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Emerging Researcher Series

Data Visualisation Facilities?Data Visualisation Facilities?

Thursday, 16 March 2017

Research Analyst

Jason van Rooyen, PhD

Engineer

Timothy Carr

OverviewOverview

Research

Life Cycle

Acquire

Plan

Analyse

Access

Collaborate

Manage

Archive

Publish

Reuse

Data

HPC

Cloud

Virtual labs

HPC

Cloud

Virtual labs

Dataset transfer

Databases

Web-based file sharing

Collaborative sites

Dataset transfer

Databases

Web-based file sharing

Collaborative sitesAutomated ingest

and management

Automated ingest

and management

RDM supportRDM support

Technical advice

Costing

Grant assistance

Technical advice

Costing

Grant assistance

Comprehend

Visualisation facilitiesVisualisation facilities

Institutional repositoryInstitutional repository

Data Visualisation Facilities

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VR

Visualisation wall

Digital Dome

This talk….This talk….

The build Demonstration

This talk….This talk….

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InspirationInspiration

• The data deluge

• Visual learning

• Visualisation infrastructure is

transforming research

Why?Why?

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insights

collaboration

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• Continuum of tech

• Scale

• Complexity

• Cost

• Off the shelf or custom

What is out there?What is out there?

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Virtual RealityVirtual Reality

Data Visualisation Facilities

• …and it’s commercial

Oculus Rift

MS HoloLens

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Virtual RealityVirtual Reality

Data Visualisation Facilities

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Video wallsVideo walls

Data Visualisation Facilities

Georgia State University: the CURVE

http://library.gsu.edu/home/services-and-support/services/curve/

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Data Visualisation Facilities

University of Dayton: Interactive Projection Wall

http://heyhush.com/work/university-of-dayton-interactive-wall/

Video wallsVideo walls

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Data Visualisation Facilities

University of California, San Diego: WAVE, StarCAVE, NexCAVE, TourCAVE

http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/article.php?id=2273 /

Video wallsVideo walls

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Data Visualisation Facilities

Video wallsVideo walls

KAUST: NexCAVE, AESOP, OptiPortal, REVE

https://kvl.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/Showcase.aspx

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Data Visualisation Facilities

University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Lab

http://www.ci.anl.gov/blog/walls-visualization-cave

Video wallsVideo walls

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Data Visualisation Facilities

CAVE, WAVE,

http://www.mechdyne.com

Video wallsVideo walls

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Data Visualisation Facilities

Video wallsVideo walls

Virginia Tech’s: the Cube

https://www.icat.vt.edu/content/cube-0

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Data Visualisation Facilities

Planetarium Planetarium

Definiti 4K Projection System Museum of

Science, Boston Charles Hayden Planetarium

Queen Mary projection system

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Our JourneyOur Journey

• Inspired by the CAVE2 @Monash

OriginsOrigins

Data Visualisation Facilities

https://youtu.be/TVem-BiRYTo

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• Visualisation walls:

• Panoramic Designs, Interactive, Great collaborative area, Immersive

• Near-seamless panels, HPC Render Farm, Positional Tracking, Audio

• Considerations:

• Expensive to build. University real estate

• Limitation (n) people, research groups. The consumer could not

own one.

Pros and Cons of technologiesPros and Cons of technologies

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• VR:

• Replacing the real world with a simulated one

• Immersive, Interactive, Portable, Connected, Not expensive, Available to

the consumer.

• Creating a "Software-Defined World" in which anything is possible.

• Considerations:

• Not novel

• Various health related issues associated with VR e.g. nausea

• Commercial

Pros and Cons of technologiesPros and Cons of technologies

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• Commercial off-the-shelf VR

• Motion control integration

• Oculus DK2

• 7" OLED display

• Resolution 960 x 1080

• Positional Tracker (LED camera)

• Caveats which need addressing:

• Resolution is too low

• Head mount does not suit glasses

• Longer cables

• HMD USB causes jitter

Oculus @UCTOculus @UCT

Data Visualisation Facilities

https://youtu.be/w4rvr346os4

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• Hardware requirements:

• GPU:

• > Nvidia GTX 970

• General:

• 8GB Memory, (16GB)

• Sufficient USB ports

• Quad-core

• Software Development:

• Unity 5.1 / Unreal Engine

Studio 4.8

• Unreal Studio is OSS and

supports the Oculus and Leap

natively.

What’s needed for the Oculus @UCTWhat’s needed for the Oculus @UCT

Data Visualisation Facilities

• Access:

• Eat-in or takeaways?

