Eerste echte ontwerp (gebaseerd op verschillende visualisaties)

The World’s Eyes

http://velluminous.org/portfolio/detail/?37

This project visualizes tourist dynamics in coastal Spain using flickr data. I designed and developed an internal research tool for finding patterns in the data, as well as a motion video (now exhibited at the design museum in barcelona) that tells stories found in the data

2008 Obama Poster

Terug zo’n travel poster, maar dan voor Obama:

 

site nog eens checken, ziet er interessant uit: http://www.dopplr.com/tour

“Obama | One People” & “Twitter: Just Landed”

http://senseable.mit.edu/obama/the_world.html

It represents the variation in call activity among US States and foreign countries as flows of people traveling to Washington, D.C. to celebrate President Obama, and then departing the capital to go back home.

Misschien een manier om vluchten voor te stellen? Misschien op een 2D kaart maar zeker ook met animaties

 

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edit: ok, iemand heeft dit al gebruikt om vluchten voor te stellen:

http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/just-landed-processing-twitter-metacarta-hidden-data

The idea is simple: Find tweets that contain this phrase["just landed"], parse out the location they’d just landed in, along with the home location they list on their Twitter profile, and use this to map out travel in the Twittersphere

The New York Times Innovation Portfolio

http://innovate.whsites.net/

http://www.datavisualization.ch/showcases/the-new-york-times-innovation-portfolio:

Once the user hovers over a bubble a small preview is shown and after selecting the bubble the feature is explained with a short video.

Het “opengaan” van de bollen is mooi. Misschien gebruik ik dit om gerelateerde (kleiner voorgestelde) bezienswaardigheden te tonen.

Google Swirl

Brugge in Google Swirl

http://www.googlelabs.com/show_details?app_key=agtnbGFiczIwLXd3d3ITCxIMTGFic0FwcE1vZGVsGMopDA

Google Image Swirl organizes image search results into groups and sub-groups, based on their visual and semantic similarity and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface. Try this tool to resolve an ambiguous query visually (apple, jaguar, beetle) or to explore a concept from different visual perspectives (Eiffel Tower, beach, impressionism).

Die navigatie is mooi om te navigeren door bezienswaardigheden

Innolab 3D File Manager

Winner of the 2003 edition of NSF Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, in the Illustration category, this ferris wheel-like arrangement, created by seniors at Boston University, was seen as an elegant solution for managing unwieldly amounts of information.

Misschien iets om bezienswaardigheden te groeperen (historisch, cultureel, …) en zo voor te stellen…

Timeline based Exploration of Traffic Patterns

The length of a wedge represents the amount of passengers per hour. So, it comes down to comparing the length of the wedges to see where and when more people pass a station.

Paper: Visualizing email content

Visualizing email content: portraying relationships from conversational histories

This paper describes the interface and content-parsing algorithms in Themail. It also presents the results from a user study where two main interaction modes with the visualization emerged: exploration of “big picture” trends and themes in email (haystack mode) and more detail-oriented exploration (needle mode)

Themail is a typographic visualization of an individual’s email content over time. The interface shows a series of columns of keywords arranged along a timeline. Keywords are shown in different colors and sizes depending on their frequency and distinctiveness.

The application was designed to help the owners of email archives answer two main questions:
• What sorts of things do I (the owner of the archive) talk about with each of my email contacts?
• How do my email conversations with one person differ from those with other people?

Especially for my family, it was really exciting to see all the words and the things that we talk about for no reason other than to just reminisce; it was like looking through a photo album or something. For instance, I would never go back and search for the wedding planning emails, but it was fun to look at that! It’s almost like this serves a different kind of purpose from regular email readers… It’s more at a personal level… It’s emotional, it’s about reflecting and remembering.

One of the main problems that participants identified on their Themail visualizations was the inadvertently high weight given to topical words in forwarded messages. For instance, sometimes the unique words in jokes that had been forwarded to the owner of the email ended up having too much weight, becoming the focus of the visualization. Whenever this was the case, participants remarked that Themail did a poor job of representing their email conversations.

