From Visual Exploration to Storytelling and Back Againsci.utah.edu/~vdl/papers/2016_eurovis_clue_talk.pdf · From Visual Exploration to Storytelling and Back Again Samuel Gratzl Alexander

From Visual Exploration to Storytelling

and Back Again

Samuel Gratzl Alexander Lex@alexander_lex

Nils Gehlenborg@nils_gehlenborg

Nicola Cosgrove@nicola_lady

Marc Streit@marc_streit

PresentationExploration

Guided visual exploration of genomic stratifications in cancerMarc Streit, Alexander Lex, Samuel Gratzl, Christian Partl, Dieter Schmalstieg, Hanspeter Pfister, Peter J. Park, andNils Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 9 (2014), 884–885

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Guided visual exploration of genomic stratifications in cancerMarc Streit, Alexander Lex, Samuel Gratzl, Christian Partl, Dieter Schmalstieg, Hanspeter Pfister, Peter J. Park, andNils Gehlenborg, Nature Methods 11, 9 (2014), 884–885

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PresentationExploration

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Authoring

Exploration Presentation

finding figurevideo

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Authoring

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finding figurevideo

Issues• fraction/selection of the

exploration• tell just the „good“ parts• no back link

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finding figurevideo

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exploration• tell just the „good“ parts• no back link

„I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work”

Thomas A. Edison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Edison2.jpg

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finding figurevideo

Issues• fraction/selection of the

exploration• tell just the „good“ parts• no back link

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finding figurevideo

Issues• fraction/selection of the

exploration• tell just the „good“ parts• no back link

J. Kaiser, “The Cancer Test,” Science, vol. 348, no. 6242, pp. 1411–1413, 2015.

continueHow to reproduce the presented exploration?

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How to go from visual exploration to storytelling

and back again?

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C aptureL abelU nderstandE xplain

visualization driven explorations based on automated recorded provenance data.

Vistories• visual data stories• visual histories

stories consisting of authored subset of the provenance graph

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Exploration

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Shrinivasan and van Wijk, 2008Supporting the Analytical Reasoning Process in Information Visualization

Wohlfahrt and Hauser, 2007Story Telling for Presentation in Volume Visualization

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Presentation

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Exploration

Provenance Graph Recording

Provenance Graph Visualization

Story Editor Visualization

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Provenance Graph Recording

Provenance Graph Visualization

Story Editor Visualization

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Provenance Graph Recording

Provenance Graph Visualization

Story Editor Visualization

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Provenance Graph Recording

Provenance Graph Visualization

Story Editor Visualization

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Provenance Graph Recording• action-centered bi-partite graph• a state is determined by the action sequence from

the root

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Provenance Graph Viewdegree-of-interest driven skewed node-link diagram

node = statelink = action

purposeexploration: orientation, navigationauthoring: selection

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Story Editor Viewdefine one or multiple Vistories

• select provenance states• annotations (text, frame, arrow)• timing information

purposeauthoring: definition, annotationpresentation: orientation, navigation

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Usage ScenariosGapminder StratomeX

http://vistories.org/v/gapminder http://vistories.org/v/stratomex

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Implementationwrapper library around Caleydo Web applications

requires: command design pattern

open source (BSD license)http://github.com/Caleydo/caleydo_clue

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what is tracked• visual exploration actions

what not• datasets• data processing / wrangling• application• meta provenance

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C aptureL abelU nderstandE xplain

a framework for reproducible, shareable, and communicable visual explorations

Provenance Graph Analysissupport user• similar states• possible next actions

insights• usage patterns• exploration strategies

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• visual explorations tracked like source code

• provenance part of the supplementary material

• use case figures have a DOI linking to their Vistory

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vistories.org

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efficient collaborative

sustainable

From Visual Exploration to Storytelling and Back AgainSamuel Gratzl, Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg, Nicola Cosgrove, and Marc Streit

caleydo.org github.com/Caleydo twitter.com/caleydo_org

contact@caleydo.orghttp://clue.caleydo.org