Monday, October 1, 2001
Full-day Seminar, 8:30a.m.-5:30p.m.

Information visualization was mostly a dream 5 years ago, but it's now a reality. The latest generation of visual data mining tools and animated GUIs take advantage of human perceptual skills to produce striking results. This tutorial by two of the field's leading researchers will show examples of commercially successful uses of information visualization technology in today's web and software interfaces, plus recent research breakthroughs and hints of what's to come.

Information visualization techniques empower users to perceive important patterns in a large amount of data, identify areas that need further scrutiny, and make sophisticated decisions. The Visual Information-Seeking Mantra is to "overview first, zoom and filter, then give details on demand." But looking at information is only a start. Users also need to manipulate and query the data, using real-time tools to zoom, filter, and relate the information - and undo if they make a mistake.

You may be familiar with SmartMoney.com's "Map of the Market" that uses our Treemap visualization to graphically represent US stock market data and show overall trends and exceptions. But information visualization tools can aid in any situations that's characterized by large amounts of multi-dimensional or rapidly changing data - online product catalogs, patient histories, manufacturing process data - anything that has outgrown yesterday's static, two-dimensional spreadsheet. Information visualization techniques are already being used in a wide variety of applications such as mapping the human genome, monitoring oil production, or even helping users select a type of coffee to match their tastes.

	You Should Attend If
	· you are a web or software interface designer, information specialist, or database programmer responsible for conveying complex information to users. If youâre a usability specialist, you may discover elegant solutions to interface problems you've seen. Related Seminars If you are interested in this seminar, on Wednesday you might enjoy either: Common Look & Feel: Cross-Product UI Design for Web Sites and Applications, or Taking Control Back from the Inmates: Using Goal-Directed ú Design to Create Cool Stuff

Overview of Content:

This full-day seminar will follow a lecture format enhanced by a large number of videos and live demonstrations, and with ample time for question asking and discussion. Topics covered include:

• The case for Information Visualization

• The seven data types covered by information visualization techniques (1-, 2-, 3-dimensional data, temporal and multi-dimensional data, and tree and network data)

• The seven user tasks in processing complex data (overview, zoom, filter, details-on-demand, relate, history, and extract)

• Direct manipulation (visual representation of the objects and actions of interest and rapid, incremental, and reversible operations)

• Early systems, dynamic queries & Spotfire (Dynamic queries have user controlled query widgets, such as sliders and buttons, that update the result set within 100msec)

• Visual Information Seeking mantra: Overview first, Zoom and filter, Details on demand

• Multidimensional and multivariate data (Table visualization: TableLens, InfoZoom, fisheye table browser; Parallel coordinates)

• Hierarchical and tree structured data (e.g. Treemap, Hyperbolic browser, ConeTrees)

• Network information visualization

• Temporal data visualization (Lifelines, with applications in the medical and legal domain)

• Zooming interfaces (Jazz toolkit, Counterpoint etc.)

• Focus+Context vs. Overview+Detail

• 2D versus 3D desktops & workspaces

• Visualization of corpus of documents

• Dealing with large datasets

• Evaluation of Information Visualization

• Coordination of visualizations

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