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МОДУЛЬ 7«Оформление и защита результатов исследования»Тема: «Visualize this: why it’s important to visualize data» (Сергей Кадомский)

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Visualize this: why it’s important to visualize data

Sergey Kadomsky, Director of Research and Data Science, Wargaming.net

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What can be researched?

Visualize this (Sergey Kadomsky [email protected])

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The culture differences: school lessons


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The culture differences: TV news


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Take a look at this spreadsheet


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And now to the same spreadsheet


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No difference, huh?


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How does visual consumption works


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The balance between perception and cognition


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Best use of visual encodings


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Data


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Information


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Knowledge


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Anomaly detection – what happened on Sunday night?


# of

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conn

ectio

ns

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Trend analysis – do we need more servers?


# of

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ive

conn

ectio

ns

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Range detection – defaults settings vs user settings


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Multiple dimensional analysis – forum posters game activity


# of messages posted during the period

# of

bat

tles

play

ed

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Geospatial analysis – IT companies location in Minsk


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Gameplay heat maps – vehicle location map


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Data comparison – battle length depending on the location


Battle duration, seconds

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s

Color represents the battle end reason: destroy, capture, timeout

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Social graph analysis (Netvizz+Gephi)


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And even big ones (100k+ nodes, 1m+ edges)


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Cluster analysis tool with complex visualization


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Useful visualization instruments

SUDDENLY! MS Excel :) Gephi

Tableau R Project


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Additional instruments

MySQL Text Editor with RegExp support

PowerGREP Python with Beautiful Soup


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Useful visualization instruments

• Tons of useful articles http://bit.ly/SUyNhc• Hans Rosling presentations http://www.gapminder.org/• Infographics Course http://bit.ly/QZ4G5Q• ‘Visualize This’ book http://book.flowingdata.com/• Passion Driven Statistics course http://bit.ly/PTXRlH• DataTalks reports:

http://megamozg.ru/search/?q=datatalkshttp://habrahabr.ru/search/?q=datatalks

• Social graph analysis manual: http://bit.ly/1YB9QFV


http://bit.ly/SUyNhc

http://www.gapminder.org/



http://bit.ly/QZ4G5Q

http://bit.ly/QZ4G5Q

http://book.flowingdata.com/



http://bit.ly/PTXRlH



http://megamozg.ru/search/?q=datatalks



http://habrahabr.ru/search/?q=datatalks



http://bit.ly/1YB9QFV

http://bit.ly/1YB9QFV

Thank you!

You’re always welcome to contact me via:Skype: sergey.kadomskymail: [email protected]

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