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• Textured 3D models and other spatial data of

heritage sites across Africa.

• 72 TB of data

• Online Virtual Worlds are created to aid site

management, education, tourism and

conservation

Research with the Oculus @UCTResearch with the Oculus @UCT

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• Inspired by the CAVE2 @Monash

• Researcher engagement spaces

• Libraries are traditional homes of

data and interrogation

• E.g. James B. Hunt Library - NCU

Visualisation wall @UCTVisualisation wall @UCT

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• Requirements:

• Research/teaching/meeting

• Immersive

• Large

• Bright (day-time functions)

• Private

• 3D

• Touch

• Impressive sound

• Low cost

Visualisation wall @UCTVisualisation wall @UCT

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• Hardware:

• High-spec PC

• 3 Quadro m4000

• 10 Pvision 49 inch LCD panels

• 3.5 mm image to image

• 20 mil pixels

• Bose sound

• 2K video in

Visualisation wall @UCTVisualisation wall @UCT

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• Iziko Planetarium being upgraded

• Digital facility providing state-of–the-art edu-entertainment and

enabling leading-edge research

• A budget of R25 million has been set aside for the digital

transformation: Department of Science and Technology (DST); National Research Foundation

(NRF); National Lotteries Commission (NLC); University of Cape Town (UCT));

University of the Western Cape (UWC); and Cape Peninsula University of

Technology (CPUT).

CT Digital PlanetariumCT Digital Planetarium

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Planetarium - currentlyPlanetarium - currently

Data Visualisation Facilities

• Popular Cape Town location

• 80k to 100k visitors per year

• Currently using 1977 Minolta slide technology to project star fields

• Technology is at end of life and needs to be replaced urgently!

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Planetarium – Digital DomePlanetarium – Digital Dome

Data Visualisation Facilities

• Full dome digital

• 360 °

• 6x JVC 8k

• 5000 lumens

• 38 mil pixels

• From planetary and solar system science to

geology, oceanography, climate and earth

science, medical science, molecular- and bio-

chemistry, and even town planning

• 15 hrs/week for research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH3MH_EWgno

https://vimeo.com/160134795

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Data Visualisation Facilities

VR

Visualisation wall

Digital Dome

Available for youAvailable for you

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DemoDemo

• Art

• https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/category/artist

• https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/gQnHkHo6

• Science (contextual)

• https://www.eso.org/public/images/archive/zoomable/

• Immersive

• http://www.gigapan.com/galleries/11203/gigapans/152220

• http://www.gigapan.com/galleries/6969/gigapans/80370

• http://www.gigapan.com/galleries/8030/gigapans/97067

ImmersionImmersion

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• Maps

• http://www.digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/humanitec/

• http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-33.9537/18.4692

• https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.91353,18.0956096,9z

• Biological samples

• http://tinyurl.com/jqzp9se

• Charts and pathways

• http://biochemical-pathways.com/#/map/1

Scale and context Scale and context

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• Bringing statistics to life

• http://flowingdata.com/2015/12/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-americans

• http://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2015/feb/05/-sp-watch-how-

measles-outbreak-spreads-when-kids-get-vaccinated

• http://www.trulia.com/vis/tru247/

• https://evolutionofweb.appspot.com/

• Mass publications

• http://qz.com/

• http://flowingdata.com/

Data – big and smallData – big and small

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• Visualisation libraries and tools

• https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki/gallery

• SeaBorn

• Plotly

• IPython

Data – big and smallData – big and small

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• Interactive visualisations

• http://maps.tnc.org/migrations-in-motion/#4/45.15/-106.57

• https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/azimuthal_equidistant=

25.16,-46.01,862

• http://www.weathersa.co.za//media/data/observation/synoptic/ma_sy.gif

• http://htwins.net/scale2/

• http://stuffin.space/?search=

Data – new dimensionsData – new dimensions

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• UHD video

• Fantasy/Narratives:

• https://vimeo.com/108650530

• Art

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qulvodbkUHA

• Nature

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJgPBbVwTVY

• Architecture

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dQ7513NsFM

MotionMotion

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• Interactive infographics

• http://www.fallen.io/ww2/

• Live streaming

• http://www.n2yo.com/space-station/

• http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload

MotionMotion

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CollaborationCollaboration

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Scalable Amplified Group Environment

Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Video conferencing

• Virtual screen

• Co-presentation

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Thank you!Thank you!

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