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New Statistics eXplorer V6.4 versions now available at new locations:
World eXplorer: https://mitweb.itn.liu.se/geovis/eXplorer/world/ (countries)
Sweden eXplorer: https://mitweb.itn.liu.se/geovis/eXplorer/swe/#story=0 (counties and municipalities)
Europe eXplorer: https://mitweb.itn.liu.se/geovis/eXplorer/euro (countries, NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions)
MDim eXplorer: https://mitweb.itn.liu.se/geovis/eXplorer/mDim/#story=0 (any spreadsheet data)
VISE VISUAL STORYTELLING IN EDUCATION
Today, our research focuses on learning based on Geovisual Analytics Statistics applied in education. The VISE (Visual Storytelling in Education) project supports the use of learning for these focus areas:
The storytelling process available in “Statistics eXplorer” will be applied to improve the students knowledge and understanding of sophisticated statistical relations. Teachers will be able to, individually and together, develop a dynamic teaching material through storytelling, through the web. Students will be able to, with help of powerful geographical statistics, explore statistical relations on their own. A better understanding of how educators and their students can elicit deeper user understanding and participation by exploiting dynamic web-enabled statistics visualization is of importance. Together with the associated science of perception in learning in relation to the use of multidimensional spatio-temporal statistical data this will contribute to the research fields of Geovisual Analytics as well as educational science.
VISE has received financial support for 2015-2017 from VINNOVA (Swedish government agency) 1 milj Skr, Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) 4,5 milj Skr, and Norrköping Kommun 1,6 milj Skr.
NCVA in collaboration with ISV and Norrköping Kommun awarded one million kronor
ISV (Institutionen för samhälls och välfärdsstudier), NCVA and Norrköping Kommun are awarded 1 million kronor by VINNOVA's research call about "tomorrow's school within the digital community". More than 120 applications competed for 12 million kronor. Our project was awarded the full request 1 million kronor in this tough competition.
"I Hans Roslings anda.."
Vår vision är att låta elever göra egna studier och upptäckter, där de lär sig navigera i informationsöverflödet och samtidigt får möjlighet att producera egna visuella berättelser med Statistics eXplorers storytelling metoder.
For more information see:
http://ncva.itn.liu.se/vise?l=en
or in Swedish: http://ncva.itn.liu.se/vise?l=sv&sc=true
Eurostat explores our HTML5 Visualization
Figure: Our HTML5 visualization is used in Europe 2020
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/europe-2020-indicators
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/help/first-visit/tools#Inflation-dashboard
and also note red arrow "In the Spotlight" pointing to
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/RSI/
NCVA provides statistical data geovisual analytics Demonstrators
World eXplorer, Sverige eXplorer, Europe eXplorer and MDim eXplorer for education and research at the eXplorer website.
Statistics eXplorer developed during 2008-2016 is based on a component architecture and includes a wide range of famous information visualization techniques enhanced with various interaction techniques and interactive features by NCVA. eXplorer supports multiple linked views and our famous snapshot mechanism for capturing discoveries made during the exploratory data analysis process which can be used for sharing gained knowledge. Learn more about Statistics eXplorer from this video eXplorer Demonstrator.mp4 or visit the web site eXplorer.
