1. Interactive Visualization Using vision to think Luc Girardin Macrofocus GmbH

2. Interactive Visualization2 (31) Overview  Introduction  An example: Economic Research  Interactive Visualization  Another example: Investment Funds  Summary

3. Interactive Visualization3 (31) What is the problem?  Amounts of complex data growing faster than capability to analyze it  We know how to collect data and build big data warehouses but… We are lost in this space  Data  Information  Knowledge

4. Interactive Visualization4 (31) Example: Economic research  Survey of prices and earnings in 60 cities around the world  Each city characterized by 40+ different attributes

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9. Interactive Visualization9 (31) Interactive visualization  Use perceptual skills  Provide an overview of global relationships  Frame of reference to embed fine grained tasks  Overview – Zoom in – Details on demand  Encourage exploration and comparison  Reveal the data at several levels of detail

10. Interactive Visualization10 (31) Our approach  Integrated systems  Preserve context  Different views  Tightly linked  Highly interactive

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18. - Is this an outlier? - How do these groups relate to each other? - Are there groups of similar objects? - What is this object? - Why is it an outlier? - If I change this parameter a little bit,. how will the result be affected?

20. Interactive Visualization20 (31) A different approach…

21. Interactive Visualization21 (31) Fund’O’Scope Demo

22. Interactive Visualization22 (31) Spring-based layout algorithm

23. Interactive Visualization23 (31) i-lists beforeafter

24. Interactive Visualization24 (31) before after  -blended parallel coordinates

25. Interactive Visualization25 (31) What did we learn?  Not enough to connect database to the Web  Tools that fit the way we think and work Easier and faster data access Better understanding of information space Discover new relationships, anomalies

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27. Interactive Visualization27 (31) Nanotechnology

28. Interactive Visualization28 (31) From the lab…

29. Interactive Visualization29 (31) …to the Web

30. Interactive Visualization30 (31) Atom’O’Scope Demo