Faculty Lightning Talk, presented at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing by Michele Weigle October 4, 2012 Baltimore, MD

1. Information
Visualization
(Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It)
Dr. Michele C. Weigle
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Faculty Lightning Talk
October 4, 2012

2. What is Information Visualization?
• "The purpose of information
visualization is insight, not
pictures" -Ben Shneiderman
• Interactive representation of non-
physically based data
• Concerned with how people think,
human perception
• Has ties to cognitive science,
psychology, data mining

3. Info Vis Research Is Collaborative
• Must have data and problems to solve
• Must work with experts in other domains
– medical doctors - hearing data analysis
– social scientists - welfare data record linkage
– technology analysts - trends in scientific research
– web archivists - viewing collections of web archives

4. Archive-It
http://archive-it.org

5. Archive-It Collection Hierarchy

6. Exploring Archive-It Collections
http://archive-it.org/collections/1068

7. List of Web Pages
http://archive-it.org/collections/1068

8. Archived Versions of acda.co
http://wayback.archive-it.org/1068/*/http://acda.co/

9. Visualizations
• Treemap
K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.

10. Visualizations
• Treemap
• Time cloud
K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.

11. Visualizations
• Treemap
• Time cloud
• Image plot
K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.

12. Visualizations
• Treemap
• Time cloud
• Image plot
• Wordle
K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.

13. Visualizations
• Treemap
• Time cloud
• Image plot
• Wordle
K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.

14. Visualizations
• Treemap
• Time cloud
• Image plot
• Wordle
• Timeline
K. Padia, Y. AlNoamany and M. C. Weigle, "Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It," In
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2012.

15. Collection Building and Growth

16. Collection Building and Growth

17. Collection Building and Growth

18. ODU's Web Science-Digital
Libraries (WS-DL) Group http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/
• Our recent work has been featured in the popular press
• We're always looking for good grad students!
Dr. Michele C. Weigle
Old Dominion University GHC 2012
Norfolk, VA
mweigle@cs.odu.edu
http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mweigle/
ODU, Norfolk, VA