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2012-06-01T02:38:59Z

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Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe G8

2012-06-01T01:30:41Z

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== Exercises ==
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2012-02-27: CFP: BioVis'12 (IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization), Seattle, WA, October 14-15, 2012

2012-06-01T01:21:45Z

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== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ==

BioVis 2012: IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization

at VisWeek 2012 in Seattle, WA 
October 14-15, 2012

Website: http://www.biovis.net

Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2012 
Poster Submission Deadline: June 27, 2012 
Contest Submission Deadline: June 27, 2012

== (1) Aims and Scope ==

The rapidly expanding field of biology creates enormous challenges for
computational visualization techniques for enabling researchers to
gain insight from their large and highly complex data sets.

The goal of the Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) is
to establish a premier international and interdisciplinary event for
all aspects of visualization in biology. The Symposium aims at
bringing together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics,
and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and
engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data
visualization as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in
state-of-the-art visualization research.

The symposium will serve as a platform for researchers from these
fields to increase the impact of visualization approaches in biology.
The breadth and diversity of biological research topic areas will
enable researchers from all parts of the visualization community to
contribute to this effort and the symposium will provide an excellent
opportunity to initiate interdisciplinary collaborations. Finally, it
will provide an outlet and training ground for young and freshly
minted visualization researchers with a keen interest in problems of
biology and provide a venue for researchers in biology and
bioinformatics to share pressing visualization challenges and
potential solutions in their fields.

== (2) Topics ==

We are looking for contributions on all aspects of visualization in
biology. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Genome and sequence data, including genomic variation data 
2. Multivariate omics data (transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.) 
3. Phylogenetic data 
4. Biological networks and pathways 
5. Biological Ontologies 
6. Structures (e.g., protein or RNA structures) 
7. Visualization of image data, such as microscopy or radiological data 
8. Integration of image and omics data for systems biology 
9. Modeling, simulation, and visualization of biological systems 
10. Visualization in neurobiology and developmental biology 
11. Systems and software frameworks for biological visualization 
12. Integration of visualization in biological workflows or collaborative processes 
13. Visualization and visual analytics of integrated data sets 
14. Usability of visualization by biologists 
15. Creation and visualization of biological atlases and metadata 
16. Processes for interdisciplinary collaboration between biology and visualization. 
17. Visualization and visual analysis of eQTL data (see related information on the Contest web page on http://www.biovis.net)

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== (4) Submission Types and Criteria ==

Given the goal of bringing together members of the both the biology
and visualization communities for discussion, the symposium
solicitation is purposefully broad and open minded to diverse types
and lengths of submissions. Authors are encouraged to self identify
the intent of their submission. Each paper will be handled in the
review process and given appropriate time and venue at the symposium
in accordance with its stated intent and length. Types of submissions
include, but are not limited to:

1. Detailed reports of original research 
2. Highlights about relevant previously published work with some additional insight 
3. Descriptions of work in progress and preliminary results 
4. Experience reports 
5. Demonstrations of new systems, perhaps including distribution of working code 
6. Descriptions of analysis challenges of a newly published dataset, potentially as a challenge to the visualization community to help produce solutions

Authors should indicate the intended publication type of their
submissions, as one of three categories:

1. Papers: Up to 8 page papers describing high quality research that
is not necessarily fully completed but offers some new insight.
Selected papers will have an opportunity for an extended and refined
invited follow-up submission (see Section 9). Authors will have an
oral presentation in a session with an emphasis on discussion with the
audience.

2. Posters: Submissions consist of an up to 2 page extended abstract
summarizing the authors‚Äô work. Posters are meant to support an
exchange of ideas and can be based on work-in-progress. Authors must
present a corresponding poster during the designated poster session,
and are encouraged to incorporate a demo or video into their
presentation. All authors have the opportunity to give a brief oral
preview during a plenary fast forward session. Authors of selected
posters will be invited to provide a longer oral presentation at the
symposium.

3. Contest Entries: Submissions consist of an up to 4 page extended
abstract summarizing the contest entry. Supplementary material is also
welcome in form of Powerpoint slides, software virtual box images
and/or binary distributions, technical reports, and supporting
manuscripts. A subset of selected contestants will have the
opportunity to present their work in a separate session during the
symposium.

More information about each category of content and the various
submission guidelines can be found on http://www.biovis.net.

== (5) General Expectations (Ethics Guidelines) ==

At least one author of an accepted submission must attend the
conference to present the work. When submitting your paper you will be
asked to provide a complete list of authors even when submitting an
anonymized version of the manuscript. This is required to avoid
potential conflicts of interest when assigning reviewers. Adding
additional authors AFTER the acceptance of a paper is unacceptable and
will not be permitted.

All submissions will be treated as confidential communications during
the review process, so submission does not constitute public
disclosure of any ideas therein. Submissions should contain no
information or materials that will be proprietary or confidential at
the time of publication (at the conference), and should cite no
publications that are proprietary or confidential at the time of
publication.

Authors of poster entries will also abide by similar guidelines. Any
use of copyrighted material and devices of proprietary nature will be
the responsibility of the presenters.

Contestants will also use the contest data in the spirit of academic
collaboration and inquiry. The use of patented and proprietary
solutions and software will be permitted for demonstrating the results
in a forum at the Symposium. However, it is encouraged that the final
submission include open-source code distribution and anonymized data
to foster academic collaborations.

Our symposium will adhere to the VGTC ethics guidelines for reviewers
that can be found at
http://vgtc.org/wpmu/techcom/conferences/ethics-guidelines.

== (6) Review Process ==

Reviewers from both visualization and bioinformatics communities will
be involved in the review process. Paper and poster submissions will
be evaluated by external reviewers organized by the Papers and Posters
Chairs, respectively. Papers will be reviewed for novelty and
contribution, while posters will be considered for their quality and
value to the symposium audience. Contest entries will be judged for
their contribution to the state-of-the-art in visualization, and in
their ability to provide biological insights. The review committee for
the contest entries will draw upon the existing BioVis reviewers while
recruiting others from various pertinent research communities in
biology and bioinformatics.

== (7) Important Dates ==

Paper submission: Monday, April 30, 2012 
Notification of acceptance of papers: Thursday, June 7, 2012

Contest Entry and Poster submission: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 
Notification of acceptance of posters, contest entries: Friday, July 27, 2012

Camera ready copy: Saturday, August 25, 2012 
Extended Journal Format Submission: TBD

All deadlines are at 5:00pm Pacific Time (PDT).

== (8) Supplemental Material and Formatting Guidelines ==

Paper and poster submissions can include full-color figures
throughout. We encourage the use of digital video to enhance the
submission, particularly if part or all of the work addresses
interactive techniques. Submission of working code and other
supplemental material in order to increase the reproducibility of the
work is also encouraged. The material for the contest entries should
include all of the aforementioned content. It will be however,
advantageous to include all material which will convince the reviewers
of the specificity and topicality of the offered solutions.
Open-source software should be included for all contest entries. If
open-source solutions cannot be included, the contestants should
provide sufficient rationale while providing an appropriate collection
of binaries and executables.

The review process for the paper track will be optionally double-blind
for those who want to submit their work anonymously. When submitting
for double-blind reviewing you are asked NOT to include any
identifying information in the submission. Otherwise, the review
process will be single-blind, i.e. the reviewers know the identity of
the authors, but the authors do not know the identity of the
reviewers.

Links to details and guidelines for preparing a proper submission and
supplementary data can be found on http://www.biovis.net. Authors must
follow the style guidelines specified therein.

== (9) Publications ==

The symposium proceedings will consist of all accepted papers and will
appear in the IEEE Digital Library. Accepted poster and contest
submissions will be included in the electronic conference proceedings
and made available on the symposium website.

To increase the visibility of visualization within the bioinformatics
and biology communities, a selection of the best accepted papers and
contest entries will be invited to be published in expanded form in an
open-access, peer-reviewed bioinformatics journal such as BMC
Bioinformatics.

== (10) Submission ==

Details on how to submit papers, posters and contest entries are
provided on http://www.biovis.net.

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== (12) Organizing Committee ==

General Chairs 
- Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK 
- Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA 
- Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA

Paper Chairs 
- Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. 
- Matt Hibbs, The Jackson Laboratory, USA

Poster Chairs 
- Cydney Nielsen, British Columbia Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre, Canada 
- Robert Kincaid, Agilent Laboratories, USA

Publication Chairs 
- Miriah Meyer, University of Utah, USA 
- Jan Aerts, Leuven University, Belgium

Primer Chairs 
- Carsten Goerg, University of Colorado, USA 
- Kay Nieselt, University of T√ºbingen, Germany

Challenges Chairs 
- Sean O'Donoghue, Garvan Institute/CSIRO, Australia 
- Bernhard Preim, University of Magdeburg, Germany

Contest Chairs 
- William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA 
- Christopher Bartlett, The Ohio State University, USA 
- Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA

Industry and Fundraising Chairs 
- Kun Huang, The Ohio State University, USA 
- G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Pittsburg, USA

Website and Publicity Chairs 
- Alexander Lex, Graz University of Technology, Austria 
- Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

== (13) Steering Committee ==

- Larry Hunter, University of Colorado, USA 
- Torsten Moeller, Simon Fraser University, Canada 
- Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia, Canada 
- Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland, USA

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Category:Software

2012-06-01T01:21:13Z

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2010-06-22: CFP: Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine And Pharmacology (IDAMAP 2010)

2012-06-01T01:15:43Z

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Call for papers
== IDAMAP 2010: Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine And Pharmacology ==
http://idamap.org/idamap2010

Friday November 12, 2010 
A one-day colloquium in Washington, DC 
Kirk T. Phillips and Stephen Swift (chairs)

Organized in collaboration with the Intelligent Data Analysis and Data
Mining Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association, and
Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining working Group of the American Medical
Informatics Association.

=== IMPORTANT DATES ===
Submission: August 1, 2010 
Notification: September 1, 2010 
Camera-ready: October 1, 2010

=== GENERAL INFORMATION===
IDAMAP-2010, a colloquium on intelligent data analysis in biomedicine and
pharmacology, will be held in conjunction with the 2010 Annual Symposium
of the American Medical informatics Association.

The IDAMAP series is devoted to computational methods for data
analysis in medicine, biology and pharmacology that present results of
analysis in the form communicable to domain experts and that somehow
exploit knowledge of the problem domain. Such knowledge may be available
at different stages of the data-analysis and model-building process.
Typical methods include data visualization, data exploration, machine
learning, and data mining.

Gathering in an informal setting, colloquium participants will have the
opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in an
atmosphere which fosters the active exchange of ideas among researchers
and practitioners. The colloquium is intended to be a genuinely
interactive event and not a mini-conference, thus ample time will be
allotted for general discussion. A student challenge on data integration
will be organized. Author of the best solution will be invited to present
the work at the workshop.

A selection of revised and expanded IDAMAP 2010 papers will appear in
the Methods of Information in Medicine journal.

=== TOPICS ===
In the colloquium, the attention will be given to methodological issues of
intelligent data analysis and on specific applications in biomedicine
and pharmacology. In terms of methodology, topics include, but are not
limited to:
* data mining and machine learning techniques for supervised and unsupervised learning problems,
* exploiting domain knowledge in learning and data analysis,
* data visualization and exploration,
* analysis of large data sets and relational data mining,
* knowledge management and its integration with intelligent data analysis techniques, and
* integration of intelligent data analysis techniques within biomedical information systems.

