Information Visualization: Connecting the Abstract and Visual Worlds

189 Pages·2014·21.16 MB·English

Information Visualization:
Connecting the Abstract and Visual Worlds
Shixia Liu (刘世霞)
Internet Graphics Group,
Microsoft Research Asia
Outline
• Definition
• Criteria
• History
• InfoVis 1.0
• InfoVis 2.0
• InfoVis 3.0
• Opportunities and challenges
Outline
• Definition
• Criteria
• History
• InfoVis 1.0
• InfoVis 2.0
• InfoVis 3.0
• Opportunities and challenges
What is Information Visualization
• Use graphical representations of abstract information to facilitate
– Explanation
– Information understanding
– Decision making
– …
• Translation from the abstract language to the visual/intuitive
language
Why InfoVis – Basic Problem
We live in a new ecology: how
do you make sense of it
People are 5 times faster
with the visual aid
(slide “borrowed” from PARC User Interface Research Group)
Why InfoVis - Web Ecologies
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Source: World Wide Web Consortium, Mark Gray, Netcraft Server Survey
(slide “borrowed” from PARC User Interface Research Group)
Why InfoVis - Scientific Journals
Journals/person increases 10X every 50 years
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Journals/People x106
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Year
Why InfoVis - Innate Human
Capacity
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Bad Visualization?
Good Visualization?