InfoVis Overview


Topic Notes

to be posted
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.
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.
J. van Wijk, "Views on Visualization",
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 4, Jul-Aug 2006, pp. 421-433.

Websites
The Expanding Digital Universe - by EMC and IDC
NameVoyager of the Baby Name Wizard
Obama jobs infographic
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
NYC Weather - NY Times
Internete Traffic - Wired
Top 50 Banks - Guardian
Beer
Wordle - text visualization
London subway site (The "Tube"), Page with just the map
Realistic
map of the subway
Tube map with
walk lines
Interactive Tube travel times How long to get there?
FOX News
pie chart
Map of the Market (original, best one)
Smart Money's Map of the Market (newer, bleah one)
US Open tennis - IBM
Music listening history - Frederick Seiffert
Glass Engine from Philip Glass
We Feel Fine - Visualizing feelings
Casualties of War - CNN
Gay Rights in the US by State - Guardian
Use of candidate's names - from the NY Times
Netflix Queues - from the NY Times
Movie revenues - from the NY Times
Casualties of war - from the NY Times
Buy or rent? - from the NY Times
Olympic medals - from the NY Times
InfoVis Wiki
Infosthetics Blog
Flowing Data
Visual.ly
d3.js Software
HomeFinder, Univ. of Maryland
download Videos
Remind Me, by Royksopp
Areva commercial
Little Red Riding Hood infographic