A paper submitted to the colloquium is expected to show a selected
methodology can help to solve relevant problems in medicine, and would
typically address the following issues:
* What is the medical or clinical problem addressed?
* Was any prior knowledge available? How was this used in the data analysis or interpretation of results?
* How is/can the newly discovered knowledge put into use?

Contributions that discuss particular applications of intelligent data
analysis techniques are invited, and can for example cover analysis of
medical and health-care data, data coming from clinical bioinformatics
data bases (like microarray data and DNA sequence analysis), analysis of
pharmacological data, drug design, drug testing, and outcomes analysis.

=== PROBLEM OWNERS ===
In addition to regular scientific contributions, we welcome descriptions
of problems or data sets that could potentially benefit from an analysis
through Intelligent Data Analysis or Data Mining. Problem descriptions
must be submitted as abstracts and will be presented at the workshop.
They must briefly introduce the problem and provide an overview of
the main objectives of the analysis. After the presentations, ample
time will be reserved for discussion.

=== DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS===
We also invite developers of data analysis tools to send an abstract with
the description of their tool, and give a demonstration during a special
demo session on data analysis tools at the colloquium. The abstract should
describe the underlying methodology of the tool and sketch the potential for
application in the field of intelligent data analysis in biomedicine. Preferably,
abstracts on data analysis tools should also briefly describe a case study
where the tool was used.

=== PROGRAM ===
The scientific program of the colloquium will consist of presentations of
accepted scientific papers, an invited presentation, and demonstrations
of data analysis tools and problem descriptions. Ample time will be allotted for informal
discussion among the participants.

=== SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION OF ACCEPTED PAPERS ===
IDAMAP invites submissions of either short papers (2 pages, up to 1500
words, leading to a short presentation at the meeting) or full papers
(up to 6 pages/4500 words, leading to a long presentation at the
meeting). Data analysis tools and description of problems should be
submitted as abstracts (1 page, up to 750 words). Papers should be
written in English. Authors should send an electronic submission in PDF
format to both chairs Stephen Swift (stephen.swift (at) brune), Kirk T. Phillips (kirk-phillips (at) uiowa.edu);
please use "IDAMAP SUBMISSION YOUR_NAME" as a subject, where
YOUR_NAME is the surname of the first author. Alternatively to
preferred PDF, submissions using Post Script or MS Word format are
also welcome.

The submissions should be received no later than August 1, 2010. Formatting
instructions and instructions for authors are available on the IDAMAP 2010
home page at http://idamap.org/idamap2010.

Submissions will be reviewed by at least two people of the program
committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by September 1, 2010.
Accepted papers will appear in colloquium notes that will be
distributed among registered participants.

=== JOURNAL PUBLICATION===
Selected papers by contributors to IDAMAP 2010 will be invited to submit a revised
and expanded version of their paper for publication in Schattauerís Methods of
Information in Medicine journal (www.methods-online.com).
Publication is scheduled for late 2010/early 2011.

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Visual Variables

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{{definition|'''Visual Variables''' are a specified set of symbols that can be applied to data in order to translate information.}}

== Purpose and Development ==
Our usual way of communicating is with words. Written words consist of single symbols (letters), gaining meaning when arranged in certain combinations. The question is: If there are basic visual symbols arranged in a particular way, can they be used to convey information in a similar manner?
All of those developments were primarily made for cartographic purposes. With the computerization of information these '''visual variables''' were adapted and used for information visualization.
The concept of information visualization began in the 1930's, but after the 1950's became more developed by cartographers. Since the development of computers has revolutionized all aspects of information visualization. <ref> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animated_mapping#Visual_variables </ref>
Mapmaking with pen and paper became unnecessary. Map making software such as CAD, GIS and specialized map illustration software became very important.<ref> Skupin, A: ''From Metaphor to Method: Cartographic Perspectives on Information Visualization'', IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization. Salt Lake City, 2000</ref>

==Jaques Bertin==
Jaques Bertin<ref> Bertin, J.: ''Sémiologie Graphique''. Paris: Editions Gauthier-Villars. Deutsche Übersetzung von Jensch, G.; Schade, D.; Scharfe, W.: Graphische Semiologie.Diagramme – Netze - Karten. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1974.</ref>described '''marks''' as these basic units and also developed a given number of methods through which these units can be modified, including position, size, shape, or color. These predefined modifications are called '''visual variables'''. Each of these variables can have certain '''characteristics'''. Sometimes visual variables are also called '''visual attributes'''.

=== Marks ===
A mark is made to represent some information other than itself. It is also referred to as a sign.

Marks can be
* '''Points''' are dimensionless locations on the plane, represented by signs that obviously need to have some size, shape or color for visualization.
* '''Lines''' represent information with a certain length, but no area and therefore no width. Again lines are visualized by signs of some thickness.
* '''Areas''' have a length and a width and therefore a two-dimensional size.
* '''Surfaces''' are areas in a three-dimensional space, but with no thickness.
* '''Volumes''' have a length, a width and a depth. They are thus truly three-dimensional.

=== Visual Variables ===
Jaques Bertin defined seven '''Visual Variables''' consisting of:

[[Image:visualVariables.png]]

==Jock D. Mackinley==
Jock D. Mackinlay invented a number of Information Visualization techniques such as the information visualization reference model.<ref> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_D._Mackinlay</ref>

=== Visual Variables ===
The list of visual variables was later expanded by [[Mackinlay%2C_Jock_D.|Jock D. Mackinlay]]. He also provided different sorting for their accuracy, based on the task.

Ranking of perceptual tasks:

[[Image:Mackinlay_PerceptualTask.jpg]]

=== Recent work ===
The list was further expanded by several later publications. Most of them are also grouping
the visual variables, e.g. combining ''length'', ''area'' and ''repetition'' to ''shape'' or breaking down
''position'' in the three dimensions of space and one time dimension.

Since nowadays information is presented by computers, the addition of '''motion''' as a new visual variable becomes important. Changes in motion can include direction, speed, frequency, rhythm, flicker, trails, and style.<ref> Carpendale, M. S. T.: ''Considering Visual Variables as a Basis for Information Visualisation'', University of Calgary, Department of Computer Science, 2001-693-16, 2003</ref>

=== Characteristics ===
The choice of the variable, which would be most appropriate to represent each aspect of information depends on its characteristics.

* '''Selective:''' If a mark changes in this variable and as an effect can be selected from the other marks easily the visual variable is said to be selective.
* '''Associative:''' Several marks can be grouped across changes in other visual variables.
* '''Quantitative:''' If the difference between two marks in this variable can be interpreted numerically, the visual variable is quantitative.
* '''Order:''' If the variable supports ordered reading it is an ordered visual variable. This means that a change could be read as more or less (e.g. in size you can order marks according to their area).
* '''Length:''' The length defines how many values the variable features. For example how many shades of grey can be recognized?

== Usage ==
The process of mapping data to visual variables is called [[visual mapping]].
Choosing different visual variables for representing different aspects of the same information can greatly influence the perception and understanding of the presented information. It is therefore important to know and appropriately use the characteristics of visual variables when creating ''any'' visual data representation.

One of the first known examples was Dancing Baby', when in 1996 antiamor Ron Lussier forwarded a video he'd made round his office, which was then circulated widely across the Web through email. By making use of the right online communication tools videos properly, videos can go viral' in a case of days, or maybe hours, a speed and immediacy matchless to other promoting tools and channels.

2009-12-16: CFP: IEEE Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis'10)

2012-06-01T00:41:50Z

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== CALL FOR PAPERS ==

== IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION (SoftVis'10) ==

=== Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October 25-26, 2010 ===
http://www.softvis.org/softvis10

(collocated with IEEE VisWeek'10, http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2010)

SoftVis'10 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC).

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=== SCOPE ===

Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of
methods for graphically representing different aspects of software,
including its structure, its abstract and concrete execution, and its
evolution. The Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis), now at
its fifth edition, is the premiere forum for researchers from different
backgrounds (HCI, software engineering, programming languages,
visualization, and computer science education) to present original
research on software visualization.

We seek theoretical as well as practical papers on applications,
techniques, tools, case studies, and empirical studies. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:

* Visualization of algorithms
* Program visualization
* Visualization in software engineering, e.g. UML diagrams
* Visualization of parallel programs
* Visualization-based software in computer science and software engineering education
* Visualization of workflow and business processes
* Integration of software visualization tools and development environments
* Visualization of data and processes in applications
* Visualization of web services
* Visualization of software evolution
* Visualization of the software development process
* Visualization of data base schemes
* Protocol and log visualization (security, trust)
* Source code visualization
* Graph drawing algorithms for software visualization
* Visual debugging
* Program analyses and visualization
* 3D software visualization
* Software visualization on the internet
* Empirical evaluation of software visualization

=== SUBMISSIONS ===

Papers are solicited that present original, unpublished research
results and will be rigorously reviewed by an international program
committee. Authors should prepare and electronically submit their
papers (up to 10 pages in IEEE VGTC two-column format,
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html) according to the
instructions on the symposium website: http://www.softvis.org/softvis10.
The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the
paper is encouraged.

Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a
special issue on Software Visualization in the Information Visualization
journal (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/). As in the previous
SoftVis editions we will award a best paper.

In addition to technical papers, we are also inviting poster and tool
demo submissions. Posters and tool demos offer the opportunity to
present new ideas and work in progress during an interactive session.
Authors should prepare and submit poster and tool demo abstracts of up
to 2 pages in IEEE VGTC two-column format. Accepted abstracts will be
included in the conference proceedings.

=== ORGANIZATION ===

==== General Chair ====
* Alexandru Telea, University of Groningen, Netherlands

==== Program Co-chairs ====
* Carsten Görg, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Steven Reiss, Brown University, USA

==== Poster Chair ====
* Craig Anslow, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

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Visualization

2012-06-01T00:33:57Z

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Interesting data set! Could you write more on how collected the data on all their deals? Scraping Groupon's sites and punillg out each deal's 1)title, 2)city, 3) price, 4)number of people who bought it, and 5)whether it tipped? Did you also collect the deals that didn't tip?

Tasks Taxonomy for Graphs

2012-06-01T00:28:38Z

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Well, with graphs of 1000 nodes, I would pralboby say that every graph-based view will be difficult to use To improve usability, I think it would be great to have the possibility of collapsing a subgraph into a single node: after analyzing a subgraph, you select its nodes, then collapse them into a single one, so that the complexity of the whole graph decreases

2010-01-28: Job: Summer internship at i2, Cambridge UK

2012-06-01T00:08:47Z

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Question: How Do I Study Business Analysis?Answer:#1: You have studied syestm administration and you are currently a graphic designer which probably means you are leaning more towards the technical side than the business side.Have you considered fully developing your graphic design skills and also learn other aspects wof web development? Web developers are in-demand and it is also easy to get web development jobs. As a matter of fact, if you are a talented graphic designer or web developer, you will be able to start your own business or travel out and work in developed countries or get jobs more easily in your own country.So, with all this in mind, why do you think that a business analysis career is a better choice for you?Business Analysis is a very competitive field and except you have the right personality and the , you may find it hard to stand out in the market.You can consider goingto Amazon.com and searching for books on business analysis, buying them and then studying them by yourself that is the cheapest option. -5Was this answer helpful?

Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2006/07

2012-05-31T23:46:30Z

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[[Image:Aigner03infovis ue.gif]] <big>WS 2006/07</big>

'''LVA Nr:''' 188.308 ([http://tuwis.tuwien.ac.at/lva/tuwien/188308 TUWIS++ Seite])

'''LVA Homepage:''' http://ieg.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aigner/teaching/infovis_ue/index.html

'''Leitung:''' [[Aigner, Wolfgang|Wolfgang Aigner]] [aigner (at) ifs.tuwien.ac.at]

== Gruppen ==


*[[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2006/07 - Gruppe 01|Gruppe 01 (Lamprecht, Frey, Matzneller, Mueller)]]
*[[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2006/07 - Gruppe 02|Gruppe 02 (Diesenreiter, Weixelbaumer, Felkel, Maier)]]
*[[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2006/07 - Gruppe 03|Gruppe 03 (Kopfer, Weber, Brosch, Savio)]]
*[[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2006/07 - Gruppe 08|Gruppe 08 (Durco, Götzinger)]]

[[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2006/07 - Aufgabe 3 - Technikauswahl|Aufgabe 3 - Technikauswahl]]

corn.a0 Current EU law allows for iuanvididl countries to ban if they choose.a0 This ban is gaining momentum.a0 Luxembourg, Hungary, France, Austria, Germany and Greece have joined the ranks of governments

2006-09-28: Job offer: 4 Research Positions in Visualization & Semantic Systems at Graz University of Technology and Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

2012-05-31T23:39:49Z

94.23.1.18: Undo revision 13264 by Iwolf (Talk)

sagt:Als Reaktion, auf den erstaunlichen Erfolg der poeicisthln Freibeuter in Berlin habe ich mir erstmals die Seiten dieser Partei angeschaut. Nach erstem Stochern in „alten“ Texten, aus der Zeit vor der ersten Landtagswahl, fand ich auch Texte und Ausformulierungen, bis hin zum Manifest zu den poeicisthln Vorstellungen der Piraten. Und ich bin nun der festen Meinung, dadf die Piraten das Potential haben e4hnliches zur vollbringen wie seinerzeit die Grfcnen. Ich kenne noch die Zeiten, als in Lenne, Volme und Wupper kein Fisch zu sehen war. Das haben engagierte Mitbfcrger in einem ze4hen Ringen mit Interessen von etablierten Gruppierungen gee4ndert. Sozusagen, als Stachel im A…. der Gesellschaft. Und es ist ihnen gut bekommen!Der Grfcne Platz ist besetzt! Aber in den letzten Jahren hat sich, nicht nur in der deutschen Politik, einiges zum Argen gewendet. Und hier fehlen die ehrlichen, gerechten, sozialen und wahrhaftigen Stimmen im Parteienspektrum um die Demokratie als solche zu erhalten. Auch um Lfcgen, demagogische Darstellungen und Totschlagargumente in Diskussionen undiplomatisch klar als solche zu benennen und laut anzuprangern!Die SPD befindet sich im Moment, nicht erst seit Schrf6der, rechts von der Mitte. Die Christdemokraten wiederum rechts von der SPD. Die Mitte nannte sich bisher Fast Drei Prozent, und ist in Berlin von den Piraten abgelf6st worden. Damit steht die neue Mitte fest: Die Piraten.Ehrlich, motiviert und nicht lobbyverlaust. Das ist ein Pfund mit dem man wuchern kann und soll.Auch, wenn nicht alle relevanten Themen innerhalb der Piraten so pre4sent sind, dadf man sattelfest ist, so kann mit offener Darstellung und gutem Pfeffer am Finger -ffcr die offenen Wunden der Gegner – viel ffcr unser Gemeinwesen und den Erhalt und Ausbau unserer Demokratie erreicht werden.Die Menschen aller Altersgruppen finden sich nicht mehr repre4sentiert. Diese Menschen mit ehrlicher Offenheit anzusprechen die neue Mitte zu unterstfctzen ist sicher nicht schwer. Ich glaube, dadf viele nur auf ihr „Ventil“ warten. Auf die Mf6glichkeit demokratisch etwas zu e4ndern.Erf6ffnet neue Gespre4chskreise und macht sie bekannt. Ich freu mich drauf!

Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe G3 - Aufgabe 2

2012-05-31T23:27:15Z

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= Poor Graphic =
[[Image:Mibi04death-and-taxes.jpg|none|thumb|600px|Death and Taxes: A visual look at where your tax dollars go (click on image for larger version)]]

= Drawbacks / Critical analysis =

Before designing visualization for the “Death and Taxes”, it is important to find what is wrong with the existing one, analyze the missing or wrongly applied essential design principles. Then we will be in a better position to make corrections, and come up with an improved visualization.

== [[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe G3 - Aufgabe 1 - Preattentive Processing|Preattentive Processing]] ==

“Tasks that can be performed on large multi-element displays in 200 milliseconds or less are considered preattentive [Healey et al., 2005]”. These tasks can be performed without the need of focused attention.

* From the given visualization displayed on a 17” display what we can perceive instantly is that the budget is allocated to a number of departments and further allocated to various sub-departments within those. However, the display is so cluttered that we are unable to perceive more than that.

* Lengthy description in the biggest circle and as a part of legend can’t be treated with preattentive processing.

* The proportionate sizes of circles help a lot in finding instantly which department has the highest or lowest budget.

== [[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe G3 - Aufgabe 1 - Five Hat Racks|Five Hat Racks]]==

There are five ways to organize information: category (similarity relatedness), time (chronological sequence), location (geographical or spatial references), alphabet (alphabetical sequence), and continuum (magnitude; highest to lowest, best to worse) [Truong, 2005]”.

* Category (similarity relatedness): Satisfies as far as the depiction of budget in different departments is concerned. But if you see the sub-departments then this aspect is violated.

* Time (chronological sequence): This aspect is not applicable for the given visualization, because this shows the budget for one year only.

* Location (geographical or spatial references): This aspect is also not applicable for the given visualization. Because the visualization does not show the spending of budget in different states. This might be a missing information. Without this information it is assumed that the depicted spending is same across all the states (expenditures on health, education etc.).

* Alphabet (alphabetical sequence): Arrangement is not alphabetical in the given picture. But it is not necessary that the improvement will be made by introducing alphabetical sequences. Rather some more meaningful sequences should be exploited.

* Continuum (magnitude; highest to lowest, best to worse): This aspect is successfully used in the picture. See the sizes of circles which are proportionate with the allocated budget.

== [[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe 10 - Aufgabe 1 - Visual Clutter|Visual Clutter]] ==

“Clutter is the state in which excess items, or their representation or organization, lead to a degradation of performance at some task [Rosenholtz et al., 2005]”.

* It is not possible to visualize all the elements of the given picture on a standard display. There are many circles, and associated descriptions. Perhaps the descriptions can be removed as a default. When user focuses or hovers the mouse, then the circle under focus could be displayed with associated description.

* On the initial screen, the circular sub-departments can be hidden. Those can be displayed under user control when the user focuses on one or a group of the bigger circles.

== [[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe G7 - Aufgabe 1 - Gestalt Laws|Gestalt Laws]]==

"The Gestalt approach emphasizes that we perceive objects as well-organized patterns rather than separate component parts [Pedroza, 2004]”. Often used Gestalt principles are Proximity, Similarity, Closure and Good Continuation.

* Proximity: Elements close to each other tend to form groups. This is evident from the picture. The small circles in vicinity of bigger ones tend to form one group. This also reveals the fact that may be the connecting lines were not necessary and are in fact redundant.

* Similarity: Elements that are similar in some way tend to be grouped together. If we see at the color encodings used, then this aspect seems to be violated. For example, blue parts could be perceived as related, but in fact those are not.
* Closure: How items are grouped together if they tend to complete a pattern. It seems that this design aspect is not used in the given picture. Instead the author has used explicit connecting lines which in turn increase visual clutter.

== [[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe G4 - Aufgabe 1 - Lie Factor|Lie Factor]] ==

The “Lie Factor” is a value to describe the relation between the size of effect shown in a graphic and the size of effect shown in the data. "The representation of numbers, as physically measured on the surface of the graphic itself, should be directly proportional to the quantities represented [Tufte, 1991]”.

* If you look at the relative sizes of circles and the allocated budgets, this aspect is satisfied.

== [[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe G8 - Aufgabe 1 - Chart Junk|Chart Junk]] ==

"The interior decoration of graphics generates a lot of ink which does not tell the viewer anything new. The purpose of the decoration varies - to make the graphic appear more scientific, to enliven the display, to give the designer an opportunity to exercise artistic skill. Regardless of the cause, it is all non-data-ink or redundant data-ink, and it is often chart junk [Tufte, 1991]”.

* The connecting lines between circles are chart junk.
* The descriptions along with meaningful logos are also perhaps chart junk.
* Black background is making it diffciult to focus the eyes on the graphic.
* Percentages might be more helpful for initial overview instead of writing exact amount in dollars.

== [[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe 01 - Aufgabe 1 - Data-Ink Ratio|Data-Ink Ratio]] ==

"A large share of ink on a graphic should present data-information, the ink changing as the data change. Data-ink is the non-erasable core of a graphic, the non-redundant ink arranged in response to variation in the numbers represented [Tufte, 1991].”

* Excessive color is used for the background (all black), which is making it difficult to focus the eyes on the useful data.

* Space is wasted by displaying the complete logos mentioning long redundant texts, for example “United States of America” on many logos. It could be mentioned at a single location that the picture is all about USA.

* The description written inside the biggest circle should be moved away from the graphics. This would also make this circle smaller in size, which is not showing any data.

* The non-data ink which is used to elaborate or decorate the picture is also in excess.

== [[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe 09 - Aufgabe 1 - Color Coding / Color|Color Coding / Color]] ==

Colors can be used intelligently to encode information in the picture. In the given picture the color encoding is used extensively but it is intermixed and got confused. For example, the circular sections for army, air force and navy all have different colors in spite of the fact that the sections are interrelated, for example R&D, Personnel, Operations etc. Thus principle of consistency is violated.

== [[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe 01 - Aufgabe 1 - Aesthetic-Usability Effect|Aesthetic-Usability Effect]] ==

“The Aesthetic-Usability Effect is a condition whereby users perceive more aesthetically pleasing designs to be easier to use than less aesthetically pleasing designs [markboulton.co.uk]”. Probably, the other design elements also play their part in making a product aesthetic.

* The rule of Golden ratio is apparently violated. This is evident if we look at the proportions of circles to one another. Their sizes are perfectly in proportion to the allocated budget, but their sizes realtive to one another vis-a-vis the rule of Golden Ratio is not observed. Two quantities are said to be in the golden ratio, if "the whole is to the larger as the larger is to the smaller"[Golden ratio].”

* If the black background is removed, then the existing picture is not bad as far as aesthetics are concerned.

== [[Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe G4 - Aufgabe 1 - Ockham's Razor / Occam's Razor / Principle of Simplicity|Ockham's Razor / Occam's Razor / Principle of Simplicity]] ==

According to rules elaborated by William of Ockham in his works [Hoffmann et al., 1997];

* It is futile to do with more what can be done with fewer. Quite meaningful logos are used, but the descriptions of the departments are also mentioned. One of these could be avoided.

* When a proposition comes out true for things, if two things suffice for its truth, it is superfluous to assume a third. It is related with insight, which is missing or is not easily perceivable from the existing picture.

* Plurality should not be assumed without necessity. ???

* No plurality should be assumed unless it can be proved (a) by reason, or (b) by experience, or (c) by some infallible authority. ???

== Layout ==

An efficient layout can be used to interactively visualize a complex visualization. In the given picture, if we use for example grid layout then its usability can be increased. It can be used to provide focus+context at the same time. In one layout window, whole picture can be shown like the existing one. While on another one, the focused part can be shown in a magnified way. However, the initial overview for the division into military and non/military spending is possible instantly.

