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Page 1: Data Visualization - Cornell University · Cornell CS 3220 Data Visualization Data Visualization Steve Marschner Cornell CS 3220 unless noted, images are from Tufte, The Visual Display

Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Data Visualization

Steve MarschnerCornell CS 3220

unless noted, images are fromTufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

(these slides also indebted to Pat Hanrahan’s slides for CS448B at Stanford)

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Data

A lot of 3220 is about datainput to fitting problems

output of simulations

Understanding all but the simplest is not easytables of numbers give little insight

appropriate pictures are invaluable!

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Purposes of visualization

Organize and display data (for yourself )provide data in a form our brains & visual systems are able to use

making pictures of data helps you understand it

designing visualizations forces you to organize the data

a key part of the intellectual and creative process

Present data (for others)data in support of arguments (scientific, policy, …)

data for making decisions (funding, operational, …)

good presentation of data is key to any good presentation of complex technical material

a part of informative & persuasive communication

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

John C. Snow (1854)

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Purposes of visualization

Organize and display data (for yourself )provide data in a form our brains & visual systems are able to use

making pictures of data helps you understand it

designing visualizations forces you to organize the data

a key part of the intellectual and creative process

Present data (for others)data in support of arguments (scientific, policy, …)

data for making decisions (funding, operational, …)

good presentation of data is key to any good presentation of complex technical material

a part of informative & persuasive communication

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

data presented by rocket’s manufacturer to argue for canceling the launch.

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

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data presented by rocket’s manufacturer to argue for canceling the launch.

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Space Shuttle mission STS-51-L, about 75 sec. after liftoff. 1986

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Tufte’s more convincing re-presentation of the same data. 1997

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Data Mappings

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Mapping data into a visual display

Datatypesprogramming: char, int, float, double, String, …

scientific data has types too

Graphical information channelsthere are many ways to put the data into pictures

good datatype-to-channel matches are important!

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Datatypes

Nominal select from unorganized set (enumerated type, in C)apples, oranges, tomatoes, …

Toyota, Ford, Subaru, …

Ordinal ordered set of values (< operator available)January, February, March, …

Trial 1, Trial 2, Trial 3, …

12 Oak St., 125 Oak St., 129 Oak St., …

S. S. Stevens, On the theory of scales of measurement (1946)

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Datatypes (quantitative)

Interval values are meaningful, but zero is arbitrary (+, – avail.)degrees Celsius

position

potential energy

Ratio values are meaningful, meaningful zero (×, ÷ avail.)degrees Kelvin

length

mass

S. S. Stevens, On the theory of scales of measurement (1946)

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Graphical information channelsSpatial

lengthpositionsize (area, volume?)

Colorvalue (lightness, black to white)saturation (colorfulness, gray to vivid)hue (color)texture (fill pattern)

Detailsshapeorientation

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Datatypes and channels

N O I R

length

position

size

value

saturation

hue

texture

shape

orientation

Y

Y Y Y

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Y

Y

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Pay attentionto data semantics

Chose channel thatcarries the semanticswell

spatialcolor

detail

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Common types of visualizations

data maps

time series

relational plots

histograms

bar charts

polar plots

color maps

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Data Maps

Position: position

Symbols, colors: various variables (N, O, or Q)

very old form of data visualization

readily interpreted with little training or effort

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

E. Halley. Map illustrating trade winds. 1686

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

C. J. Minard. Map illustrating exports of French wine. 1864

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

J.C. Minard. Depiction of losses during French Army march to (and retreat from) Moscow, 1812–1813.

