3. Data Overload
Opportunity: Huge amount of data available in
digital form and ready for analysis!
• But, how can we make sense of this data?
• How can we harness this data in the decision making process?
• How do we avoid being overwhelmed by all of this data?
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4. Data to Information
• We need to take all of this data and
transform it into information
• It’s how many petaflops of insights we can
generate from this data
• We need to make the data understandable
to people
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5. 7 ± 2
Number of items an average human
holds in working memory
George Miller, 1956
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Data Mining Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Data Visualization
Data Cleansing
Data wrangling
7. What is Visualization?
• “Computer-supported, interactive visual
representations of data to amplify cognition.”1
• This is not simply the process of making a
graphic or an image; the goal is to create
insight, not pretty pictures
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1-Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, SK Card, J Mackinlay and B.Shneiderman, 1999
8. Purpose of Visualization
• Analysis – Understand and explore your
data better
• Presentation – Communicate and inform
others more effectively
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10. Scientific Visualization
• Something physical or geometrics
• The structure is typically defined or given
• Examples
– Air flow over a wing
– Organs in the human body
– Molecular bonding
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12. Information Visualization
• No direct physical correspondence
• Notion of the data is abstract
• Infographics & design of the abstraction
• Examples
– Baseball statistics
– Stock trends
– My social network
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15. Key Tasks for Visualization
Search
Browse
Analyze
Monitor
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16. Is This the Total Solution?
• Traditional visualization misses several key
factors in how people solve difficult
problems
• Visual analytics is invented to support the
decision making environment with an
interactive human-computer exploration
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17. Visual Analytics Definition
Visual Analytics is the science of
analytical reasoning facilitated by
interactive visual interfaces1
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1. Illuminating the Path: The R&D
Agenda for Visual Analytics,
Editors: Thomas and Cook
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D. A. Keim, F. Mansmann, A. Stoffel and H. Ziegler,
Visual Analytics.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer, 2009.
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25. Conclusions
• Visualization is an important approach to
explore and analyze data
• Visual Analytics combines interactive visual
interfaces with algorithmic methods for data
pre-processing, transformation, and
feature/pattern extraction
• Visual Analytics is meant to be helping
people make sense from complex big data
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26. Acknowledgment
• David Ebert, Ronny Peikert, Min Chen, Thomas Ertl, Kelly Gaither,
Niklas Elmqvist, Ross Maciejewski
• PhD students
– Hanbyul Yeon, Seokyeon Kim, Sangbong Yoo,
• Masters students
– Mingyu Pi, SeongMin Jeong, Daegyo Jeong
• Undergrads
– Dohyun Kim, Sujin Jeong, Seongbum Seo, Sunseo Hong, Hyunjin Kang,
Jaeseok Yoo
• All coauthors
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