1 Commerical InfoVis Systems CS 7450 - Information Visualization September 25, 2013 John Stasko Topic Notes Fall 2013 CS 7450 2 Last Time • We examined many different infovis toolkits and systems • Today, we continue with that but examine commercial systems in more depth2 Note • Think about whether the system provides one view of the data or it provides multiple views • Here come the demos… Fall 2013 CS 7450 3 Fall 2013 CS 7450 4 Table Lens/Eureka No longer exists3 Fall 2013 CS 7450 5 SeeIt No longer exists Fall 2013 CS 7450 6 InfoZoom www.infozoom.com4 Fall 2013 CS 7450 7 Spotfire www.spotfire.com Tableau Fall 2013 CS 7450 8 www.tableausoftware.com5 QlikView Fall 2013 CS 7450 9 www.qlikview.com HW 5 • Critique the commercial systems • Choose two (can do all 3 if you want) of Spotfire, InfoZoom, Tableau • Steps Examine data sets, develop questions Learn systems Explore data in systems Document your findings in a report Fall 2013 CS 7450 106 HW 5 Tips • Make sure to include questions/tasks in report • Report shouldn’t be answering each question one at-a-time • Document insights found • Critique and compare visualizations What do they help with? Fall 2013 CS 7450 11 Fall 2013 CS 7450 12 Upcoming • Storytelling Reading Segel & Heer ’10 • Tufte’s design
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