1. Picturing People and Places Using Node-Link Diagrams and Self-Organizing Maps Marian Dörk

2. People and Places Wikipedia articles via DBpedia People: birth place, occupation Places: location, area, population Both: name, description, image

3. Related Work Social visualization [Vizster] Distorted maps [DailyMail] Maps with Wikipedia entries [Google]

4. 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

5. Next Steps Constrain properties and relations Design visualizations and interaction Retrieve and store data Implement