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VisWeek has come and gone, but you can still get your fill by finding most of the papers online. I was able to attend most of the InfoVis and some of the TVCG tracks, and was really excited by much of the work.
While many of the research was focused on trying to "do something better," there was one paper that presented a novel, new type of data visualization. (PDF) by and of the University of Konstanz used balance to visualize dyadic relationships. Even in its most basic form, a 'Gestaltline' shows type, extent, and time of the relationship. Color is left as a degree of freedom to encode other variables. Using a sparkline or multivariate glyph approach, a gestaltline can easily be placed within text as a dataword. The technique seems like a very intuitive way of viewing relationships.
Another talk I found intriguing was called (or "Conceptual Recurrence Plots" according to the paper title) by Daniel Angus, Andrew Smith and Janet Wile. By using colored squares plotted on the diagonal, this method visualizes the strength of engagement in a dialogue. Using doctor/patient conversations as their case study, Discursis easily showed which meetings were beneficial to the patient. I can see this method being applied to a number of scenarios.
There were a number of papers dealing with optimizing edge bundling and improving visual routing. Of the latter, (PDF) was provided by
, Manuela Waldner, Marc Streit, Alexander Lex, and Dieter Schmalstie of Graz University of Technology which preserves as much of the context, whether it's text, image, map, etc., while still providing visually clear links between highlighted items. Their paper is a good read for various techniques as well as criteria to follow for implementation. [editor's note: it seems also ideal to start a discussion about 'Best Paper' awards and the role of academic research in data visualization in general, see Stephen Few's comments ]
Juhee Bae and Ben Watson presented a new way to visualize trees called (PDF). Rather than the typical node-leaf approach, Bae uses a row-column way of looking at the structure. Personally, I found the learning curve to be very high, but then pretty easy to use. In some ways it seems to introduce visual clutter, but it also feels easier to navigate.
Being strongly rooted in the application of visualization, it's often nice to be validated by the academic and research communities. of Simon Fraser presented their (PDF) from standard graph-based displays to very artistic visualizations. She stated what most of us already know; that people stay more engaged with artistic displays than standard charts. And Yu-Shuen Wan and Ming-Te Chi (PDF) scientifically prove what all good designers know - .
While not the most elegant interface, (PDF) by Jian Zhao, Fanny Chevalier, Emmanuel Pietriga, and Ravin Balakrishna offers a very robust interface for exploring time-series data. There were many interactive features that allow the user to zoom into regions of data, layer data, stretch data, and so on. It has a very deliberate and well considered feature set that I'm sure will be very useful.
While I enjoyed most of the talks, there were definitely some weak ones. by Microsoft Research topped my charts with a confusing rendition of set visualization (note: they're not showing routes in the above image, just locations). They should have dispensed with the obtrusive lines and just titled their paper "Sets" instead. My biggest disappointment, however, was (NYU/Cornell), primarily because I had such high hopes for it after seeing it on the program. It's billed as a visualization of bird environments, but is nothing more than choropleth maps layered with draggable tag clouds that change with location (just when I thought there was nothing worse than a tag cloud). I really want to like (PDF) (Univ of Groningen), but it's such an eyesore. Gradients may be scientifically better (are they?), but my eyes avert when presented with one of these visualizations.
What are your thoughts on the papers above? If you attended, do you have other favorites (or bad examples) from VisWeek?
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(think: the girl saw a self-examination, the boy looked at the motivation!)
I think the most classic words:
man if I do no have that ability, I on tolerance, and fix him with the ability, I have not had him. He did not force me to grow into a Man Yu Linda, I have no reason to force him overshadowed by Li Ka-shing.
OK is not nonsense. Start ......
