Syllabus

Link to last time's 2013 syllabus with lecture slides

Overview

 Week  Dates Topic Topic HW
1 Aug 17, 19 Introduction InfoVis overview HW 1
2 Aug 24, 26 Multivariate data & table/graph design S. Few's design guidance HW 2
3 Aug 31, Sep 2 Multivariate visual representations 1 Multivariate visual representations 2
4 Sep 7, 9 No Class -- Labor Day Vis programing tutorial HW 3a HW 3b HW 3c
5 Sep 14, 16 InfoVis systems & toolkits Commercial systems demos HW 4
6 Sep 21, 23 Interaction Overview & detail
7 Sep 28, 30 Tasks and analysis Storytelling
8 Oct 5, 7 Poster session Casual InfoVis
9 Oct 12, 14 No Class - Fall break Tufte's design principles HW 5
10 Oct 19, 21 Text & documents 1 Text & documents 2
11 Oct 26, 28 Time series data Value of visualization (Video)
12 Nov 2, 4 Hierarchies & trees 1 Hierarchies & trees 2 HW 6
13 Nov 9, 11 Graphs and networks 1 Graphs and networks 2
14 Nov 16, 18 Visual analytics Visual perception HW 7
15 Nov 23, 25 Evaluation No Class - Thanksgiving break
16 Nov 30, Dec 2 Review Exam


Detail

Below are summaries of all the materials for each class. Lecture slides, references for readings and articles, videos shown, and software demonstrated are listed for each topic. Also available is a more general, alphabetical bibliography.


Aug. 17 -- Introduction

Readings

  • Tufte Shuttle recap

    Websites
  • Tufte's book containing Challenger discussion
  • Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
  • Challenger disaster - Wikipedia page about accident
  • Criticism of Tufte's analysis from Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Research


    Aug. 19 -- InfoVis Overview

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Now You See It, chapters 1-3
  • S. Card, J. Mackinlay and B. Shneiderman, Readings in Information Visualization, Using Visualization to Think Morgan Kaufmann, 1999, pp. 1-34.

    Additional Papers
  • S. K. Card, "Information visualization." In The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, J. Jacko, A. Sears, (editors), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 2003.
  • J.-D. Fekete, J. van Wijk, J. Stasko, C. North, "The Value of Information Visualization", in Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives, (Editors: A. Kerren, J. Stasko, J.-D. Fekete, C. North), Springer, 2008, pp. 1-18.
  • C. North, "Information Visualization", in Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, G. Salvendy (editor), John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
  • More

    Websites
  • Anscombe's Quartet
  • What is Data Science? - O'Reilly
  • For Today's Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics - NY Times
  • The Three Sexy Skills of Data Geeks - Dataspora
  • Data Visualization Is Reinventing Online Storytelling - Advertising Age
  • Nuclear arms race - visual.ly
  • Death and Taxes - visual.ly
  • Best beer in America - Mike Wirth Art
  • Beer - Beer graph
  • Beeriodic Table - Beer Mongers
  • Religious belief and income - awesome.good.is
  • Where We Live - Joe Lertola
  • Best Pie Chart ever - Jamie Schimley
  • FOX News pie chart
  • NameVoyager of the Baby Name Wizard
  • Market Watch's Map of the Market (newer, bleah one)
  • Use of candidate's names - from the NY Times
  • Netflix Queues - from the NY Times
  • InfoVis Wiki
  • Infosthetics Blog
  • Flowing Data
  • Visual.ly
  • Scoop.It!
  • The Economist's Graphic Detail
  • Visualization Blog Compendium

    Videos
  • Remind Me, by Royksopp (Blocked in U.S.)
  • Little Red Riding Hood infographic


    Aug. 24 -- Multivariate Data & Table/Graph Design

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • S. Few, "Effectively Communicating Numbers - Selecting the Best Means and Manner of Display", 2006.

    Additional Papers
  • S. Few, Show Me the Numbers, Analytics Press, 2004.
  • More

    Websites
  • Dog ranking scatterplot from slate.com


    Aug. 26 -- S. Few's Design Guidance

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Now You See It, chapters 5-12

    Websites
  • Perceptual Edge


    Aug. 31, Sep. 2 -- Multivariate Visual Representations

    Topic Notes
  • PDF 1
  • PDF 2

    Readings
  • A. Inselberg, "Multidimensional Detective," Proceedings of IEEE InfoVis '97, pp. 100-107, 1997.
  • D. Keim, M. Hao, U. Dayal, and M. Hsu, "Pixel Bar Charts: A visualization technique for very large multi-attribute data sets", Information Visualization, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2002, pp. 20-34.

