Improving Data Visualization Literacy:
Empowering Anyone to Read and Make Visualizations
Katy Börner
Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Information Science
Director, Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center
School of Informatics and Computing and
Indiana University Network Science Institute
Indiana University, USA
February 8, 2016
Olivier H. Beauchesne, 2011. Map of Scientific Collaborations from 2005-2009.
Part1
Visualization Frameworks
Places&Spaces:MappingScienceExhibit,onlineathttp://scimaps.org
Science&TechnologyOutlook:2005Ͳ2055 Ͳ AlexSoojungͲKimPang,DavidPescovitz,MarinaGorbis,Jean
HaganͲ 2006
LanguageCommunitiesofTwitter Ͳ EricFischerͲ 2012
InTermsofGeographyͲ AndreSkupin Ͳ 2005
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Bollen,Johan,HerbertVandeSompel,AricHagberg,LuisM.A.Bettencourt,RyanChute,MarkoA.
Rodriquez,LyudmilaBalakireva.2008.AClickstreamMapofScience.
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WardShelley.2011.HistoryofScienceFiction.
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April,2005:101stAnnualMeetingofthe
AssociationofAmericanGeographer,Denver,Colorado.
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ScienceMapsin“ExpeditionZukunft”sciencetrainvisited62citiesin7months.
OpeningonApril23rd,2009byGermanChancellorMerkel
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Places&SpacesExhibitattheDavidJ.Sencer CDCMuseum,Atlanta,GA
January25ͲJune17,2016
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Seeingfor
ActionͲ Using
Mapsand
Graphs
toProtectthe
Public’sHealth.
CDCOpeningEvent:MapsofHealth
TutorialandSymposium
February4Ͳ5,2016
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HowtoClassify(Name &Make)DifferentVisualizations?
By
• Userinsightneeds?
• Usertasktypes?
• Datatobevisualized?
• Datatransformation?
• Visualizationtechnique?
• Visualmappingtransformation?
• Interactiontechniques?
• Or?
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Part2
Part1
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DifferentQuestionTypes
Findyourway
Descriptive&
Predictive
Models
Findcollaborators,friends
Terabytesofdata
Identifytrends
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DifferentLevelsofAbstraction/Analysis
Macro/Global
PopulationLevel
Meso/Local
GroupLevel
Micro
IndividualLevel
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Tasks
Seepage5
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NeedsͲDrivenWorkflowDesign
DEPLOY
Validation
Interpretation
Stakeholders
Visually
encode
data
Typesandlevelsofanalysisdetermine
data,algorithms&parameters,and
deployment
Overlay
data
Data
Select
visualiz.
type
READ
ANALYZE
VISUALIZE
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NeedsͲDrivenWorkflowDesign
DEPLOY
Validation
Interpretation
Stakeholders
Visually
encode
data
Typesandlevelsofanalysisdetermine
data,algorithms&parameters,and
deployment
Overlay
data
Data
Select
visualiz.
type
READ
ANALYZE
VISUALIZE
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NeedsͲDrivenWorkflowDesign
DEPLOY
Validation
Interpretation
Visually
encode
data
Graphic
Variable
Types
Typesandlevelsofanalysisdetermine
data,algorithms&parameters,and
deployment
Overlay
data
Modify
reference
system,add
records&links
Data
Select
visualiz.
type
Visualization
Types
(reference
systems)
Stakeholders
READ
ANALYZE
VISUALIZE
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VisualizationTypes(ReferenceSystems)
1. Charts:Noreferencesystem—e.g.,Wordle.com,piecharts
2. Tables:Categoricalaxesthatcanbeselected,reordered;cells
canbecolorcodedandmightcontainproportionalsymbols.
Specialkindofgraph.
3. Graphs:Quantitativeorqualitative(categorical)axes.
Timelines,bargraphs,scatterplots.
4. Geospatialmaps:Uselatitudeandlongitudereference
system.Worldorcitymaps.
5. Networkgraphs:Nodepositionmightdependsonnode
attributesornodesimilarity.Treegraphs:hierarchies,
taxonomies,genealogies.Networks:socialnetworks,
migrationflows.
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IVMOOCApp– Morethan60visualizations
The“IVMOOCFlashcards”appcanbedownloadedfromGoogle
PlayandAppleiOSstores.
