Midterm 2 Flashcards
What are the primary data types?
1-dimensional
* 2-dimensional
* 3-dimensional
* Multi-dimensional
* Temporal
* Tree
* Network
* Text
* Categorical
What is 1D Data?
Usually a list
What are the concerns with 1D Data?
Space and cognition concerns
What are some ways to lessen the concerns of 1D Data?
- Grouping
- Hierarchical arrangement
- Fish eye design
What are the pros of 1D design solutions?
- Reduce the required space for
displaying the whole list - Make the search more efficient
What are the cons of 1D design solutions?
- Require additional knowledge/information to organize
the list - Where to put the divider, how to build a hierarchy
- Navigation could be an issue
- Fisheye display is a non-linear mapping between information
space (e.g., spatial presentation) and interaction control space
(e.g., mouse movement)
What is 2D data?
Documents, tables, maps, etc.
What is the problem with 2D data?
Balance between detail and context
Focused Content
What users are intreseted in
Context information
What users may need to know about the contexts of focused contents
What are the basic techniques?
- What the size of something is according to users interests
- Context on demand
What is an example of distortion?
Fisheye views
What is an example of multiple scales?
Overviews
What are two examples of context on demand?
Switch between two discrete states and continuous zooming
What are the pros of context on demand?
Allowing the access to both context and content information
What are the cons of context on demand?
- Increasing cognitive burdens
- Interactive control over views needs to be intuitive
enough.
What is real 3D spatial data?
Physically mapped to real-world phenomena
What is artificial 3D spatial data?
Mapping is defined by users/desginers
What are the challenges of displaying 3D data?
- How to leverage the depth information to help people?
- Type 1
- Type 2
What is a type 1 challenge when displaying 3D data?
- Natural spatial mapping
- Focus is on other attributes: color, shape, etc.
What is a type 2 challenge when displaying 3D data?
- What attributes to use for three axes?
- How to represent other attributes?
What are the pros of 3D design?
- More useful space for richer information
- Making information more interesting and fun
- Easy connection between real-world phenomena and
visualized objects
What are the cons of 3D design?
- Navigation could be challenging
- Interpreting certain 3D relationships could be cognitively
expensive - Slow down the machine dramatically.
What is an example of multi-dimensional data?
- A user on facebook
– A possible design for
airplane wing
What is the most common multi-dimensional design
Parallel coordinates
What are the pros of multi-dimensional design?
- Can accommodated many dimensions
– Can deal with both numerical and categorical data
– Support the observation of relationship among
dimensions (correlation)
What are the cons of multi-dimensional design?
- Required trained eyes to read the chart
– Location of dimensional axes affects the
perception of the result.
What are two types of tree design?
- Hyperbolic tree
- Space tree
Different levels in analysis of Text
Corpora ➔ Corpus ➔ Document cluster➔ Document ➔ Word
Corpora
All emails of DNC web server
Corpus
all emails by a person
Document cluster
messages on one specific issue
Document
a particular email message
Word
individual words