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>		 This page is for the SHARCNET and TAPoR text visualization project. Note that it is a work in progress as this is an ongoing project. At the University of Alberta we picked up the project and gave a paper at the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science with the title | The Big See: Large Scale Visualization.

The Big See is an experiment in high performance text visualization. We are looking at how a text or corpus of texts could be represented if processing and the resolution of the display were not an issue. Most text visualizations, like word clouds and distribution graphs, are designed for the personal computer screen. In the Big See we anticipate wall displays with 3d views and the processing to manipulate large amounts of data like all the content words of a novel. The Big See proposes one visual idea of what such a high performance visualization would look like as it is generated and once it is manipulable.


 <<O>>  Difference Topic BigSee (r1.19 - 23 Feb 2011 - StefanSinclair)

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 <<O>>  Difference Topic BigSee (r1.18 - 06 Dec 2010 - StefanSinclair)

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Working Prototype

Prototype (click for download, windows .exe file) Working prototype which handles a small text and animates the building of a 3D model. Complete with GUI controls.
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Working Prototype

The source code is available for download. Here are the instructions:

  1. Install CMake (www.cmake.org) and use it as make mechanism. I have used version 2.4 and 2.6 successfully.
  2. Install Qt (qt.nokia.com). I have used version 4.2.2.
  3. Install VTK and vtkmpeg2encode (www.vtk.org). I have used version 5.0.3.
  4. Build BigSee by using CMake to generate VC++ solution/project files. I have used VC++ 2005 professional edition.

Beta 3 - Graphical User Interface Controls

Version Beta 3 (click for images) has an interface so users can change settings for the visualization and then rerun it.
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 <<O>>  Difference Topic BigSee (r1.17 - 20 May 2010 - GeoffreyRockwell)

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Mock-Ups


This section is for a repository for our MockUps.


 <<O>>  Difference Topic BigSee (r1.16 - 12 Apr 2010 - GarryWong)

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Mock-Up

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Technologies


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Collocation Graphs in 3D Space

The idea is to build on the TAPoRware Visual Collocator by visualizing the collocations between all high frequency words.
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Working Prototype

Prototype (click for download, windows .exe file) Working prototype which handles a small text and animates the building of a 3D model. Complete with GUI controls.

Beta 3 - Graphical User Interface Controls

Version Beta 3 (click for images) has an interface so users can change settings for the visualization and then rerun it.

 <<O>>  Difference Topic BigSee (r1.14 - 05 Apr 2010 - GarryWong)

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Mockup

This section describes a design mock-up for a LSiD? visualization of the Day of DH 09 Data set.
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Documentation:

  1. The group of boxes on the left hand side are Elastic Lists. The control provides immediate feedback to the user as to how many results they can expect without having to look away. The numbers in the box represent the number of results in each category. For example, there are 92 total blog entries, 62 of which are by faculty members, and the remaining 30 are either graduate students or support staff. By clicking on a box, the numbers will refresh. for example, if we select Canada, then the numbers in the gender, role, and institution boxes will change to reflect the new totals.
  2. The time selector on the bottom left is also a quick way to select posts temporally based on the GMT-7 time zone. The bar graph in the background of it reflect the number of total posts during each hour. This bargraph is reactive to the Elastic Lists up above and vice versa. By moving the two sliders, the user is able to limit the time frame from when posts should be displayed. As a final note, the shaded region of the map also reflects the time of day. If, using the slider, we select GMT-7 10pm, the region over the GMT-7 timezone will be darkened while areas such as the UK will be bright. This gives the user a general idea of when the posts displayed were posted without having to look back at the time slider.
  3. Each colored box on the right hand side is a complete post along with any images attached at the end. Every post is tied to its location of origin, and when there are multiple posts coming out of one area, they are listed out 1 through n along the bottom. The user is then able to flip through each post by clicking the number at the bottom. This display method for the visualization does not work as well as hoped due to the limited vertical resolution of the display being worked with.

Technologies


 <<O>>  Difference Topic BigSee (r1.13 - 29 Mar 2010 - GarryWong)

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Mockup

This section describes a design mock-up for a LSiD? visualization of the Day of DH 09 Data set.

These mock-ups attempt to follow the best practices laid out in Principles of LSiDs. However, the display that this visualization was designed for is limited to a resolution of 3048x1024 pixels. Thus, the visualization still employs different methods of space saving.

* Mock-up 1:
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Documentation:

  1. The group of boxes on the left hand side are Elastic Lists. The control provides immediate feedback to the user as to how many results they can expect without having to look away. The numbers in the box represent the number of results in each category. For example, there are 92 total blog entries, 62 of which are by faculty members, and the remaining 30 are either graduate students or support staff. By clicking on a box, the numbers will refresh. for example, if we select Canada, then the numbers in the gender, role, and institution boxes will change to reflect the new totals.
  2. The time selector on the bottom left is also a quick way to select posts temporally based on the GMT-7 time zone. The bar graph in the background of it reflect the number of total posts during each hour. This bargraph is reactive to the Elastic Lists up above and vice versa. By moving the two sliders, the user is able to limit the time frame from when posts should be displayed. As a final note, the shaded region of the map also reflects the time of day. If, using the slider, we select GMT-7 10pm, the region over the GMT-7 timezone will be darkened while areas such as the UK will be bright. This gives the user a general idea of when the posts displayed were posted without having to look back at the time slider.
  3. Each colored box on the right hand side is a complete post along with any images attached at the end. Every post is tied to its location of origin, and when there are multiple posts coming out of one area, they are listed out 1 through n along the bottom. The user is then able to flip through each post by clicking the number at the bottom. This display method for the visualization does not work as well as hoped due to the limited vertical resolution of the display being worked with.