    Additional Papers
  • B. Alsallakh, L, Micallef, W. Aigner, H. Hauser, S. Miksch, P. Rodgers, "Visualizing Sets and Set-typed Data: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges." State-of-the-Art Reports of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization 2014 (EuroVis 2014), June 2014.
  • J.H.T. Claessen, J. van Wijk, "Flexible Linked Axes for Multivariate Data Visualization," IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 17, No. 12, Dec. 2011, pp. 2310-2316.
  • S. Gratzl, A. Lex, N. Gehlenborg, H. Pfister, and M. Streit, "LineUp: Visual Analysis of Multi-Attribute Rankings", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 19, No. 12, pp. 2277-2286, Dec. 2013.
  • R. Rao and S.K. Card, "The Table Lens: Merging Graphical and Symbolic Representations in an Interactive Focus+Context Visualization for Tabluar Information", Proceedings of ACM CHI '94, Apr. 1994, pp. 318-322.
  • J.M. Rzeszotarski and A. Kittur. "Kinetica: naturalistic multi-touch data visualization." Proc. of CHI '14, pp. 897-906.
  • R. Spence and L. Tweedie, "The Attribute Explorer: information synthesis via exploration", Interacting with Computers, Vol. 11, pp. 137-146, 1998.
  • M. Spenke, C. Beilken, T. Berlage, "FOCUS: The Interactive Table for Product Comparison and Selection." Proceedings of ACM UIST '96, Nov. 1996, pp. 41-50.
  • J. Yang, et al., "Value and Relation Display: Interactive Visual Exploration of Large Data Sets with Hundreds of Dimensions", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 3, May-June. 2007, pp. 494-507.
  • J. S. Yi, R. Melton, J. Stasko, and J. Jacko, "Dust & Magnet: Multivariate Information Visualization using a Magnet Metaphor," Information Visualization, Vol. 4, No. 4, Winter 2005, pp. 239-256.
  • More

    Websites
  • Chernoff faces

    Videos
  • Table Lens, Xerox PARC, CHI '95
  • Attribute Explorer, Imperial College UK, CHI '94
  • EZChooser, MERL
  • LineUp, Linz & Harvard, InfoVIs '03
  • Angular brushing, VRVis
  • Parallel Sets, UNCC, InfoVis '05
  • FLINA View, TU Eindhoven, InfoVis '11
  • Dust & Magnet, Georgia Tech, Information Visualization '05
  • Kinetica, CMU, CHI '14
  • Bubble Sets, Ontario Inst. Tech., InfoVis '09
  • Untangling Euler Diagrams, MSR, InfoVis '10
  • OnSet, Georgia Tech, InfoVis '14

    Software
  • LineUp, Caleydo
  • ParVis, Parallel coordinates system
  • Parallel Sets, UNCC
  • Star Coordinates from IBM
  • OnSet, Georgia Tech, InfoVis '14


    Sep. 9 -- Vis Programming Tutorial

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web, by Scott Murray

    Additional Papers
  • M. Bostock, V. Ogievetsky, J. Heer, "D3: Data-Driven Documents", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 17, No. 12, Dec. 2011, pp. 2301-2309.

    Websites
  • w3schools.com
  • Mozilla Developer Network
  • JSON
  • D3
  • Scott Murray's tutorials on D3
  • Bostock's tutorials on D3
  • Jerome Cukier's blog and tutorials on D3
       Jerome's cheat sheet
  • D3 tips & tricks
  • Library of D3 examples
  • D3.js step-by-step
  • Processing
  • p5.js

    Videos
  • Some D3 tutorials


    Sep. 14 -- InfoVis Systems & Toolkits

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • F. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, F. van Ham, J. Kriss, and M. McKeon, "ManyEyes: A Site for Visualization at Internet Scale", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2007, pp. 1121-1128.

    Additional Papers
  • M. Bostock, V. Ogievetsky, J. Heer, "D3: Data-Driven Documents", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 17, No. 12, Dec. 2011, pp. 2301-2309.
  • J. Heer, F. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, "Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization", Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007, April 2007, pp. 1029-1038.
  • J. Heer, "Software Design Patterns for Information Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 5, September 2006, pp. 853-860.
  • J. Heer and M. Bostock. "Declarative Language Design for Interactive Visualization." IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 16, No. 6, Nov. 2010, pp. 1149-1156.
  • D. Ren, T. Holerer, X. Yuan, "iVisDesigner: Expressive Interactive Design of Information Visualizations", IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 20, No. 12, Dec. 2014, pp. 2092-2101.
  • A. Satyanarayan and J. Heer. "Lyra: An Interactive Visualization Design Environment." Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 33, No. 3, June 2014, pp. 351-360.
  • C. Stolte, D. Tang and P. Hanrahan, "Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis and Visualization of Multi-Dimensional Relational Databases," IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 8, No. 1, Jan-Mar 2002, pp. 52-65.
  • More

    Websites
  • Visualising Data's software resources list
  • Creative Bloq's 37 best tools for data visualization
  • Profitbrick's 39 Data visualization tools for big data
  • Data visualization projects on GitHub

    Software
  • InfoVis Toolkit
  • prefuse
  • Flare
  • Protovis
  • D3
  • Vega
  • Processing
  • p5.js
  • Piccolo
  • WebGL
  • Aperture.js
  • Bokeh (python)
  • HighCharts
  • dimple
  • JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit
  • Google visualization and chart tools
  • Lyra
  • iVisDesigner
  • Datawrapper
  • Chartbuilder
  • Many Eyes from IBM
  • Many Eyes shut down
  • Statwing
  • Keshif


    Sep. 16 -- Commercial Systems Demos & Discussion

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • M. Spenke and C. Beilken, "InfoZoom - Analysing Formula One racing results with an interactive data mining and visualization tool," Proceedings of 2nd Intl. Conf. on Data Mining, July 2000.

    Additional Papers
  • S. Eick, "Visual Discovery and Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan-Mar 2000, pp. 44-58.
  • More

    Software
  • Spotfire from TIBCO
  • Tableau from Tableau Software
  • Qlik Sense from Qlik
  • InfoZoom from HumanIT


    Sep. 21 -- Interaction

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Now You See It, chapter 4
  • J.S. Yi, Y.A. Kang, J.T. Stasko and J.A. Jacko, "Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Role of Interaction in Information Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2007, pp. 1224-1231.

