Treemap Art Project: Aesthetics in Information Visualization
Ben Shneiderman [email protected] @benbendc
Founding Director (1983-2000), Human-Computer Interaction LabProfessor, Department of Computer Science
Member, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Anderson Ranch: Wesley Grubbs’ Creating Art from Data
Interdisciplinary research community - Computer Science & Info Studies - Psych, Socio, Educ, Jour & MITH www.cs.umd.edu/hcil
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Design Issues
• Input devices & strategies• Keyboards, pointing devices, voice
• Direct manipulation
• Menus, forms, commands
• Output devices & formats• Screens, windows, color, sound
• Text, tables, graphics
• Instructions, messages, help
• Collaboration & Social Media
• Help, tutorials, training
• Search www.awl.com/DTUI
Sixth Edition: 2016
• Visualization
Information Visualization & Visual Analytics
• Visual bands• Human percle
• Trend, clus..
• Color, size,..
• Three challe• Meaningful vi
• Interaction: w
• Process mo
1999
Information Visualization & Visual Analytics
• Visual bandwidth is enormous• Human perceptual skills are remarkable
• Trend, cluster, gap, outlier...
• Color, size, shape, proximity...
• Three challenges• Meaningful visual displays of massive da
• Interaction: widgets & window coordinati
• Process models for discovery
1999 2004
Information Visualization & Visual Analytics
• Visual bandwidth is enormous• Human perceptual skills are remarkable
• Trend, cluster, gap, outlier...
• Color, size, shape, proximity...
• Three challenges• Meaningful visual displays of massive data
• Interaction: widgets & window coordination
• Process models for discovery
1999 2004 2010
Spotfire: Retinol’s role in embryos & vision
Spotfire: DC natality data
http://registration.spotfire.com/eval/default_edu.asp
Information Visualization: Cultural Meme
Information Visualization: Mantra
• Overview, zoom & filter, details-on-demand
• Overview, zoom & filter, details-on-demand
• Overview, zoom & filter, details-on-demand
• Overview, zoom & filter, details-on-demand
• Overview, zoom & filter, details-on-demand
• Overview, zoom & filter, details-on-demand
• Overview, zoom & filter, details-on-demand
• Overview, zoom & filter, details-on-demand
• Overview, zoom & filter, details-on-demand
• Overview, zoom & filter, details-on-demand
Information Visualization: Data Types
• 1-D Linear Document Lens, SeeSoft, Info Mural
• 2-D Map GIS, ArcView, PageMaker, Medical imagery
• 3-D World CAD, Medical, Molecules, Architecture
• Multi-Var Spotfire, Tableau, Qliktech, Visual Insight
• Temporal LifeLines, TimeSearcher, Palantir, DataMontage
• Tree Cone/Cam/Hyperbolic, SpaceTree, Treemap
• Network Pajek, UCINet, NodeXL, Gephi, Tom Sawyer
• Text TagClouds, Wordle, ManyEyes, Ngram Viewer
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infosthetics.com visualcomplexity.com eagereyes.orgflowingdata.com perceptualedge.com datakind.orgvisual.ly Visualizing.org infovis.org
Treemap: Gene Ontology
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/
+ Space filling
+ Space limited
+ Color coding
+ Size coding - Requires learning
(Shneiderman, ACM Trans. on Graphics, 1992 & 2003)
www.smartmoney.com/marketmap
Treemap: Smartmoney MarketMap
Market falls steeply Feb 27, 2007, with one exception
Market mixed, February 8, 2008 Energy & Technology up, Financial & Health Care down
Market rises, September 1, 2010, Gold contrarians
FinViz: Mixed day, July 30, 2015
https://finviz.com/map.ashx
FinViz: Bad day, August 21, 2015
FinViz: Better day, August 25, 2015
FinViz: Good day, August 26, 2015
Treemap: Newsmap.jp (Marcos Weskamp)
Treemap: WHC Emergency Room (6304 patients in Jan2006)
Group by Admissions/MF, size by service time, color by age
Treemap: WHC Emergency Room (6304 patients in Jan2006) (only those service time >12 hours)
Group by Admissions/MF, size by service time, color by age
www.hivegroup.com
Treemap: Nutritional Analysis
www.spotfire.com
Treemap: Spotfire Bond Portfolio Analysis
Treemap: NY Times – Car&Truck Sales
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/
Treemap (Voronoi): NY Times - Inflation
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/03/business/20080403_SPENDING_GRAPHIC.html
Book of Trees: Manuel Lima
Treemap Art Project
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Treemap Art Project: User Experience
Aesthetics
•Layout (slice-and-dice, squarified, ordered, strip),
•Color palette (muted, bold, sequential, divergent, rainbow)
•Aspect ratio (square, golden ratio, wide, tall)
•Prominence of borders (regions, hierarchy & boundary)
Engagement
•Choice of data
•Degree of explanation
•Context
Treemapart.wordpress.com
Treemap Art Project: User Experience
Aesthetics
•Layout (slice-and-dice, squarified, ordered, strip),
•Color palette (muted, bold, sequential, divergent, rainbow)
•Aspect ratio (square, golden ratio, wide, tall)
•Prominence of borders (regions, hierarchy & boundary)
Engagement
•Choice of data
•Degree of explanation
•Context
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Treemap Art Project
Aesthetics
•Layout (slice-and-dice, squarified, ordered, strip),
•Color palette (muted, bold, sequential, divergent, rainbow)
•Aspect ratio (square, golden ratio, wide, tall)
•Prominence of borders (regions, hierarchy & boundary)
Engagement
•Choice of data
•Degree of explanation
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Treemap Art Project
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Treemap Art Project
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Data Art Philosophies
• Tufte: No Chartjunk, High data-to-ink ratio
• Few: Clean simple clear
• Holmes: Engaging infographics
• Wattenberg & Viegas: Graceful content
• Ericson, Cox, Bostock: Visual journalism
• Shneiderman: Algorithms & interactions
• Cairo, Yau, Lima,… Grubbs
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil @benbendc
Treemap Art Project
Aesthetics
•Layout (slice-and-dice, squarified, ordered, strip),
•Color palette (muted, bold, sequential, divergent, rainbow)
•Aspect ratio (square, golden ratio, wide, tall)
•Prominence of borders (regions, hierarchy & boundary)
Engagement
•Choice of data
•Degree of explanation
Treemapart.wordpress.com