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VisualizationFramework
Seepage24
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VisualizationFramework
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VisualizationFramework
Seepage24
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Load One File and Run Many Analyses and Visualizations
Times
Cited
12
Publication
Year
2011
CityofPublisher Country
NEWYORK
USA
18
2010
MALDEN
USA
13
2010
WASHINGTON
USA
JournalTitle Title
(Full)
COMMUNICATI PlugͲandͲPlayMacroscopes
ONSOFTHE
ACM
CTSͲCLINICAL AdvancingtheScienceof
TeamScience
AND
TRANSLATIONA
LSCIENCE
AMultiͲLevelSystems
SCIENCE
TRANSLATIONA PerspectivefortheScience
LMEDICINE
ofTeamScience
SubjectCategory Authors
ComputerScience Borner,K
Research&
Experimental
Medicine
CellBiology
|Research&
Experimental
Medicine
FalkͲKrzesinski,HJ|Borner,
K|Contractor,N|Fiore,SM|Hall,
KL|Keyton,J|Spring,B|Stokols,
D|Trochim,W|Uzzi,B
Borner,K|Contractor,N|FalkͲ
Krzesinski,HJ|Fiore,SM|Hall,
KL|Keyton,J|Spring,B|Stokols,
D|Trochim,W|Uzzi,B
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Load One File and Run Many Analyses and Visualizations
Times
Cited
12
Publication
Year
2011
CityofPublisher Country
NEWYORK
USA
18
2010
MALDEN
USA
13
2010
WASHINGTON
USA
JournalTitle Title
(Full)
COMMUNICATI PlugͲandͲPlayMacroscopes
ONSOFTHE
ACM
CTSͲCLINICAL AdvancingtheScienceof
TeamScience
AND
TRANSLATIONA
LSCIENCE
AMultiͲLevelSystems
SCIENCE
TRANSLATIONA PerspectivefortheScience
LMEDICINE
ofTeamScience
SubjectCategory Authors
ComputerScience Borner,K
Research&
Experimental
Medicine
CellBiology
|Research&
Experimental
Medicine
FalkͲKrzesinski,HJ|Borner,
K|Contractor,N|Fiore,SM|Hall,
KL|Keyton,J|Spring,B|Stokols,
D|Trochim,W|Uzzi,B
Borner,K|Contractor,N|FalkͲ
Krzesinski,HJ|Fiore,SM|Hall,
KL|Keyton,J|Spring,B|Stokols,
D|Trochim,W|Uzzi,B
CoͲauthorand
manyother
biͲmodalnetworks.
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Registerforfree:http://ivmooc.cns.iu.edu.ClassstartedJan12,2016.
ScienceForecast
S1:E1,2015
Part3
Microscopes,Telescopes,Macroscopes PlugͲandͲPlayMacroscopes
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http://scimaps.org/iteration/11
IlluminatedDiagramDisplay
ondisplayattheSmithsonianinDC.
http://scimaps.org/exhibit_info/#ID
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References
Börner,Katy,Chen,Chaomei,andBoyack,Kevin.(2003).
VisualizingKnowledgeDomains. InBlaise Cronin(Ed.),
ARIST,Medford,NJ:InformationToday,Volume37,Chapter
5,pp.179Ͳ255.http://ivl.slis.indiana.edu/km/pub/2003Ͳ
bornerͲarist.pdf
Shiffrin,RichardM.andBörner,Katy(Eds.)(2004).Mapping
KnowledgeDomains.ProceedingsoftheNationalAcademy
ofSciencesoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica,101(Suppl_1).
http://www.pnas.org/content/vol101/suppl_1/
Börner,Katy(2010)AtlasofScience:VisualizingWhatWe
Know.TheMITPress.http://scimaps.org/atlas
Scharnhorst,Andrea,Börner,Katy,vandenBesselaar,Peter
(2012)ModelsofScienceDynamics.SpringerVerlag.
KatyBörner,MichaelConlon,JonCorsonͲRikert,Cornell,
YingDing(2012)VIVO:ASemanticApproachtoScholarly
NetworkingandDiscovery.Morgan&Claypool.
KatyBörner andDavidEPolley (2014)VisualInsights:A
PracticalGuidetoMakingSenseofData.TheMITPress.
Börner,Katy(2015)AtlasofKnowledge:AnyoneCanMap.
TheMITPress.http://scimaps.org/atlas2
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