Innovative Interfaces: Transforming Data Into Insight

Innovative Interfaces Transforming data into insight Eva Kaniasty [email_address] May 2008

The age of Dynamic Visualization

Why?
Limited attention
Limited time
Limited domain knowledge

Serial (Attentive) Search
Limited Working Memory capacity
Limited Serial Processing capacity

It’s WM(d?), stupid *This was a hoax

What’s a graph?
Dictionary.com:
A diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc.

Parallel (Preattentive) Search
Similarity
Proximity
Salience/Pop-out
Closure/Continuity
Symmetry/Alignment
Figure/Ground
Groupings Comparisons Patterns Gestalt

Discriminability & Attention
Motion Detection
Change Detection
Color (especially for red, yellow, green, and blue)
Size/Length
Orientation
Brightness

Mapping data to image
Variable Length (distinguishable steps)
Data Types
Numerical (Ranked or Continuous)
Nominal (Categorical)
Green M, “Toward a Perceptual Science of Multidimensional Data Visualization: Bertin and Beyond.”

Good Graph vs. Bad Graph

What’s the question?
What should I do?
What should I choose?
What should I buy?
What would I like?
What if?

What book should I read next?
Really?
Gratuitous Graph

Visualizing Numbers Visualizing Words Visualizing Identity

Visualizing Numbers

Where is all my money going?

Analysis Mint.com

Prediction NYT.com

Planning Limited Domain Knowledge No fun

Planning Fidelity myPlan

Backcasting

Visualizing Words

Secondary Organizers The Daily Show

Salience Newsmap

Exploration/Discovery LivePlasma

Graph as user interface Navigation Overview + Detail Direct Manipulation Immediate Feedback

Visualizing Identity

Un-satisficing

Satisficing

Mental Shortcuts iStorez.com

Personas Buzzilions

Structuring the Subjective Buzillions

Applications
Decision-making
Comparing
Planning
Predicting
Discovering
Detecting Patterns
Describing Relationships
Exploring

The last word: Funology

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