From Data to Visualisations and Back: Selecting Visualisations Based on Data and System Design Considerations
This work provides a tutorial for HCI researchers and developers to bridge human needs with back-end data analytics, but it is incremental as it focuses on educational content rather than novel research findings.
The paper addresses the challenge of integrating visualization design with data analytics to improve visualizations, focusing on teaching participants how to select appropriate visualizations based on data and system constraints through a tutorial format.
Graphical interfaces and interactive visualisations are typical mediators between human users and data analytics systems. HCI researchers and developers have to be able to understand both human needs and back-end data analytics. Participants of our tutorial will learn how visualisation and interface design can be combined with data analytics to provide better visualisations. In the first of three parts, the participants will learn about visualisations and how to appropriately select them. In the second part, restrictions and opportunities associated with different data analytics systems will be discussed. In the final part, the participants will have the opportunity to develop visualisations and interface designs under given scenarios of data and system settings.