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University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science Tamara Munzner Visualization: From Pixels to Insight March 3, 2007 UBC CS TechTrek
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2 Computer Graphics n create or manipulate images with computer n movies, games, photorealistic simulation
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3 Computer Graphics n create or manipulate images with computer n movies, games, photorealistic simulation n but wait, there’s more!
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4 Visualization n using interactive computer graphics to help people understand information better n substitute visual perception for cognition n make the computer do the hard work n some ways we've used it so far n untangling biology n seeing what we speak n finding who's who in the movies n playing with math
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5 Evolutionary Relationships M Meegaskumbura et al., Science 298:379 (2002)
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6 Small Frogs, Small Tree M Meegaskumbura et al., Science 298:379 (2002)
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7 Big Planet, Big Tree of Life David Hillis, Science 300:1687 (2003) Plants Protists Fungi Animals
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8 Big Planet, Big Tree of Life David Hillis, Science 300:1687 (2003) Plants Protists Fungi Animals You are here!
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9 The Old Way… focus context
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10 The New Way: TreeJuxtaposer n side-by-side comparison of evolutionary trees n stretch and squish to navigate n demo at http://olduvai.sf.net/tj more info at www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/tr/2003/tj
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11 Protein-Gene Pathways: Cerebral n pathway-style diagrams familiar to biologists n automatically place items with minimal clutter n demo at http://www.pathogenomics.ca/cerebral/ more info at www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/tr/2007/barskya_cerebral_appnote www.biocarta.com
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12 Untangling the Ball of Yarn: TopoLayout n breaking it up into the right pieces n using the right tool for the job to draw each piece TopoLayout GRIP FM 3 more info at www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/tr/2006/Archambault_TopoLayout_TVCG
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13 Who's Who in the Movies: Grouse more info soon at www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/tr/2007/Archambault_Grouse
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14 Seeing What We Speak: Constellation n computational linguistics more info at graphics.stanford.edu/papers/const
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15 Mapping Out Math: Movies n topology and geometry Outside In The Shape of Space more at www.geom.uiuc.edu/video/sos more at www.geom.uiuc.edu/docs/outreach/oi
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16 Symmetries of Space n play with patterns to learn underlying principles n demo at http://www.scienceu.com/geometry/handson/kali/kali.html more info at www.scienceu.com/geometry/articles/tiling
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17 Yet More Information n pictures, videos, software, papers, talks n http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm n these talk slides n http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/talks/techtrek07
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