Introduction To Information Visualization
Introduction To Information Visualization
Enrico Bertini
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NYU Tandon School of Engineering
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WHAT
is Information Visualization?
(interactive) visual representation of information
to help people make sense of complex
phenomena through data.
Data ...
Aid Data
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With Ilya Boyandin
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Applications
Techniques
Narratives
WHY
Information Visualization?
Data Everywhere!
How do we turn all this information into
knowledge?
and how to we communicate it in a way that
people can understand complex issues?
Opportunity
+
Responsibility
but why use Visualization?
Human Eyes Have Superpowers!
Visual Reasoning Is Way Faster and More
Reliable Than Mental Reasoning.
External Cognition.
Lets Play a Game! The Game of 15
RULES
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}
Example taken from Prof. Pat
Hanrahans EuroVis09 keynote talk.
Tic-Tac-Toe: Herbert Simons Problem Isomorph
4 9 2
3 5 7
8 1 6
Visualization allows us to summarize
information while retaining details ...
... as such it can reveal information that
summary statistics may hide.
Anscombes Quartet
Visualization can be faster than your
eyes can move!
Preattentive Processing
VISUAL
Mapping Perception
DATA REPRESENTA
TION
Visual Representation
Visual variables, marks
and channels. Their
best use and
limitations.
VISUAL
Mapping Perception
DATA REPRESENTA
TION
Visual Mapping
How to best map data
features to visual features.
Visual
Mapping VISUAL
Perception
DATA REPRESENTA
TION
Perception &
Visual Thinking
How we perceive visual
information and
process it to solve
problems.
Perception
&
Visual
Visual Mapping
VISUAL Thinking
DATA REPRESENTA
TION
Interaction &
UI Design
How we can make
visualization interactive
and enable complex
sense making
processes.
Visual Mapping
VISUAL Perception &
Visual Thinking
DATA REPRESENTA
TION
Effective Visualization
The extent to which it helps people carry out some data
analysis or communication tasks better.
These people are not trained data geeks. And they need to
make sense of their data and communicate their findings.
Related areas ...
Statistics
Cartography
Machine Learning
Databases
Human-Computer Interaction
Data Journalism / Storytelling
Visualization can make complex
problems trivial.
Data
Abortion Rates By Age in the US