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Time series

Horizontal axis: time (Interval—Position)

Vertical axis: some quantitative value (often money)

very old form of data visualization

readily interpreted with little training or effort

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

J.H. Lambert. Soil temperature over time at various depths. 1779

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

E.J. Marey. Train schedule for Paris–Lyon line. 1885

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Relational plots

Horizontal axis: alleged “cause”

Vertical axis: alleged “effect”

very powerful tool to investigate relationships

scatter plot for unordered set of points;connected line for ordered sequence of pointsor to emphasize functional “law”

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

ABC: temperature over timeDEF: height of water over time

evaporation rate vs. temperature

J.H. Lambert: influence of temperature on evaporation. 1769

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

C.Y. Ho et al. Review of thermal conductivity data. 1974

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

P. McCracken et al. Phillips curves. 1977

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Logarithmic plots

For one or both axes, replace direct (linear) data–position mapping with logarithmic mapping

Useful for data with high dynamic range

Useful for exponential and power-law relationships

Caution: converts type from ratio to interval

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

AKG Acoustics. Performance data for C451B microphone. 1973

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Histograms

First axis (oft. horiz.): Nominal or Ordinal variable

Second axis: count of something (ratio)

often convert Quantitative to Ordinal by binning (danger!)

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

J. Hjort. Age composition of herring catches. 1914

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

H.S. Shyrock & J.S. Siegel. Rendering of French government population data. 1973

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

Bar charts

First axis (oft. horiz.): Nominal or Ordinal variable

Second axis: ratio quantity (ratio—length)

less appropriate for non-ratio quantities(implied meaningful zero)

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

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Polar plots

Angle: some relevant angle

Radius: ratio quantity (ratio—length)

not appropriate for non-angular quantities

less appropriate for non-ratio quantities

beware of area exaggeration

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Data VisualizationCornell CS 3220

AKG Acoustics. Performance data for C451B microphone. 1973

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Danger of polar plots with interval scales

180°150°

120°

90°

60°

30°0°

180°150°

120°

90°

60°

30°0°

0

–5

–10

180°150°

120°

90°

60°

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180°150°

120°

90°

60°

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–20

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120°

90°

60°

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–40

Same data, 3 choices of logarithmic scale:leads to very different shapes

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Ratio quantity in polar plot: set shape

0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8

0˚30˚ –30˚ –60˚

= 0˚

= 30˚

= 60˚

S.R. Marschner. Light scattering data for paper. 1998

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Color maps

Position: position, direction, or more abstract mapping

Color: interval, ratio, or nominal quantity

be careful to map color attributes appropriately!

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Color mappings

lightness (brightness, value)

hue (what kind of color)

saturation (colorfulness, vividness)

strongly ordered, high resolutionquantitative variables

circular, weakly ordered, identifiablenominal variables, or as secondary feature

ordered, low resolutionminor quantitative variables, or combined with saturation for nominal

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International Hydrographic Organization, 1984(as deliberately corrupted by Tufte)

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International Hydrographic Organization, 1984

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P. Irawan & S. Marschner. Scattering data for polyester cloth. 2007(Matlab default colormap)

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P. Irawan & S. Marschner. Scattering data for polyester cloth. 2007(increasing value colormap)

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Vector fields

Vectors are 2 (or more)-D ratio quantities

Often mapped to a textural representation

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Vector fields as repeated oriented glyphs

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Magnitude maps to size; direction maps to direction(note arrows are centered at grid points)

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Natural visualization of magnetic field

Black & Davis, Practical Physics. 1922

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Line Integral Convolution for vector fields

trast stretching must go to infinity as well. The images in all the

figures are contrast stretched.

4.3 IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION

The LIC algorithm is designed as a function which maps an

input vector field and texture to a filtered version of the input tex-

ture. The dimension of the output texture is that of the vector field.

If the input texture is smaller than the vector field the implementa-

tion of the algorithm wraps the texture using a toroidal topology.

That is, the right and left edges wrap as do the top and bottom

edges. If the texture is too large it is cropped to the vector field

dimensions. Careful attention must be paid to the size of the input

texture relative to that of the vector field. If too small a texture is

used, the periodicity induced by the texture tiling will be visible.

For scientific applications this is unacceptable. One must insure

that the input texture is large enough so that the periodicityinduced by the coordinate wrapping is not apparent.

