Learning from the users for spatio-temporal data visualization explorations on social events

Abstract

The amount of volunteered geographic information is on the rise through geo-tagged data on social media. While this growth opens new paths for designers and developers to form new geographical visualizations and interactive geographic tools, it also engenders new design and visualization problems. We now can turn any kind of data into daily useful information to be used during our daily lives. This paper is about exploration of novel visualization methods for spatio-temporal data related to what is happening in the city, planned or unplanned. We, hereby evaluate design students' works on visualizing social events in the city and share the results as design implications. Yet we contribute by presenting intuitive visualization ideas for social events, for the use of interactive media designers and developers who are developing map based interactive tools.