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Z and T Standard Scores!
T = 10z + 50!
Exam IIMean = 69.4!SD = 13.1!
Information Visualization!
Scientific Visualization versus Information Visualization"
Scientific Visualization"Example: Airflow over aircraft wing
Electrical Current in Thorax!
Information Visualization Examples!
http://www.smartmoney.com/marketmap
Treemap of Market
http://www.myrateplan.com/cellphones/
Cell Phone Selection
Thinking machine 4
Martin Wattenberg’s Many Eyes
Ben Fry’s Zipdecode
http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/zipdecode/ and Processing
www.processing.org
Additional Examples"
Flight patterns in US"http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/faa/ ""finance.google.com""Baby name wizard""The shape of song""CoolIris"
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Cooliris on HIPerSpace Wall"
Worldʼs Highest-Resolution Scientific Display System: Calit2 HIPerSpace Wall"
Seventy 30” displays, arranged in fourteen columns of five displays each. Each 'tile' has a resolution of 2,560 by 1,600 pixels – bringing the combined, visible resolution to 35,640 by 8,000 pixels, or more than 286.7 million pixels in all. (Almost 1 pixel per each of the 300 million US residents)"!"
Purpose of Visualization"
Convey Information to People"“The purpose of computing is insight not numbers.”
-- Richard Hamming!Answer a question!Frame an issue!Assist in decision making and support analysis and
reasoning!Assist discovery and exploration!Help look at something in new ways; everything worth
representing is worth representing in multiple ways!Communicate with others: make a point, tell a story,
serve as a shared artifact that assists collaboration!Inspire!
Power of Visualization"
Functions of Visualizations"
Record Information"Galilioʼs sketches of moon phases 1616!See http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/observations/moon.html for an interesting discussion!
Photographs: Phases of the Moon"
Answer Question"
Recording"
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/changingthefaceofmedicine/artifact/jacobi.html"
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Waylon Brunette, Jonathan Lester, Adam Rea, and Gaetano Boriello, University of Washington and Intel Research"
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Making a Decision: Challenger Disaster"
Challenger Disaster"
See Data in Context: Cholera Outbreak"
See Data in Context: Cholera Outbreak"
Find Patterns: New York Weather"
Also example of aircraft returning from bombing runs!
Inspire"
Also !Kunth and functions !Papert and gears!
Visual Thinking"Pythagorean Theorem
Chinese Proof By Dissection"Tufte/Blinn Videos"
Edward Tufteʼs Books"
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