    Additional Papers
  • A. Dix and G. Ellis, "Starting Simple - adding value to static visualisation through simple interaction." Proc. of AVI '98, May 1998, pp. 124-134.
  • N. Elmqvist, A. Vande Moere, H-C. Jetter, D. Cernea, H. Reiterer, and TJ Jankun-Kelly, "Fluid interaction for information visualization", Information Visualization, Vol. 10, No. 4, Oct. 2011, pp. 327-340.
  • J. Heer and G. Robertson. "Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2007, pp. 1240-1247.
  • J. Heer, M. Agrawala, W. Willett, "Generalized Selection via Interactive Query Relaxation", Proc. of CHI '08, Apr 2008, pp. 959-968.
  • R. Sadana and J. Stasko, "Designing and Implementing an Interactive Scatterplot Visualization for a Tablet Computer", Proc. of AVI '14, May 2014, pp. 265-272.
  • B. Shneiderman, "Dynamic Queries for Visual Information Seeking", IEEE Software, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 70-77, 1994.
  • More

    Videos
  • Generalized Selection, Stanford, CHI '08
  • FacetMap, MSR, InfoVis '06
  • FilmFinder, Univ. Maryland, CHI '94
  • Attribute Explorer, Imperial College UK, CHI '94
  • Magic Lens & See Through Tools, Xerox PARC, CHI '94 & '95
  • DynaVis animation, MSR, InfoVis '07
  • Dust & Magnet, Georgia Tech, Information Visualization '05
  • OnSet, Georgia Tech, InfoVis '14
  • Scatterplot on Tablet, Georgia Tech, AVI '14
  • Kinetica, CMU, CHI '14

    Software
  • HomeFinder, Univ. of Maryland download
  • Spotfire
  • DataMaps, Virginia Tech
  • OnSet, Georgia Tech, InfoVis '14

    Websites
  • Interactive histogram from Alan Dix
  • Visual Thesaurus
  • NameVoyager of the Baby Name Wizard
  • Google maps mash-up of homefinder style tool
  • Diamond finder with dynamic queries


    Sep. 23 -- Overview and Detail (including Focus + Context and Zooming)

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • A. Cockburn, A. Karlson, and B. Bederson, "A Review of Overview+Detail, Zooming, and Focus+Context Interfaces", ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 41, No. 1, Dec. 2008, pp. 2:1-2:31.

    Additional Papers
  • B. Bederson, J. Meyer, L. Good, "Jazz: An Extensible Zoomable User Interface Graphics Toolkit in Java", Proceedings of UIST 2000, Nov. 2000, pp.171-180.
  • B. Bederson et al, "DateLens: A fisheye calendar interface for PDAs," ACM Trans. on CHI, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 90-119.
  • G. Furnas, "Generalized Fisheye Views", Proc. of CHI '86, pp. 16-23.
  • G. Furnas and B. Bederson, "Space-Scale Diagrams: Understanding Multiscale Interfaces", Proc. of CHI '95, May 1995, pp. 234-241.
  • G. W. Furnas, "A fisheye follow-up: further reflections on focus + context", Proc. of CHI '06, April 2006, pp. 999-1008.
  • C. Plaisant, D. Carr, and B. Shneiderman, "Image-Browser Taxonomy and Guidelines for Designers", IEEE Software, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 21-32, March 1995.
  • M. Sarkar and M. H. Brown, "Graphical fisheye views", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 37, No. 12, pp. 73-84, Dec. 1994.
  • More

    Videos
  • PadPrints, New Mexico, UIST '98
  • PhotoMesa, Maryland, UIST '01
  • FacetZoom, CHI '08
  • DragMag Image Magnifier, Univ. of New Brunswick, CHI '95
  • Information Mural, Georgia Tech, InfoVis '95
  • Fisheye Views of Graphs, DEC SRC, CHI '93
  • Table Lens, Xerox PARC, CHI '95
  • Cone Trees and Perspective Wall, Xerox PARC, CHI '91
  • DateLens, Maryland & MSR

    Websites
  • Powers of 10
  • Scale of the Universe 2 - Zooming example
  • prezi.com
  • Fisheye menus from Univ. Maryland
  • DateLens, Maryland

    Software
  • Piccolo from Univ. of Maryland download
  • PhotoMesa from Univ. Maryland


    Sep. 28 -- User Tasks and Analysis

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • M. Brehmer and T. Munzner, "A Multi-Level Typology of Abstract Visualization Tasks", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 19, No. 12, Dec. 2013, pp. 2376-2385.

    Additional Papers
  • R. Amar, J. Eagan, and J. Stasko, "Low Level Components of Analytic Activity in Information Visualization", Proc. of IEEE InfoVis '05, Oct. 2005, pp. 111-117.
  • R. Amar and J. Stasko, "Knowledge Precepts for Design and Evaluation of Information Visualizations," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 11, No. 4, July/August 2005, pp. 432-442.
  • J. Heer and B. Shneiderman. "Interactive dynamics for visual analysis." Communications of the ACM, Vol. 55, No. 4, April 2012), pp. 45-54.
  • M. Sedlmair, M. Meyer, T. Munzner, "Design Study Methodology: Reflections from the Trenches and Stacks", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 18, No. 12, Dec. 2012, pp. 2431-2440.
  • B. Shneiderman, "The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations." Proc. 1996 IEEE Visual Languages, Sept. 1996, pp. 336-343.
  • E. Valiati, M. Pimenta, C. Freitas, "A Taxonomy of Tasks for Guiding the Evaluation of Multidimensional Visualizations", Proc. of BELIV '06, May 2006, pp. 1-6.
  • More


    Sep. 30 -- Storytelling

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • E. Segel and J. Heer, "Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 16, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2010, pp. 1139-1148.

