Contemporary
Examples
Stat 332, Fall 2014
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Outline
• Some of our own Visualizations
• Evaluation Criteria
• Newspaper Examples
• Social Network Graphics Sites
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Delayed, Cancelled, On Time,
Boarding ... Flying in the USA
Graphics Working Group
Iowa State University
Case study competition - ggplot2
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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
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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
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NY Times, May 2012
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• What is the main message?
• Who is the audience?
• What is the data?
• How is the data encoded into the graphic?
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2008 US Presidential Elections
Analysis by ISU Statistical Graphics Working Group
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~dicook/Election/Home.html
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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.
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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.
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Blue State or Red State
Who won the election?
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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”.
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Name Voyager, 2005
• Martin Wattenberg
• www.bewitched.com
• Visual Communication Lab, IBM
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NameVoyager: Baby Name Wizard Graph of Most Popular Baby Names |
The Baby Name Wizard
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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.
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Chopin, Mazurka in F# Minor
The image illustrates the complex, nested structure of the piece.
The Shape of Song
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Ben Fry
• www.benfry.com
• “Data Artist”
• principal of Fathom, a design and software
consultancy located in Boston
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All Streets, March 2009
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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
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Your Health
Take a closer look at your health : GE
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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.
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Fan Loyalty - World
Cup 2014
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TextArc, 2002
TextArc.org Home
Brad Paley
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How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
NY Times
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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
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Bleeding Edge Views but do they work?
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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
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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.
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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
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