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SIMS 247 Information Visualization and Presentation

This presentation discusses the use of trees and graphs in information visualization and presentation. It also explores the analysis of data using techniques such as treemaps and interactive tools. The chapter covers various topics including mapping from reality to images, using visualization for analysis, and principles of graphical excellence.

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SIMS 247 Information Visualization and Presentation

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  1. SIMS 247Information Visualization and Presentation Prof. Marti Hearst August 31, 2000

  2. Last time: Trees and Graphs (Show PARC Information Visualizer Video)

  3. File Systems as Trees:The Treemap (Shneiderman)

  4. A Good Use of TreeMaps and Interactivity www.smartmoney.com/marketmap

  5. Analysis of TreeMaps on Stock Market Overviews • How does this succeed? • How does it fail? • How can it be improved?

  6. Information Visualization, Chapter 1 • Mapping from reality to images • Mapping from images to mental models • Example: London Underground Map, invented by Henry Beck in 1931 • What is interesting about this?

  7. London Underground Map From Transport of London

  8. London Underground Map, closeup of central London From Transport of London

  9. Geographic tourist map of London, including bus lines From Transport of London

  10. Idealized Transport Maps • Intuition: • “When you are underground, it doesn’t matter where you are.” • User focus of attention can depend on goals • Particular departure and destination stations + route • Main transfer points • Opposite of most visualization problems • Going from geographic to abstract!

  11. Map modified with fare zones

  12. Geographic bus map of London From Transport of London

  13. Using Visualization for Analysis • Data validation • Outlier detection • Suggestion and evaluation of models • Discovery of relationships among subsets of data

  14. Case Study: Space Shuttle Disaster by Edward Tufte (Visual Explanations, 1990) • Visualization for Explanation • Main point: • The data about the problem was available, but • The data was not presented in a convincing way

  15. Tufte’s Challenger Disaster Example Number of damaged O-rings 0 4 8 12 55 65 75 Temp (F) at time of launch

  16. Tufte’s Challenger Disaster Example Number of damaged O-rings 0 4 8 12 25 35 45 55 65 75 Temp (F) at time of launch

  17. Information Visualization, Chapter 2 • Rearrangement and Interaction • “A graphic is never an end in itself: it is a moment in the process of decision making” • Bertin 1981 • “Graphing data needs to be iterative because we often do not know what to expect of the data.” • Cleveland 1985

  18. Tukey on EDA • From “High Interaction Graphics” by Gary wills: • According to Tukey EDA is about "looking at data to see what it seems to say" (p. v). "It is detective work - numerical detective work - or counting detective work - or graphical detective work". (p. 1) and "Unless exploratory data analysis uncovers indications, usually quantitative ones, there is likely to be nothing for confirmatory data analysis to consider" (p. 3). For Tukey, the burden of discovering information in the data falls on EDA, whereas the burden of proving that the information is not spurious falls on the traditional data analysis methods.

  19. Tufte’s Notion of Data Ink Maximization • What is the main idea? • draw viewers attention to the substance of the graphic • the role of redundancy • principles of editing and redesign • What’s wrong with this? What is he really getting at?

  20. Tufte • Principles of Graphical Excellence • Graphical excellence is • the well-designed presentation of interesting data – a matter of substance, of statistics, and of design • consists of complex ideas communicated with clarity, precision and efficiency • is that which gives to the viewer the greates number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space • requires telling the truth about the data.

  21. Tufte Principle Maximize the data-ink ratio: data ink Data-ink ratio = -------------------------- total ink used in graphic Avoid “chart junk”

  22. Tufte Principles • Use multifunctioning graphical elements • Use small multiples • Show mechanism, process, dynamics, and causality • High data density • Number of items/area of graphic • This is controversial • White space thought to contribute to good visual design • Tufte’s book itself has lots of white space

  23. Tufte’s Graphical Integrity • Some lapses intentional, some not • Lie Factor = size of effect in graph size of effect in data • Misleading uses of area • Misleading uses of perspective • Leaving out important context • Lack of taste and aesthetics

  24. From Tim Craven’s LIS 504 coursehttp://instruct.uwo.ca/fim-lis/504/504gra.htm#data-ink_ratio

  25. How to Exaggerate with Graphsfrom Tufte ’83 “Lie factor” = 2.8

  26. How to Exaggerate with Graphsfrom Tufte ’83 Error: Shrinking along both dimensions

  27. The Importance of Rearrangement • Examples from IV book, Chapter 2 • Crops data • Eye/hair color data • Titanic data (also Chapter 3)

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