I wondered why female friends than male friends, the average long life, in addition to smoking and drinking than women are rarely, there is a major reason that men have to pay the social responsibility is more important, a man to bear much more pressure than women.
you are a girl, you can think of one is the one to fool around, tired cry beautiful on the music, you spoiled your self-willed, you tumbling to express their feelings, what is comfortable when tossing time count. No one said anything ... ... you girl Well, some of sensibility, we can forgive you emotional. You can seize the opportunity to commit reckless committed intermittent neuropathy, and then calling them: so we have a few days a month ... I did not mean your friends ... ...
you think about it, is not always You Sa Zhejiao he said this, he will embrace you in my arms chic to say, you get angry very cute! This old time-tested trick, even if you fall ill when they kick Tisi a decade of domestic cats. People who are willing to set your air ah?
you no thought how can you ah! Who do not missing grandmother!
he loves you, you have to ride the line to pee on his head. You do too, the men desperate, you Ah Aishui Shui! Do you think you are really My Fair Princess too! Flanagan family graves on your long Sargassum it?
woman to cherish a treasure of the heart, cherish that in accordance with your patience with you by the people. You have to remember that, if he loves you, you are nothing! Put a little dark, a woman must learn to be prepared to give yourself a posterior approach.
, he now take you as a tribute of Lafayette, so you get used to thinking that this is part of your life, and he was about a change of heart, you can not find the graves are crying child. Usually the convergence point, as a protection of their own. We then point
always like to ask some women seem to like what you really like me, your mother and I fall into the river you first save, me and her who is beautiful ... ... If you are not important, then, people endure every day the answer the same question 10 times as much for what? If you are not important, you are mother of the people curse others cajole you still keep a smile for what?
if you think your man can not hack it, it's as early as possible to find a skill, so later married and have children, and then regret it later, do not give yourself alive sins. Who can not hack it depends on your man? Who did not go to school that go to school, skipped school to come with you? Who did not take the good work go to work, absenteeism come to you with? You in the end let her be with you, let him focus on the cause? Do you think you man is the Lord ah? You just find a few more, you have to make money, you have to face competition, there is talk of lighting, pull wax Blows got there! You know, men hate you face the old society to the bed of a distortion, he began the endless chatter that does not work that does not work, there are lines, and you with it? We have to know their worth twelve! Other side of the people to love to romantic holidays to give you roses, one has to be real life people to save money for your car or house. Do you think men and Gates cheating ah!
men living on the outside is not easy, sometimes, their feelings are very fragile, but they also maintain a strong reason to keep calm! You do not understand how difficult it! Ask yourself, a woman in this society if it failed to make, and there is finally a way to find someone to marry, do professional housewife. What other people tell you to. And you man, he fared down have to mix, having failed to have Pinlelaoming to mix; to mention dragging a grandaunt also mixed; let alone have pulled back a little master and even more small grandaunt (your crystal) mix ah? What you thought ... ...
If you do not know how to save money, as he is to find ways to earn money, rather than complain that they married the wrong Lang. Something you should at least buy their own half, so even if he held you, you can give yourself a chance to get him to buy you tore something pulled his face solution Ah vent! And as not to destroy other people to buy things after his bare buttocks to go home.
even if you have decided to get married, but also give you some space right man. He will understand and appreciate you, believe me. Then he is a man love you, you do not understand why he can see from the game to forget you exist, you can not understand why he went out drinking every week and a few small wine buddy, you can not understand why he there lie waiting for you to casually, as long as you receive it; because those things do not need you to understand. As he will not understand, your closet for your day to 80-year-old is not a heavy kind of clothes, even though he did not understand, but you still willing to phase in a skirt, eat half of the prime .
I want to say that men are not around us, apart from messing around to mess up there squandered his money away, there are many things we can do. For example, to go home to see your parents, do they give you to eat meals, listen to their Yikusitian; for example, to his parents house to help him clean the health, some exercise; for example, about a sister who find a place training exercise, will be good figure to keep in the end; for example, find a few of the classics, and to enrich my knowledge their own, look to improve quality, do not feel silly all day long when the two big chest no brains and lost a good looking idiot, is a special something to show his face; book really could not stand, but also to read the tape, long and stinking up the shows to look, read more silent grumble, look a little technical content, a woman must be inside or outside support; if the a little pursuit, spare time I advise you to practice your words, ink brush to avoid, as long as Gan Minger time to sign your son, do not let the teacher innocent child is your own home to sign, and penalty Xiaoya very door stood herd .
men go home, you can not lose with a smile on this face, and why, ah, Kudachoushen it? You men are enemies to kill your father that it? You with the interpretation that he would not want to hurt a female version of the city, right? This time, you worked hard cooking usually show display, the table you stole the policy ... than the one on the family gossip is much easier.
out of the hall there is such a good wife into the kitchen, you want him to have an affair is immune! Men are very troublesome, as long as the family better so he would not waste time and effort to re-establish a relationship of money, unless he is very naive. If he tired of you, you are first to find the reasons for it! I have a friend who said this sentence: I love you, I can give you as cattle and horses, but you do not really put my beck and call when the cattle! This made me very well ... ah ... the girls in your heart, what he really is a cattle? You know, your life, encountered a cattle willing to do for you people, how much luck is it? Moment of silence for the pampered young ignorant ... ...
