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Module 2

Heat Map
What is Heat Map?
• A heat map is the visualization of data that represents the magnitude of a value in a
color code ranging from minor to major intensity.
• The name metaphor is born in the technique used to depict heat; blue means cool,
red means hot, and intermediate temperatures are coded as the gradient between
those two. The variation of color is often portrayed in intensity and hue,
highlighting the extent of the phenomenon to make it easier to interpret.
Types of Heat Map
• The Spatial Heat Map: Represented with a canvas that represents a two-
dimensional space; it can be a geographical map, a web page, or other cartesian
representation.
• Grid Heatmap: This type of heat map displays the magnitude of a phenomenon
using a two-dimensional matrix. Columns and Rows categorize a cell (the location)
and the cell’s color code defines the phenomenon’s value intensity.
Heat map Visualizations
Geographical Heatmap
• A geographical heatmap is a spatial map to visualize data according to geographical location. This
can be done to show the phenomenon’s intensity, such as weather trends or demographic
information.
• The heatmap quality will be determined by the density of the dots in the map, and the color spread.
• This means that the more latitude-longitude dots you have on the map, the better the representation
of reality.
• Precision geographical heat maps are created with mathematical-statistical tools, like R, Python, or
more specialized tools, and require a lot of data.
Heat map Visualizations

Heat Map
Representing the
temperature of the
world during 2100:
by NASA
Heat map Visualizations
Heat map Visualizations
Choropleth Maps – An alternative to Geographical Heat
Maps
• This differ from the geographic spatial heat maps.
• Mainly because it does not use pure spatial information.
• It uses predefined segments in the map (area/region) to aggregate the phenomenon variable.
• This aggregation makes it simpler to understand and it has become even a more popular tool in
business, politics, and social studies.
Bubble Chart Heatmap
• Bubble charts are a generalization of the scatter plot.
• Each point is located on a cartesian axis (X, Y) and a circle is created in it.
• The size of the circle is a third dimension in the visualization, used to represent a magnitude.
• When complemented with a color gradient, a fourth dimension can be represented as a heat map.
• Bubble charts can be used both spatially and in the form of a grid.
Matrix Heatmap
• The Matrix heatmap uses a two-dimensional matrix to represent the phenomenon.
• This is basically a grid map with rows, columns, and cell colors to represent data.
• The matrix heatmap depicts the magnitude of a phenomenon based on a 2D matrix, with each category or trait
representing a dimension (e.g. year, month, and temperature).
• An example of a matrix heat map is the following analysis of the sales team.
Clustered Heatmap
• Clustered heat maps are a specialization of matrix heat maps; generally used in medicine, biological studies,
and mathematics.
• Their purpose is to aid in the visual comparison of sample sets.
• To understand the structure, everything starts with a matrix heat map, where columns are “measuring sets”,
and rows are the measured variable.
• Each cell contains the magnitude measured for the pair set-value.
• Then a clustering algorithm is applied to create Dendrograms, first for the variables (rows), later for the sets
(columns).
Clustered Heatmap
Correlation Heatmap
• This visualization is used to interpret the correlation phenomena of a set of measured variables.
Abstract Positioning Heat Map
• Abstract positioning heatmaps are those where the spatial canvas is not a geographical map, but another kind
of plane that wants to be analyzed by a ranging phenomenon.
• The positions in the plane are determined by a cartesian X, Y-axis; the plane is set as a background, and the
phenomena are placed with the intensity defined by the color code selected.
Abstract Positioning Heat Map

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