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= Conclusions and suggestions =

== Suggestion 1 ==
The Visualization itself is not so bad, but only good for print version. The diameters of the different circles gives a good overview of the dispersion of the budget. The problem is that no one can read the name of the different departments. Only when you zoon in the picture you can read it, but then you loos the overview. One approaches to improve the print version is e.g. to change the background colour.

But to improve the understanding of the picture we suggest a dynamic visualization!
The problem of the data set is that there are too many different departments and sub-departments. They can not be displayed in a normal diagram. There are up to 200 departments with nearly the same budget and with a normal diagram e.g. scatter plots there is no chance to distinguish the different departments and there are no specific information which can be derived from that kind of visualization.

Our approach is to use a SunBurst [SunBurst] like visualization. SunBurst is good to visualize hierarchies with a lot of data. The benefit of this technique is that you can easily compare different departments and sub-departments. The sizes of the different parts represent the budget. The different parts can be labelled with the $ amount or with % from the total budget and/or the Budget of the super-department.

The aim of this visualization is to compare different departments. You can go deeper to one sub-department and then compare two or more of them. It is also possible to get a total overview of all apartments by expanding all of the sub-departments. The drawback of this visualization is that departments with very little budget are nearly invisible in the circle. This disadvantage can be solved by dynamically colour or highlight different parts of the data. Another improvement could be to add a second or third view to the SunBurst visualization. These views could be a simple tree (like the explorer) or a Gaussian distribution of the budget. The data sets are the departments with their budget. With this visualization you can see how many departments have which amount of budget. By selecting a rage of the Gaussian distortion the relevant departments are expanded in the SunBurst and highlited in the explorer-tree. It sould be also possible to show the detail data e.g. name, amount of budger, etc. when you move your mouse over a part of the SunBurst Visualization.

This visualization approach reduces the drawback of the original one where the different departments are not so easy to compare.

[[Image:100 0034.JPG|none|thumb|300px|Multiple view approach (click on image for larger version)]]

[[Image:100 0033.JPG|none|thumb|300px|Multiple view approach with expanded sub-node(click on image for larger version)]]

== Suggestion 2 ==

The big horizontal rectangle encapsulates other square/rectangle sub deparment and each of them encapsulates dispersion of the budget in billion dollar. Each of them has different size by its ration. If that visualization should still in the detail, then The visualization in Stern can not readable and drawback of this visualization is that departments with very little budget are nearly invisible in the stern. This disadvantage can be solved by small abbreviations, such as: F-22R for “ F-22 Raptor - 5,170 Billion” and C-17TA for “ C-17 Transport Aircraft - 3,686 Billion”

[[Image:Drawing19.jpg|none|thumb|768px]]

[[Image:Drawing1.jpg|none|thumb|768px|(click on image for larger version)]]

== Suggestion 3 ==

Yet another approach for visualizing the "Budget and Taxes" is as follows. It presents the idea, not the whole graphic with actual figures. It uses the tree map approach.

* The big vertical rectangle encapsulates the directly section wise budget allocations (like R&D, Operations, etc.).

* Standard colors (navy blue for Navy, Grey for Air Force, Brown for Army) are used.

* Each horizonontal section is further proportionately divided between the three forces.

* A few sections which are common and hence equivalent to all the forces are drawn at the top (Others DOD and Defence wide). Since they are assumed to contribute equivalently towards other departments, therefore, all forces Navy, Army and Air Force are equally spaced there.

* Within each rectangular block of a force, further small blocks are made for showing small spendings on AEGIS destroyer, Super Hornet etc. Their sizes are also assumed to be proportional to their allocated budget. '''Due to space limitation, these are given numbers 1,2,3... Upon mouse click these can be further zoomed-in, or their description can be specified in the legend.'''

* Alongwith actual budget amount, the idea to show it in terms of different percentages, is employed. People are often interested in these kind of percentages when they are looking at budget.

Based upon this approach, rest of the graphic for military and non-military spendings can also be efficiently represented. Although not the perfect one, however it removes some of the defficiencies of the existing visualization. Now the user has a better and quick overview, with details.

[[Image:Death_and_taxes_visualization_-_Modified1.jpg]]

= Resources =

[Golden ratio] http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/g/go/golden_ratio.htm

[SunBurst] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/sunburst/

[Healey et al., 2005] Christopher G. Healey, Kellog S. Booth and James T. Enns - High-Speed Visual Estimation Using Preattentive Processing - The University of British Columbia, June 1996 - Access Date: 24.October.2005. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/download/tochi.96.pdf

[Hoffmann et al., 1997] Roald Hoffmann, Vladimir I. Minkin, Barry K. Carpenter, Ockham's Razor and Chemistry, HYLE--International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, Vol. 3 (1997), Retrieved at: October 24, 2005, http://www.hyle.org/journal/issues/3/hoffman.htm

[Mark Boulton, March 06, 2005] Journal, Aesthetic-Usability Effect http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/aesthetic_usability_effect/

[Pedroza, 2004] Carlos Pedroza, The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, San Diego State University. Access Date: 21 October 2005, http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/visualperc1/start.htm

[Rosenholtz et al., 2005] Ruth Rosenholtz, Yuanzhen Li, Jonathan Mansfield, and Zhenlan Jin. Feature Congestion: A Measure of Display Clutter. http://web.mit.edu/rruth/www/Papers/RosenholtzEtAlCHI2005Clutter.pdf

[Truong, 2005] Donny Truong, “Universal Principles of design” Access Date: 21. Oktober 2005 http://www.visualgui.com/index.php?p=1

[Tufte, 1991] Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Second Edition, Graphics Press, USA, 1991.

Tasks Taxonomy for Graphs

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== Low-Level Tasks ==

From [Amar et al. 2005] and [Lee et al 2006].

* General Tasks
{|border="1"
|-
|'''Task'''||'''Description'''
|-
|Retrieve Value ||Given a set of cases, find attributes of those cases.
|-
|Filter||Given some conditions on attributes values, find data cases satisfying those conditions.
|-
|Compute Derived Value||Given a set of data cases, compute an aggregate numeric representation of those data cases.(e.g. average, median, and count)
|-
|Find Extremum||Find data cases possessing an extreme value of an attribute over its range within the data set.
|-
|Sort||Given a set of data cases, rank them according to some ordinal metric.
Determine Range Given a set of data cases and an attribute of interest, find the span of values within the set.
|-
|Characterize Distribution||Given a set of data cases and a quantitative attribute of interest, characterize the distribution of that attribute’s values over the set.
|-
|Find Anomalies||Identify any anomalies within a given set of data cases with respect to a given relationship or expectation, e.g. statistical outliers.
|-
|Cluster||Given a set of data cases, find clusters of similar attribute values.
|-
|Correlate||Given a set of data cases and two attributes, determine useful relationships between the values of those attributes.
|-
|Scan|| Quickly review a set of items.
|-
|Set Operation|| Given multiple sets of items, perform set operations on them. For example, find the intersection of the set of nodes.
|}

* Graph Specific Tasks
{|border="1"
|-
|'''Task'''||'''Description'''
|-
|Find Adjacent Nodes ||Given a node, find its adjacent nodes.
|}

== Graph Task Taxonomy ==

Examples are illustrated using 4 types of graphs:
*(FOAF): friend-of-a-friend
*(FW): food web
*(GO): gene ontology
*(ARM): airport routing map

=== Topology-based Tasks ===

{| border="1"
|-
|'''Task'''||'''Description''' || '''Examples'''
|-
| Adjacency (direct connection)
|
* Find the set of nodes adjacent to a node?
* How many nodes are adjacent to a node?
* Which node has a maximum number of adjacent nodes?
||
*(FOAF) Find the names of the direct friends of Eric.
*(FW) How many kinds of organisms do golden eagles eat?
*(FOAF) Who is the most popular person?
|-
| Accessibility (direct or indirect connection)
|
* Find the set of nodes accessible from a node.
* How many nodes are accessible from a node?
* Find the set of nodes accessible from a node where the distance is less than or equal to n.
* How many nodes are accessible from a node where the distance is less than or equal to n?
||
*(FOAF) Who are your friends, your friends’ friends, and so on?
*(FOAF) How many friends are you connected to in this way?
*(ARM) To what cities can we go from Seoul, Korea by changing planes only once?
|-
| Commmon Connection
|
* Given nodes, find a set of nodes that are connected to all of them.
||
*(FOAF)Find all the people who know both John and Jack.
|-
| Connectivty
|
*Find the shortest path between two nodes.
*Identify clusters.
*Identify connected components.
*Find bridges.
*Find articulation points.
||
*(ARM) What is the shortest path from Seoul, Korea to Athens, Greece?
*(FOAF) Count the number of clusters.
*(FW) There may be subgraphs independent of each other. Count the number of connected components in the graph.
*(FOAF) Who is the person whose removal from the graph results in an unconnected graph?
*(FW) Which is the eating link whose removal from the graph results in an unconnected graph?
|}

=== Attribute-based Tasks ===

{| border="1"
|-
|'''Task'''||'''Description''' || '''Examples'''
|-
| On the Nodes
|
* Find the nodes having a specific attribute value.
* Review the set of nodes.
||
*(FOAF) Who do you know from the people currently shown on screen?
*(FOAF) How many people do you know from the ones currently shown on screen?
*(FOAF) Are there any foreign-sounding names?
|-
| On the Links
|
* Given a node, find the nodes connected only by certain types of links.
* Which node is connected by a link having the largest/smallest value?
||
*(GO) Find the nodes connected by “is-a” relationships from the “Biological Process” node.
*(FW) If a link has an attribute representing the percentage of the diet, what is main food of American crow?
|}

=== Browsing Tasks ===
{| border="1"
|-
|'''Task'''||'''Description''' || '''Examples'''
|-
| Follow Path
|
* Follow a given path
||
* (FOAF) A user looks into A’s friend B, B’s friend C, and C’s friend D.
* (FW) Follow the flow of energy from grasses, to a rabbit that eats grass, to a carnivore that eats the rabbit, and to a carnivore that eats that carnivore.
|-
| Revisit
|
* Return to a previously visited node.
||
*(FOAF) After they follow a path in the above task, they may want to see A’s other friends.
*(FW) Find another carnivore that eats the same rabbit.
|}

=== Overview Tasks ===
This is a compound exploratory task to get estimated values quickly. For example, we might ask users to estimate the size of the social network. Note that sometimes it is more important to be able to estimate the answer than to get an accurate one. Some of the topology tasks can be done easily using an overview of the graph as well. For example, using particular layout algorithms, it is easy to see whether or not there are clusters and connected components. Other algorithms help to find shortest paths between nodes. Overview also helps to find patterns.

Examples:
* estimate size of the network
* estimate the number of connected components
* is the network clustered?
* can you identify different patterns of connection?
* (FOAF) has the network a small-world structure?

== High-Level Tasks ==

High-Level tasks which are not a combination of lower level tasks.

* When we compare two or more food webs, we can ask the following questions: What do they have in common? What are the differences among those food webs? Is there any missing or conflicting information?
* Due to errors in the data, several nodes may represent the same entity. For example, the co-authorship graphs often have duplicate author nodes. One important task is to identify whether two or more nodes represent the same person.
* How has the graph changed over time?

