"Information" - Things, items, etc., which do not have a direct physical correspondence. Abstractness seems to be a critical notion.
Information visualization - Taking these items without a physical correspondence and mapping them to a 2-D or 3-D physical space.
Simple taxonomy
| Domains | Source/Structure | Tasks |
|---|---|---|
| ------- | ---------------- | ----- |
| Statistics | Hierarchies | Browsing |
| Text/books | Networks | Analysis |
| Web | Text (structured,corpora) | -- Comparisons/diff |
| Business data | Tuples | -- Outliers, extremes |
| -- Patterns | ||
| Assimilation | ||
| Monitoring |
Fisheye view - G. Furnas CHI '86. Region of interest shown in detail. As you move away from that, less detail is shown. Often uses DOI (Degree of Interst) function that maps distance from the focus to some output presentation mode/level.
Dynamic query - Updated display of query results in an animated intereactive fashion. Promotes exploration.
Videos we watched:
Networks
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Graphical Fisheye views
Tuples
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3D Timelines
Film Finder
SAGE