Data Visualization and Libraries
Justin Joque
Visualization Librarian
University of Michigan
joque@umich.edu
September 2014
LANDSCAPE
A Spectrum of Research Visualization
Design
• Literacy
• Statistics
• Graph Types
• Description
Processing
• Data Manipulation
• Data Scraping
• Exploration
Computing
• Displays
• 3D Environment
• Graphics Processing
• Cluster Computing
THE LIBRARY
The first to disintegrate a nucleus was Rutherford, and there is a picture
of him holding the apparatus in his lap. I then always remember the
later picture when one of the famous cyclotrons was built at Berkeley,
and all of the people were sitting in the lap of the cyclotron.
-Maurice Goldhaber, former director of Brookhaven Laboratory
PubMed Articles using the term 'Bioinformatics'
Articles per 100,000 articles
1500
1000
500
0
1990
2000
Year
2010
PubMed Articles using the term 'Visualization'
400
Articles per 100,000 articles
300
200
100
1960
1980
Year
2000
PROVIDING
SERVICES
19thcenturyacts.com
FUTURE
CHALLENGES
Thank You!
Justin Joque
Visualization Librarian
University of Michigan
joque@umich.edu