Visually Reporting Geographic Data Insights as Integrated Visual and Textual Representations

Abstract

AbstractGeographic information volunteered by the public is usually also of public interest. However, just publishing the data is not enough to make the data accessible and usable for the public. The raw data might need to be abstracted and interpreted, as well as visually presented to be understandable to non-experts. To address this, we propose interactive visual reporting solutions that leverage natural language and visualizations for geo-related data. We present these reports as interactive documents, but also in other media such as virtual reality environments. First, we have studied the interplay of textual and visual content in such reports. To ease the creation of content, we have developed solutions for authoring interactive documents with a close linking of textual contents and visually presented data. Moreover, we propose automatic report generation approaches that specifically support the exploration of the geo-related data starting from an explanatory summary.