cs5984: Information Visualization Chris North 1-D cs5984: Information Visualization Chris North

Quiz List 3 strategies for navigating large spaces?

Navigation Strategies Detail Only Zooming Overview+Detail Focus+Context (Distortion, fisheye)

F+C: Perspective Wall Mackinlay, “Perspective Wall” Ahmed, Ganesh

MMVIS Hibino, “MMVIS” Atul, Dhananjay

Virtual School Visualization Marcus Beale Last semester’s class IEEE Info Visualization Symposium, Oct 23

Fisheye Menus http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/fisheyemenu/ Overview letters more useful than menu items context? Menu items context more useful if show data attributes E.g. seesoft

Next Week Tues: Empirical Evaluation Thurs: Visualization Development Robertson, “Data Mountain” Thurs: Visualization Development Bederson, “Jazz” Literature Review due Thurs

Homework #2 Due: Thurs Oct 4 (2 weeks), see web page Visualization design: Visualizing travel schedules a.k.a. The Terrorist Detection Problem Data: N persons travel schedules M destinations per person, time schedules, travel method Tasks: … Focus on design, brainstorming, sketching Goal: Insight! Hand in: pictures + analysis