This is a first day of the ESSLLI 2017 summer school workshop on data visualization for linguistic research

1. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Visualization for Linguistic Research:
Methodology Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Olga Scrivner
29th European Summer School in Logic,
Language, and Information, Toulouse, 2017

2. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
What You Will Learn
DAY 1 Introduction to Visual Analytics
DAY 2 Tools and Methods
DAY 3 Working with Unstructured Data
DAY 4 Working with Structured Data
DAY 5 Advanced Analytics

3. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Our Materials - Web Site
http:
//obscrivn.wixsite.com/visualization

4. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
What We Need
Computer
WiFi
Smartphone (optional)
R and Rstudio (instructions later)

5. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
What We Need
Computer
WiFi
Smartphone (optional)
R and Rstudio (instructions later)

6. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Data Analytics

7. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Data Analytics
“Analytics is the critical technology
needed to bring value out of data”
(Anonymous)

8. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Visual Analytics
“The science of analytical reasoning
facilitated by visual interactive interfaces”
(Thomas and Cook, 2005)
“Visual analytics integrates new computational and
theory-based tools with innovative interactive techniques
and visual representations to enable human-information
discourse” (Thomas and Cook, 2005)

9. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Visualization
“If a picture is worth a thousand words,
a data visualization is worth at least a million”

10. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Visualization
“If a picture is worth a thousand words,
a data visualization is worth at least a million”

11. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Word Cloud - Introduce Yourself - 10 min
Mini-Assignment
1. Open our site
http://obscrivn.wixsite.com/visualization
2. Go to assignments
3. You will use online tool WordItOut
4. Follow instructions and create your word cloud
5. Save your cloud and share on twitter #ESSLLI2017

12. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Visualization Terminology
Data - a set of facts or items of information
Meta-data - data about data
Data visualization - the process of connecting data
with our brains
Data analysis - the process of computationally
extracting information from data
Dashboard - a canvas for displaying multiple visual
representations at a time and allowing them to interact
with each other
2D - two dimensional representation
R - programming language for data analysis and
visualization
RStudio - an editor program for R
http://cs.colby.edu/courses/S14/cs251/LectureNotes/Lecture_01_02_05_14.pdf

13. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Visualization - Minard (1869)
”(...) the moisture which succeeded the snow and ice
rendered the cold more penetrating, whilst it was almost
impossible to drag the gun-carriages through the half-frozen
mud” (Campbell and Herbert, 1864)

14. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Warm-up

15. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Warm-up

16. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Warm-up

17. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Warm-up

18. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Warm-up

19. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Warm-up

20. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Warm-up

21. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Warm-up

22. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Warm-up

23. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Warm-up

24. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Warm-up

25. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Warm-up

26. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Color
Color Wheel - an abstract organization of color hues around
a circle

27. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Hue
Hue - an angle around the color wheel
“the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar
to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green,
blue, and yellow” (Fairchilde, 2013)
We can rapidly differentiate between only five to ten hues
(Healy, 1996)

28. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Saturation and Brightness
Saturation - the amount of grey in a color
Brightness - how much white (or black) is mixed in the color
https://www.labnol.org/home/hue-saturation-luminosity/20104/

29. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Color Brewer - 10 min
Mini-Assignment
1. Open our site
http://obscrivn.wixsite.com/visualization
2. Go to assignments
3. You will use online tool Color Brewer 2
4. Follow instructions and discuss your impressions

30. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Graphical Elements
Points
Lines
Surfaces
Volumes
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/
visual-mapping-the-elements-of-information-visualization

31. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Graphical Properties
Graphical properties - make graphical elements “more (or
indeed less) noticeable to the eye and/or valuable to the user
of the representation”

32. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Graphical Properties
Graphical properties - make graphical elements “more (or
indeed less) noticeable to the eye and/or valuable to the user
of the representation”

33. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Visual Variables - Pair Work - 5 min
Can you identify the building block (elements and
properties) for each visual variable?
M. Carpendale, 2003,“Considering visual variables as a basis for information visualisation”
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

34. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Visual Variables
M. Carpendale, 2003,“Considering visual variables as a basis for information visualisation”

35. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Practice: Two teams - 20 min
Team 1: Linguistic Visualization http:
//scimaps.org/mapdetail/the_linguistic_conte_177
Team 2: Literary Visualization http:
//scimaps.org/mapdetail/literary_empires_map_118
Big picture (macro-analysis)
Graphical Elements (colors, shapes)
Your suggestions to improve the readability if needed
Select one person to present to the opposite group

36. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Practice: Two teams - 20 min
Team 1: Linguistic Visualization http:
//scimaps.org/mapdetail/the_linguistic_conte_177
Team 2: Literary Visualization http:
//scimaps.org/mapdetail/literary_empires_map_118
Big picture (macro-analysis)
Graphical Elements (colors, shapes)
Your suggestions to improve the readability if needed
Select one person to present to the opposite group

37. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
See you tomorrow!
http:
//obscrivn.wixsite.com/visualization
obscrivn@indiana.edu

38. Visualization for
Linguistic
Research:
Methodology
Fundamentals
Olga Scrivner
Course Info
Visual Analytics
Color
Graphical Elements
Some References
B¨orner, Katy. 2015. Atlas of Knowledge: Anyone Can Map. The
MIT Press
Collins, Christopher. 2012. Bridging the Linguistic Visualization
Divide. LingVis/UNCLH Workshop