The algorithm can be used as a data operator in conjunction withother operators much like those of Sims[17] and Perlin[14]. Spe-cifically, both the texture and the vector field can be preprocessedand combined with post processing on the output image. The LICimplementation is a module in a data flow system like that found ina number of public domain and commercial products. This imple-mentation allows for rapid exploration of various combinations ofoperators.

4.3.1 POST PROCESSING

The output of the LIC algorithm can be operated on in a varietyof ways. In this section several standard techniques are used incombination with LIC to produce novel results.

An interesting example of constant kernel normalization isshown in figure 9. A simple basket weave pattern is generated byalternating vector directions in a checkerboard fashion. Eachchecker is surrounded by null vectors. This vector field is thenused to convolve white noise. The LIC is truncated as it nears theedges of the checkers which results in a gradual attenuation. Whenthat output is gradient shaded, the basket weave becomes veryrealistic. While other techniques could be used to generate such atexture, the simplicity of the source data illustrates the versatilityof LIC.

A surface wind velocity field is imaged in figure 10 using LIC toblur 1/f noise. The resulting image is composed over an image ofNorth America to present scale and location. The LIC algorithm isslightly modified to image vector magnitude by varying the lengthof the line integral, 2L, as a function of the vector field magnitude.In figure 10 this effect is seen as clumpiness in 1/f cloud-like struc-tures where the wind velocity field is small.

Fig ure 8: Wh it e n o ise c o nv o lv e d w ith flu id d yn a m i cs v e c torfi e ld usin g v a ri a b l e n orm a liz a tio n (to p) v e rsus fixe d n orm a liz a -tio n (b otto m).

Fig ure 9: Wh it e n o ise c o nv o lv e d w ith c h e c k e rb o a rd v e c torfi e ld usin g fixe d n or m a liz a tio n (l e ft), a n d th e n gr a d i e nt sh a d e d(rig ht) to g iv e th e a p p e a r a n c e o f a ro u g h w o v e n surf a c e t ex-ture .

Fig ure 10: A w in d v e lo c ity v isu a liz a tio n is c re a t e d b y c o m p osit-in g a n im a g e o f N orth A m e ri c a un d e r a n im a g e o f th e v e lo c-ity fi e ld re n d e re d usin g v a ri a b l e l e n g th LI C o v e r 1 / f n o ise .

Fig ure 11: Th e fixe d n orm a liz a tio n flu id d yn a m i cs fi e ld im a g e din fig ure 8 is m u ltip li e d b y a c o lor im a g e o f th e m a g n itu d e o fth e v e c tor fi e ld .

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Cabral and Leedom, SIGGRAPH 1993

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Treemaps

Martin Wattenberg (SmartMoney), Map of the Market, 1998

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Small Multiples

A set of small figures following a common designthat can be readily compared

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Los Angeles Times / G.J. McRae. 1979

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Consumer Reports. Display of historical automobile reliability data. 1982

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E. Tufte “sparklines”

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Visualization for medical recordsS.M

. Powsner &

E.R. Tufte, The Lancet 3

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S.M. Pow

sner & E.R

. Tufte, The Lancet 344

:6 1994

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Graphical integrity

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To emphasize growth, usetall scale and don’t adjust for inflationW. Playfair, 1786

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To emphasize growth, usetall scale and don’t adjust for inflationW. Playfair, 1786

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New York Times. 1976

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E. R. Tufte. Fair presentation of the same data. 1983

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Day Mines, Inc. 1974

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Day Mines, Inc. 1974

–$4.2e6

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Washington Post, 1978

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Graphical makeovers

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Maximizing data:ink ratio

“A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”

—William Strunk, Jr.

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“Chart-junk”

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R. Hayward. From L. Pauling, General Chemistry. 1947

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as modified by Tufte

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S.R. Marschner. Presentation of fiber scattering data using default MATLAB plots. 2002

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S.R. Marschner. Re-presentation using polar coordinates and small multiples. 2003(thanks to François Guimbretière)

Marschner, Jensen, Cammarano, Worley, and Hanrahan. “Light Scattering from Human Hair Fibers,” SIGGRAPH 2003.

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