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phdblogmeister — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:13:36 +0000

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What does your resume look like visually?

phdblogmeister — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:50:01 +0000

This is what mine looks like so far…

- Seth

Posted in career tools, visualization

Why Isn’t Data Visualization More Popular?

phdblogmeister — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:50:18 +0000

Take 5!

Todd provides 5 reasons why data visualization isn’t more prevalent:

People don’t know what data visualization is.
Bad visualization has skewed perception of what data visualization is and what it can be used for.
People can’t interpret charts or new data representations.
Visualization is difficult to create, but easy to copy.
People won’t pay for visualization.

While all the reasons do have some truth, there are a couple things worth adding.

People Do Know What Data Visualization Is

People have some kind of idea of what data is and know that you can get information out of it somehow. Maybe it’s with a graph or it could be with something more elaborate, but most people will get it. They know what data visualization is. They just don’t know what it’s called. In other words, they know. They just don’t know they know.

People Will Pay (A Lot) for Visualization

With all the data out there and the constantly increasing volumes of it, more people want to understand without having to learn formal statistical methods. How can they understand it? Visualization of course. The growing number of examples I’ve covered here on FlowingData show that there is a growing demand. After all, a lot of stuff I’ve covered here was commissioned.

Not Too Worried

Anyways, even though not everyone knows about data visualization (yet), I’m not too worried about it. There’s just too much data for people not to care… or am I wasting my time? No. If they don’t care, we’ll show them why they should.

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One data theme. Three original prints. Your walls will thank you.

Inspired by the tangram puzzles from when we were kids, this design paints a fascinating portrait of what goes into learning in America.
from: http://flowingprints.com/

Education: Enrollment and Dropouts

How America Learns: by the Numbers

College High

Posted in visualization

internet personas

phdblogmeister — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:26:06 +0000

from http://personas.media.mit.edu

Posted in visualization Tagged: internet personas

GTD via Wordle.net

phdblogmeister — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:52:08 +0000

These are the top 200 words from David Allen’s book Getting Things Done, sized by frequency courtesy of wordle.net

designed with www.wordle.net

Posted in visualization Tagged: david allen, GTD, wordle

Interactive Visualization Toolkits

phdblogmeister — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:12:11 +0000

As digital information becomes increasingly cheap and ubiquitous, how will we keep abreast with the rising tide of data? Our research group investigates the perceptual, cognitive, and social factors involved in making sense of large data collections, and develops novel interactive systems for visual analysis and communication.

latest + greatest

Our research on the perception of time-series visualizations received an ACM CHI 2009 Best Paper Award.

Our work on social data analysis was featured in the January 2009 issue of Communications of the ACM.

I recently presented A Brief History of Data Visualization at the Stanford HCI seminar. A video is on the internets, as is an earlier talk on interactive visualization.

O’Reilly’s Beautiful Data contains 39 vignettes of data in action, including our work on social analysis of census data. Proceeds go to the Sunlight Foundation and Creative Commons.

selected projects

Interactive Visualization Toolkits

Over 100,000 downloads!

Software: protovis, flare, prefuse
Papers: InfoVis’09, InfoVis’06, CHI’05
Video: DivX AVI (30M), WMV (33M)

Collaborative Visualization

Social data analysis using interactive visualizations on the web.

Papers: CHI’07, VAST’07, CHI’06
Video: Flash (20M)

Multi-Scale Banking to 45°

Perceptual optimization of the aspect
ratios of data graphics.

Papers: InfoVis’06

Animation in Data Graphics

Using animation to improve perception
of transitions in data graphics.

Papers: InfoVis’07
Video: Quicktime (18M)

Vizster: Visualizing Social Networks

Visual exploration of networks such as Friendster, Facebook, and MySpace.

Papers: InfoVis’05, HICSS’06
Video: Numb3rs (CBS TV), WMV

from http://hci.stanford.edu/jheer/

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A Visual Expedition Inside the Linux File Systems

phdblogmeister — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:09:46 +0000

Read this first: http://cs.jhu.edu/~razvanm/fs-expedition/intro.html

Circular representations of the phylogentic tree. This is an alternative representation of the tree generated by Pars. The size of the text is proportional with the depth.

180° circular representation of the phylogentic tree. An alternative representation using only half of a circle.

