Landscapes of Text - the Art and Science of Geographic Text Visualization

LandscapesofText–TheArtandScienceof

GeographicTextVisualization

AlexanderSavelyevTexasStateUniversity

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Geo-textualphenomenaGeneralvernacular.

Smells,sounds,emotions(qualitativesocialmetrics).

Symptoms(epidemiology).

Statementsabout:Extremenaturaleventsandhazards.Politicalevents,racialtension.Socialevents(anddailylivingexperience).

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Howto(geo)visualizetext

1. Applygeneralvisualizationtechniques.

2. Explicitlyfocusontypographicvisualvariables.

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Generaldatavisualizationtechniquesusedfortextvisualization:

temporalvisualizations,

network-basedvisualizations,informationspatialization.

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ThemeRiver (Dorketal.,2010)

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Network-basedspatialization oftheReutersnewsdataset(Fabrikant &Skupin,2005)

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Datavisualizationtechniquesthatfocusontypographicvisualvariablesexplicitly:

tagclouds,

structuredtagclouds,andgeographictagclouds.

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(Alencar etal.,2012)

Typographicvariablesintagcloudsdesignsareoften“abused,drivenbyasingle-mindedfetishforfillingspace,atthecostofusingspaceinacognitivelydefendablemanner”.(Skupin,2011)

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TagOrbitals (Kerr,2006)

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ParallelTagCloud(Collins,Viegas,etal.,2009)

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WordBridge ofHomer’s“Odyssey”(Kimetal.,2011)

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WordGraph (Riehmann etal.,2012)

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(Milgram,1976)

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WorldExplorer(Ahernetal.,2007)

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What’sinaSurname(Mateos,2011)

Challengeofinnovation

[Thereis]acertainmyopiaandlackofimaginationwhenitcomestothefullpotentialofusingtextwithinmaps.(Skupin,2011)

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“StevenPaulJobs”(Roscover,n.d.)

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TypographicMapoftheUSA(Mounce,2011)

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SmelllandscapesofAmsterdam(McLean,2014)

Challengeofevaluation

Despitetheimpressivenumberofcontributionsandwidevarietyofapproachesidentifiedintheliterature,thefieldisstillinitsinfancy.(Alencar etal.,2012)

[Noadequate]basisforcomparisonbetweenexistingstudies.(Julienetal.,2008)

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(Phillips,1981)

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Challengesofadoption

1. Lackoftextvisualizationtools.

2. Limitationsofdataprocessingtools.

3. Limitedpopularrecognition(exceptfortagclouds)

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Questions!

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