Picturing People and PlacesUsing Node-Link Diagrams and Self-Organizing Maps

Marian Dörk

People and Places

Wikipedia articles via DBpedia

People: birth place, occupation

Places: location, area, population

Both: name, description, image

Related Work

Social visualization [Vizster]

Distorted maps [DailyMail]

Maps with Wikipedia entries [Google]

New ways to visualize people and places

Explicit vs. implicit relations — links vs. proximity

• Mapping people based on interests or occupation

• Linking places based on migration and city twinning

Create place-people spaces

New ways to visualize people and places

Explicit vs. implicit relations — links vs. proximity

• Mapping people based on interests or occupation

• Linking places based on migration and city twinning

Create place-people spaces

Goals and Questions

Next Steps

Constrain properties and relations

Design visualizations and interaction

Retrieve and store data

Implement