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24 Jul 09

Rise of the Data Scientist

Article in the Flowing Data blog by Nathan Yau, which addresses the predicted rise of the "data scientist" (someone who can take information & visualize/ present it a simple way)

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Data Scientist
able to extract information from large datasets and then present something of use to non-data experts.
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- Visualization - graphs, tools, etc.
- skills and talents from often disjoint areas of expertise:
- We're seeing data scientists - people who can do it all - emerge from the rest of the pack.
- Oftentimes, visualization projects are disjoint processes and involve a lot of waiting
- Terabytes of data are coming in whether it be from websites or from sales across the country, but in an area where Excel is the tool of choice (or force), there are limitations, hence all the tools, applications, and consultancies to help out.
- the more you learn, the more you can do, and the higher in demand you will be as the amount of data grows and the more people want to make use of it.

23 Jul 09

Review: Swivel vs. Many Eyes

Review Article by Robert Kosara (Eager Eyes blog), comparing the qualities & aspects of the 2 social visualization websites, Swivel & Many Eyes.org

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creating charts and bas
Most people have created a basic bar or pie chart before, but few realize how much you can do with even the few simple tools in Excel.
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- very little data is freely available
- Visualization also needs to break out of the academic world and do something for real people with real data and real questions
- in a few years will hopefully be part of mainstream technology the way other electronic media are today.
- whose makers seem to be completely unaware of the work that is being done in information visualization.
- Many Eyes exists in a much more academic setting than Swivel
- One important question for Many Eyes is therefore its longer-term sustainability, especially if it gets more popular and requires more resources to run.
- It does explain the description of Swivel as "YouTube for data" though, a slogan that was used for a short time when it was launched. But it also means that Swivel needs to be very careful if it wants to be taken seriously, since outrageous claims do not exactly build trust.
- he question of course is whether these users will trust Swivel with their valuable proprietary data, and see enough value in Swivel's own tools to take that risk (cost probably won't be an issue, at least not in comparison).
- download the data that exists on the sites. This is very useful, as it provides badly needed access to a huge variety of data.
- Existing visualizations can be changed easily in Swivel
- Many Eyes is missing such a function
- Swivel also has tags and graphs can be rated by users
- ags provide easy and democratic means of navigation, and are basically a must for a highly interactive website.
- ease of access for the user and development effort for the developers.
- But of course Java has one great advantage: interaction
- vertical and horizontal bar charts, scatterplots, and line charts.
- Many Eyes offers more than a dozen visualization types, and that's not even counting bar charts twice
- All of Many Eyes' visualizations are interactive
- Both Swivel and Many Eyes handle the comparison of numbers surprisingly badly
- missing from both sites is the ability to mix different graph types
- simply chart junk, and while Swivel can't keep their users from producing meaningless charts, they are very unwise to promote this kind of nonsense on their front page.
- inflated numbers.
- will need to appeal to more sophisticated customers that are actually willing to spend money.
- One of their challenges will be to provide cutting-edge visualization tools in a way that people can actually use

Rethinking the User

Short Article by Robert Kosara (Eagle Eyes blog) about the shift in users of Visualization

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current view of course is that visualization systems should be designed in a way that is useful to domain experts with little to no knowledge of visualization
The current view of course is that visualization systems should be designed in a way that is useful to domain experts with little to no knowledge of visualization
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- The current view of course is that visualization systems should be designed in a way that is useful to domain experts with little to no knowledge of visualization.
- The current view of course is that visualization systems should be designed in a way that is useful to domain experts with little to no knowledge of visualization
- the casual (but interested) non- or semi-expert.
- can make things that are far more advanced and complex than we would expect somebody without experience in visualization to understand.
- These users need general (i.e., not data-specific) tools that will be much simpler, and that will need to follow known interaction paradigms as much as possible.

