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Visualization
Ben Schneidermann
Designing the user interface --
strategies for effective human-computer interaction
3rd edn. Addison-Wesley, July 1997
visualization
Grasping the whole is a gigantic theme, intellectual history's most important.
Ant vision is humanity's usual fate; but seeing the whole is every thinking person's aspiration.
David Gelernter, Mirror Worlds 1992
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- Overview first, zoom and filter, then details on demand.
- Storytelling, as a paradigm for information presentation.
data types
- 1-D linear data -- text, source code, word index
- 2-D map data -- floor plan, office layout
- 3-D world -- molecules, schematics, ...
- temporal data -- 1 D (start, finish)
- multi-dimensional data -- n-dimensional (information) space
- tree data -- hierarchical
- network data -- graph structure
tasks
- overview -- ...
- zoom -- ...
- filter -- ...
- details on demand -- ...
- relate -- ...
- history -- ...
- extract -- ...
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appendix
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