PV251 Visualization
Seminar 2
What today?
1. Postcards
2. Project definition
3. Examples of projects from the last years
4. Visualization tools
5. Processing
6. Physical visualization
PROJECT DEFINITION
Do not forget about …
• Multiple interactively linked views
• Readme with data description, reference to data
source, description of preprocessing used,
description of interaction … and whatever else
what is relevant (recommended browser, etc.)
• All source codes necessary for launching the
application
• All used libraries
• What was your inspiration ☺
• Critical assessment and future work is welcomed
Example – WoW characters
Example – Earthquakes
Example – Education level in Europe
Example – Sex ratio between university
students
VISUALIZATION TOOLS
Visualization tools
• Lexipedia
http://www.lexipedia.com
Visualization tools
• Word Clouds
https://www.wordclouds.com/
• Other interesting visualizations
http://chartporn.org/
• Big data
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
Visualization tools
• Google chart tools – animated graphs
https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/d
ocs/gallery/motionchart#Example
• GapMinder World
http://www.gapminder.org/tools/#_state_marker_c
olor_scaleType=ordinal;&size_slash__label_which=
_slash__default&use=constant;;;&chart-
type=bubbles
Visualization tools
• Graphs
http://old.onlinecharttool.com/
http://www.chartgo.com/
http://www.flotcharts.org/
http://fooplot.com/#W3sidHlwZSI6MCwiZXEiOiJ4Xj
IiLCJjb2xvciI6IiMwMDAwMDAifSx7InR5cGUiOjEwM
DB9XQ--
http://www.slideshare.net/kgude/free-visual-
tools-snd-2012-cleveland-presentation
PROCESSING
A Comparative Visualization
Environment of Urban Bike Mobility
https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/cf/
Processing
• Web
https://processing.org/
• Documentation
https://processing.org/reference/
• Tutorials
https://processing.org/tutorials/
DATA VISUALIZATION USING MAPS
Size variation
Color variation
What next?
Task no. 2
• Create a “physical” visualization of selected
dataset
• Prepare the model and very short
presentation for next seminar
Examples