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МОДУЛЬ 7«Оформление и защита результатов исследования»Тема: «Visualize this: why it’s important to visualize data» (Сергей Кадомский)

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Visualize this: why it’s important to visualize data

Sergey Kadomsky, Director of Research and Data Science, Wargaming.net

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What can be researched?

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The culture differences: school lessons

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The culture differences: TV news

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Take a look at this spreadsheet

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And now to the same spreadsheet

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No difference, huh?

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How does visual consumption works

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The balance between perception and cognition

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Best use of visual encodings

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Data

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Information

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Knowledge

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Anomaly detection – what happened on Sunday night?

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Trend analysis – do we need more servers?

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Range detection – defaults settings vs user settings

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Multiple dimensional analysis – forum posters game activity

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# of messages posted during the period

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Geospatial analysis – IT companies location in Minsk

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Gameplay heat maps – vehicle location map

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Data comparison – battle length depending on the location

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Battle duration, seconds

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Color represents the battle end reason: destroy, capture, timeout

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Social graph analysis (Netvizz+Gephi)

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And even big ones (100k+ nodes, 1m+ edges)

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Cluster analysis tool with complex visualization

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Useful visualization instruments

SUDDENLY! MS Excel :) Gephi

Tableau R Project

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Additional instruments

MySQL Text Editor with RegExp support

PowerGREP Python with Beautiful Soup

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Useful visualization instruments

• Tons of useful articles http://bit.ly/SUyNhc• Hans Rosling presentations http://www.gapminder.org/• Infographics Course http://bit.ly/QZ4G5Q• ‘Visualize This’ book http://book.flowingdata.com/• Passion Driven Statistics course http://bit.ly/PTXRlH• DataTalks reports:

http://megamozg.ru/search/?q=datatalkshttp://habrahabr.ru/search/?q=datatalks

• Social graph analysis manual: http://bit.ly/1YB9QFV

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Thank you!

You’re always welcome to contact me via:Skype: sergey.kadomskymail: sergey@kadomsky.com