    Additional Papers
  • J. Hullman and N. Diakopoulos, "Visualization Rhetoric: Framing Effects in Narrative Visualization." IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 17, No. 12, Dec. 2011, pp. 2231-2240.
  • J. Hullman, S. Drucker, N. Riche, B. Lee, D. Fisher, and E. Adar. "A Deeper Understanding of Sequence in Narrative Visualization." IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 19, No. 12, Dec. 2013, pp. 2406-2415.
  • R. Kosara and J. Mackinlay. "Storytelling: The Next Step for Visualization." Computer, Vol. 46, No. 5, May 2013, pp. 44-50.

    Videos
  • Hans Rosling talk - from TED Conference, 2006
  • Hans Rosling talk - from TED Conference, 2007
  • Journalism in the Age of Data - from Stanford
  • An Inconvenient Truth - Wikipedia page about film
  • How Mariano Rivera Dominates Hitters - from the NY Times
  • David McCandless talk - from TED Conference, 2010
  • Hans Rosling updated - from the BBC

    Websites
  • Data-Driven Journalism
  • Data Journalism Handbook
  • Tufte praises Megan Jaegerman
  • Obama job chart discussion
  • Home and Away - Iraq & Afghanistan casualties from CNN
  • What's Really Warming the World?from Bloomberg
  • The Fallen of WWII
  • The Case for a New Type of Minimum Wage using Tableau StoryPoints
  • Bubble to Bust Recovery from Bloomberg
  • Americans are Completely Addicted to Trucks from Bloomberg
  • Street Names from NY Times
  • Winning over Virgina from Washington Post
  • Satellites Orbiting Earth from Quartz
  • MBTA Data from WPI
  • Enhanced State of the Union address 2011 - from whitehouse.gov
  • Information is Beautiful - David McCandless' website
  • What Killed the InfoGraphic?


    Oct. 7 -- Casual InfoVis

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Z. Pousman, J. T. Stasko and M. Mateas, "Casual Information Visualization: Depictions of Data in Everyday Life", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, November/December 2007, pp. 1145-1152.

    Additional Papers
  • T. Skog, et al, "Between Aesthetics and Utility: Designing Ambient Information Visualizations", Proc. of InfoVis '03, pp. 233-240.
  • J. Fogarty, et al., "Aesthetic information collages: generating decorative displays that contain information," Proc. UIST '01, Nov. 2001, pp. 141-150.
  • J. Stasko, et al, "Personalized Peripheral Information Awareness through Information Art", Proc. of UbiComp '04, Sept. 2004, pp. 18-35.
  • M. van Dantzich, et al., "Scope: Providing awareness of multiple notifications at a glance," Proc. AVI '02, May 2002, pp. 267-281.
  • F. Viegas and M. Wattenberg, "Artistic data visualization: Beyond visual analytics," Proceedings of HCII 2007, July 2007, pp. 182-191.
  • More

    Websites
  • InfoVis & Art, Presentation by Viegas & Wattenberg at InfoVis '06
  • Jason Salavon's art
  • Feltron Annual Report, One's life as an annual report
  • Ambient Devices
  • Informative Art, Viktoria Institute
  • InfoCanvas, Georgia Tech
  • We Feel Fine - Visualizing feelings

    Videos
  • ambientROOM, MIT, CHI '98
  • InfoCanvas, InfoVis '05


    Oct. 14 -- E. Tufte's Visual Design Principles

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Tufte, Envisioning Information

    Additional Papers
  • S. Bateman, et al, "Useful Junk? The Effects of Visual Embellishment on Comprehension and Memorability of Charts", Proceedings of CHI '10, April 2010, pp. 2573-2582.
  • M. Borkin, et al, "What Makes a Visualization Memorable?", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 19, No. 12, Dec. 2013, pp. 2306-2315.

    Websites
  • Tufte's website
  • Why charts should have a zero baseline
  • Circle width versus area
  • Junk charts
  • Obama likes Tufte
  • Nigel Holmes website


    Oct. 19, 21 -- Text and Documents

    Topic Notes
  • PDF 1
  • PDF 2

    Readings
  • F. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, "Tag Clouds and the Case for Vernacular Visualization", interactions, Vol. 15, No. 4, Jul-Aug 2008, pp. 49-52.
  • D.A. Keim and D. Oelke, "Literature Fingerprinting: A New Method for Visual Literary Analysis", Proc. of IEEE VAST '07, Oct. 2007, pp. 115-122.

