Thursday, December 29, 2016

The structure of the information visualization design space

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This paper provided a framework to organize and structure the visualization plots. It considers the following features:

  1. Data Type: Nominal, Ordinal, Quantitative, Intrinsically Spatial, Geographical, Set mapped to itself
  2. Function for recording data: filter,sorting,multidimensional scaling,interactive input ot a function
  3. Recorded Data Type: same as Data Type
  4. Control Processing : tx (text)
  5. Mark Type: point,line,surface,area,size
  6. Retinal properties: color, size, connection, enclosure
  7. Position in space time: position in space time, N (Nominal) O (Ordered) Q (Quantitative)
  8. View transformation: ::=nb (hyperbolic mapping)
  9. Widget: slider, radio buttons


For example: Multi-Dimensional Tables


Points: 1) many of the visualization is not web-based. Is there any particular reason to use web standard? 2) if the web-based visualization, what is the framework different? e.g. the web-based application may using more mouse gesture to click, scale and hover. Or, with help of useful libraries like D3.js, how does it influences the implementation of data visualization? 3) the design space for non-web-based applications are more open and less limitation, but accessibility is weak to share and collaborative.

Worth to read more: [2], [3], [4] for the web-based space of data visualization.

Reference:
  1. Card, Stuart K., and Jock Mackinlay. "The structure of the information visualization design space." Information Visualization, 1997. Proceedings., IEEE Symposium on. IEEE, 1997.
  2. Figueiras, Ana. "A Typology for Data Visualization on the Web." IV 13 (2013): 351-358.
  3. Turetken, Ozgur, and Ramesh Sharda. "Visualization of web spaces: state of the art and future directions." ACM SIGMIS Database 38.3 (2007): 51-81.
  4. Brath, Richard, and Ebad Banissi. "Using Typography to Expand the Design Space of Data Visualization." She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation 2.1 (2016): 59-87.

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