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Danube University Krems.The University for Continuing Education.
the arts of the possibleFlorian Windhager & Michael Smuc
Information Visualization in the Field of Politics
Politicsistheartofthepossible.
Otto von Bismarck, 1867
Politicsistheartoflookingfortrouble,
findingiteverywhere,diagnosingit
incorrectlyandapplyingthewrongremedies.
Groucho Marx
Theartofmakingitlooklikeyouareactually
helpingthosethatyourrepresentina
governmentorganizationwhileactually
creatingmoreproblemsandblamingthem
onotherpoliticianssoyoucangetre‐elected.
urbandictionary.com
politicalapathy‐
(also)amatterof(bad)informationdesign?
informationvisualizationforthepeople‐
asecondchanceforcommunicatingcomplextopics?
rethinking“thestandardrationale”(Danziger,2008)
inthefieldofpolitics
a visual communication model
Atopic B
words
images
information design methods
methods of ‚naturalistic‘ visualization
methods of information visualization
paintings
portraits
photos
films
satellite images
physical maps
statistical diagrams
political maps infographics
cartograms
network diagrams
bubble charts
images
i
topics data
i
A tasksB, C, Dbarriers
usability design methods
infovis methods
context
? ? ?
visualization methods
political maps
statistical diagrams
cartograms
bubble charts
networks
word clouds
infographics
maps
https://www.google.de/maps/
http://derstandard.at/interaktiv/2014‐04‐einkommen/fullscreen.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey‐cage/wp/2014/04/07/the‐less‐americans‐know‐about‐ukraines‐location‐the‐more‐they‐want‐u‐s‐to‐intervene/
cartograms
LA times | beyond 7 billion http://www.latimes.com/world/population/#axzz2ryMCnKNJ
bubble charts
hans rosling | gapminder www.gapminder.org
networks
Lothar Krempel | OECD trade 1992
FAS.research | Netzwerk Österreich www.fas.at/download‐document?gid=49
Josh On | They Rule www.theyrule.net/
word clouds
Dr. Michael Spindelegger, budget speech Roland Düringer, angry speech
http://www.wordle.net/
Santiago ORTIZ | Inaugural Speeches http://intuitionanalytics.com/other/inauguralSpeeches/
infographics
body of law
traffic & infrastructure
tradeinternal matters
international affairs
culture
justice
families environment
defense
social affairs
finances
health sports
science & education
administration
statistical diagrams
derstandard.at / APA visualine http://derstandard.at/1379291084354/Nationalratswahl‐2013
traffic & infrastructure
tradeinternal matters
international affairs
culture
justice
families environment
defense
social affairs
finances
health sports
science & education
visualizing.org http://www.visualizing.org/full‐screen/56588
Moritz Stefaner | OECD Better Life http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/
Atopic Binformation design methods
methods of ‚naturalistic‘ visualization
methods of information visualization
paintings
portraits
photos
films
satellite images
physical maps
statistical diagrams
political maps infographics
cartograms
network diagrams
bubble charts
barriers to understanding
message
iv images
i
topics data
i
A tasksB, C, Dbarriers
usability design methods
infovis methods
context
? ? ?
Know your audience!
experts scholars
? ? ?
casual infoviz users
experts
intrinsic motivation to …… explore data… make sense out of it
… and it‘s their job!
intrinsic motivation to …. … learn something new… utilitarian motives… want to get entertained
extrinsic motives:… social pressures… avoid boredom… collaborate
Let`s try some profiling (Sprague & Tory, 2012)
MotivationNON‐experts
in casual contexts
experts
high skills and knowledge
actively hunt for insights=> clear conclusion necessary
skills and domain knowledge vary
„gather“ insights also awareness insights are OK get a feeling for the data about social life and social situations reflective insights
profiling c‘t (Pousman et al, 2012; Smuc, Mayr & Risku, 2010)
Skills, knowledge& insights
NON‐expertsin casual contexts
iv images
i
topics data
i
A tasksB, C, Dbarriers
usability design methods
infovis methods
context
? ? ?
Some design strategies for casual contexts (Danziger, 2008)
Involve & entertain the useraesthetic appeal (to some extent)narration techniquesaffective / contextual cues (like Isotypes do)
Use User Centered Design Methodsfor early and continual focus on users
Use modern interaction methodsto reduce complexity and provide cognition support
Gapminder: http://www.gapminder.org/world/
GoogleMaps: http://maps.google.com
GooglePublicData: www.google.com/publicdata/
Krempel&Plümper: http://www.mpi‐fg‐koeln.mpg.de/~lk/netvis/trade/worldtrade.html
InauguralSpeeches: http://intuitionanalytics.com/other/inauguralSpeeches/
LATimes: http://www.latimes.com/world/population/#axzz2ryMCnKNJ
Mappingworlds: http://show.mappingworlds.com/world/
Relationbrowser: http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/relation‐browser/
State of the World: http://projects.flowingdata.com/state‐of‐the‐world/index.html
NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html
UNdata: http://data.un.org/
VizGedProject: http://viz.ged‐project.de
Vizualizing: http://www.visualizing.org/full‐screen/56588
Wordle: http://wordle.net
WorldbankDataVisualizer: http://devdata.worldbank.org/DataVisualizer
WorldFactbookDashboard: http://visunetdemos.demos.ibm.com/blogsamples/factbook2/FactBookSE.html
Information Design (MSc) at Danube University Krems: http://www.donau‐uni.ac.at/de/studium/informationsdesign/index.php