    Additional Papers
  • J. Chuang, D. Ramage, C.D. Manning, J. Heer, "Interpretation and Trust: Designing Model-Driven Visualizations for Text Analysis", Proc. of CHI '12, pp. 443-452.
  • C. Görg, et al, "Combining Computational Analyses and Interactive Visualization for Document Exploration and Sensemaking in Jigsaw", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 19, No. 10, Oct. 2013, pp. 1646-1663.
  • S. Havre, B. Hetzler, and L. Nowell, "ThemeRiver: Visualizing Theme Changes over Time", Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Information Visualization Symposium, Salt Lake City, Oct. 2000, pp. 115-123.
  • X. Lin, "Visualization for the Document Space," Proc. of Visualization '92, Oct. 1992, pp. 274-281.
  • J. Novak and A. Canas, "The origins of the concept mapping tool and the continuing evolution of the tool", Information Visualization, Vol. 5, No. 3, Autumn 2006, pp. 175-184.
  • F. Viegas, S. Golder, and J. Donath, "Visualizing Email Content: Portraying Relationships from Conversational Histories", Proceedings of CHI 2006, April 2006, pp. 979-988.
  • F. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, J. Feinberg, "Participatory Visualization with Wordle", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 15, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2009, pp. 1137-1144.
  • M. Wattenberg, F. Viegas, "The Word Tree, an Interactive Visual Concordance", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2008, pp. 1245-1252.
  • J. Wise, "Visualizing the Non-Visual: spatial analysis and interaction with information from text documents," Proceedings of the Information Visualization '95 Conference, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 1995, pp. 51-58.
  • More

    Videos
  • Mani-Wordle, Seoul Natl. Univ., InfoVis '10
  • Parallel Tag Clouds, IBM, VAST '09
  • FeatureLens, Maryland, CIKM '07
  • Document Cards, Univ. Konstanz, InfoVis '09.
  • Bohemian Bookshelf, Calgary
  • PaperLens, MSR, CHI '05
  • Jigsaw, Georgia Tech, VAST '07
  • Jigsaw (academic papers), Georgia Tech, TVCG '13
  • Jigsaw (car reviews), Georgia Tech, TVCG '13
  • FacetAtlas, IBM, InfoVis '10.
  • SPIRE, PNL, InfoVis '95

    Websites
  • Convention word counts, the New York Times
  • Counting words
  • Wordle
  • Voyant Tools
  • State of the Union Wordles, The Guardian
  • Concordance software
  • State of Union words, NY Times
  • TextArc
  • Jigsaw, Georgia Tech
  • Dissertation browser, Stanford
  • Text Vis Browser, Linnaeus Univ.


    Oct. 26 -- Time Series Data

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • W. Aigner, S. Miksch, W. Muller, H. Schumann, C. Tominski, "Visual Methods for Analyzing Time-Oriented Data", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2008, pp. 47-60.

    Additional Papers
  • L. Byron & M. Wattenberg, "Stacked Graphs - Geometry & Aesthetics", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2008, pp. 1245-1252.
  • H. Hochheiser and B. Shneiderman. "Dynamic query tools for time series data sets: Timebox widgets for interactive exploration," Information Visualization, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 1-18.
  • T. Kapler and W. Wright, "GeoTime Information Visualization", Information Visualization, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 136-146.
  • P. McLachlan, T. Munzner, E. Koutsofios, and S. North, "LiveRAC: interactive visual exploration of system management time-series data," Proc. of CHI '08, April 2008, pp. 1483-1492.
  • C. Plaisant, et al, "LifeLines: Visualizing Personal Histories." Proc. of CHI '96, pp 221-227.
  • J. van Wijk and E. van Selow, "Cluster and Calendar based Visualization of Time Series Data", Proc. of InfoVis '99, Oct. 1999, pp. 4-9.
  • More

    Videos
  • Lifelines & Lifelines2, Univ. Maryland, CHI '96, CHI '08
  • LiveRAC, UBC, CHI '08

    Websites
  • The TimeViz Browser
  • LifeLines, Maryland
  • LifeLines2, Maryland
  • Movie character timelines
  • Web browser percentage of market
  • Movie receipts over time from NY Times
  • History flow from IBM
  • Connected scatterplots exmaple, NY Times
  • In Praise of Connected Scatterplots, Alberto Cairo
  • History of Sampling

    Software
  • TimeSearcher, Maryland
  • Simile, time series widgets from MIT


    Oct. 28 -- Value of Visualization

    Topic Notes
  • Stasko EuroVis '14 Capstone Video

    Readings
  • J.-D. Fekete, J. van Wijk, J. Stasko, C. North, "The Value of Information Visualization", in Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives, (Editors: A. Kerren, J. Stasko, J.-D. Fekete, C. North), Springer, 2008, pp. 1-18.
  • D. Norman, "The Power of Representation", Chapter 3 in Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
  • J. Stasko, "Value-Driven Evaluation of Visualizations", Proc. of BELIV '14, Nov. 2014, pp. 46-53.
  • J. van Wijk, "The value of visualization," Proc. of Visualization '05, Oct. 2005, pp.79-86.

    Additional Papers
  • R. Chang, C. Ziemkiewicz, T. M. Green, and W. Ribarsky. "Defining Insight for Visual Analytics." IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Vol. 29, No. 2, Feb. 2009, pp. 14-17.
  • J. Larkin, H.A. Simon, "Why a Diagram is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words", Cognitive Science, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 65-99, 1987.
  • Z. Liu, N. Nersessian, J. Stasko, "Distributed Cognition as a Theoretical Framework for Information Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2008, pp. 1173-1180.
  • Z. Liu and J. Stasko, "Mental Models, Visual Reasoning and Interaction in Information Visualization: A Top-down Perspective", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, (InfoVis '10), Vol. 16, No. 6, November/December 2010, pp. 999-1008.

