Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information George Legrady1 MAT 259 Visualizing Information Discipline Specific Definitions

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Winter 2009George Legrady2 Discipline Specific Visualizations Each discipline has a particular implementation goal  Information Visualization: Analyzing and transforming nonspatial data into visual form for cognition  Scientific Visualization: Map physical phenomena in 2D, or 3D  Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Cartographic framework, a familiar way to map data  LIS: citation indexing, bibliographic indexing, etc.  Art: Aesthetics, complexity, culturally meaningful results  Architecture: to convey information & affect

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Winter 2009George Legrady3 Information Visualization  Visually map abstract, non-spatial data to analyze and understand data.  Focus on abstract data sets that do not have inherent 2D or 3D geometrical properties on their own  A general term that can cover a broad range of developments: data visualization, information graphics, knowledge visualization, etc.  A creative approach to convey abstract information in intuitive ways.  Involves processing of large datasets as a means to reveal meaningful patterns.

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Information Visualization (Timm Kekeritz) Winter 2006George Legrady4

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Information Visualization (Timm Kekeritz) Winter 2006George Legrady5

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Information Visualization (Cost of Nation Rebuild…)Cost of Nation Rebuild… Winter 2006George Legrady6

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Winter 2009George Legrady7 Scientific Visualization  Interdisciplinary branch of science, concerned with visualizing 3D or time based phenomena  Emphasis on realistic rendering of volume, surfaces, illumination sources  Mapping phenomena such as medical biological meteorological systems  Graphical representation of numerical data for qualitative and quantitative analysis  Computer simulation of abstract models of a system, mathematical modeling of natural systems from physics, chemistry, biology,

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Winter 2009George Legrady8 Scientific Visualization

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Winter 2009George Legrady9 GIS (Geographical Information Systems)  Any information system that integrates stores, analyzes, displays geographical information  Analyze spatial information, maps  Cartography: Combines science, aesthetics, and technical processes to communicate information.  Cartographic modeling: Uses topology, and attribute information

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Winter 2009George Legrady10 MAPPING: handmaps.orghandmaps.org

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Winter 2009George Legrady11 LIS (Library Information Science)  LS applies practices, perspectives, tools of information technology and management to libraries  Focus on how people interact with classification systems and technology  How information is acquired, evaluated, and classified  Citation indexing, bibliographic indexing

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Winter 2009George Legrady12 LIS (Library Information Science)

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Winter 2009George Legrady13 LIS (Library Information Science)

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Winter 2009George Legrady14 Information Design, Information Graphics  Information design, a subset of graphic design  The intent is to display information effectively  Sometimes the visual effect dominates

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Winter 2009George Legrady15 Information Design; Finance (Buro X)Buro X

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Winter 2009George Legrady16 Information Design, Information Graphics  Information design, a subset of graphic design  The intent is to display information effectively

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Media A: Diagrammatic Narrative Winter 2006George Legrady17

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Art: Sol Lewitt (Wall Drawing – Mass MOCA)Wall Drawing Winter 2006George Legrady18

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Art: Agnes Denes (11000 trees)11000 trees Winter 2006George Legrady19

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Art: Lisa Jevbratt (1:1 Interface)1:1 Interface Winter 2006George Legrady20

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Art: Lisa Jevbratt (The voice)The voice Winter 2006George Legrady21

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Music: Notation (Xenakis – Metastatis) Winter 2006George Legrady22

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Music: Notation (Ligeti) George Legrady23

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Film Notation: Anthony McCall George Legrady24

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Film Notation: Anthony McCall George Legrady25

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Film: Daniel Aubert (farbtrennung)farbtrennung Winter 2006George Legrady26

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Architecture (Data driven) Winter 2006George Legrady27

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Architecture (Data driven – Zaha Hadid) Winter 2006George Legrady28

Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program UC Santa Barbara MAT 259 Visualizing Information Winter 2006George Legrady29 References