90° circular representation of the phylogentic tree. An yet another representation using a quarter of a circle.

from http://cs.jhu.edu/~razvanm/fs-expedition/tux3.html#popular-50

Posted in visualization Tagged: vis

Concept Maps

phdblogmeister — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:05:41 +0000

Concept Maps

We create concept maps, a type of model,
to explore and learn about complex information spaces.
By showing everything—the forest and the trees—in a single view,
concept maps help people create mental models and clarify thoughts.
We create concept maps to share understanding—
with our clients, peers, and others interested in the subjects.

Please note: many of our concept maps are poster size.
They can be printed at smaller sizes (11 x 17), but may be difficult to read.
A few of the maps have been printed and are available through our office.

Mar 20, 2009

A Model of The Creative Process

Created in collaboration with Jack Chung, Shelley Evenson, and Paul Pangaro.

The creative process is not just iterative; it’s also recursive. It plays out “in the large” and “in the small”—in defining the broadest goals and concepts and refining the smallest details. It branches like a tree, and each choice has ramifications, which may not be known in advance. Recursion also suggests a procedure that “calls” or includes itself. Many engineers define the design process as a recursive function:
discover > define > design > develop > deploy

More…

Mar 11, 2008

A Model of Play

Created in collaboration with Satoko Kakihara, Jack Chung, and Paul Pangaro.

This model is built on the idea that play is a type of conversation. It involves two individuals, who might also be teams, or points of view with in a single person, or a virtual person and a real person. Through conversation, they create a shared world in their imaginations, which leads to fun.

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Mar 29, 2007

A Model of Innovation

Created in collaboration with Sean Durham, Ryan Reposar, Paul Pangaro, and Nathan Felde.

This model is built on the idea that innovation is about changing paradigms. The model situates innovation between two conventions. Innovations transform old into new. It is a process—a process in which insight inspires change and creates value.

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Jul 28, 2004

How Organizations Track Customers

Increasingly, organizations are focusing on understanding their customers to increase customer satisfaction and to maximize lifetime customer value. Insights gleaned from observing customers can drive product improvement, loyalty, word-of-mouth referrals and cross- and upselling.

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Aug 2, 2003

Domain Name System

Created in collaboration with Paul Devine.

The domain name system stores and associates many types of information with domain names, but more importantly, associates domain names (computer hostnames) to IP addresses. DNS is a system vital to the smooth operation of the Internet.

The goal of this diagram is to explain what DNS is, how it works, and how it’s governed. The diagram knits together many facts about DNS in hopes of presenting a comprehensive picture of the system and the context in which it operates.

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Jul 29, 2003

Heart Attack

Created in collaboration with Audrey Crane.

For many years, Stanford University Cardiac Rehabilitation Program (SCRP) has conducted research on ways to change the behavior of patients who have had heart attacks. Their research is aimed at reducing the risk of a patient having another heart attack. Educating patients and their families is a key component of changing patient behavior.

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Feb 14, 2003

Java Technology

Created in collaboration with Audrey Crane, Jim Faris, and Harry Saddler.

This diagram explains Java by placing it in the context of related concepts and examples, and by defining its major components and other connections between them.

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All Concept Maps
Maps We Like
- Flickr User Model
- The Importance of User Experience

Posted in visualization Tagged: visualization

The pursuit of human knowledge has a shape: The Milky Way

phdblogmeister — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:33:42 +0000

from: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/mapofscience.html

Posted in visualization

Map of science: How Paradigms Relate

phdblogmeister — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:15:42 +0000

from: http://wbpaley.com/brad/mapOfScience/index.html

Posted in visualization

Seth's PhD Blog » visualization

Twitter?

What does your resume look like visually?

Why Isn’t Data Visualization More Popular?

Take 5!

People Do Know What Data Visualization Is

People Will Pay (A Lot) for Visualization

Not Too Worried

One data theme. Three original prints. Your walls will thank you.

internet personas

GTD via Wordle.net

Interactive Visualization Toolkits

latest + greatest

selected projects

Collaborative Visualization

Multi-Scale Banking to 45°

Animation in Data Graphics

A Visual Expedition Inside the Linux File Systems

Concept Maps

Concept Maps

All Concept Maps

Maps We Like

The pursuit of human knowledge has a shape: The Milky Way

Map of science: How Paradigms Relate