    Websites
  • Anscombe's Quartet
  • Gun ownership in NY from lohud.com
  • More


    Nov. 2 -- Hierarchies and Trees 1 - Node-link

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • S. Card and D. Nation, "Degree-of-Interest Trees: A Component of an Attention-Reactive User Interface", Proc. of AVI '02, May 2002, pp. 231-245.

    Additional Papers
  • J. Lamping and R. Rao, "The Hyperbolic Browser: A Focus + Context Technique for Visualizing Large Hierarchies", Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 33-55, March 1996.
  • Q.V. Nguyen and M.L. Huang, "Space-optimized tree: a connection + enclosure approach for the visualization of large hierarchies", Information Visualization, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2003, pp. 3-15.
  • C. Plaisant, et al, "SpaceTree: Design Evolution of a Node Link Tree Browser", Proc. of InfoVis '02, Oct. 2002, pp. 57-64.
  • G. Robertson, S. Card, and J. Mackinlay, "Information Visualization Using 3D Interactive Animation", Communications of the ACM, vol. 36, no. 4, Apr. 1993, pp. 57-71.
  • More

    Videos
  • Information Visualizer, Xerox PARC
  • Hyperbolic Tree, Xerox PARC, CHI '96
  • 3D Hyperbolic graphs, Stanford, T. Munzner
  • SpaceTree, Univ. of Maryland, HCIL '02

    Websites
  • Election 2012, from NY Times
  • Neat tree-drawing applet, Brown University
  • CHEOPS

    Software
  • Hyperbolic tree demo from Prefuse


    Nov. 4 -- Hierarchies and Trees 2 - Space-filling

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • B. Johnson and B. Shneiderman, "Tree-maps: A Space Filling Approach to the Visualization of Hierarchical Information Structures", Proc. of Vis '91, Oct. 1991, pp. 284-291.

    Additional Papers
  • B. Bederson, B. Shneiderman, and M. Wattenberg, Ordered and Quantum Treemaps: Making Effective Use of 2D Space to Display Hierarchies, ACM Trans. on Graphics, Vol. 21, No. 4, Oct. 2002, pp. 833-854.
  • D.M. Bruls, C. Huizing and J.J. van Wijk, "Squarified Treemaps", Proceedings of EuroGraphics 2000, pp. 33-42.
  • Q.V. Nguyen & M.L. Huang, "EncCon: an approach to constructing interactive visualization of large hierarchical data", Information Visualization, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-21.
  • J. Stasko and E. Zhang, "Focus+Context Display and Navigation Techniques for Enhancing Radial, Space-Filling Hierarchy Visualizations", Proc. of InfoVis '00, Oct. 2000, pp. 57-65.
  • W. Wang, H. Wang, G. Dai, H. Wang, "Visualization of large hierarchical data by circle packing", Proceedings of ACM CHI '06, April 2006, pp. 517-520.
  • More

    Videos
  • Treemaps, Maryland, 1992
  • FundExplorer from Georgia Tech
  • Sunburst from Georgia Tech
  • Zoomology, InfoVis '03, Georgia Tech

    Software
  • Treemap and SunBurst local demos
  • SequoiaView file visualizer by Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

    Websites
  • Map of the Market knockoff from finviz.com
  • Dynamic layout algorithm comparison applet created by Martin Wattenberg and Ben Bederson
  • Treemaps, Maryland HCIL
  • newsmap
  • Obama's 2012 budget proposal, (in treemap), from NY Times
  • 2012 presidential election, Macrofocus
  • treevis.net from Hans-Jorg Schulz


    Nov. 9, 11 -- Graphs and Networks

    Topic Notes
  • PDF 1
  • PDF 2

    Readings
  • B. Lee, C. Plaisant, C. Sims Parr, J.-D. Fekete, N. Henry, "Task Taxonomy for Graph Visualization", Proc. of BELIV '06, April '06, pp. 1-5.
  • A. Perer, B. Shneiderman, "Balancing Systematic and Flexible Exploration of Social Networks," IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 5, Sep.-Oct. 2006, pp. 693-700.

    Additional Papers
  • I. Herman, et al, "Graph Visualization and Navigation in Information Visualization: A Survey", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan-Mar 2000, pp. 24-43.
  • D. Holten, "Hierarchical edge bundles: Visualization of adjacency relations in hierarchical data," IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 5, Sep.-Oct. 2006, pp. 741-748.
  • B. Lee, C. Parr, C. Plaisant, B. Bederson, V. Veksler, W. Gray, and C. Kotfila "TreePlus: Interactive Exploration of Networks with Enhanced Tree Layouts", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2006, pp. 1414-1426.
  • B. Shneiderman, A. Aris, "Network Visualization by Semantic Substrates," IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 5, Sep.-Oct. 2006, pp. 733-740.
  • F. van Ham and A. Perer, "Search, Show Context, Expand on Demand: Supporting Large Graph exploration with Degree-of-Interest", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 15, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2009, pp. 953-960.
  • M. Wattenberg, "Visual exploration of multivariate graphs," Proceedings of ACM CHI '06, Montreal, Canada, April 2006, pp. 811-819.
  • P.C. Wong, H. Foote, G. Chin, P. Mackey, K. Perrine, "Graph Signatures for Visual Analytics", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2006, pp. 1399-1413.
  • More