Data Visualization Is Reinventing Online Storytelling

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Enter the new "visual scientists" who are turning bits and bytes of data -- once purely the domain of mathematicians and coders -- into stories for our digital age.
fundamentally changing the way we create and consume narratives about events, products and services.
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- advances in technology at the presentation layer and the new found ability to tap into once hidden data sources that is enabling these new visual scientists to chart a new narrative course.
- How can you create a meaningful experience or narrative out of it?
- What data do you have that is truly valuable?
- Traditional charts and spreadsheets fail to evoke urgency, meaning, and impact, ultimately failing to reach real people and do the one thing we need: elevate us from abstract, large-scale data dumps to another plane of understanding that makes a real connection and prompts action and emotion.
- But just because I'm engaged with your data doesn't mean you've rewritten the rules of narrative.

Great Data Visualization Tells a Great Story

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Great Data Visualization Tells a Great Story
They probably all told a great story
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- Data can be boring if you don't know what you're looking for or don't know that there's something to look for in the first place
- There's meaning, truth, and beauty.
- Sometimes the stories will be simple and other times complex. Some will belong in a textbook; others will come in novel form. It's up to the statistician, computer scientist, designer, or analyst to make that decision.
- makes it easy for readers to see the story in the data.
- They present the data, give you the facts, and (usually) leave it to you to make your own conclusions.
- S/he who can tell a great story possesses great power, because s/he has the power to move people. Data visualization can show that story for you
- The Lesson: Find the Story

The Hypothesis in Visualization

Article by Christian Marc Schmidt in Form follows Behavior blog on how every visualization is defined by a hypothesis on the part of the author.

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a hypothesis about the data that the choice of a particular formal expression aims to address
At this point, visualization becomes a rhetorical device—it is biased towards conveying (but not necessarily validating) a hypothesis, effecting not only its visual expression, but also the use and description of data.
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- While the piece in its essence is making a single statement, the fact that it is supported by data lends it both credibility and relevance.

Visualization as Metaphor

Article by Christian Marc Schmidt (Forms Follows Behavior) on data visualization, art & point of view.

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Visualization as metaphor
Metaphor simulates: it seeks to explain one subject through another.
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- we (the viewers) expect to find rationale behind every decision
- In data visualization, metaphor is used to translate raw data into visual form
- the choice of any visualization is always a matter of interpretation.
  - Summary of a very heavy paragraph:
    
    1. Visualizations are subjective translations
    2. Visualizations are metaphorical (indirect meanings) when viewed with its context
    3. Metaphors translate actual data into a visual concept
    4. Therefore, visualization itself is always up to the nature of the translation/ metaohor. - on 2009-07-23
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17 Jul 09

Smart Centre - Durham University

Durham University's mini-visualization centre.\nPurpose: envisioning data and reasoning from evidence

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envisioning data and reasoning from evidence
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13 Jul 09

A Beautiful WWW

Data Visualuzation Blog by Todd Holloway.
(SEE post for Apr 20, 2008)

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Data Visualization: Modern Approaches from Smashing Magazine

Modern approaches to Data Visualization (Article)

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I See What You Mean

Information Visualization Blog of CWC, from UNC (Chapel Hill), USA

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Graphic Sociology - Seeing Social Data

Visualization of Social Data (see ABOUT)

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visual methods: information visualization design for the people!

Working Blog of Mike Danziger, Thesis student specializing in data visualization

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10 Jul 09

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven: Visualization

Visualization Lab for Eindhoven University of Technology

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eindhoven visualization academic

07 Jul 09

stamen design | big ideas worth pursuing

Design & Technological visualization by Stamen Design

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Juice Analytics

Company blog for Juice Analytics

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We Feel Fine Project by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar

Project combining data mining & data visualization of people's feelings on webspace/ blogs

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visualization blog

29 Jun 09

Junk Charts

Recycling chartjunk as junk art

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Datavisualization.ch

Research findings in data visualization by Christian Siegrist & Benjamin Wiederkehr, Switzerland

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A visual exploration on mapping complex networks

"A unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web."

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Rise of the Data Scientist

Review: Swivel vs. Many Eyes

Rethinking the User

Data Visualization Is Reinventing Online Storytelling

Great Data Visualization Tells a Great Story

The Hypothesis in Visualization

Visualization as Metaphor

Smart Centre - Durham University

A Beautiful WWW

Data Visualization: Modern Approaches from Smashing Magazine

I See What You Mean

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