1. Visualization
From Inside Out

2. What is Visualization?
 Any technique for
creating images, diagrams,
or animations to communicate a
message.
 To form a mental image of envisage
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 A technique involving focusing on usinganalysis.
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positive mental images in order to
achieve a particular goal

3. Applications of visualization ?
 Scientific visualization
 Educational visualization
 Information visualization
 Knowledge visualization
 Product Visualization
 Visual communication
 Visual analytics

4. Types of Symbolic Displays
 Graphs
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Charts
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 Maps
 Diagrams

5. Example: Color Selection
Viewer can rapidly and accurately determine
whether the target (red circle) is present or absent.
Difference detected in color.

6. Example: Shape Selection
Viewer can rapidly and accurately determine
whether the target (red circle) is present or absent.
Difference detected in form (curvature)

7. Example
how long
select high
in majors
salaries
avg career
avg assists vs
HRs vs avg
avg putouts
career hits
(fielding ability)
(batting ability)
distribution
of positions
played

8. For more information
 http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is247/s02/Lecture
s.html
 http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html
 Gallery of Data Visualization; The Best and Worst of
Statistical Graphics
 http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/
 http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348c-96-
fall/resources.html