giCentre presentation at Edina, November 2009

HiDE

Explore designs and layouts for information visualisation

tutorial and HiDE application

ThemeRiver/StackedGraphs

Changes over time (y-axis=time)

Byron, L. & Wattenberg, M., 2008. Stacked Graphs - Geometry & Aesthetics. Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on, 14(6), 1245-1252. [paper]

House prices

London property transactions

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J. and Wood, J. 2009. Configuring Hierarchical Layouts to Address Research Questions. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 15 (6), Nov-Dec 2009 [interactive demo | pdf | video]

Code swarm

Programmers' collaboration

Ogawa, M. and Ma, K-L. code_swarm: A Design Study in Organic Software Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 15 (6), Nov-Dec 2009 [pdf | video]

gpsTracks

Long-distance cycle rides (Jo Wood)

[interactive demo]

Favoured traces

Differences between editions of Darwin's Origin of Species (Ben Fry)

[interactive demo]

BookScraper 1

Books clustered by vocabulary similarily (Jo Wood)

[interactive demo]

BookScraper 2

Top 100 words of each book by frequency, coloured by importance (TF-IDF) and arranged by author (Aidan Slingsby)

[interactive demo]

Wordle

Beautiful tag clouds (IBM)

Viégas, F.B., Martin Wattenberg, M. and Feinberg, J. Participatory Visualization with Wordle. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 15 (6), Nov-Dec 2009

[click on images to enlarge | website | pdf]

Parallel tag clouds

Word association across document collections

Collins, C., Viégas, F.B., Martin Wattenberg, M. Parallel Tag Clouds to Explore Faceted Text Corpora. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 15 (6), Nov-Dec 2009

[click on images to enlarge | more information]

Top trumps

One page graphical summaries of documents

Strobelt, H., Oelke, D., Rohrdantz, C., Stoffel, A. Keim, D.A. and Deussen, O. 2009. Document Cards: A Top Trumps Visualization for Documents, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1145-1152, Nov./Dec. 2009

[click on images to enlarge | video | paper]

PhaseNets

Directional associations between words

van Ham, F., Wattenberg, M. and Viégas, F.B. 2009. Mapping Text with Phrase Nets, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1169-1176, Nov./Dec. 2009.

[click on images to enlarge | paper]

LibTree

Library collections organised by their Dewey decimal hierarchies, coloured and sized by various characteristics of the items in the collection (Jason Dykes).

[click on images to enlarge]

GE: health profile

Average health profile of people like you (GE).

[click image to enlarge | interactive demo]

VizLegends

Edina and giCentre collaboration. Innovative map legend designs to make them more relevant, more useful and more interactive.

[click on image to enlarge]