Digital Government: Collaborative Research: Quality Graphics for Federal Statistical Summaries

数字政府：协作研究：联邦统计摘要的高质量图形

• 批准号: 9983459
• 负责人: David Scott
• 金额: $ 27万
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-15 至 2005-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9983459&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digital; Government; Collaborative; Research; Quality

EIA-9983459Scott, David W.William Marsh Rice UniversityDigital Government: Collaborative Research: Quality Graphics for Federal Statistical SummariesThe Federal government distributes a vast quantity of statistical summaries in printed and electronic form. The full wealth of information that might be derived from these summaries is not being realized because limited attention is paid to disseminating summaries in understandable forms. This research will develop and assess quality graphics for federal statistical summaries. The development and assessment process will consider perceptual and cognitive factors in reading, interacting with and interpreting statistical graphs, maps and metadata representatives. The purposes of the quality graphics include exploration by agency users evaluating data quality and looking for emergent trends, decision making by public policy makers and communication of statistical summaries to the public. The proposed research addresses four topic areas: converting tables to graphs, representing metadata, interacting with both graphs and maps, and conveying multivariate spatial and temporal relationships. The research features use of Web-based "middleware" components to provide rapid development of graphics for usability testing. The featured middleware is a Java Graphics Component Library (GPL). A long history of research has recently culminated in a rigorous graph algebra that is the foundation for the library. The library also benefits from the collective intellectual effort being poured into Java. Principles of human perception and cognition will be used to guide the construction of statistical graphics, and usability tests will help to refine those principles in the context of federal statistical summaries. The research team has been carefully selected to bring together outstanding and compatible investigators who will provide expertise in statistical graphics, cartography, human perception and cognition, and software development and is composed of university, industrial and federal agency personnel.

EIA-9983459Scott，David W.William Marsh Rice 大学数字政府：协作研究：联邦统计摘要的质量图形联邦政府以印刷和电子形式分发大量统计摘要。 由于对以可理解的形式传播摘要的关注有限，因此无法从这些摘要中获得全部丰富的信息。 这项研究将开发和评估联邦统计摘要的质量图形。 开发和评估过程将考虑阅读、交互和解释统计图表、地图和元数据代表时的感知和认知因素。 质量图形的目的包括机构用户评估数据质量和寻找新兴趋势的探索、公共政策制定者的决策以及向公众传达统计摘要。 拟议的研究涉及四个主题领域：将表格转换为图表、表示元数据、与图表和地图交互以及传达多元空间和时间关系。 该研究的特点是使用基于网络的“中间件”组件来提供用于可用性测试的图形的快速开发。 特色中间件是 Java 图形组件库 (GPL)。 悠久的研究历史最近在严格的图代数方面达到了顶峰，这是该图书馆的基础。 该库还受益于 Java 的集体智慧成果。 人类感知和认知的原则将用于指导统计图形的构建，可用性测试将有助于在联邦统计摘要的背景下完善这些原则。 该研究团队经过精心挑选，汇集了优秀且兼容的研究人员，他们将提供统计图形、制图、人类感知和认知以及软件开发方面的专业知识，由大学、工业和联邦机构人员组成。