Democratizing Visualization Fernanda Vi

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Democratizing VisualizationFernanda Viégas

• visual communication lab
• IBM research

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Traditional view
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But, in practice
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private data
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PostHistory (2003)MIT Media Lab- email
archives- personal data
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public data
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NameVoyager (2005)Martin Wattenberg
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Some blog comments
For a challenge, try finding a name that was
popular at the beginning of the sample (around
1900), went out of style, then came back into
vogue recently
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Some blog comments
For a challenge, try finding a name that was
popular at the beginning of the sample (around
1900), went out of style, then came back into
vogue recently Take a look at Grace, 18 in
the 1900s, 13 in 2003, and down in the 200s and
300s during mid-century.
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Some blog comments
For a challenge, try finding a name that was
popular at the beginning of the sample (around
1900), went out of style, then came back into
vogue recently Take a look at Grace, 18 in
the 1900s, 13 in 2003, and down in the 200s and
300s during mid-century. 1900s comeback
Porter. Another one, with a mini-peak in trough
Caroline,
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Some blog comments
For a challenge, try finding a name that was
popular at the beginning of the sample (around
1900), went out of style, then came back into
vogue recently Take a look at Grace, 18 in
the 1900s, 13 in 2003, and down in the 200s and
300s during mid-century. 1900s comeback
Porter. Another one, with a mini-peak in trough
Caroline, More challenges which is the
steadiest popular name? Victor? and Which
letter has gone down most consistently? W?
Observation Note the recent upsurge in Y
basically all due to Hispanic (and some Middle
Eastern) names
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public discourse 2004 US presidential election
results
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public discourse 2004 US presidential election
results
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County-level election results
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public discourse 2004 US presidential election
results
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Color-coding indicates percentages of voters
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public discourse 2004 US presidential election
results
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Cartogram counties rescaled according to
population
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Whats going on here?

• distributed data analysis
• collaborative sensemaking
• new form of interaction participation

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Whats going on here?

• distributed data analysis
• collaborative sensemaking
• new form of interaction participation
• How can we support this kind of interaction?

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Fernanda Viégas viegasf_at_us.ibm.com http//www.res
earch.ibm.com/visual/
visual communication lab IBM research
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Example 3 public discourse 2004 US
presidential election results
Cartogram states are rescaled according to
population