Paper: World Explorer

World Explorer: Visualizing Aggregate Data from
Unstructured Text in Geo-Referenced Collections

basisidee:

• bron: 6 milioen geo-tagged Flickr foto’s
• tags uitlezen
• op basis van populaire tags, deze weergeven op de kaart
• wanneer men over een tag beweegt, ziet men foto’s die met de tag te maken hebben
• hoe populairder de tag, hoe groter de tag

applicatie: http://tagmaps.research.yahoo.com/worldexplorer.php

quotes uit de paper:

We use these tags to create a visualization tool, World Explorer, that can help expose the content of the data, using a map interface to display the derived tags and the original photo items. We perform a qualitative evaluation of World Explorer that outlines the visualization’s benefits in browsing this type of content.

Flickr supplies a map interface through which users can “drag” their photos to the map locations where the photos were taken.

The visualization exposes, for each map region and zoom level, the high-scoring tags for the generated clusters; these tags are shown as text over the map area where each cluster occurs. In addition, the tags are connected to the corresponding photographs such that when a user points the mouse over a tag, photographs associated with that tag, from that map area, appear in a dedicated pane. Thus, a user can get an idea of what is available in the visible map region via the tags, and explore the available individual items via photographs.

Several similar map-based photo browsing systems appeared on the Web in the last few years. Flickr now also employs a map-based interface to access photos. All of those systems face the problem of clutter in the map interface: as the number of photos available in each location grow, the full set of images cannot possibly be shown on the map at once.

The principal element of the visualization is the “primary tags”. The primary tags are overlaid by the application on top of the viewed map area. The primary tags are meant to give the user an idea regarding the landmarks, points of interest and other items available in the viewed area.

..for each area and zoom level, the system retrieves the appropriate clusters and returns the top-scoring tag for each cluster, the tag’s score, and the tag’s position (the cluster’s centroid).

The principal interaction method in the application is clicking, or simply hovering the mouse over one of the tags…
Clicking a primary tag will show “secondary tags” as well as relevant photos.

The secondary tags are displayed as a drop-down menu when the user clicks one of the primary tags, thus avoiding clutter while still allowing for more details to be exposed.

the needle and the haystack:

This need was most commonly expressed when participants were looking for specific locations or landmarks in a city that they were not familiar with (tasks 1 and 3). For example, while browsing through Barcelona for Task 3, Participant 6 said “I guess what I’m looking for are bull fighting pictures. Is there a way to actually [search]?”.

Participant 1 (“I personally am a very map person”) liked the integration for planning: “I can not only decide what I like and visit, I can even plot it out and first I do this and I don’t need anyone’s help…”.

Participants appeared to have difficulties when the visible tags did not match their mental model of a location. For instance, at certain zoom levels in the San Francisco area, the tag Chinatown was not visible, while Japantown was available; many of the users complained that Chinatown was more important and should be displayed before Japantown. This could be possibly remedied by giving the users a more personalized view of the tags where the tags are tailored to their interests. Participant 1 requested a filter to help plan a trip “If the tags were really interesting and could pick up what kind of person I am and what kind of trip I would do in New York which would be really different from someone like my dad then that filter would really help me visit New York in the way i would.”

About half the participants also wanted to have more information about the tags especially in the unknown locations. Participant 3 summarized it as “now that I think about it just looking at the pictures doesn’t really help, I need text to go with it. So for example ’opera’ all I see are buildings that look like other buildings so it doesn’t really give me a feel for what its like. If there is text behind it it will be more helpful because I don’t know if I’m there to see an opera or a building…”.

The evaluation of World Explorer brought up issues we hope to address in future work. In particular, it was clear that user needs often required both the “needle” and the “haystack” view of the data, even while performing a single task.

ideeën voor eigen thesis:

• Flickr foto’s cross-referencen met dataset van bezienswaardigheden. Zodat enkel bezienswaadigheden gevisualiseerd worden.