Lesson03
ISSS608 Visual Analytics and Applications
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Core Skills for Visual Analytics
Content
Interaction Concepts and Framework
- Interaction Operators
- Interaction Operands and Spaces
- A Unified Framework
Interactive Techniques
- Brushing
- Identification
- Scaling
- Subset selection
- Line segments link views
- Dragging points
- Rotating
Typology of interaction
- Screen space
- Object-space (3D surfaces)
- Data space (multivariate data values)
- Attribute space (properties of graphical entities)
- Data structure space (components of data organization)
- Visualization structure space (components of the data visualization)
- Animating Transformation
Hands-On Session
- Programming Interactive Data Visualisation for the Web Workshop
Useful references
- Creating Animations and Transitions With D3 by Jerome Cukier [1]
- Chapter 9. Updates, Transitions, and Motion of Interactive Data Visualization for the Web [2]
- Chapter 4. Interaction and Transitions of Getting Started with D3 [3]
Daily Readings
| Day | Time required | Readings |
| Monday | 60 mins |
Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis (must read)[4] The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations (must read)[5] Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Role of Interaction in Information Visualization. [6] Brushing [7] The Sunrest Path to Visual Discovery [8] |
| Tuesday | 60 mins |
Coordinated Highlighting in Context (must read) [9] Enhancing Visual Analysis by Linking Multiple Views of Data (must read)[10] Snap-together visualization: can users construct and operate coordinated visualizations? [11] Generalized Selection via Interactive Query Relaxation [12] |
| Wednesday | 60 mins |
Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics (must read) [13] Animation: can it facilitate? [14] |
| Thursday | 60 mins |
Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization (must read)[15]
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Useful Software Tools
Desktop
ViSta [16]
GGobi [17]
Mondrian [18]
Web-based
ManyEyes [19]
Google Chart Tools [20]
Taleau Public [21]
TIBCO Silver Spotfire [22]
