scholarly journals Interpreting Information Visualization

2021 ◽  
pp. 103-126
Author(s):  
Karolina Uggla
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Information Visualization ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Visual Objects ◽  
Emotional Appeal ◽  
Visualization Process

Information visualization has become a prevailing part of our visual culture, a research field, and a line of work for designers. The literature on information visualization is diverse, dominated by handbooks aimed at designers and illustrated surveys, sometimes with an emphasis on historical examples. This chapter makes a survey of the field of information visualization in order to map out and assess its analytical vocabulary. First, there is a need to refer to some different definitions and general concepts, such as the naming of phases in the visualization process, the naming of different visualization types, and their components. In order for scholars of human sciences to be able to identify, understand, and interpret information visualization as visual objects, some tools for suitable visual analysis of these objects would be useful. To meet this end, the chapter explores two particular interpretative frameworks. The first framework discusses social semiotics as an analytical tool. The second one analyzes the ethics and emotional appeal of information visualization.

scholarly journals Bibliometric Analysis of Studies on Tumor Organoids

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiwei Chen ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Kun Li ◽  
Zhikai Zhang ◽  
Ya Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Drug Effects ◽  
Research Field ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Genetic Mechanisms ◽  
Double Clustering ◽  
High Frequency Words

Abstract Background: Organoid is an artificially grown mass of cells or tissues, which is similar to an organ. It can replicate the complexity of an organ and can be used for gaining a better understanding of diseases. In this study, the hot spots of “organoids” were classified into 6 categories and 10 aspects, and organoids used for studying genetic mechanisms, drug effect, and metabolism of tumors showed the greatest potential for future development.Methods: A total of 1550 articles relevant to organoid in tumor research field were recruited as research samples. High-frequency words and text/co-word matrix were constructed by BICOMB software. gCLUTO software was applied to analyze the matrix by double-clustering and visual analysis subsequently to identify the hotspot in this area.Results: We constructed a text and co-word matrix composed of 21 high-frequency words and 1550 articles and generated a hotspot “peak map” based on double-clustering analysis. The strategic coordinates approach was used to assess the research prospects of each hotspot and the connections between these hotspots.Conclusions: In this study, we classified the hot-spots of “organoid” into 6 categories and 10 aspects. Calculation and analysis revealed that the field of tumor organoid shows a slight trend of polarization, and organoid for studying the genetic mechanisms, drug effects and metabolism of tumor shows the greatest potential for future development.

Data Visualization

2014 ◽  
pp. 322-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravishankar Palaniappan
Keyword(s):  
Data Structure ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Real World ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Visualization Method ◽  
Visualization Process ◽  
Active Research ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

Data visualization has the potential to aid humanity not only in exploring and analyzing large volume datasets but also in identifying and predicting trends and anomalies/outliers in a “simple and consumable” approach. These are vital to good and timely decisions for business advantage. Data Visualization is an active research field, focusing on the different techniques and tools for qualitative exploration in conjunction with quantitative analysis of data. However, an increase in volume, multivariate, frequency, and interrelationships of data will make the data visualization process notoriously difficult. This necessitates “innovative and iterative” display techniques. Either overlooking any dimensions/relationships of data structure or choosing an unfitting visualization method will quickly lead to a humanitarian uninterpretable “junk chart,” which leads to incorrect inferences or conclusions. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the different phases of data visualization and various techniques which help to connect and empower data to mine insights. It exemplifies on how “data visualization” helps to unravel the important, meaningful, and useful insights including trends and outliers from real world datasets, which might otherwise be unnoticed. The use case in this chapter uses both simulated and real-world datasets to illustrate the effectiveness of data visualization.

The Archaeology of Passage: Reading Invisibility in Chinese Tombs

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wu Hung
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Chinese Art ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Tao Te Ching ◽  
The Past ◽  
Daode Jing