    Videos
  • Where does the money go?, NSF
  • MoireGraphs, Miss. State, InfoVis '03
  • Animated graph exploration, Cal-Berkeley, InfoVis '01 (link)
  • TreePlus, Maryland
  • Vizster, UC Berkeley, InfoVis '05
  • Semantic Substrates and SocialAction, Maryland, InfoVis '06
  • Social Action, Senator voting patterns, Maryland
  • Ploceus, Georgia Tech, VAST '11

    Websites
  • Human Diseases, New York Times
  • Live Plasma - music artistis
  • Death and Taxes, U.S. Budget
  • Social Science visualization gallery
  • Social network analysis
  • Baseball steroids social network, Adam Perer
  • Force-directed example, Protovis, Stanford
  • Graph drawing tutorial, Brown
  • Graph drawing resources, graphdrawing.org
  • Jung, Java Universal Network/Graph Framework
  • Graph drawing resources, AT&T Labs
  • cola.js, from Monash Univ.
  • Gephi, Open Graph Viz Platform
  • TouchGraph
  • TouchGraph's Google browser
  • Visual Complexity - Graph Visualizations
  • Graham Wills home page
  • Semantic substrates, Maryland
  • CiteVis, Georgia Tech
  • Flavor Connection, Scientific American
  • Vizster, UC Berkeley
  • Immersion, MIT
  • Social Action, Maryland
  • GMap - Graphs as Maps, Arizona
  • MatrixExplorer & NodeTrix, INRIA
  • Planarity - graph layout game
  • Atlas of Cyberspace


    Nov. 16 -- Visual Analytics

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • D. Keim, G. Andrienko, J.-D. Fekete, C. Gorg, J. Kohlhammer, and G. Melancon, "Visual Analytics: Definition, Process, and Challenges", in Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives, (Editors: A. Kerren, J. Stasko, J.-D. Fekete, C. North), Springer, 2008, pp. 1-18.
  • J. Stasko, C. Gorg, and Z. Liu, "Jigsaw: Supporting Investigative Analysis through Interactive Visualization", Information Visualization, Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 2008, pp. 118-132.

    Additional Papers
  • M. Bilgic, L. Licamele, L. Getoord, B. Shneiderman, "D-Dupe: An Interactive Tool for Entity Resolution in Social Networks", Proceedings of IEEE VAST '06, Oct. 2006, pp. 43-50.
  • R. Chang, et al, "Scalable and interactive visual analysis of financial wire transactions for fraud detection", Information Visualization, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 63-76.
  • C. Görg, et al, "Combining Computational Analyses and Interactive Visualization for Document Exploration and Sensemaking in Jigsaw", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 19, No. 10, Oct. 2013, pp. 1646-1663.
  • J. Thomas and K. Cook, Illuminating the Path - The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics, IEEE Press, 2005.
  • P.C. Wong, et al, "Walking the path: a new journey to explore and discover through visual analytics", Information Visualization, Vol. 5, No. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 237-249.
  • W. Wright, D. Schroh, P. Proulx, A. Skaburskis, and B. Cort, "The sandbox for analysis: concepts and evaluation", Proceedings of ACM CHI '06, April 2006, pp. 801-810.
  • More

    Websites
  • Visual Analytics Community
  • Visual Analytics in the EU
  • Jigsaw, Georgia Tech

    Videos
  • Visual Analytics, VisMaster
  • Precision Information Environments vision video
  • Jigsaw (academic papers), Georgia Tech, TVCG '13
  • Jigsaw (car reviews), Georgia Tech, TVCG '13
  • Sandbox, Oculus/Uncharted, VAST '07 Contest
  • Entity Workspace, PARC
  • Analyst's Workspace, Va Tech, VAST '12
  • IN-SPIRE, PNNL
  • D-Dupe, Maryland, VAST '06
  • WireVis, UNCC, Information Visualization '08
  • Coast Guard Search & Rescue, Overview, Scenario, Purdue, VAST '11

  • Nov. 18 -- Visual Perception

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • M. Stone, "Choosing Colors for Data Visualization", 2006.

    Additional Papers
  • C. Healey, "Perception in Visualization," NC State
  • W. S. Cleveland and R. McGill, "Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation and the Application to the Development of Graphical Models", J. Am. Stat. Assoc., Vol.79, No.387, pp. 531-554, 1984.
  • More

    Videos
  • Color in political maps from the Daily Show
  • Himba see colors differently from boreme
  • Change blindness picture examples, from UBC
  • Change blindness video examples, from Dan Simons at Illinois

    Websites
  • Visual perception and data visualization CHI '00 tutorial
  • Color Brewer, Color Brewer
  • Checker shadow illusion, Wikipedia
  • Color selector algorithm, Tableau
  • Interactive color challenge
  • Maureen Stone's site
  • Color resources, If We Assume
  • Color names from xkcd
  • Optical illusions


    Nov. 23 -- Evaluation

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • S. Carpendale, "Evaluating Information Visualizations", in Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives, (Editors: A. Kerren, J. Stasko, J.-D. Fekete, C. North), Springer, 2008, pp. 19-45.