If men really do not want you, it is certainly not you. I mean, you'd better not entangled. He does not, and hello, and do not explore the causes of hysteria, and I tell you, the truth is only one, you're not good enough. I puzzled over a long time, a woman's stupid, what the source where the river? So far, the most convincing answer I make, is dependent. Women always had is not his own doing the things identified as their own, and then worry about the outcome; more fun is that obviously they do not understand treasure unruly as a result of loss of something they have to say is the betrayal of others , which makes a man quite Mozhe of. Said the old woman is vulnerable, this hypocritical strength up, do not necessarily who is weak. Your pain is you always feel like a victim, you are not asked for it? I have to give you this advice: serious games, but keep in mind is the game.
you have to face, the best test of your feelings, it really is a very vulgar thing - money. The reason I do not oppose puppy love, because, perhaps only a student of love, X is the most cattle, the cattle X was so pure. Then, is the most frustrated man, he no house no car no money, even if you go to bed thinking about him all day, but also because he does have this in their prime physically urgent need. And then, when a woman is most proud of, her young innocent and pure, without forcing a man to buy her SK2, LV ... ... a poor boy led an unknown future lack of heart lung silly little girl, all the way to silly Baji walked. You along the way, came every day after school to go through the snack bar, walk against the wind would also like to trek bored for a station, take the valentine he just sent you a rose of the bridge, through escape excluding The back door of a classroom lesson several times ... ... all the way to today, the face of temptation to sensual pleasures of the material,, you hesitate over what ... ...
In fact, in the final analysis, I want to tell my man, I love you, I can not do without you, I would like 24 hours and you tired together; but still I love you, I forced myself independent.
I want to tell my man, I hope you have the money, because I have all the women and some bones of greed and vanity; you can not possessor of me, but you need to have the ability to keep me.
I want to tell my man, if you have a dollar, then I want you to spend fifty cents to buy me a bunch of my favorite Mala Tang; If you have a thousand dollars, we have to eat once I eat three thousand miles, otherwise, how can you say you love me?
If all the emotional issues, money can be used to explain and resolve, that the more good ... but you know, as long as money can be used to resolve the matter, it is not called something! I still want my love, more sacred than money on step position.
If my man was really no skill, I put up, fix him with the ability, I have not had him. He did not force me to grow into a Man Yu Linda, I have no reason to force him overshadowed by Li Ka-shing.
nothing else, I would like this document to make people happy, including me, people worry about the girls; the way I wish everyone, including me, day by inside exudes makes it difficult to resist the charm - the charm of nature and human charm.
Finally, I think that's posted some good habits, and lovely to share with you; strongly hope that the sisters after reading, in addition to lovely, somewhat more elegant!
1. write something every day to cultivate the habit, even if it is recording, even fragmentary.
2. do not agree with the opinions of others is normal, because you have a separate CPU, but learn to respect.
3. Do not quarrel with your husband children, children who only think of you my sister, and then so I am afraid I shall not be received!
4. Even if you look really surpass Cecilia, do not come up with
5. focus on the heart, but not slovenly; review of the U.S. men are tired, all day slovenly untidy fill of you here to whom blocking it!
6. understand the point of national affairs, but do not close from the reality; understand the point of fashion, but do not blindly follow the trend.
7. life on a man, not a shame.
8. If you can, to have his own house; a pure pure pure your own place to stay.
9. Remember, men who have a lifetime to learn you could not finish things. You have to admire a man. As for what kind of man to enjoy, appreciate what a man, I think that your taste.
10. all the conditions allow, at the appropriate time, the mother it.