Contemporary Examples Stat 332, Fall 2014 1 Outline • Some of our own Visualizations • Evaluation Criteria • Newspaper Examples • Social Network Graphics Sites 2 Delayed, Cancelled, On Time, Boarding ... Flying in the USA Graphics Working Group Iowa State University Case study competition - ggplot2 3 A Day over the USA Watch out for: - Red eye flights from West to East Coast - Time zone wave waking up (and going to sleep) - Build-up of delays during the day - Delays in Denver & Chicago January 19, 2006 4 The White Hurricane Mar 13, 1993 Watch out for: - “normal” pattern in the morning - quick build-up of delays - NE shuts down Mar 13, 1993, East Coast hit by severe storm system 5 NY Times, May 2012 6 • What is the main message? • Who is the audience? • What is the data? • How is the data encoded into the graphic? 7 2008 US Presidential Elections Analysis by ISU Statistical Graphics Working Group http://www.public.iastate.edu/~dicook/Election/Home.html 8 Results of the daily tracking polls, and the actual popular vote (blue). Main pollsters are colored, so that relative bias can be seen. The trend line is a loess smooth through all points. 9 Result for each state (blue, red) and polls for each state over the week leading up to the election are shown as a dot plot. From top to bottom, the order of the states is from most Republican to most Democratic. Median is represented as a black dot, all polls as large white dots, and median of last week’s as a grey dot. Vertical lines mark 5% points difference. 10 Blue State or Red State Who won the election? 11 These displays show the sum of the electoral votes for each candidate. This display is inspired by a New York Times display during the 2000 presidential election titled “Building an Election Victory”. 12 Name Voyager, 2005 • Martin Wattenberg • www.bewitched.com • Visual Communication Lab, IBM 13 NameVoyager: Baby Name Wizard Graph of Most Popular Baby Names | The Baby Name Wizard 14 The Shape of Song, 2001 The diagrams in The Shape of Song display musical form as a sequence of translucent arches. Each arch connects two repeated, identical passages of a composition. By using repeated passages as signposts, the diagram illustrates the deep structure of the composition. The picture above was built from the first line of a very simple piece: Mary Had a Little Lamb. Each arch connects two identical passages. To clarify the connection between the visualization and the song, in this diagram the score is displayed beneath the arches. 15 Chopin, Mazurka in F# Minor The image illustrates the complex, nested structure of the piece. The Shape of Song 16 Ben Fry • www.benfry.com • “Data Artist” • principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy located in Boston 17 All Streets, March 2009 18 All Streets All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas convey low population. More details: writing | ben fry » All Streets 19 Your Health Take a closer look at your health : GE 20 Your Health About this data The information here is based on a sample of 6MM patient records from GE's proprietary database, and represents some of the conditions that commonly affect Americans today. Gender, age, weight and smoking status are important factors in evaluating a person's propensity for common diseases, but there are many other contributing factors. The percentages in this application should only be interpreted as general trends. 21 Fan Loyalty - World Cup 2014 22 TextArc, 2002 TextArc.org Home Brad Paley 23 How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com NY Times 24 Blogs / Sites on Information Visualization • information aesthetics. • EagerEyes.org | Visualization and Visual Communication • FlowingData | Data Visualization and Statistics • http://www.flickr.com/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisugly 25 Bleeding Edge Views but do they work? 26 GoodMorning: Visualizing Wake Up Tweets around the World GoodMorning [blprnt.com] is a Twitter visualization tool that shows about 11,000 "good morning" tweets over a 24 hour period, between August 20th and 21st. And this is just a simple sample of Twitter activity around the globe. All tweets are color-coded: green blocks are early tweets, orange ones are around 9am, and red tweets are later in the morning. Black blocks are 'out of time' tweets which said "good morning" (or a non-english equivalent) at a strange time in the day. http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/08/ goodmorning_visualizing_wake_up_tweets_around_the_world.html 27 Charting Culture: 2000 Years of Cultural History in 5 Minutes Charting Culture [nature.com] shows the geographical movements of over 120,000 individuals who were notable enough in their life-times that the dates and locations of their births and deaths were recorded. 28 Clouds over Helsinki Using a laser animation, data describing the power consumption of the coal power plant, was projected as an outline of the cloud onto the exhaust from the coal power plant, which grew as power consumption went down. The project was massive in scale, not only physical logistics, but also in creating partnerships between the artists, government, and business." During this time 4,000 local residents reduced their energy consumption by 800 kVA, the equivalent of the power generated by one windmill running for one hour. Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen, February 2008 29