== Other tasks ==

There seems to be a set of tasks in the world that match very few of these, but show up often. I welcome others' ideas of how to categorize them:

"what is the general structure of this graph?"
http://www.networkweaving.com/blog/2006/09/nola-networks.html

"what is the distribution of vertex degree in this graph?" (That is, "how are well-linked nodes different from under-linked nodes?")
http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Publication&id=1601

"how many As are linked to Bs? How many As link to other As?"
http://www.crookedtimber.org/2005/05/25/cross-ideological-conversations-among-bloggers/

I see things like this so often that they seem to dominate my understanding of how people think of graphing today. (Wattenberg obviously saw the same; his paper from CHI ’06 would do poorly on almost all of the tasks you discuss, but is incredibly effective for questions like “is Sales talking to Engineering?”)

It sounds like the rcasereh question would be: Will the information visualization project organize information in a way that will truly facilitate the decision-making process for those who work in the College of Veterinary Medecine? Sounds a lot like Melanie's question, but that's what I get from it.

2010-03-25: CFP: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) Special Issue on Intelligent Visual Interfaces for Text Analysis

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[[Category:News]]
[[Category:2010/03]]

Most of the world's information is contained in the form of text documents. To help people cope with the ever increasing amounts of text information, researchers have developed a wide array of text analysis technologies. Complex analysis results of these technologies, however, may be difficult and non-trivial for average users to digest and leverage. To help users better interpret text analysis results and discover opportunities to improve the results, researchers have been integrating text analytics technologies with interactive visualization technologies. In the past, most work focused on using basic visualization (e.g., bar charts and pie charts) to present final analysis results or inventing visual metaphors to illustrate simple analysis results (e.g., tf–idf measure of keywords). This special issue is aimed at highlighting state-of-the-art technologies and systems that tightly integrate advanced text analytics with innovative use of interactive visualization to maximize the value of both. We solicit articles that explore, define, and develop intelligent visual interfaces that help enhance the consumption and quality of advanced text analysis results. We specifically look for technologies or tools that can: 1) better convey and explain complex and abstract text analytic results and make them consumable; 2) compensate for the deficiencies of current text analysis technologies; and 3) help discover opportunities for improving text analytics to support an iterative, progressive analytic process. 
Topics of interest include but not limited to: 
* Novel, intelligent interfaces for text analytics 
* Visual and interactive text analytics 
* Collaborative visual text analytics 
* Scalable visual text analytics 
* Visual representations and interaction techniques to allow users to see, explore, and understand large amounts of text information 
* Techniques to support production, presentation, and dissemination of the analysis results to a variety of audiences 
* Data representations and transformations that convert conflicting and dynamic text data in ways that support visualization and analysis 
* User studies concerning intelligent interfaces for text analysis 
* Evaluation methods for text analysis techniques and systems 

==On-Line Submission==
[http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist] （please select “Intelligent Visual Interfaces for Text Analysis” as the manuscript type） 
Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on the website: [http://tist.acm.org/ http://tist.acm.org/] 
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. 

The KDD-2008 Conference, hosted by ACM’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), will psrneet recent developments in the rapidly evolving field of data mining and knowledge discovery. The 14th annual KDD conference combines hot research topics and important industrial applications in key areas like social networks,

==Guest Editors==
* Shixia Liu, IBM China Research Lab 
[http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/lsx.index.html http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/lsx.index.html] 

* Michelle X. Zhou, IBM Almaden Research Center 
[http://www.research.ibm.com/RIA/People/Zhou/Zhou.htm http://www.research.ibm.com/RIA/People/Zhou/Zhou.htm] 

* Giuseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia 
[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~carenini/index.html http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~carenini/index.html] 

* Huamin Qu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
[http://www.huamin.org/ http://www.huamin.org/]

Category:Software

2012-05-31T22:40:43Z

94.23.1.18: hFUFTloiWGAjhfsJJ

u must read this. u must read this. once u have started there is no trniung back. a little 10 year old girl was raped and murderded in 1945. her body was not found until 1947. then a boy last week read this and did not copy and paste this message. the dead girl appeared in his room haunting him and killed him. if you do not copy and paste this onto 10 vidoes in 30 minutes the? dead girl will apear in your room tonight and haunt you and kill you. well you better start to copy and paste to be saved

McKenzie, Bruce

2012-05-31T21:18:27Z

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'''Bruce McKenzie''' received a B.Sc. (Hons) in 1975 and a Ph.D. in 1978, both from the University of Canterbury. He joined the Department of Computer Science of the same University in 1980 and was Head of Department for seven years from 1991. His research interests are mainly in the broad areas of compiler construction, formal language theory, compression and HCI. He published a lot of papers in the past, many of them together with [[Cockburn, Andrew|Andrew Cockburn]]. He also evaluated [[Cone Trees]] with him. 
 
Bruce McKenzie decided to go to work in industry in ~2004.

no one really wants to know about the ipcmat of the old workers compensation system and the current workcover system have had.Whilst it is tragic that Rosemary has lost her brother and suffered her own workplace injury the rest of us have benefited because when Rosemary could have easily walked away she chose to stay to help others.Rosemary McKenzie-Ferguson is such an important and generous person who I am lucky to know and be call my friend.

2009-12-16: CFP: IEEE Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis'10)

2012-05-31T20:40:40Z

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== CALL FOR PAPERS ==

== IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION (SoftVis'10) ==

=== Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October 25-26, 2010 ===
http://www.softvis.org/softvis10

(collocated with IEEE VisWeek'10, http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2010)

SoftVis'10 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC).

=== IMPORTANT DATES ===

* Papers Due : April 30, 2010
* Notification : June 30, 2010
* Posters/Tool Demos Due: July 14, 2010
* Symposium : October 25-26, 2010

=== SCOPE ===

Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of
methods for graphically representing different aspects of software,
including its structure, its abstract and concrete execution, and its
evolution. The Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis), now at
its fifth edition, is the premiere forum for researchers from different
backgrounds (HCI, software engineering, programming languages,
visualization, and computer science education) to present original
research on software visualization.

We seek theoretical as well as practical papers on applications,
techniques, tools, case studies, and empirical studies. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:

* Visualization of algorithms
* Program visualization
* Visualization in software engineering, e.g. UML diagrams
* Visualization of parallel programs
* Visualization-based software in computer science and software engineering education
* Visualization of workflow and business processes
* Integration of software visualization tools and development environments
* Visualization of data and processes in applications
* Visualization of web services
* Visualization of software evolution
* Visualization of the software development process
* Visualization of data base schemes
* Protocol and log visualization (security, trust)
* Source code visualization
* Graph drawing algorithms for software visualization
* Visual debugging
* Program analyses and visualization
* 3D software visualization
* Software visualization on the internet
* Empirical evaluation of software visualization

=== SUBMISSIONS ===

Papers are solicited that present original, unpublished research
results and will be rigorously reviewed by an international program
committee. Authors should prepare and electronically submit their
papers (up to 10 pages in IEEE VGTC two-column format,
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html) according to the
instructions on the symposium website: http://www.softvis.org/softvis10.
The submission of a video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the
paper is encouraged.

Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a
special issue on Software Visualization in the Information Visualization
journal (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/). As in the previous
SoftVis editions we will award a best paper.

In addition to technical papers, we are also inviting poster and tool
demo submissions. Posters and tool demos offer the opportunity to
present new ideas and work in progress during an interactive session.
Authors should prepare and submit poster and tool demo abstracts of up
to 2 pages in IEEE VGTC two-column format. Accepted abstracts will be
included in the conference proceedings.

=== ORGANIZATION ===

==== General Chair ====
* Alexandru Telea, University of Groningen, Netherlands

==== Program Co-chairs ====
* Carsten Görg, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Steven Reiss, Brown University, USA

==== Poster Chair ====
* Craig Anslow, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Your cranium must be portecting some very valuable brains.

Category:Software

2012-05-31T19:45:06Z

94.23.1.18: aKiwQClbDTDyXByyRKZ

Yo, that's what's up turthuflly.

2010-10-25: CFP: Making visible the invisible: Data Visualisation in Art, Design and Science Collaborations (Dec. 6th 2010, UK)

2012-05-31T18:28:42Z

94.23.1.18: UKvlsfqjd

Not necessarily coerrct if an Seo company is ranking greater than other providers is greater. On the other hand it is a great method to show leadership in the marketplace. Sometime is difficult to rank increased than other companies on account of substantial number of back links above the a long time and it could price allot to outrank these providers an I'm saying six figure amount to outrank these corporations. On the other hand I see if a young firm is out ranking these dominant corporations then it's a great way to show leadership above the older companies. As I suggested earlier it is not the age or expertise it is the overall performance that matters.

Golden Ratio

2012-05-31T18:11:02Z

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== GOLDEN RATIO ==

----
===DEFINITION===
The '''golden ratio''' is an irrational mathematical constant with the approximated value of 1.6180339887. It is the relation between two quantities, where the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one. [Wikipedia, 2009a]

This mathematical proportion is often recognized as 'aesthetically pleasing', thus it is often found in many different fields like mathematics, architecture, geometry, science, biology, nature, art and design.[Livio, 2002]

Other names used for the golden ratio are '''golden section''', '''golden mean''', '''extreme and mean ratio''', '''medial section''', '''golden proportion''', '''golden cut''' and '''golden number'''
[Summerson, 1963]

It is said, that two quantities are in golden ration if and only if the following condition holds:

[[Image:golden-ratio.png]]

It is mostly symbolised by the Greek letter [[Image:Phi.png]] (phi) or sometimes by the less known τ (tau).

[[Image:golden-ratio-graphical.png|right|thumb|upright|]]

The history of the golden ration at least goes back to the ancient greeks, Pythagoras and his followers. The greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (365BC - 300BC) first mentioned the '''golden mean'''[Joyce, 1997]:

{{Quotation|A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.| Euclid of Alexandria(ca. 300BC)}}

----

===CALCULATION===

Method for calculation of golden ratio constant is beginning from the following algebraic formula:

[[Image:golden-ratio.png]]

From the formula we obtain that a is equal b/[[Image:Phi.png]], so we can replace all occurences of a:

[[Image:golden-ratio-1.png]]

Devided by b formula changes to:

[[Image:golden-ratio-2.png]]

Now we need to multiply formula by [[Image:Phi.png]] and by moving content of the right side to the left side we get quadratic equation:

[[Image:golden-ratio-3.png]]

The only positive result to above equation is the irrational number we have already presented:

[[Image:golden-ratio-4.png]]

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===GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICS===

Fibonacci introduced a sequence of numbers, today called the '''Fibonacci Numbers''', which is often found in natural sciences. By definition, the first two Fibonacci numbers are 0 and 1, and each remaining number is the sum of the previous two [Wikipedia, 2009a] .

1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,....

Every number of this alignment equals to 0,168 if you divide it with the one before it, and 1,618 when you divide it with the number after it. These are the relationships between the larger and smaller numbers in the golden ratio. Below you can see example for division of bigger by smaller number:

[[Image:fibonacci-example-1.png]]

and by smaller devided by bigger number:

[[Image:fibonacci-example-2.png]]

There are many shapes in which golden ratio were discovered. Examples of those you can see on the right side.

