Not so long ago, back in the days of brochure ware online, we used to be glad just to see live data dished up in web sites. It was real, it was (sometimes) up to date, even if it was also inevitably dry, dense and tabular, and was often only there to be looked at. Those of us making web sites then didn’t have too many data presentation options; our challenge was usually just to make it as clean and fast loading as possible.
How we have moved on! These days, the web browser is a window onto a sea of rich data. Now, we expect to be able to understand it, personalise how we view it, add our own input to it and transact with it. At the same time, the volume of what is available threatens to overwhelm us. In short, the User Experience of data has changed completely.
Public and private sector organisations are increasingly willing and able to expose aspects of their data both internally and externally, and are using the web as a key channel to do so. Looking internationally we are starting to see pressure on governments to ‘open source’ key data holdings to allow organisations, community groups and individuals to re-use it creatively and in ways that government owners would never imagine. The reality is that User Experience designers and Information Architects are more and more likely to be dealing regularly with the challenges of rich data presentation.
This talk examines some approaches to the analysis and presentation of rich data sets on the web.
Drawing on the presenter’s own direct experiences from large scale projects in the pharmaceutical, educational, aged care and consumer advocacy sectors.
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Making light work of data- improving the UX of data rich interfaces- UX Australia
1. or.. Making light work of data Stephen Hall National Lead, Web Strategy & Information Architecture 28 August 2009 Improving the UX of data rich interfaces
2. Definitions Data Rich Discrete, objective facts about a thing or event Heavy Full of possibility Interface … the means by which users interact with a system
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4. The classic hierarchy Discrete, objective facts about a thing or event Data with relevance & purpose Information with experience, values, insights & context
16. The overall UX design goal To reveal or enable Meaning Inherent in the data- structure, themes Emerging through meta-information Emerging over time Emerging through juxtaposition Not imposed!
29. When doesn’t this work? Volume Complexity e.g. Open Source Intelligence Autonomy IDOL- revealing structure in unstructured data Disambiguation of concepts Faceted results Dynamic multi-dimensional presentation
30. When doesn’t this work? Volume Complexity e.g. Open Source Intelligence Autonomy IDOL- revealing structure in unstructured data ‘ Heat’ in data clusters Video text analysis
31. When doesn’t this work? Volume Complexity e.g. Open Source Intelligence Palantir- revealing structure in unstructured data Entity extraction from multiple data streams Connecting entities to find the bad guys
32. Digressions - tools One pair of licences to give away. Is it under your seat? Thanks, guys
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Hinweis der Redaktion
Data- alternative definitions Simple observations Text that does not answer questions to a particular problem Facts which are not yet interpreted
IS: About my company’s experience with a number of projects, both private & public sector These projects have involved the presentation of sets of data to either the same audiences who always experienced them (but better), or to new audiences Within the inevitable constraints, we have worked to create UXs that brought our the potential of the data and were aligned to audience and business needs NOT: I do not get up here to proclaim myself an expert in all aspects of data presentation These projects were not at all bleeding edge What you will see over 45 minutes cannot be comprehensive, however there may be things which interest you
Knowledge Management- these days lower profile, but underlies most things we do as UX professionals What do I mean by that? A core aspect of KM is a hierarchy- the Knowledge hierarchy or Information hierarchy, depending on how you come at it The hierarchy defines the relationships between Data, Information and Knowledge- and usually throws wisdom in at the top.
Revisit: what do we mean by data in KM sense When dealing with data the key task of the UX professional is to add value by: Creating context, and allowing the rich latent meaning to emerge from it. Not creating meaning, but creating the conditions for meaning to become visible How do we go about this?
Revisit: what do we mean by data in KM sense When dealing with data the key task of the UX professional is to add value by: Creating context, and allowing the rich latent meaning to emerge from it. Not creating meaning, but creating the conditions for meaning to become visible How do we go about this?