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Why Vis?. David H Rogers, Scalable Data Analysis and Visualization Sandia National Laboratories [email protected] July 19, 2012 SAND Number: 2012-5928C. What’s the Goal of Visualization?. “It’s stories, all the way down.” David Rogers “Simple design. Intense content.” Edward Tufte. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Why Vis?David H Rogers, Scalable Data Analysis and VisualizationSandia National [email protected]
July 19, 2012
SAND Number: 2012-5928C
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“It’s stories, all the way down.”David Rogers
“Simple design. Intense content.”Edward Tufte
What’s the Goal of Visualization?
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Chris Jordan, Plastic Cups Depicts 1 million plastic cups – the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.
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The Story of Napoleon’s March
Charles Minard’s story of Napoleon’s March to Moscow, War of 1812. Band shows size of the army along the advance and retreat routes, superimposed over a map, with temperature and time scales below. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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Why is it challenging?
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Because …
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http://homicides.redeyechicago.com
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Mapping of intensity of Facebook friends between pairs of cities, with the connections drawn as great arcs.
After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw. The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world. Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well. What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn't represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line might represent a friendship made while travelling, a family member abroad, or an old college friend pulled away by the various forces of life.
Paul Butler, in a blogpost: http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919
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Combustion Analysis (UC Davis)
In-Situ Visualization for Large-Scale Combustion Simulations, Yu, Wang, Grout, Chen, Ma IEEE Computer GraphicsAn Exploratory Technique for Coherent Visualization of Time-Varying Volume Data, Tikhonova, Correa, Ma, EuroVis 2010Combu
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Visualization is a continuous cycle
Visit your Data
Try Somethin
g
Look at it
Does it tell a story?
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What can you do?
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What’s out there = crazyfantastic
ExcelDon’t cringe – it’s pretty good!
Tableau softwareFree software to play with dataCreate interactive, online pagesTotally awesome!
PythonNodeBoxSciPy
Fun siteshttp://flowingdata.com
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Excel = Simple!A 2008 Contest Entry for the VAST contest used Excel as a data analysis tool
Excel wasn’t used in the final visualization (see paper), but it was instrumental in getting a quick handle on the data
http://vac.nist.gov/2008/entries/UCD-Phone/index.html
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Tableau = powerfulPublic, free version available
$1000 for paid version
Flexible, web publishingQuick way to play with dataHelps you develop your story
Helps others participate
Now, a tour …
http://www.tableausoftware.com
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Python = powerful, flexible, nerdy
SciPyQuick, science-y visAdvanced vis (maps, etc.)
NodeBoxBeautiful, easy to useConstrainedVery unconstrained, too
Everything elseGeoViz Toolkit
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NodeBox = Power + BeautyPython development environmentPowerful set of capabilities, plus design
Here’s an example …
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SciPy = Science stuffBuilt in analyticsFlexibleA Million Billion packages
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Where to turnA piece of paperExcelTableauNodeBox, SciPy (Python)Books
Anything by Tufte (take his course)Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization and Statistics
Other stuffUdacity course on statisticshttp://flowingdata.com
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Questions?
Sandia National Laboratories is a multi- program laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear
Security Administration un- der contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.
SAND Number: 2012-5928C