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Well, when the data gets above 1000 items, you have to start filtering, finding, or revisualizing it to be useful. You can no longer keep the whole dataset comf
by cobertos 3y ago
Well, when the data gets above 1000 items, you have to start filtering, finding, or revisualizing it to be useful. You can no longer keep the whole dataset comfortably in your head, or even on screen.
For revisualizing, it might be comfortable to plot it on a 2D map or to simply graph an interesting scalar.
For revisualizing in a 3D spatial setting... I haven't seen any actual good 3D spatial layout of data. Disregarding "experiences" (like art galleries, which lay out data in a way to promote interest in a topic and fractal-like amounts of subtopics, but is human curated, like Saganworks[1]), the only one I guess is like the high level "portal" to categories of data. Like "Documents", "Downloads", etc but think 500+ categories of more granular entity types. Everything is non-comparable apples and oranges (except for perhaps shared common data like timestamp) and there's no way to quickly scan it (5 or so seconds to find alphabetically perhaps), so spatial might help to quickly locate your entity type with muscle memory. I haven't seen another use case, but would love to explore what others are doing in this space!
[1]: https://saganworks.com https://saganworks.com
- donkeybeer 3y agoI meant specifically what organization did you use for "not easily orderable" data. Or was i wrong in assuming you meant simply lack of (natural number like) order and didn't mean total lack of clear classifiability?
- cobertos 3y agoOhh, the only one I have found was the one I mention in the last paragraph. Large number of categories. Everything else I've found has at least one good way to order it
- donkeybeer 3y agoI meant organization scheme not any particular organization if unclear. That app looks like some kind of 3d world/metaverse to me I will study it more later.
- cobertos 3y agoI'm confused. Do you mean what particular organization algorithm would I use to organize unorganizable data? Not just the type of visualization it would use (ie, 2d list vs 3d spatial)?
- donkeybeer 3y agoI was just clarifying and asking if you understood the word "organization" to mean some particular company or organization like that sagan thing or in my intended sense of organization scheme/visualization technique in general?
- cobertos 3y agoOh yeah, my replies were using "organization" in your intended sense. Not a company, but a scheme/visualization technique
- donkeybeer 3y agoYes thanks thats better.