”Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information.” - Edward R....
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Visualizing the editing history of Wikipedia pages - Viégas, Wattenberg & Dave
http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/or google “history flow” IBM
Choosing data...
• Show only relevant data– Otherwise: clutter
• Show only reliable data– Otherwise: distrust
• Most important data comes first / is more colorful / is larger / etc!
• Provide several views– Layering data vs not layering it
”The use of computer-supported,
interactive, visual representations of abstract data to
amplify cognition”
- Card, Mackinlay & Shneiderman
Magic Lenses: Transparent - Different properties - Change view
Toolglass and Magic Lenses. Bier, E., et al., 1993
Focus + Context:
To display the most important data at the focal point at full size and detail, and display the area
around the focal point (the context) to help make sense of how the important information
relates to the entire data structure. Regions far from the focal point may be displayed
smaller (as in fisheye views) or selectively omitted.
Main issue:Distortion
"Well....thanks to the lame ass security, I’m
going home!"
Axl W Rose, July 2 1991Riverport Amphitheatre, St.
Louis, Missouri,
Typically laid out in circles, or onto globes or hemispheres
Focal point in the centerThe further from the
center the smaller the items
Allows angles or positions to stay constant when changing focus but not both...
Hyperbolic geometry