    Additional Papers
  • S. Bateman, et al, "Useful Junk? The Effects of Visual Embellishment on Comprehension and Memorability of Charts", Proc. of ACM CHI '10, April 2010, pp. 2573-2582.
  • C. M. Danis, F. B. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, J. Kriss, "Your place or mine?: visualization as a community component", Proc. of ACM CHI '08, April 2008, pp. 275-284.
  • Y. Kang, C. Gorg, J. Stasko, "How Can Visual Analytics Assist Investigative Analysis? Design Implications from an Evaluation," IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 17, No. 5, May 2011, pp. 570-583.
  • H. Lam, E. Bertini, P. Isenberg, C. Plaisant, and S. Carpendale. "Empirical Studies in Information Visualization: Seven Scenarios." IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 18, No. 9, Sept. 2012, pp. 1520-1536.
  • Q. Li and C. North, "Empirical Comparison of Dynamic Query Sliders and Brushing Histograms", Proc. of InfoVis '03, Oct. 2003, pp. 147-154.
  • A. Perer and B. Shneiderman, "Integrating statistics and visualization: case studies of gaining clarity during exploratory data analysis", Proc. of ACM CHI '08, April 2008, pp. 265-274.
  • C. Plaisant, "The challenge of information visualization evaluation", Proc. of AVI '04, May 2004, pp. 109-116.
  • C. Plaisant, J.-D. Fekete, G. Grinstein, "Promoting Insight-Based Evaluation of Visualizations: From Contest to Benchmark Repository," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 1, Jan-Feb 2008, pp. 120-134.
  • G. Robertson, R. Fernandez, D. Fisher, B. Lee, and J. Stasko, "Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization," IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2008, pp. 1325-1332.
  • P. Saraiya et al, "An Insight-Based Methodology for Evaluating Bioinformatics Visualizations", IEEE Trans. on Vis. and Computer Graphics, Vol. 11, No. 4, Jul/Aug 2005, pp. 443-456.
  • B. Shneiderman, C. Plaisant, "Strategies for evaluating information visualization tools: multi-dimensional in-depth long-term case studies", Proc. of BELIV '06, May 2006, pp. 1-7.
  • J. Stasko, et al, "An Evaluation of Space-Filling Information Visualizations for Depicting Hierarchical Structures", International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 53, No. 5, Nov. 2000, pp. 663-694.
  • J. Stasko, "Value-Driven Evaluation of Visualizations", Proc. of BELIV '14, Nov. 2014, pp. 46-53.
  • More


    Nov. 30 -- Review

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Now You See It, chapter 13
  • J. Heer, M. Bostock, and V. Ogievetsky, "A Tour through the Visualization Zoo", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 53, No. 6, June 2010, pp. 59-67.

    Additional Papers


     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    dropped -- Social Visualization

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • F. Viegas, S. Golder, and J. Donath, "Visualizing Email Content: Portraying Relationships from Conversational Histories", Proceedings of CHI 2006, Montreal, Canada, April 2006, pp. 979-988.
  • M. Wattenberg and J. Kriss, "Designing for Social Data Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Vol. 12, No. 4, Jul.-Aug. 2006, pp. 549-557.

    Additional Papers
  • D. Baur, F. Seiffert, M. Sedlmair, and S. Boring, "The Streams of Our Lives: Visualizing Listening Histories in Context", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, (InfoVis '10), Vol. 16, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2010, pp. 1119-1128.
  • J. Donath, K. Karahalios, and F. Viegas, "Visualizing Conversations", Proc. of HICSS-32, Jan. 1999.
  • M. Dork, D. Gruen, C. Williamson, and S. Carpendale, "A Visual Backchannel for Large-Scale Events", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, (InfoVis '10), Vol. 16, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2010, pp. 1129-1138.
  • J. Heer and d. boyd, "Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks", Proc. of IEEE InfoVis '05, Oct. 2005, pp. 33-40.
  • F. Viegas, d. boyd, D. Nguyen, J. Potter, J. Donath, "Digital Artifacts for Remembering and Storytelling: PostHistory and Social Network Fragments," Proc. of HICSS'04, Jan. 2004.
  • F. Viegas, E. Perry, E. Howe, and J. Donath, "Artifacts of the Presence Era: Using Information Visualization to Create an Evocative Souvenir," Proc. of IEEE InfoVis '04, Oct. 2004, pp. 105-111.
  • R. Xiong and J. Donath, "People Garden: Creating Data Portraits for Users," Proc. of UIST '99, Nov. 1999, pp. 37-44.
  • More

    Websites
  • Social Visualization Workshop, from CHI '06
  • Social Media Group, MIT
  • Social Spaces Group, Illinois
  • NameVoyager of the Baby Name Wizard

    Videos
  • Visual Backchannel, Univ. Calgary, InfoVis '10
  • LastHistory, InfoVis '10


    dropped -- Animation

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • J. Heer and G. Robertson. "Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2007, pp. 1240-1247.

    Additional Papers
  • L. Bartram, et al, "Moticons: detection, distraction, and task", Intl. Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 58, No. 5, May 2003, pp. 515-545.
  • G.G. Robertson, S.K. Card, and J.D. Mackinlay, "Information Visualization Using 3D Interactive Animation", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 36, No. 4, Apr. 1993, pp. 57-71.
  • G. Robertson, R. Fernandez, D. Fisher, B. Lee, and J. Stasko, "Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization," IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2008, pp. 1325-1332.
  • More

    Websites
  • Animated transitions in visualizations, J. Heer, Stanford

    Videos
  • Rosling's updated GapMinder talk - from BBC, 2010