The second week after New Year focused on experiments with visualizations of book data, using “short-form”, exploratory methods. These initial visualizations included network diagrams, maps and scatterplots. Before testing out these types of visualizations in a user setting, they will be refined further additional metadata elements available in the library catalog, and visually restyled.
Specific activities
- Creating sample visualizations of book data (using the D3 framework)
- Using “short-form” methods, i.e. “quick and dirty” methods to explore data and visualizations, being the first step before further development
- This required data processing, and creating ways to utilize our data structures
- Sample visualizations included (interactive) bar charts, network diagrams, word clouds, geographical maps and scatterplots
Summarized in here in News post
- Visualizations will be further be extended, refined and tested in the coming two weeks
- The initial visualizations were the following, each with distinct advantages and drawbacks, for instance their suitability for small vs. large screens, their novelty and their usability:
![](/om/prosjekter/avsluttet/the-visualisation-project/bilder/weekly-reports/week18.stapeldiagram.small.jpg)
Interactive bar chart (showing 2 dimensions of data, ratings and classification, possibility to reorder).
![](/om/prosjekter/avsluttet/the-visualisation-project/bilder/weekly-reports/week18.network.small.jpg)
Network diagram, showing relations between classification codes and books
![](/om/prosjekter/avsluttet/the-visualisation-project/bilder/weekly-reports/week.18.cloud.jpg)
Word clouds, showing words occurring in abstracts of books
![](/om/prosjekter/avsluttet/the-visualisation-project/bilder/weekly-reports/week18.map.small.jpg)
Geographical maps, showing the locations related to books, in this case Collection 42 (using location subject headings)
![](/om/prosjekter/avsluttet/the-visualisation-project/bilder/weekly-reports/week18.horizontal.jpg)
Scatterplot, using book covers, showing classification codes in horizontal dimension, and book ratings in vertical dimension