{| cellpadding="1" style="border:1px solid darkgray;"
!width="140"|Pentagram
!width="150"|Golden rectangle
|- align=center
| style="border:1px solid;"|
[[Image:Pentagram2.png|120px]]
| style="border:1px solid;"|
[[Image:Golden_rectangle.png|120px]]
|- align=center
|Image Illustrates the hidden golden ratio in the very special shape, '''pentagram'''. || A rectangle is a '''golden rectangle''' when the sides are in the 1:0,618 proportion.
|}

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===ART & DESIGN===

Since the beginning of ART & Design, the artist and designers used the golden ratio in order to manage and achieve beauty and balance in their creations. In the following table you can see few examples for all.
{| cellpadding="2" style="border:1px solid darkgray;"
!width="140"|Mona-Liza
!width="150"|Aztek decorations
!width="130"|Credit cards
|- align=center
| style="border:1px solid;"|
[[Image:mona-liza.gif]]
| style="border:1px solid;"|
[[Image:aztec.jpg|120px]]
| style="border:1px solid;"|
[[Image:cards.jpg|120px]]
|- align=center
| In Mona-Liza painting you can find many golden rectangles that together create golden spiral.|| The space between the two heads is exacly Phi times the width of the heads.|| if you measure a credit-card, the outcome would be a perfect golden rectangle.
|}

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===Architecture===

There is many examples of golden ratio even in architecture. Architect were inspired by this "sacred ratio" already in times of Pyramids. Even in Greek you can find golden rectangles, spirals, etc. In the table below you can find several examples.

{| cellpadding="2" style="border:1px solid darkgray;"
!width="140"|Great Pyramid of Giza
!width="150"|Parthenon
!width="130"|Engineering Plaza
|- align=center
| style="border:1px solid;"|
[[Image:great-pyramid.gif]]
| style="border:1px solid;"|
[[Image:parthenon.gif|120px]]
| style="border:1px solid;"|
[[Image:polyplaza.jpg|120px]]
|- align=center
| The Great Pyramid has proportions designed according to golden ratio.[Obara, 2000]|| Even in proportions of Parthenon you can find golden spiral consisting of golden rectangles.[Obara, 2000]|| The Designers of this new Plaza have chosen the Fibonacci series spiral, or also called the golden mean to design this new state of the art plaza.[Knott, 2009]
|}

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== Related Links ==
*[http://www.goldenmeangauge.co.uk/fibonacci.htm The Fibonacci Series]
*[http://www.golden-section.eu Der goldene Schnitt - Das Mysterium der Schönheit]
[Wikipedia, Golden Ratio, 2005] Wikipedia.org, Golden Ratio, 19.10.2005, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
[Wikipedia, Golden rectangle, 2005] Wikipedia.org, Golden rectangle, 24.10.2005, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rectangle
[Wikipedia, Pentagram, 2005] Wikipedia.org, Pentagram, 29.10.2005, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagram

I am. But you're confusing the deerins with that word. They don't understand what a consensus is or isn't or how they come to exist.Besides, don't you know that every scientific organization is made up of weak-kneed scientists who are spreading fairytales and that leftist alarmists like to tell them to small children to frighten them.You know Like Bigfoot.Dax *sigh* You know nothing of science. Look up "falsifiability". Besides that, if you want to use legalese, you have the burden of proof since you are the one crying foul. If you initiate a case (such as AGW is a socialist plot to implement the NWO), you are considered the plaintiff and assume the burden of proof. In other words, *YOU* need to back up *YOUR* claims as scientists already back up theirs in the scientific literature I'm sorry richie, but not a single one of your examples is relevant to the question. Though when you use the Einstein quote, you may want practice some introspection.You may also want to stop plagiarizing. It's illegal, you know?_

Patterns:Visual Separation

2012-05-31T17:59:07Z

94.23.1.18: nkpxHkoD

Dave,I really find these packs inrnisipg and I'm very grateful for the work you put into them. I've been thinking about different kinds of sand/soil/natural rock surfaces and I wonder if there's some ideas here. I've got a few snaps from a trip to the wild west last year which might be a starting point for some ideas? Thanks again,Ryan

AVI 2012

2012-05-31T17:48:59Z

94.23.1.18: eTyRXzhsvNW

Jeg NEKTER e5 tro at det var heelt tilfeldig at det ble det bdeilt x'DMe5 i det minste ha ve6rt enellerannen skjebne som kjenner deg litt for godt xD

Sabol, Vedran

2012-05-31T17:43:54Z

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Hi Jay!I haven't spoken to you since high scohol, but I can tell you are just as awesome (or maybe even more so!) as you were back then. Thanks so much for posting this; sometimes I do need a reminder that no matter how crappy my day/week has been, I am extremely blessed.First post I read on your blog = the free giveaway? Haha YES!!! Well, I've recently started exploring opportunities to make a difference in my community, so yesterday and this Sunday I volunteered/will be volunteering at Divine Design, a retail event where 100% of sale proceeds benefit Project Angel Food, an organization that provides free and nutritious meals to L.A. residents whose lives are affected by HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.Well, I'm off to continue reading your blog!

Data-Ink Ratio

2012-05-31T16:33:22Z

94.23.1.18: XtrxKnJyjvw

I have figured out some siinnficagt things through your website post. One other point I would like to talk about is that there are many games out there designed specially for preschool age youngsters. They involve pattern acknowledgement, colors, animals, and forms. These commonly focus on familiarization as opposed to memorization. This will keep little kids occupied without sensing like they are learning. Thanks

User:Gandrienko

2012-05-31T16:16:44Z

94.23.1.18: tHASihaipuaxO

Cairo – Luxor – Aswan – CairoDay 1Arrival to airport then trfeasnr to the hotel (Le Meriden Pyramids- 5 *) and have overnight.Day 2Full day pyramids (Pyramids – sphinx – Sakkara – Memphis), Optional tour Sound & Light show in the night.Day 3Fly to Luxor then trfeasnr to the Nile cruise ( Nile Sarya or Nile Mahrosa- 5* Standard ). (Accommodation is full board).Day 4Full day sightseeingDay 5Full day SightseeingDay 6Full day sightseeingDay 7Fly back to Cairo then have a tour to Egyptian museum, Mohamed Aly mosque and citadel and khan el khalele bazaar.Day 8Transfer from hotel to airport to fly back home.The rate is 650 $ per person in DBL.The rate is include:•3 Nights accommodation at Le Meriden pyramids with half board.•All trfeasnr by private vehicle.•English Tour guide.•All entrance fees.•4 Nights accommodation at Nile cruise with full board.•2 Lunch during the sightseeing.The rate is exclude:•Egyptian visa which is 20 $ per person.•Any extras will taken by the clients.•Sound and light show which is 40 $ per person include trfeasnr.•Any excursion tour not mention on the itinerary.Note:If you want add any tour to our program or you want to add any suggestion please tell us and we will do it for you.Thanks and best regards

Patterns:Proxy Tuple

2012-05-31T16:15:10Z

94.23.1.18: ZikyvciT

Sorry I am a bit late to the party But here it is: Could you please priovde patterns not only in Photoshop (.pat) format but also in self-installing .mxp (Fireworks extension format)? That would be awesome!(Note: In Fireworks, you have access to Patterns and Textures. There's a slight difference between them, but Textures are used more often (small repeatable patterns), and they are located:%Program Files%\Adobe\Adobe Fireworks CS \Configuration\Textures\ { here }An .mxp file is simply a Fireworks extension file that may auto-extract and copy some stuff to a predefined place. For example, of pixel patterns by Naomi, once downloaded, installs Fireworks pixel patterns.)Fireworks extension developer might priovde some help to you, if you decide to offer a Fireworks packs, too!I am a big fan of your work, and many thanks for the patterns you already priovded to the community!

Small Multiples

2012-05-31T16:14:56Z

94.23.1.18: YUgoaRXPUQAnvfcaaKZ

I have three of Tufte's books (not the latest one yet), an I enjoy them gleatry, but their concepts are not always easy to directly put into practice. I consider these books of greater cultural value than technical value.I have two of Few's books, Show Me the Numbers and Information Dashboard Design. Both are informative, and they present concepts in a practical way that makes them easy to implement. Both authors are equally valuable, but for different reasons.

Five Hat Racks

2012-05-31T15:38:56Z

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Albert Einstein once said: "Two things are itfinine: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe." Never a truer word was said.Putting aside all of the scandal around data fixing there is no conclusive evidence to show that the planet is heating up any more than it would by natural means. Radiative Theory cannot explain why the temperature dropped between 1940-1980 or why the 1930 s were the warmest decade on record. There has been billions of tax dollars invested into the the so called' global warming crisis thus paying for many scientists grants to study global warming History tells us that sadly big money' usually always distorts the beneficiaries AKA the scientists, the data and the results!Study the history books science has been wrong many times :b7 Brain power: Scientists at the Institute for Animal Health in Edinburgh secured a a3200,000 government grant to find out whether BSE has jumped the "species barrier" from cows into sheep. An inquiry is now under way after it was found that scientists had been mistakenly testing cattle brains instead of sheep brains for five years.b7 Scientific Watergate: The US National Institutes of Health investigatory panel found the immunologist Thereza Imanishi-Kari had fabricated data in a 1986 research paper authored with the Nobel prize winner David Baltimore. The findings claimed in the paper promised a breakthrough for genetic modification of the immune system.b7 Mein bumph: Oxbridge historian Hugh Trevor-Roper authenticated the Hitler Diaries, unveiled as an exclusive by the German-based Stern magazine. The diaries were later exposed as a hoax.b7 Cold Fusion: In 1989 chemists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman, of the University of Utah, claimed to have solved the world's energy problems by discovering cold fusion. However, no-one has since been able to replicate their findings of nuclear fusion in heavy water.b7 Hubble Space Telescope: Nasa scientists launched the Hubble telescope to create a lens 10 to 20 times more powerful than those based on earth. A gross design error in the main mirror was discovered immediately after launch in April 1990. Hundreds of millions of pounds were needed for the astronaut repair of the mirror.b7 N-rays: A French physicist, Rene9 Blondlot, claimed to have discovered a new type of radiation, shortly after Roentgen had discovered X-rays. American physicist Robert Wood, however, revealed that N-rays were little more than a delusion. Wood removed the prism from the N-ray detection device, without which the machine couldn't work. Yet, Blondlot's assistant still claimed he found N-rays.b7 Academic standards: Cyril Burt, the 1960s guru of British psychology, produced research into the intelligence of identical twins which, among other findings, led to the assertions that academic standards were falling. Years later the statistics were found to be "too perfect" and it was discovered the twins and even the researcher alleged to have carried out the work never existed.b7 Piltdown man: In 1913 an ape's jaw with a canine tooth worn down like a human's was uncovered at a site near Piltdown. British paleoanthropologists came to accept the idea that the fossil remains belonged to a single creature who had a human cranium and an ape's jaw offering the missing link between apes and humans in the evolutionary chain. In 1953, Piltdown man' was exposed as a forgery. The skull was modern and the teeth on the ape's jaw had been filed down.b7 Alchemy: Sir Isaac Newton the scientist who single-handedly created the foundations of modern day physics had a little known obsession with alchemy, and was convinced for much of his life that he would be able to change base metals into gold. Such a discovery would have helped with his later job as master of the mint, but never materialised.b7 Flat Earth: even though Christopher Columbus gave flat earth theorists a reason to think twice, there are still flat earth societies where people propose (and prove) elaborate explanations for why the world actually is shaped like a pancake.

==The LATCH Principle==

;Location
Location is chosen when the information who you are comparing comes from several different sources or locales. Doctors use different locations of the body to group and study medicine. Concerning an industry you might want to know where on the world goods are distributed.

;Alphabet
Alphabet is best used when you have enormous amount of data. For example words in a dictionary or names in a telephone. As usually everybody is familiar with the Alphabet, categorizing by Alphabet is recommendable when not all the audience is familiar with different kind of groupings or categories you could use instead.

;Time
Time is the best form of categorization for events that happen over fixed durations. Meeting schedules or our calendar are examples. The work of important persons might be displayed as timeline as well. Time is an easily framework in which changes can be observed and comparisons made.