Storytelling, in our context,
is about telling a story on the subject of statistics data and related analytics reasoning about how gained knowledge was achieved. Storytelling within this participative web context, could more engagingly draw the user into exciting reflections and sometimes change a perspective altogether. The story is placed in the hands of those who need it, e.g. policy and decision makers, teachers but also the informed citizens. This dynamic visual storytelling is a way of telling stories through interactive web-enabled visualization with integrated snapshots highlighting important discoveries. Stories enable a leap in understanding by the audience so as to grasp how statistical indicators may influence our society. Discoveries that more engagingly draw us into reflections about the gained knowledge on how life is lived - and can be improved - from region to region and in addition let the reader dynamically participate in this web enabled process
Try eXplorer at:
New Statistics eXplorer V6.4 versions now available at new locations:
World eXplorer: https://mitweb.itn.liu.se/geovis/eXplorer/world/ (countries)
Sweden eXplorer: https://mitweb.itn.liu.se/geovis/eXplorer/swe/#story=0 (counties and municipalities)
Europe eXplorer: https://mitweb.itn.liu.se/geovis/eXplorer/euro (countries, NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions)
MDim eXplorer: https://mitweb.itn.liu.se/geovis/eXplorer/mDim/#story=0 (any spreadsheet data)
OECD Regional eXplorer-Collaboration NCVA and OECD
Use our web-tools OECD eXplorer to compare demographic trends, economic, social and environmental performance of regions and metropolitan areas in OECD countries and to view interactive maps and other visual presentations of the regional database:
http://www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/regionalstatisticsandindicators.htm
Figure: OECD Regional eXplorer – ageing population in Europe 1990-2011 for TL3 regions (more than 4000 small regions). Regions with a low percentage of population aged 65+ i.e. 10,2% (the 20th percentile) are coloured in blue. The motion bubble chart represents four indicators age 0-14, age 65+, total population (bubble size) and 65+ bubble colour. The special Distribution chart shows a range (focus&context) of countries with their small regions distributed along a horizontal axes based on the indicator age 65+. Selected regions are highlighted in all views (brushing) the map, bubble and distribution graphs:
Read scientific paper by OECD and NCVA: http://www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/42711835.pdf
http://www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/regionalstatisticsandindicators.htm
http://stats.oecd.org/OECDregionalstatistics/#
See video at: EU OECD eXplorer TL3 ageing population 1991-2006 with pie charts.mp4
Eurostat uses our applied Geovisual Analytics
Figure: European Labour market "Unemployment rates" : (http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/RSI/) based on NCVA HTML5 softwaretools, Eurostat regional statistical data can be analysed with linked and coordinated visualization. Regional European Statistics Illustrated contains more than 50 indicators by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions, grouped into several statistical domains. Web site at: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/RSI/#?vis=nuts2.labourmarket
Using the interactive map, individual regions can quickly be selected while different visualisation options allow to compare and analyse regional data in an user-friendly way. An animated timeline shows how regions have performed over time. Regional Statistics Illustrated features the following visualisations:
- Choropleth map
- Distribution plot
- Scatter plot
- Bar chart
- Data table
The tool accesses the latest available data in the Eurostat database so that the selected indicators always show the latest figures. For more information about the functionalities of the tool please see the help file.
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/RSI/
Visit also this Europe 2020 Web site produced with our HTML5 visualization
2013: Interactive Dashboard Visualization using HTML5
Figure: NCVA HTML5 geovisual analytics methods
See (figure below) an example with World Map, Scatter Plot and Bar Chart (fish eye) :
Try above educational geovisual analytics methods at: http://mitweb.itn.liu.se/GAV/dashboard/
Read this AGILE 2013 paper:
2013: Patrik Lundblad and Quan Ho present their dissertations and receive PhD degrees.
Quan Ho, "Architecture and Applications of a geovisual Analytics Framework", Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations, No. 1511, 2013.
http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:618513/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Patrik Lundblad, " Applied Geovisual Analytics and Storytelling", Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations, No. 1515, 2013.
http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:617273/FULLTEXT01.pdf
2012: Flow Map eXplorer
demonstrated at Spatial Thinking and Geografic Information Sciences in Tokyo
We present our work on visualizing flow data through our Flow Map eXplorer project.