The eleventh section of Daode jing (Tao Te Ching), the foundational text of Taoism, reads: . . . Thirty spokes share a hub; Because [the wheel] is empty, it can be used in a cart. Knead clay to make a vessel. Because it is empty, it can function as a vessel. Carve out doors and windows to make a room. Because they are empty, they make a room usable. Thus we possess things and benefit from them, But it is their emptiness that makes them useful. . . This section has always been appreciated as a supreme piece of rhetoric on the powers of nothingness, a philosophical concept fiercely articulated in the Daode jing. Whereas that may indeed be the author’s intention, the empirical evidence evoked to demonstrate this concept reveals an alternative way of seeing manufactured objects by focusing on their immaterial aspects. This way of looking at things has important implications for archaeological and art historical scholarship on ancient artifacts and architecture precisely because these two disciplines identify themselves with the study of physical remains of the past so firmly that tangibility has become an undisputed condition of academic research in these fields. Archaeologists routinely classify objects from an excavation into categories based on material and then inventory their sizes, shapes, and decoration. Art historians typically start their interpretation of images, objects, and monuments by identifying their formal attributes. Whereas such trained attention to material and formal evidence will surely persist for good reasons, the Daode jing section cautions us of the danger of ignoring the immaterial aspects of man-made forms, which, though eluding conventional typological classification and visual analysis, are nevertheless indispensible to their existence as objects and buildings. The current chapter incorporates this approach into a study of ancient Chinese art and visual culture by arguing that constructed empty spaces on artifacts and structures—holes, vacuums, doors, and windows—possess vital significance to understanding the minds and hands that created them and thus deserve a serious look into their meaning.

Visualizing the solution: An analysis of the images that accompany solutions-oriented news stories

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyser Lough ◽  
Karen McIntyre
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analysis ◽  
External Source ◽  
The Body ◽  
Internal Source ◽  
Visual Theory ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Emotional Appeal ◽  
Analysis Of The Images ◽  
Solutions Journalism ◽  
Selection Of

This study adds visual analysis to the body of work on solutions journalism. Guided by visual theory focusing on the dominating nature of messages included in visual content versus text, we use content analysis to explore the use of photos in solutions-oriented news stories, specifically to see whether the photos published alongside solutions-based news stories also represent solutions or whether they portray an incongruent message. Among our results, we found photos reflect the solution depicted in the story only 63.5 percent of the time. Photos taken by an internal source (e.g. staff photographer) are more likely to depict the solution than if obtained by an external source (e.g. wire service). In addition, the higher the emotional appeal and positive emotion found in the photo, the higher the likelihood that the photo reflects a solution. A contradictory visual may complicate the message of the solutions in the story. Our findings suggest more emphasis must be placed on the study of visuals as they relate to solutions journalism, and on the selection of photos to accompany solutions-oriented stories.

scholarly journals The Covers of Young Adult Novels and Their Graphic Novel Adaptations: A Qualitative Multimodal Content Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 303-319
Author(s):  
Dani Kachorsky ◽  
Stephanie F. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Visual Artifacts ◽  
Support Students

Drawing from theories of visual culture, social semiotics, and multimodality, the researchers conducted a qualitative multimodal content analysis of the covers of 21 young adult (YA) books that had been adapted as graphic novels (GNs). This study showed that the GN covers emphasized character and that the ages of the represented characters seemed to shift during the process of adaptation. However, publishers linked the two covers through branding, color schemes, and visual elements. These findings suggest that publishers view the readership of GNs differently than the readership of YA novels. This article encourages literacy education researchers and classroom practitioners to support students in analyzing visual artifacts designed for particular consumers. Critical readers could examine the sites of production and dissemination in addition to the text itself.

scholarly journals Role of absence in academic success: an analysis using visualization tools

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronak Etemadpour ◽  
Yongcheng Zhu ◽  
Qizhi Zhao ◽  
Yilun Hu ◽  
Bohan Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Program Coordinators ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Data Collections

AbstractUnderstanding the academic performance of students in colleges is an essential topic in Education research field. Educators, program coordinators and professors are interested in understanding how students are learning specific topics, how specific topics may influence the learning of other topics, how students’ grades/attendances in each course may represent important indicators to measure their performance, among other tasks. The use of data visualization and analytics is expanding in education institutions to perform a variety of tasks related to data processing and gaining into data-informed insights. In this paper, we present a visual analytic tool that combines data visualization and machine learning techniques to perform some visual analysis of students’ data from program courses. Two educational data collections were used to guide the creation of i) predictive models employing a variety of well known machine learning strategies, attempting to predict students’ future grade based on grade and attendance previous semesters and ii) a set interactive layouts that highlight the relationship between grades and attendance, also including additional variables such as gender, parents education level, among others. We performed several experiments, also using these data collections, to evaluate the layouts ability of highlighting interesting patterns, and we obtained promising results, demonstrating that such analysis may help the education experts to understand deficiencies on course structures.

