternatieven (sketches)
10 minuten slot om te presenteren / 5 minuten feedback
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