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1. Talk reviews

2. Literature Review: 3 taxonomies for interactive graphics

3. A small example of interactive graphics to do forecasting @ Amazon

Hafen: Trelliscope

• Combines small multiples with interactive sorting & filtering of (> 1000s) of panels

Schep: iheatmapr

• Heatmaps that are complex (multiple graphs laid out modularly) and interactive.

Robinson: Interactive Vis @ Stack Overflow

• Network graph of languages, time series graphs of languages, and maps of developers

Interactive Visualization Taxomonies

Three very nice review papers: (1) Stats, (2) HCI, (3) InfoVis

1. 1996. A. Buja, D. Cook, and D. Swayne, “Interactive High-Dimensional Data Visualization”, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
   • Statistics literature
2. 1996. B. Shneiderman, “The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations”, IEEE (Proc. Symp. on Visual Languages)
   • Human-Computer Interaction HCI (CS) literature
3. 2007. J. Heer, G. Robertson, “Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics”, IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis)
   • InfoVis (CS) literature

Buja, Cook, & Swayne (1996) Interactive High-Dimensional Data Visualization

Propose a hierarchy of interactive graphics, focusing on

• manipulating (vs. rendering)

• multivariate data (vs. univariate or other types)

• for exploratory analysis (vs. explanatory)

Quote: “The gain resulting from animation and real-time control is not incremental but a quantum leap”

Buja/Cook/Swayne Taxonomy (Tasks / Tools)

Buja/Cook/Swayne Taxonomy (Tasks / Tools)

Buja/Cook/Swayne Taxonomy (Tasks / Tools)