Visual analysis of social networks in space and time using smartphone logs

We designed and applied novel interactive visualisation to investigate how social networks - derived from smartphone logs - are embedded in time and space. Social networks were identified through direct calls between participants and calls to mutual contacts of participants. Direct contact between participants was sparse and deriving networks through mutual contacts helped enrich the social networks. Our resulting interactive visualisation tool offers four linked and co-ordinated views of spatial, temporal, individual and social network aspects of the data. Brushing and altering techniques help us investigate how these aspects relate. We also simultaneously display some demographic and attitudinal variables to help add context to the behaviours we observe. Using these techniques, we were able to characterise spatial and temporal aspects of participants' social networks and suggest explanations for some of them. We reflect on the extent to which such analysis helps us understand social communication behaviour

Visual Detection of Change Points and Trends Using Animated Bubble Charts

"Environmental Monitoring" is a book designed by InTech - Open Access Publisher in collaboration with scientists and researchers from all over the world. The book is designed to present recent research advances and developments in the field of environmental monitoring to a global audience of scientists, researchers, environmental educators, administrators, managers, technicians, students, environmental enthusiasts and the general public. The book consists of a series of sections and chapters addressing topics like the monitoring of heavy metal contaminants in varied environments, biolgical monitoring/ecotoxicological studies; and the use of wireless sensor networks/Geosensor webs in environmental monitoring

Visual Decision-Making in Real-Time Business Intelligence: A Social Media Marketing Example

This paper presents a study into the use of visualizations in real-time business intelligence. Different visualization designs for a social media marketing use case are tested and evaluated through the lens of cognitive load theory. By reducing the complexity of visualizations and subsequently cognitive load, end-users can achieve markedly improved decision-making performance in situations where time is critical and data is fast-paced

Constructing a Population-Based Research Database from Routine Maternal Screening Records: A Resource for Studying Alloimmunization in Pregnant Women

Although screening for maternal red blood cell antibodies during pregnancy is a standard procedure, the prevalence and clinical consequences of non-anti-D immunization are poorly understood. The objective was to create a national database of maternal antibody screening results that can be linked with population health registers to create a research resource for investigating these issues.Each birth in the Swedish Medical Birth Register was uniquely identified and linked to the text stored in routine maternal antibody screening records in the time window from 9 months prior to 2 weeks after the delivery date. These text records were subjected to a computerized search for specific antibodies using regular expressions. To illustrate the research potential of the resulting database, selected antibody prevalence rates are presented as tables and figures, and the complete data (from more than 60 specific antibodies) presented as online moving graphical displays.More than one million (1,191,761) births with valid screening information from 1982–2002 constitute the study population. Computerized coverage of screening increased steadily over time and varied by region as electronic records were adopted. To ensure data quality, we restricted analysis to birth records in areas and years with a sustained coverage of at least 80%, representing 920,903 births from 572,626 mothers in 17 of the 24 counties in Sweden. During the study period, non-anti-D and anti-D antibodies occurred in 76.8/10,000 and 14.1/10,000 pregnancies respectively, with marked differences between specific antibodies over time.This work demonstrates the feasibility of creating a nationally representative research database from the routine maternal antibody screening records from an extended calendar period. By linkage with population registers of maternal and child health, such data are a valuable resource for addressing important clinical questions, such as the etiological significance of non-anti-D antibodies

Evaluate of Static Information Visible in Online Newspapers

According to recent online newspapers strategy to increase audience' trust in receiving involved facts and provide the opportunities to lead readers by reaching access at a huge number of points and facilitate browsing.There are many attempts to increase the interest of audience to the online newspapers by offering different static visible styles to interpret information. This research paper aims to introduce a brief consideration of online newspapers and data-driven journalism, also to perceive information static visible styles according to data visualization and information graphics, depending on data volume and regardless type of contents.Employs descriptive and analytically approach to unfold the current trends to Information visible of the globe online newspapers and find that by gathering samples from world online newspapers to explore the processing methods to present information visible.As a result, it has found several styles to use a static visual information of journalism data in the online newspapers, due to the quantity and characteristics of data and information.Concludes with the recommendation that static information visible should take obvious steps to increase the usage of the online newspapers by their intended audience. Keywords: Information Visible, Online Newspaper, Data Driven, Data Visualizations Tools, Information graphic Styles

Evaluation of Interactive Journalistic Design in the Egyptian Daily Online Newspapers

Nowadays, the Interactive Journalistic design in the Egyptian daily online newspapers has become as a general reality. The Egyptian online newspapers utilize different types of Interactive features, but not on a regular basis. This study examined top three of local online newspapers, according to top Alexa rank and more visitor's number, also according to the specific fields of interested readers, like one that specialized in breaking news, other that are focused on the reports and articles, and finally that interested to present specific topics such as sports, aims through characterizing front pages of them, and the types of Interactive Journalistic design used, regardless the content elements.This paper shows that they still lag behind in the use of data visualization and do not utilize all types of interactive features. They mainly outsource services for data visualization packages or illustration-based graphics. They do not have separate or specialized departments for digital data visualization. They utilize of interactive features such as mouse-over, clicking on, hyperlinks, static and dynamic visualization only as images without any used the modern globally data visualization styles, and sharing to social medias, but do not combine data visualization with news stories. Type-based graphics are more frequently used than charts and illustration-based graphics. also, it can be seen data visualization as separately to the text and not an essential part of the journalism content. Keywords: Information design, data visualization, online newspapers, interactive feature