Technologies

This section discusses the high performance visualization technologies that we are experimenting with.
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-- GeoffreyRockwell - 31 Aug 2007

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 <<O>>  Difference Topic BigSee (r1.12 - 05 Oct 2009 - StefanSinclair)

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Links

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SHARCNET

TAPoR Project and TAPoR Portal

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-- GeoffreyRockwell - 31 Aug 2007

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 <<O>>  Difference Topic BigSee (r1.11 - 21 Aug 2009 - GarryWong)

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Technologies

This section discusses the high performance visualization technologies that we are experimenting with.

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 This section is for information about our research.

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  • Environmental Scan (Private) includes information about related projects. You have to sign in to see these.
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Technologies

This section discusses the high performance visualization technologies that we are experimenting with.

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Participants

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Stéfan Sinclair is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies and Multimedia at McMaster.

Garry Wong is a Research Assistant and graduate student in Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta.


Weiguang Guan is a Research Engineer in Research and High Performance Computing Support.

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Beta 2 - Working Animation

Version Beta 2 (click for images) handles a small text and animates the building of a 3D model. You can see a Quicktime (MP4) of version b 2.
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Research

This section is for information about our research.

  • Literature Review includes information about or review of research literature.
  • Environmental Scan? includes information about related projects.

Technologies

This section discusses the high performance visualization technologies that we are experimenting with.
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Meeting Notes

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April 11, 2008 meeting.

Nov. 30, 2007 meeting.


 <<O>>  Difference Topic BigSee (r1.8 - 07 Jul 2008 - GeoffreyRockwell)

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This page is for the SHARCNET and TAPoR text visualization project. Note that it is a work in progress as this is an ongoing project.
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>		 The Big See is an experiment in high performance text visualization. We are looking at how a text or corpus of texts could be represented if processing and the resolution of the display were not an issue. Most text visualizations, like word clouds and distribution graphs, are designed for the personal computer screen. In the Big See we anticipate wall displays with 3d views and the processing to manipulate large amounts of data like all the content words of a novel. The Big See proposes one visual idea of what such a high performance visualization would look like as it is generated and once it is manipulable.

Project Goals


 <<O>>  Difference Topic BigSee (r1.7 - 16 May 2008 - GeoffreyRockwell)

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TAPoR Project and TAPoR Portal

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Thanks

Thanks to TAPoR and SHARCNET for support. Thanks to Wendell Piez for the e-text of Frankenstein that we are using. Thanks to all the people who have provided commentary.


-- GeoffreyRockwell - 31 Aug 2007

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Project Goals

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  • To explore the potential for visualization and HPC in the analysis of texts.
  • To explore the potential for high-resolution text visualizations. What can we do if we have very high resolutions displays - how would an interactive text visualization be different in this case?
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Hugh Couchman is the Scientific Director of SHARCNET.

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Ideas

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The idea is to build on the TAPoRware Visual Collocator by visualizing the collocations between all high frequency words.
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Beta 3 - Graphical User Interface Controls

Version Beta 3 (click for images) has an interface so users can change settings for the visualization and then rerun it.

Beta 2 - Working Animation

Version Beta 2 (click for images) handles a small text and animates the building of a 3D model. You can see a Quicktime (MP4) of version b 2.

Technologies

This section discusses the high performance visualization technologies that we are experimenting with.
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Meeting Notes

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Nov. 30, 2007 meeting.


 <<O>>  Difference Topic BigSee (r1.5 - 15 Feb 2008 - GeoffreyRockwell)

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Collocation Graphs in 3D Space

The idea is to build on the TAPoRware Visual Collocator by visualizing the collocations between all high frequency words.
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Text as River Flow

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Technologies

This section discusses the high performance visualization technologies that we are experimenting with.

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Meeting Notes

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Project Goals

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  • To explore the use of animation in text visualization.

Participants

Geoffrey Rockwell is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies and Multimedia.

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Meeting Notes

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Oct. 26, 2007 meeting.

August 31st, 2007 meeting.


 <<O>>  Difference Topic BigSee (r1.2 - 26 Oct 2007 - GeoffreyRockwell)

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Meeting Notes

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Big See

This page is for the SHARCNET and TAPoR text visualization project. Note that it is a work in progress as this is an ongoing project.

Project Goals

Participants

Geoffrey Rockwell is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies and Multimedia.

Weiguang Guan is a Research Engineer in Research and High Performance Computing Support.

Lian Yan is the TAPoR Programmer Analyst.

Hugh Couchman is the Scientific Director of SHARCNET.

Ideas

Collocation Graphs in 3D Space

The idea is to build on the TAPoRware Visual Collocator by visualizing the collocations between all high frequency words.

Text as River Flow

Technologies

This section discusses the high performance visualization technologies that we are experimenting with.

  • SVA (Scalable Visualization Array)
  • 3D Display
  • 3D Projector

Meeting Notes

August 31st, 2007 meeting.

Links

SHARCNET

TAPoR Project and TAPoR Portal

-- GeoffreyRockwell - 31 Aug 2007


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