Monday, September 12, 2016

In Robert Rouse’s blog post on the Interworks site the author explored the evolution of political divides in the United States over the past 20 years based on Pew Research Center data. Mr. Rouse created the visualization using Tableau and in his blog discussed some of the design and implementation decisions he made along the way and noting sources of inspiration from other visualizations he had seen.

Mr. Rouse spends a couple paragraphs on his color use, the special issues of color that come up when discussing political party issues, and finding neutral colors that would not introduce any bias on political topics or party affiliations. Selecting colors, the design of titles and annotations, and the layout of the visualization all required careful thought to avoid bias pitfalls, distractions, and the misleading or ambiguous presentation of data.


In Enrico Bertini’s blog “Fell in Love with Data” entry concerning “Data Visualization or Data Interaction?” the author discusses the value of visualization of data in an interactive exploratory mode to use the computer as a means to spot features in the data and then “ask” further questions based on an iterative discovery and visualization process.



In Raffael Marty’s post he made available the slide deck he used as a recent security conference. Marty has worked on visualization of network security data for many years and wrote a book, Applied Security Visualization, in 2008 where he presents a variety of different visualizations for different types of information security logs and metadata. In his presentation he talks about the different uses of visualization, such as present vs discover, the use of data mining techniques to process large amounts of data and pull out statistical outliers, and then using different visualization techniques to allow the human to interact with the data to find potential malicious activity of concern.



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