Visualizations of Spatial and Social Data

Visualiza(on:  from  Excel  to  Vimeo

A  cookbook  and  some  -inished  dishes

Martin  Zaltz  Austwick

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Mar$n  Zaltz  Austwick

Lecturer  at  UCL-­‐CASACourse  Organiser  on  MRes  in  Advanced  Spatial  Analysis  and  VisualisationBackground:  Quantum  PhysicsMedical  Physics...  now  Social  Physics@sociablephysics

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Why  visualise?

It  looks  beautifulCommunicating  research  results

• with  peers• with  the  public

Understanding  complex  dataParsing  for  the  best  pattern  recognition  system  in  the  worldFinding  inspiration  for  research  questions,  models  and  analysisPresenting  (complex)  model  outputs  Comparing  to  (complex)data

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Ge9ng  from  Excel  to  Vimeo

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Intermediate  packages

GePhi  (Java)TULIP  (C++)Illustrator

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Which  language?

Languages  are  “Turing  complete”Some  more  suited  to  certain  tasksHow  hard  is  it  to  learn?Is  the  syntax  similar  to  other  language  I  have  used/will  use?How  good  is  the  documentation?How  good  are  the  user  community?

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Visualization AnalysisProcessing

R

MatLab

Python

GUI

Programming

Excel

PHP

GePhi

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Other  ExamplesJavaScript

• Not  the  same  as  Java,  good  for  web  applicationsRubyVisual  Basic  for  Applications  (VBA)

• Integrates  with  Excel!Sql

• Database  LanguagePHP

• Integrates  with  databases

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European Migration Data (Modelled)

Adam Dennett and Kimberley Claydon

Modelling: Excel/VBAVis: ARCGIS

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Tweet density in London

Fabian Neuhaus and Steven Gray

Data: PHPVis: ArcGIS/Illustrator

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Twitter data, filtered by hashtag and located in space

Steven Gray and Richard Milton

Data collection: PHP

Vis: http://www.MapTube.org

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Tweets by city

Steven Gray

Data: PHPVis: JavaScript

http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/tom/

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Agent Based Modelof crime patterns

Toby Davies

Python

(not yet available)

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London BikeshareStand Occupation

Ollie O’Brien

Data: PythonVis: JavaScript

OpenLayersAjax

http://bikes.oobrien.com/

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Oyster card entries/exits

Jon Reades

ProcessingMySql

Not yet available

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Public transport in the UKJoan Serras

Vis: C++/OPENGL Data: Timetable Info

http://vimeo.com/21351143

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London Hire Bikes by Martin Zaltz Austwick and Ollie O’BrienData: TFL FoI / Routino

Vis: Processing

http://vimeo.com/19982736

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The network visualisations (and others) I showed in the workshop are not yet available - follow @sociablephysics on twitter and I will

announce when they are up on vimeo

If you’re not on twitter (gasp), email the InterFace organisers so they can let you know when they’re up.

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Excel Delimited text file Database

Data (as text)

Data (numbers)

Data preparation

Software

Sharing

ParsingImporting

Displaying and interacting

Images

User input

Movies

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