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Multiple View Strategies. cs5984: Information Visualization Chris North. Quiz. 2 strategies for making overviews: hammer: visually compress Chainsaw: cut Aggregate items or attrs Eliminate items or attrs. Problem. Can’t display everything in one view Scale: Many attributes
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Multiple View Strategies cs5984: Information Visualization Chris North
Quiz • 2 strategies for making overviews: • hammer: visually compress • Chainsaw: cut • Aggregate items or attrs • Eliminate items or attrs
Problem • Can’t display everything in one view • Scale: • Many attributes • Many items • Complex data • Multiple data tables(Relational databases) • Multiple data types(e.g. tables, images) • Need different visualizations for different parts of data
Solution • Multiple Views • Linked • a.k.a. Tightly coupled, Coordinated views • User interaction in one view affects other view(s) Separates data into parts Ties parts together
Strategies for Linking A Rough Taxonomy: • Link = link between actions in two views • 3 possible combinations: • select select: Brushing and Linking • select navigate: Overview and Detail • navigate navigate: Synchronized Navigation select, navigate link select, navigate
Brushing and Linking • select select • Many attributes
Brushing and Linking • Multiple perspectives
Brushing and Linking • Multiple data types • Mutually exclusive structures
Overview and Detail • select navigate • Word • Webframes
Overview and Detail Many items, few attributes to Few items, many attributes (something about everything) (everything about something)
Overview and Detail • Drill down • 1:M • 3 levels: • folders • files • file
Synchronized Navigation • navigate navigate • E.g. synchronized scrolling
Synchronized Navigation • Isnt it nice? Dreamweaver macromedia
Quiz • Dynamic Queries?
Quiz Transitivity
Visualization SpreadSheet • Chi, “Visualization Spreadsheet” • Mudita, Abhi
Snap • North, “Snap-Together Visualization” • Varun, Kumar
Visage • Roth et al, CMU • Data-centric • Drag-and-drop data • Brushing • Sage: view construction • http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sage/visage.html
Next Week • Book chapter 8 • Tues: Trees • Rao, “Hyperbolic Trees” • david, harsha • Robertson, “Cone Trees” • anuj, atul • Thurs: Trees • Johnson, “Treemaps” • vishal, jeevak • Beaudoin, “Cheops” • jon, mudita
Homework #3 • Due Thurs Nov 1 • See website for important details • Zoomable visualization design • Use Jazz HiNote to create an information space • Topic ideas: hobby, life story, event, academic field • Goal: help someone learn about topic • 1 page report: analysis of zooming concept, your design • Be creative, have fun! • http://infovis.cs.vt.edu/cs5984/homework3/chnorth1.html • http://vtopus.cs.vt.edu/~north/infoviz/hinoteapplet.html New!