ITM/ECM 734

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ITM/ECM 734

• Human Factors in Information Systems
• Fall 2005
• Visualization
• Cindy Corritore, Ph.D.
• Creighton University

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2D visualization

• http//www.ilog.com/image.cfm?nameILOGJTGO_b.jpg
• Workflow demo - http//mvdemo01.ilog.com/wf-monito
  r/ (pick invisible button)
• pg. 591, Google network, pg. 593, pg 594
• Lifelines (use IE) (we looked at this already)
• http//www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/lifelines/latestdemo/ch
  i.html - prototype

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2D

• Pad - 2D visualization tool (turn down colors)
• widgets
• presentation
• Counterpoint (show presentation BIB 2004)

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2D

• fisheye menu (pick fisheye from menu)
  http//www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/fisheyemenu/fisheyemenu
  -demo.shtml
• business ethics website at CU http//businessethi
  cs.creighton.edu/home.aspx?InsidePageResources
• Date Lens for PDA calenders (fisheye)
  (http//www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/datelens/)
• short movie http//www.windsorinterfaces.com/date
  lens.shtml The brain (personal brain also) (we
  did this already) http//www.thebrain.com/
• brain site map - http//mappa.mundi.net/map/index
  .html

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2D

• Tree Map and stocks (we looked at this)
• http//www.smartmoney.com/marketmap/mapPage.cfm
• http//www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/applet/index.sh
  tml
• Space tree movie (website http//www.cs.umd.edu
  /hcil/spacetree/applet/applet.shtml )

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2D

• Hyperbolic tree
• online shopping demo http//www.inxight.com/dem
  os/grocery/index.htm
• Lexus-Nexus http//www.lexisnexis.com/startree/in
  teractiveview.asp
• Magnifind
• Touchgraph - http//www.touchgraph.com/ - go to
  Google
• Visual Thesaurus
• Cop (we looked at this already)
  http//ai.bpa.arizona.edu/COPLINK/demo/Visualizati
  on.htm

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2D

• IBM Data Explorer platform (opensource tool)
• http//researchweb.watson.ibm.com/dx/imageGallery
  /index.html - gallery of output from system with
  different types of data

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2D (a few 3D)

• Visualize, Inc. - more about graphs (skip)
• www.visualizetech.com/products
• Vantage Point / examples
• Data Vista Explorer
• Dynamic queries
• Spotfire desktop icon http//www.spotfire.com/p
  roducts/analysis_builder.asp
• homefinder (Univ of Maryland HCI lab) desktop
  icon
• http//iokio.biz/demos/camerafinder/

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time-based series

• Bade paper looking at ways to represent data
  related to time (medical)
• Tufte and paper proof of concept
  http//www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/lancet_p3
• explanation - http//www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/la
  ncet_p2

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information-rich visualizations

• Pampelk ref - SOM maps self-organizing map
  (using neural net) - http//websom.hut.fi/websom/
  (millions of docs system automatically creates
  the map search on finnish demo)
• labels are core vocabulary of map unit docs
• coloring light are more dense (clusters) and
  dark are ravines between clusters

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information-rich visualizations

• Pampalk et al - 6 Mozart sonatas by 6 famous
  pianists idea is to allow user to adjust
  variables and analysis method http//www.ofai.at/
  elias.pampalk/kdd03/
• also Islands of Music (music repositories) and
  animals (characteristics like appearance vs.
  activity)

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evaluating data

• Gresh et al Figure 7 - http//www.cindycorritor
  e.com/readings/visualization/week_2/gresh20visual
  ization.pdf
• shows how user can manipulate information and
  examine outliers (potential money losers or
  makers)

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3D

• Periscope project search results - website at
  http//periscope.kti.ae.poznan.pl/project/index2.h
  tml
• demo (test) http//periscope.kti.ae.poznan.pl/
• Compare search results
• - cylinders are domains (green bar if
  subdomains)
• - documents (circles on host squares if doc on
  subdomain host)
• - move cylinders around

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eBiz Live - Bank of America Credit Policy
Scoring

• Review characteristics of 200,000 automobile
  loans to improve credit scoring procedure.
• Correlate incidence of bad loans with loan
  applicant details.
• Compare sub-populations. Geographic or
  abstract e.g. age, income or any of 100
  characteristics.
• Visualization highlights patterns in credit
  performance.

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simple but facile

• Broadmoor hotel Colorado Spring, CO
  https//reservations.ihotelier.com/onescreen.cfm?h
  otelID2054languageID1
• Yankee Candles custom http//sparrow10.parc.xero
  x.com8000/sparrow_2.0/index.html