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"