Visual Analysis on the Research of Oil Crop

2011 ◽  
Vol 343-344 ◽  
pp. 668-672
Author(s):  
Rong Ying Zhao ◽  
Rui Chen ◽  
Zhan Hai Dang ◽  
Zhao Dang ◽  
Gui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Information Visualization ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Citation Network ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Oil Crop ◽  
The Past ◽  
Oil Crops ◽  
The World ◽  
Important Position

Oil crops occupy an important position in the world economy in the past twenty-five years. The production of oil crops has increased twice and oil products are mainly used for food, fodder, mechanical, smelt, soap, paint, rubber, plastic, medical and other areas. Information visualization provides new ways for scientometrics and knowmetrics in recent years. This paper does the visual analysis of international oil crop. Based on analytic techniques such as co-citation analysis, co-appearance analysis and information visualization, this paper maps the co-citation network, hot words of most cited papers and front words of oil crop using the CiteSpace software. It identifies the content of high cited documents, analyzes the research focus of international oil crop.

scholarly journals Scientometric Analysis of Dental Implant Research over the Past 10 Years and Future Research Trends

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Xin Huang ◽  
Jin Bai ◽  
Xu Liu ◽  
Zhaosong Meng ◽  
Yuli Shang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dental Implants ◽  
Dental Implant ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Mesh Terms ◽  
Sinus Floor

Background. We conducted a bibliometrics analysis to explore the recent trends in dental implant research which could help researchers have a clear grasp of the relevant research hotspots and prospects. Material and Methods. Altogether, 15,770 articles on dental implants, from January 1, 2010, to October 31, 2019, were selected from the Web of Science Core Collection. We used BICOMB software to extract the high-frequency MeSH terms and construct binary and coword matrices. gCLUTO software was used for biclustering and visual analysis, Ucinet 6 software for social network analysis, SCIMAT software for strategic diagram building, Citespace 5.5 software to form timeline visualization, and VOSviewer software, eventually, for bibliometrics cocitation network. Results. Altogether, 72 high-frequency keywords were extracted from the selected articles and 4 clusters and 7 subcategories were identified through biclustering analysis in the dental implant research field. The use of the strategic diagram also enabled us to find the research hotspot and development trends. Conclusions. The survival rate of dental implants and subsequent restoration have always been the core focus of research. Sinus floor elevation and guided bone regeneration are worthy of constant exploration owing to their reliability. With continuous improvement in technology, immediate loading could become a future research hot spot.

scholarly journals The Entanglement of Class, Marriage and Real Estate: The Visual Culture of Egypt’s Urbanisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mennatullah Hendawy ◽  
Jörg Stollmann
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Personal Story

A majority of scholars consider Egypt’s urban development a product of the neo-liberal political economy facilitated by the country’s central government. In this article, we want to shift our attention towards the public and its demand for housing. We describe the urban everyday experiences of a population within a country in which a visual culture established via public media creates an urban imagination that does not reflect the lived social, spatial, and economic reality of the majority of the population. Exploration of the general public’s attitudes towards media narratives that focus their advertisement campaigns on high class residential projects launched this investigation. The argument that follows is based on empirical studies within the Greater Cairo Region (GCR). In this setting, a puzzling trend from our collected data guides our central research question: Why aren’t ads for luxury housing—a market segment clearly beyond the reach of most Egyptians—condemned by those who cannot afford it? To tackle this phenomenon, we shed light on how the pre—and post-marital demand for housing among young couples and their families influence the market, and particularly, the market for upscale and luxury housing in Cairo. The research consists of four phases, including (1) field interviews with Uber and Careem drivers, (2) an online survey targeting inhabitants across varying urban and social segments of the GCR, (3) the first author’s personal story, which posits that marriage culture acts as a key driver for real estate narratives, and (4) a visual analysis of a real estate advertisement. To conclude, the article discusses how far a hegemonic visual culture that caters to socio-economic links between class, marriage, and real estate engages the support of a large part of the population, which in turn, co-produces a spatially unjust urban development scheme that works against their own interests.

scholarly journals Introduction: Enquiries Into Contemporary Ritual Landscapes

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen ◽  
Eleonora A. Lundell ◽  
Marja-Liisa Honkasalo
Keyword(s):  
Human Subjects ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Power Relation ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Ritual Landscape ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Abstract ‘Landscape’ and ‘ritual’ have been largely discussed in the social and human sciences, although their inter-relatedness has gained little scholarly attention. Drawing on earlier studies of ritual and landscape, as well as the authors′ own ethnographic works, ‘ritual landscape’ is suggested here as a useful analytical tool with which to understand how landscapes are produced, and how they, in their turn, produce certain types of being. ‘Ritual landscape’ recognises different modalities of agency, power-relation, knowledge, emotion, and movement. The article shows how the subjectivity of other-than-human beings such as ancestors, earth formations, land, animals, plants and, in general, materiality of ritual contexts, shape landscapes. We argue that ways of perceiving landscape includes a number of material and immaterial aspects indicated by ways of moving through landscapes and interacting with different human and non-human subjects that come to inhabit the world, creating relations and producing agentive ensembles and complexes.

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