UCSC-301

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

(Deemed to be University)
Vidyagiri, Prasanthi Nilayam

Bachelor of Science (Honours)

Third Semester Examinations, December 2020
PART-II : COMPUTER SCIENCE

Computer Science: Data Visualization

Duration : 3 Hours 26/12/2020 Max. Marks : 100
Note: 1. Answer Sections A, B & C in the answer book provided.
2. Time allotted for Section-A is 20 minutes; hand over Section-A of the Question Paper back to the
Invigilator, after answering it in the first twenty minutes.
3. Comply with the instructions given in the Main Answer Book carefully.

SECTION – A
(20x1=20 Marks)
I. Answer the following questions. Each question carries ONE Mark.

A) Fill in the blanks:

1. A __________ is an independent attribute that can be used as a unique index to look up items in a table.

2. __________ idiom encodes two quantitative value variables using both vertical and horizontal spatial
position channels and point mark type.

3. The __________ design choice covers all aspects of the use of spatial channels for visual encoding.

4. The design guideline __________ ensures that most crucial aspects of visual representation are legible
even if the image is transformed from full color to black-and-white.

5. A system will feel responsive if __________ are taken into account by providing feedback to the user
within the relevant time scale.

6. __________ refers to the phenomenon that we fail to notice even quite drastic happenings if our attention
is directed elsewhere.

7. Ordered attributes should be shown with __________ channels.

8. A __________ is a way to control the appearance of marks independent of the dimensionality of the
geometric primitive.

9. A temporal attribute is any kind of information that relates to __________.

10. __________ stands for designing systems to handle large amounts of data gracefully.

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B) State whether the following statements are ‘TRUE’ or ‘FALSE’

11. Working memory is a long term memory.

12. When the goal is to find the label of a particular item, the node-link representation is the best choice.

13. Containment is the strongest cue for grouping.

14. Expressiveness principle dictates that the importance of the attribute should match the salience of the
channel.

15. Glyph is a basic graphical element in an image.

C) Choose the correct answer

16. One glyph per original attribute expressing derived attribute values using vertical spatial position, with 1D
list alignment of glyphs separated by horizontal spatial position.

A) parallel coordinates B) line charts C) heat maps

D) polar area chart E) boxplot charts

17. Rectilinear layout, line mark with aligned position to express derived value attribute.
Position: key attribute.

A) parallel coordinates B) pie chart C) heat maps

D) histogram E) SPLOM

18. Parallel layout: horizontal spatial position used to separate axes, vertical spatial position used to express
value along each aligned axis with connection line marks as segments between them.

A) parallel coordinates B) line charts C) bar charts

D) histogram E) boxplot charts

19. 2D matrix alignment of area marks, diverging colormap.

A) parallel coordinates B) pie charts C) heat maps

D) histogram E) boxplot charts

20. Dot chart with connection marks between dots.

A) parallel coordinates B) line charts C) scatterplots

D) histogram E) boxplot charts

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Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

(Deemed to be University)
Vidyagiri, Prasanthi Nilayam

Bachelor of Science (Honours)

Third Semester Examinations, December 2020
PART-II : COMPUTER SCIENCE

Computer Science: Data Visualization

Duration : 3 Hours 26/12/2020 Max. Marks : 100

SECTION – B
(8x5=40 Marks)

II. Answer the following questions. Each question carries FIVE Marks each.

1. List the criteria for the analysis of channel effectiveness.

2. Discuss the radial layouts from perceptual point of view.

3. What are the four major design choices for establishing linkage between the juxtaposed views?

4. Write a short note on costs and benefits of distortion idioms.

5. What is a choropleth map? What are the design choices involved in making a choropleth?

6. Discuss colorblind-safe colormap design.

OR

7. What are categorical colormaps?

8. Discuss highlighting as a selection design choice.

9. Discuss attribute aggregation using dimensionality reduction.

OR

10. Explain the design choice of filtering

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SECTION – C
(4x10=40 Marks)

III.Answer the following questions. Each question carries TEN Marks. (long answer type
theory/ problem solving)

11. The following graphs show the amount (in Millions of USD) spent by various departments (R&D, Sales,
Management, Accounting) towards various expenses (Payroll, Equipment, Travel, Supplies, Software,
Miscellaneous) in 2006. Explain using the data from figures which of the two – 3D Bar graph or 2D Bar
graphs- is justified as a better idiom for this application.

OR

12. The four plots shown below use various channels (Plot 1: position and hue; Plot 2: size and hue; Plot 3:
horizontal and vertical size; Plot 4: red and green channels). Comment on the inter-channel interference in
each of these visualizations.

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13. a) What are the various data types?

b) What are the various dataset types? (5+5=10 Marks)

OR

14. a) Discuss the various attribute types with suitable examples.

b) What are hierarchical attributes? Explain with an example. (6+4=10 Marks)

15. Discuss the three levels of actions that define user goals.

OR

16. What are the various high-level abstract targets in task abstraction? Explain with suitable examples.

17. a) What are the benefits of having a nested four level design validation approach?

b) Discuss the threats to characterizing the domain situation and the appropriate validation approaches.

c) What is downstream validation? (2+6+2=10 Marks)

OR

18. a) Discuss the threats to validity at idiom and algorithm levels and ways to address these threats.

b) Give one example of a mismatch between the level at which the benefit is claimed and the validation

c) methodology chosen. (4+4+2=10 Marks)

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