Information Visualization

(Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It)

Dr. Michele C. Weigle Old Dominion University

Norfolk, VA

Faculty Lightning Talk October 4, 2012

•  "The purpose of information visualization is insight, not pictures" -Ben Shneiderman

•  Interactive representation of non-physically based data

•  Concerned with how people think, human perception

•  Has ties to cognitive science, psychology, data mining

What is Information Visualization?

•  Must have data and problems to solve

•  Must work with experts in other domains –  medical doctors - hearing data analysis –  social scientists - welfare data record linkage –  technology analysts - trends in scientific research –  web archivists - viewing collections of web archives

Info Vis Research Is Collaborative

Archive-It

http://archive-it.org

Archive-It Collection Hierarchy

Level  3  (Leaf  Nodes)  

Level  2  

Level  1  

Root   Collec5on  Title  

Category  1  

Web  Page  1  

Archived  Version  1  

Archived  Version  n  

Web  Page  n  

Category  n  

Exploring Archive-It Collections

http://archive-it.org/collections/1068

List of Web Pages

http://archive-it.org/collections/1068

Archived Versions of acda.co

http://wayback.archive-it.org/1068/*/http://acda.co/

•  Treemap

Visualizations

K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.

•  Treemap •  Time cloud

Visualizations

K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.

•  Treemap •  Time cloud •  Image plot

Visualizations

K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.

•  Treemap •  Time cloud •  Image plot •  Wordle

Visualizations

K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.

•  Treemap •  Time cloud •  Image plot •  Wordle

Visualizations

K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.

•  Treemap •  Time cloud •  Image plot •  Wordle •  Timeline

Visualizations

K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.

Collection Building and Growth

Collection Building and Growth

Collection Building and Growth

•  Our recent work has been featured in the popular press

•  We're always looking for good grad students!

ODU's Web Science-Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Group

Dr. Michele C. Weigle Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA mweigle@cs.odu.edu http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mweigle/

GHC 2012

ODU, Norfolk, VA

http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/