;Category
Category is an organization type often used for goods and industries. Shops and services in the yellow pages are easy to find by category. Retail stores are divided into e.g. men- and woman-clothing. This mode works well to organizing items of similar importance.

;Hierarchy
Hierarchy organizes by magnitude. From small to large, least expensive to most expensive, by order of importance, etc. Hierarchy is to be used if you want to assign weight or value to the ordered information.

==References==

[Fischetti, 1997] Mark Fischetti, Blueprint for Information Architects. Fastcompany Magazine, Issue 10, pp.186, August/September 1997. 
[Truong, 2004] Donny Truong, Universal Principles of design. Created at: Jannuary 21, 2004. Retrieved at: October 21, 2005. http://www.visualgui.com/index.php?p=1. 
[Wurman, 1989] Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety. Doubleday Books, New York, 1989. 
[Wurman and Bredford, 1996] Richard Saul Wurman, Peter Bradford, Information Architects. Graphis Press Corp, Zurich, Switzerland, 1996. 
[Wurman, 2000] Richard Saul Wurman. Information Anxiety 2. Que Publishing, Indianapolis, IN, 2000. 
[Wurman, 2000] Richard Saul Wurman, The Business of Understanding.Created at: December 28, 2000. Retrieved at: October 21, 2005. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=130881&seqNum=6&rl=1. 

[[Category:Glossary]]

Help:Citation & Bibilography Format

2012-05-31T15:31:26Z

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Hi, I'd really like to read the 2 aricelts you mention about Woz and Jobs but have not been able to find them on the Internet. Is there any way to get access to the aricelts other than trying to get an old paper copy? Thanks.John Strohm

Hearst, Marti

2012-05-31T15:18:43Z

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''' Marti Hearst ''' is associate professor at School of Information and management Systems (SIMS), UC Berkeley.

ok heres what i need i need access to every slgine published web document on any given subject all of it!!! if you consider the amount of hourly uploaded non seo or linked content what is covered by google is dispicable!!!! its NOT an accurate representation of existing web content!!!! i NEED a more accurate? search covering the shier volume of ugc that is out there!!!! it really isnt good enough!!!! could somebody PLEASE direct me to the tools i need to access the actual web?!

2012-02-27: CFP: BioVis'12 (IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization), Seattle, WA, October 14-15, 2012

2012-05-31T14:58:03Z

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== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ==

BioVis 2012: IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization

at VisWeek 2012 in Seattle, WA 
October 14-15, 2012

Website: http://www.biovis.net

Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2012 
Poster Submission Deadline: June 27, 2012 
Contest Submission Deadline: June 27, 2012

== (1) Aims and Scope ==

The rapidly expanding field of biology creates enormous challenges for
computational visualization techniques for enabling researchers to
gain insight from their large and highly complex data sets.

The goal of the Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) is
to establish a premier international and interdisciplinary event for
all aspects of visualization in biology. The Symposium aims at
bringing together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics,
and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and
engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data
visualization as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in
state-of-the-art visualization research.

The symposium will serve as a platform for researchers from these
fields to increase the impact of visualization approaches in biology.
The breadth and diversity of biological research topic areas will
enable researchers from all parts of the visualization community to
contribute to this effort and the symposium will provide an excellent
opportunity to initiate interdisciplinary collaborations. Finally, it
will provide an outlet and training ground for young and freshly
minted visualization researchers with a keen interest in problems of
biology and provide a venue for researchers in biology and
bioinformatics to share pressing visualization challenges and
potential solutions in their fields.

== (2) Topics ==

We are looking for contributions on all aspects of visualization in
biology. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Genome and sequence data, including genomic variation data 
2. Multivariate omics data (transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.) 
3. Phylogenetic data 
4. Biological networks and pathways 
5. Biological Ontologies 
6. Structures (e.g., protein or RNA structures) 
7. Visualization of image data, such as microscopy or radiological data 
8. Integration of image and omics data for systems biology 
9. Modeling, simulation, and visualization of biological systems 
10. Visualization in neurobiology and developmental biology 
11. Systems and software frameworks for biological visualization 
12. Integration of visualization in biological workflows or collaborative processes 
13. Visualization and visual analytics of integrated data sets 
14. Usability of visualization by biologists 
15. Creation and visualization of biological atlases and metadata 
16. Processes for interdisciplinary collaboration between biology and visualization. 
17. Visualization and visual analysis of eQTL data (see related information on the Contest web page on http://www.biovis.net)

I have a local NGO and my area of intervention is women and cilhdren, but at the moment we do not raise any fund as yet and we want to elminate all forms of discrimination agenst these vulnerable groups, that is why we want to connect to the out side world for support in order to combat all forms of violence agenst them, we will be glad to attend your conference so that i can explore and sorcest my tallent.Hope to hear from you soonest.Executive Secetrarypositive change and development

== (4) Submission Types and Criteria ==

Given the goal of bringing together members of the both the biology
and visualization communities for discussion, the symposium
solicitation is purposefully broad and open minded to diverse types
and lengths of submissions. Authors are encouraged to self identify
the intent of their submission. Each paper will be handled in the
review process and given appropriate time and venue at the symposium
in accordance with its stated intent and length. Types of submissions
include, but are not limited to:

1. Detailed reports of original research 
2. Highlights about relevant previously published work with some additional insight 
3. Descriptions of work in progress and preliminary results 
4. Experience reports 
5. Demonstrations of new systems, perhaps including distribution of working code 
6. Descriptions of analysis challenges of a newly published dataset, potentially as a challenge to the visualization community to help produce solutions

Authors should indicate the intended publication type of their
submissions, as one of three categories:

1. Papers: Up to 8 page papers describing high quality research that
is not necessarily fully completed but offers some new insight.
Selected papers will have an opportunity for an extended and refined
invited follow-up submission (see Section 9). Authors will have an
oral presentation in a session with an emphasis on discussion with the
audience.

2. Posters: Submissions consist of an up to 2 page extended abstract
summarizing the authors‚Äô work. Posters are meant to support an
exchange of ideas and can be based on work-in-progress. Authors must
present a corresponding poster during the designated poster session,
and are encouraged to incorporate a demo or video into their
presentation. All authors have the opportunity to give a brief oral
preview during a plenary fast forward session. Authors of selected
posters will be invited to provide a longer oral presentation at the
symposium.

3. Contest Entries: Submissions consist of an up to 4 page extended
abstract summarizing the contest entry. Supplementary material is also
welcome in form of Powerpoint slides, software virtual box images
and/or binary distributions, technical reports, and supporting
manuscripts. A subset of selected contestants will have the
opportunity to present their work in a separate session during the
symposium.

More information about each category of content and the various
submission guidelines can be found on http://www.biovis.net.

== (5) General Expectations (Ethics Guidelines) ==

At least one author of an accepted submission must attend the
conference to present the work. When submitting your paper you will be
asked to provide a complete list of authors even when submitting an
anonymized version of the manuscript. This is required to avoid
potential conflicts of interest when assigning reviewers. Adding
additional authors AFTER the acceptance of a paper is unacceptable and
will not be permitted.

All submissions will be treated as confidential communications during
the review process, so submission does not constitute public
disclosure of any ideas therein. Submissions should contain no
information or materials that will be proprietary or confidential at
the time of publication (at the conference), and should cite no
publications that are proprietary or confidential at the time of
publication.

Authors of poster entries will also abide by similar guidelines. Any
use of copyrighted material and devices of proprietary nature will be
the responsibility of the presenters.

Contestants will also use the contest data in the spirit of academic
collaboration and inquiry. The use of patented and proprietary
solutions and software will be permitted for demonstrating the results
in a forum at the Symposium. However, it is encouraged that the final
submission include open-source code distribution and anonymized data
to foster academic collaborations.

Our symposium will adhere to the VGTC ethics guidelines for reviewers
that can be found at
http://vgtc.org/wpmu/techcom/conferences/ethics-guidelines.

== (6) Review Process ==

Reviewers from both visualization and bioinformatics communities will
be involved in the review process. Paper and poster submissions will
be evaluated by external reviewers organized by the Papers and Posters
Chairs, respectively. Papers will be reviewed for novelty and
contribution, while posters will be considered for their quality and
value to the symposium audience. Contest entries will be judged for
their contribution to the state-of-the-art in visualization, and in
their ability to provide biological insights. The review committee for
the contest entries will draw upon the existing BioVis reviewers while
recruiting others from various pertinent research communities in
biology and bioinformatics.

== (7) Important Dates ==

Paper submission: Monday, April 30, 2012 
Notification of acceptance of papers: Thursday, June 7, 2012

Contest Entry and Poster submission: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 
Notification of acceptance of posters, contest entries: Friday, July 27, 2012

Camera ready copy: Saturday, August 25, 2012 
Extended Journal Format Submission: TBD

All deadlines are at 5:00pm Pacific Time (PDT).

== (8) Supplemental Material and Formatting Guidelines ==

Paper and poster submissions can include full-color figures
throughout. We encourage the use of digital video to enhance the
submission, particularly if part or all of the work addresses
interactive techniques. Submission of working code and other
supplemental material in order to increase the reproducibility of the
work is also encouraged. The material for the contest entries should
include all of the aforementioned content. It will be however,
advantageous to include all material which will convince the reviewers
of the specificity and topicality of the offered solutions.
Open-source software should be included for all contest entries. If
open-source solutions cannot be included, the contestants should
provide sufficient rationale while providing an appropriate collection
of binaries and executables.

The review process for the paper track will be optionally double-blind
for those who want to submit their work anonymously. When submitting
for double-blind reviewing you are asked NOT to include any
identifying information in the submission. Otherwise, the review
process will be single-blind, i.e. the reviewers know the identity of
the authors, but the authors do not know the identity of the
reviewers.

Links to details and guidelines for preparing a proper submission and
supplementary data can be found on http://www.biovis.net. Authors must
follow the style guidelines specified therein.

== (9) Publications ==

The symposium proceedings will consist of all accepted papers and will
appear in the IEEE Digital Library. Accepted poster and contest
submissions will be included in the electronic conference proceedings
and made available on the symposium website.

To increase the visibility of visualization within the bioinformatics
and biology communities, a selection of the best accepted papers and
contest entries will be invited to be published in expanded form in an
open-access, peer-reviewed bioinformatics journal such as BMC
Bioinformatics.

== (10) Submission ==

Details on how to submit papers, posters and contest entries are
provided on http://www.biovis.net.

== (11) Paper, Contest, and Poster Awards ==

Best paper and poster prizes will be awarded. Submissions that
resulted from a successful collaboration between researchers from both
the visualization and biology communities will be especially regarded.
Reviewers will be queried on the review form with a question "Should
we consider this paper/poster for the best paper/poster award?
(yes/no/maybe)".
Contest entries will be rewarded for creating either the best
visualization among the competing entries, or for gleaning the most
biological insights. Another prize will be awarded for best overall
entry.

== (12) Organizing Committee ==

General Chairs 
- Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK 
- Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA 
- Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA

Paper Chairs 
- Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. 
- Matt Hibbs, The Jackson Laboratory, USA

Poster Chairs 
- Cydney Nielsen, British Columbia Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre, Canada 
- Robert Kincaid, Agilent Laboratories, USA

Publication Chairs 
- Miriah Meyer, University of Utah, USA 
- Jan Aerts, Leuven University, Belgium

Primer Chairs 
- Carsten Goerg, University of Colorado, USA 
- Kay Nieselt, University of T√ºbingen, Germany

Challenges Chairs 
- Sean O'Donoghue, Garvan Institute/CSIRO, Australia 
- Bernhard Preim, University of Magdeburg, Germany

Contest Chairs 
- William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA 
- Christopher Bartlett, The Ohio State University, USA 
- Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA

Industry and Fundraising Chairs 
- Kun Huang, The Ohio State University, USA 
- G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Pittsburg, USA

Website and Publicity Chairs 
- Alexander Lex, Graz University of Technology, Austria 
- Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

== (13) Steering Committee ==

- Larry Hunter, University of Colorado, USA 
- Torsten Moeller, Simon Fraser University, Canada 
- Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia, Canada 
- Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland, USA

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Task

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There are a number of different task taxonomies in InfoVis at different levels of granularity.

