Overview and Live Tutorial

Overview session (1h)

When: June 3rd, 2021, 4-6pm UK time.

Welcome (5min)

• Tutorial outline
• Goals
• Resources
• Schedule over the next weeks with drop-in sessions (2h weekly with 15 mins time slots)

Why network visualization? (15min, recorded)

• Brief lecture about network visualizations
• Q&A

Vistorian demo (15min, recorded)**

• What are the available visualizations: https://vistorian.github.io/visualizations.html
• Showing features and how vistorian supports interactive network visualization
• Introduce traces: explain our research goals and methods, and ask for consent.
• Q&A

How to format my data (15min)?

• Link tables
• Node tables

Q&A

Break (5 mins)

Live Tutorial (1h)

Guided Tutorial (30 mins, record explanations):

Participants will be provided with a demo dataset (marie boucher dataset) and will go through the following steps:

• Load data
• Use Node-link (NL) networks
• Map data (data with locations/coordinates): How to use geo locations
• Use Map
• Using Vistorian Lab:
  • How to enable Vistorian Lab and traces
  • How create bookmarks and use states
  • How to manage, export, import, and share bookmarks with others.

Open Exploration / General Q&A (30 mins, not record):

Explain visualizations and interaction with other types of networks:

• Matrix: explain matrices
• Individual Exploration Exercises:
• Closed questions: Ask specific questions and create state when answers are found.
  • Are nodes A&B connected?
  • Which node has the most connections?
  • ….
• Open ended: people explore the matrix visualization and report on what they see in the matrix.
• Repeat exploration exercises using features provided (e.g. timeline)