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25.data Visualization Geometric Visualization

The document discusses various data visualization techniques, focusing on geometric, icon-based, and hierarchical visualizations. It highlights methods such as scatter plots, Chernoff faces, and tree maps, each serving to represent multi-dimensional data effectively. Examples and illustrations are provided to demonstrate the application of these visualization methods in data mining.
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25.data Visualization Geometric Visualization

The document discusses various data visualization techniques, focusing on geometric, icon-based, and hierarchical visualizations. It highlights methods such as scatter plots, Chernoff faces, and tree maps, each serving to represent multi-dimensional data effectively. Examples and illustrations are provided to demonstrate the application of these visualization methods in data mining.
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Data Mining

Data Visualization
Geometric
Visualization
Geometric Visualization
Geometric Visualization
• Visualization of geometric
transfs/
projs of the data

• Direct Visualization
• Scatter plot
• Land spaces
• Prosection views
• Hyper slice
• Parallel coordinated
Geometric Visualization
Direct Visualization
Ribbons with twists based on vorticity

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Geometric Visualization
Scatter Plot
Matrix of scatterplot(x-y diagrams) of k-dims

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Geometric Visualization
Land Spaces
News articles as land space

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Geometric Visualization

Parallel Coordinates
n equidistant parallel axes

One of the screen axes and


correspond to the
attributes

Axes are scaled to the range


Geometric Visualization
Parallel Coordinates

•• •

Attr. 1 Attr. 2 Attr. 3 Attr. k


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Data Mining

Data Visualization
Icon based
Visualization
Icon based Visualization

Icon based

• Use small icons to represen


multi-dim
data values

Chernoff Faces

Stick figures
Icon based Visualization

Chernoff faces

• Represent variables
in 2D space.

• let x be eyebrow
slant, y be eye size, z
be nose length, etc.
Icon based Visualization
Chernoff faces
Head eccentricity, eye size, eye spacing, eye
eccentricity, pupil size, eyebrow slant, nose
size, mouth shape, mouth size, mouth
opening
Icon based Visualization

Stick figure
Maps multi dimensional
data

Five piece of stick


figures where each
figure includes four
limbs and data.
Icon based Visualization
Stick figure example
Census data of age income, gender and
education etc.

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Data Mining

Data Visualization
Hierarchical
Visualization
Hierarchical Visualization

Hierarchical Visualization

Hierarchical partitioning into


subspaces.

Dimensional Stacking
Worlds-within-Worlds
Tree-Map
Cone Trees
InfoCube
Hierarchical Visualization
Dimensional Stacking
n-dim attribute space in 2-D subspaces

Partition attribute value ranges into classes

Important attributes on outer levels

attribute 4
attribute 2

attribute 3

attribute 1
Hierarchical Visualization
Dim Stacking
Adequate for data with ordinal
attributes of low cardinality

Difficult to display more than


nine dimensions

Important to map dimensions


appropriately
Hierarchical Visualization
Worlds-within-Worlds
Assign the function &
two most important
parameters to
innermost world

Fix all other parameters


at constant values -
draw other parameters.
Hierarchical Visualization
Tree-Map
Set of nested rectangles

Screen-filling method

Hierarchical partitioning
of screen into
regions depending on
attribute values
MSR Netscan image
Hierarchical Visualization

InfoCube
Nested semi-transparent
cubes

Outermost cubes
correspond to top level
data

Smaller cubes relate


to the low level data
Data Mining

Data Visualization
Hierarchical
Visualization
Examples
Hierarchical Visualization Examples
Dimensional Stacking
Data of oil mining
Longitude and latitude mapped to outer x-y
Grade and depth mapped on inner x-y axis

Figure taken from Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd ed. Han et,al.
Hierarchical Visualization Examples
World with-in worlds
N-Vision: Dynamic interaction through data glove and
stereo displays.
Auto Visual: Static interaction via queries

Figure taken from Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd ed. Han et,al.
Hierarchical Visualization Examples
Tree Map
Tree-Map of a File System (Schneiderman)

Figure taken from Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd ed. Han et,al.
Hierarchical Visualization Examples
Info cube

Figure taken from Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd ed. Han et,al.
Hierarchical Visualization Examples
Three-D Cone Trees
Visualize a social network data set that models
the way an infection spreads from one person to
the next

Figure taken from Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd ed. Han et,al.

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