== Task Taxonomy of Relational Information Displays ==
by: [Zhang, 1996] based on [Carswell and Wickens, 1988]

There are three major types of display tasks:
*information retrieval
*comparison
*information integration

== High-level tasks / purposes / goals of Visualization ==
Sources: [Schumann and Müller, 2000], [Keim et al., 2006]
* [[Visual Presentation]]
* [[Visual Exploration]]
* [[Visual Analysis]]

== On the interplay between task and representation ==
{{Quotation|Thus, although there are no best displays that are efficient for all types of tasks, there is a correct or incorrect mapping between the representation of a display and the structure of a task.|[Zhang, 1996]}}

{{Quotation|When a RID [Relational Information Display] has necessary and sufficient information for a task, the mapping between the display and the task is perfect. For example, length is a good representation for ratio comparison tasks because length is on a ratio scale and ratio comparison tasks require ratio scales.|[Zhang, 1996]}}

== Analytic Gaps and Knowledge Tasks ==
Source: [Amar and Stasko, 2004]

=== Analytic Gaps ===
*'''The Rationale Gap: No “Black Boxes”'''
{{Quotation|We define the Rationale Gap as the gap between perceiving a relationship and actually being able to explain confidence in that relationship and the usefulness of that relationship.|[Amar and Stasko, 2004]}}
*'''The Worldview Gap: Show The Wider Perspective'''
{{Quotation|We define the Worldview Gap as the gap between what is being shown and what actually needs to be shown to draw a straightforward representational conclusion for making a decision.|[Amar and Stasko, 2004]}}

=== Knowledge Tasks ===
*'''Rationale-Based Tasks'''
*#Expose Uncertainty
*#Concretize Relationships
*#Formulate Cause And Effect

*'''Worldview-Based Tasks'''
*#Determination Of Domain Parameters
*#Multivariate Explanation
*#Confirm Hypotheses

== Analytic Task Taxonomy ==
Source: [Amar et al., 2005]
* Retrieve Value
* Filter
* Compute Derived Value
* Find Extremum
* Sort
* Determine Range
* Characterize Distribution
* Find Anomalies
* Cluster
* Correlate

== Action Taxonomy ==
Source: [Gotz and Zhou, 2009]

===Exploration Actions===
*'''Data Exploration Actions'''
**Filter
**Inspect
**Query
**Restore

*'''Visual Exploration Actions'''
**Brush
**Change-Metaphor
**Change-Range
***Zoom
***Pan
**Merge
**Sort
**Split

===Insight Actions===
*'''Visual Insight Actions'''
**Annotate
**Bookmark

*'''Knowledge Insight Actions'''
**Create
**Modify
**Remove

The short answer is yes. There are apenailcps out there that will allow you to edit video without a pc. You probably could find some equipment on E-bay if you type in Linear editing equipment, Lanc edit controlers, etc.The problem is you will need a controller two monitors and two decks. (One being a player and one being the record deck.) In addition you will probably need a stand alone DVD burner. I have not done a price check on that recently, but I know at one point you were looking at around two grand for that type of equipment used. (That was amatuer equipment, for professional equipment you were looking at a lot more money.) For about the same amount of money you can purchase a nonlinear system like a casablanca. My only issue with an appliance like that is they are difficult to upgrade and don't play well with other things like photo editing software.I think you would be better off buying a MAc Mini for $600 with extra memory, and a Super Drive DVD burner. It comes with I-movie and I-DVD which are great stand alone editing and authoring programs for beginers. The CPU is small and with a KVM Swicth you can use the same Keyboard mouse and monitor as your PC. Less money than a linear system, More controlable than a linear system, Less space than an editing appliance like a casablanca, and upgradeable. Whats to loose?TonyPS. Linear systems are faster than non-linear systems for event style videography like weddings or church services. especially if you only want to add titles.

== References ==
*[Amar and Stasko, 2004] R. Amar and J. Stasko, "A knowledge task-based framework for design and evaluation of information visualizations," in the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (INFOVIS'04). IEEE Computer Society, 2004, pp. 143-150. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INFOVIS.2004.10
*[Amar et al., 2005] R. Amar, J. Eagan, and J. Stasko, "Low-level components of analytic activity in information visualization," in 2005 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (INFOVIS'05), 2005, pp. 15+. [Online]. Available: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/INFOVIS.2005.24
*[Carswell and Wickens, 1988] Carswell, C. M. & Wickens, C. D. (1988). Comparative graphics: History and applications of perceptual integrality theory and the proximity compatibility hypothesis (TR ARL-88-2/AHEL-88-1). Aviation Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
*[Gotz and Zhou, 2009] D. Gotz and M. X. Zhou, "Characterizing users visual analytic activity for insight provenance," Information Visualization, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 42-55, 2009. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ivs.2008.31
*[Keim et al., 2006] Keim, D.A.; Mansmann, F. and Schneidewind, J. and Ziegler, H., Challenges in Visual Data Analysis, Proceedings of Information Visualization (IV 2006), IEEE, p. 9-16, 2006.
*[Schumann and Müller, 2000] Heidrun Schumann and Wolfgang Müller, Visualisierung - Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000.
*[Zhang, 1996] Zhang, J. 1996. [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/old/409818.html A representational analysis of relational information displays]. Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud. 45, 1 (Jul. 1996), 59-74. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/ijhc.1996.0042

[[Category:Glossary]]

Spence, R.: Information Visualization - Design for Interaction (2nd Edition), Pearson Education, 2006

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Totally cool visualization. Question:How are the boxes orerded? I am guessing, by gross revenue, but how did you decide whether to order the wider boxes on the bottom and to the right and the tall skinnier ones to the left and at the top?Thanks,Elliot

Help:Citation & Bibilography Format

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Hi, I'd really like to read the 2 arleitcs you mention about Woz and Jobs but have not been able to find them on the Internet. Is there any way to get access to the arleitcs other than trying to get an old paper copy? Thanks.John Strohm

2007-04-19: Funded PhD position in InfoVis at Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

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Noooo don't kill the blog!The very best of luck to you sir in your quest to fulfill all those work denmads! I'm sure that you'll have a fab time on your excursions, though! Enjoy it :)Look forward to hearing about it all in June! :)

2010-09-02: CFP: Special Issue on Information Visualization: State of the Field and New Research Directions

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= CALL FOR PAPERS =

== Information Visualization: State of the Field and New Research Directions ==

'''A Special Issue of [http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.html Information Visualization]'''

''Guest Editors:'' [[Kerren, Andreas]], [[Plaisant, Catherine]], and [[Stasko, John T.]]

We invite the community to submit new articles examining the challenges and successes when applying information visualization to real world problems. Articles that specifically explore the state of research in a sub-area of information visualization are particularly welcome. Papers may focus on existing technical areas (e.g., text analysis or support for the analysis process) or propose new directions of research (e.g., the challenges of dealing with dirty data before and during analysis). Papers that report on a particular new technique or its evaluation are not a main focus. Specific topics particularly of interest are

* The influence of display technologies on information visualization
* The importance of interaction and/or multimodality
* Collaboration within information visualization
* Visualization of text and documents
* Comparison in information visualization: models and challenges
* Data wrangling: transformation of data to enable analysis
* Analysis process
* Visual design and aesthetics
* Prior knowledge of users
* Information visualization for the masses

This special issue is based on discussions that took place at the second [http://www.dagstuhl.de/10241 Dagstuhl Seminar on Information Visualization] held in June 2010. One goal of this symposium was to bring together theoreticians and practitioners with a special focus on the intersection of information visualization and human-computer interaction. To support discussions that related to the visualization of real world data, researchers from selected application areas, such as Bioinformatics or Software Engineering, also attended and contributed. During the seminar, working groups on different topics (display technologies, interaction, collaboration, text/document visualization, comparison, data wrangling, aesthetics, and analysis process) were formed. Working groups have been invited to submit an article building on their discussions. All articles submitted to the special issue will go through the same rigorous peer-review process of the journal.

Amen to the pair of these lessons! An inisaritpon to any un-published among us, your readers, or anybody who's been hesitating to follow their star, whatever its trajectory! Thank you!

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== Source ==
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2009-16-10: CFP: ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis'10) - Posters and Tool Demos

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== CALL FOR POSTERS and TOOL DEMOS ==

== ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis'10) ==

=== Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October 25-26, 2010 ===
http://www.softvis.org/softvis10

(collocated with IEEE VisWeek'10, http://vis.computer.org/VisWeek2010)

=== SCOPE ===

We invite you to consider presenting a Poster and/or Tool Demo at SoftVis 2010.

Due date: July 14, 2010 (23:59 Apia, Samoa time)

This poster and tool demos session provides an opportunity for participants to present and discuss their research. This event will feature concurrent short presentations by participants organized in poster formats. Each participant will be allowed space on an easel for the poster presentation or space on a table for the tool demo. SoftVis 2010 attendees will be able to wander among the posters and tool demos and talk to presenters about their research.

Software visualization encompasses the development and evaluation of methods for graphically representing different aspects of software, including its structure, its abstract and concrete execution,[http://www.backpackunion.com/tag/ipad-case ipad case] and its evolution. The goal of this symposium is to provide a forum for researchers from different backgrounds (HCI, software engineering, programming languages, information visualization, visual analytics, computer science education) to discuss and present original research on software visualization.

Poster presentations and Tool Demos describing research in the following areas are welcome:

* Visualization of algorithms, including numerical, geometric, genetic, distributed and graph algorithms
* Visualization for computer science and software engineering education
* Visualization of data and processes in applications
* Visualization of database schemes
* Visualization of parallel programs
* Visualization of protocols and logs (security, trust)
* Visualization of the software development process
* Visualization of software behavior
* Visualization of software evolution
* Visualization in software engineering, e.g. UML diagrams
* Visualization of software structure
* Visualization of web services
* Visualization of workflow and business processes
* Program visualization
* Program analyses and visualization
* Visual debugging
* Integration of software visualization tools with development environments
* Software visualization on the internet
* Empirical evaluation of software visualization system effectiveness
* Visual software analytics
* Graph drawing algorithms for software visualization
* 3D software visualization

=== SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ===

* Authors should prepare poster and tool demo abstracts using the standard ACM SIG Proceedings Template.
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

* All poster and tool demo abstracts should be submitted electronically.
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=softvis10

=== IMPORTANT DATES ===

Due Date: July 14, 2010 (23:59 Apia, Samoa time)

=== REVIEW PROCESS ===

Each poster and tool demo abstract will be read and evaluated by the Poster and Tool Demo Chair. Submissions will be evaluated based on whether the content is original, suitable for the venue and likely to be of interest to the community and to prompt discussion. Authors of abstracts that are not accepted will receive a summary review of their abstract from the chair explaining the decision and providing feedback.

God help me, I put aside a whole afetrnoon to figure this out.

=== POSTERS AND TOOL DEMOS CHAIR ===

Craig Anslow, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Email: poster@softvis.org