Read full paper at:
Slides can be downloaded here: Slides
Video Flow Map at: World Trading 1988-2008 Demonstrator.mp4
Video Flow Map Introduction:flowmap demonstrator.mp4
More information about Flow Map eXplorer at:
Figure: Example of Flowmap eXplorer showing migration from and to Linkoping
Figure: Flow Map eXplorer Migration Sweden - Norway for counties
Flow Map eXplorer Norway-Sweden Demonstrator
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2009: NCVA and OECD announce a novel storytelling technique
Sound information at sub-national level and benchmarking of regions across national borders has increased in importance in the policy agenda of many countries due to higher integration driven by institutional processes and economic globalisation. Geovisual analytics techniques help illustrating complex data such as regional, spatiotemporal and multidimensional statistics. Interactive time-linked visual representations enable the users to simultaneously analyse relations among different variables. “OECD Regional eXplorer”, developed by NCVA in collaboration with OECD, is today a worldwide recognized web-enabled tool for visualizing and better understanding the socio-economic structure of OECD regions and their performance over time. Geovisual Analytics in the OECD Regional explorer has so far focused more on tools to analyse regional economic performance than on methods that efficiently publish gained knowledge. Storytelling is indeed part of the analytical process and represents a catalyst for discussion generating new value in a social setting. In this context, we introduce a novel storytelling that supports the editorial authoring process with the goal to advance technology critical to the sharing of information and publishing. With the introduction of this new technique, we are moving away from a clear distinction between authors and readers: The analyst can discuss with interested readers the visual discoveries which have been captured into snapshots together with descriptive text and hyperlinks. The author gets feedback from colleagues, adapts the story and publishes it using "Story". This advanced storytelling technology applied to OECD Regional eXplorer has become a complete on-line publication to highlight recent trends and relevant disparities among OECD regions. Comments and scientific paper at:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-04265-2_5
http://library.iated.org/view/JERN2009COL
Visit also famous OECD Factbook eXplorer at:http://stats.oecd.org/oecdfactbook/#story=0
http://visletblog.blogspot.se/
2009: OECD eXplorer on the BBC News
On July 2nd BBC News showed a 3 minutes long program demonstrating OECD eXplorer in live action to explore and visualize complex regional statistical world data – a geovisual analytics technique developed by NCVA.
BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8130554.stm
2010: SMHI and Swedish Road Administration adopt GeoAnalytics tools from NCVA
During the winter months, the Swedish roads are dangerous for driving. Ice, rain and snow make the roads slippery and hundreds of people are killed or injured. The Swedish road administration based on measurements from 700 road stations prevents accidents by preparing the roads based on real-time weather forecasting. Today, this is done by accessing static pictures over Internet and direct contacts with meteorologists. The Road Warning Prediction application RoadVis was developed in collaboration with the SMHI and assembled from GAV Flash components (map with layer support, glyph layer, parallel coordinates, line diagram) demonstrates that advanced geovisual analytics tools are suitable for developing highly interactive and tailor-made applications applied to early warning management. The map shows stations coloured according to temperature or ice slipperiness. This application is published on the Web by the Swedish Road Administrator.
SMHI Swedish Road Administrator
2008: Göteborg Stad joins NCVA as a new partner
Göteborg Stad joins NCVA as a domain expert in statistics for Geovisual Analytics and will help move our strategic eXplorer development forward. NCVA also supports Goteborg Stad as associate partner in the EC project URBACT II-project LC-FACIL providing state-of-the-art statistics visualization tools for regional development. See also Goteborg eXplorer at: http://www.samhallsutvecklingen.se/explorer/#story=0
2009: NCVA is awarded 1,5 Mkr from VINNOVA for collaboration with Ericsson Research
NCVA develops advanced Visual Analytics technology in close collaboration with partner Ericsson Research in Linkoping. This research was the foundation for a proposal to VINNOVA’s program: Smarter, faster, converging solutions within IT and data/tele communication as part of "Tomorrow's Communication". NCVA targets Visual Analytics, where novel techniques is being developed and applied to smart network management prototypes for mobile communication networks (MCN). The application area is network management of MCN in 3GPP defined systems, e.g. LTE. Additionally, we target solutions for Self Organizing Networks means, managing the complexity in large networks promoted by operators. The figure below shows a snapshot where large temporal and multivariate network data is analysed by operators.
A scientific research paper was recently presented at the VAST09 IEEE conference in Atlantic City USA. "Geovisual Analytics for Self-Organizing Network Data" by Ho Van Quan, Tobias Åström and Mikael Jern
Learn more at: ANROSS Mobile
October 2008, OECD launches OECD eXplorer
OECD has launched a powerful, interactive tool for visualising and analyzing regional statistics. OECD eXplorer combines maps and other graphics via the Internet, to increase the user's understanding of regional differences and structures across and within OECD countries. To try out the regional maps and statistics using OECD eXplorer, go to:
http://www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/regionalstatisticsandindicators.htm
The development of OECD eXplorer is the result of a fruitful cooperation between OECD and NCVA,at Linköping University, Sweden. In the seminar on generating knowledge from statistics, organised by Statistics Sweden and OECD in Stockholm in May, Professor Mikael Jern from NCVA presented a first version with some OECD statistics. Since then, the development team at NCVA has worked intensively on improving the tool and adapting it to all the needs expressed by OECD.
Page manager:
mikael.jern@liu.se
Last updated: 2016-11-22
