Syllabus

Overview

 Week  Dates Topic Topic HW
1 Jan 6, 8 Introduction InfoVis overview HW1
2 Jan 13, 15 Multivariate data & table/graph design Case studies HW2
3 Jan 20, 22 Visual perception Cognitive issues
4 Jan 27, 29 Multivariate visual representations Parallel coordinates & more
5 Feb 3, 5 Big data InfoVis systems & toolkits HW3
6 Feb 10, 12 Commercial systems demos Learning Tableau HW4
7 Feb 17, 19 Tufte's principles Time series data
8 Feb 24, 26 Interaction Overview & detail HW5
9 Mar 3, 5 Pan & zoom Visual analytics
10 Mar 10, 12 Hierarchies & trees 1 Hierarchies & trees 2 HW6
11 Mar 17, 19    No Class -- Spring break No Class -- Spring break
12 Mar 24, 26 Graphs and networks Text & documents
13 Mar 31, Apr 2 Evaluation Animation
14 Apr 7, 9 No Class -- CHI Conference Geovisualization
15 Apr 14, 16 Casual InfoVis Social Visualization
16 Apr 21, 23 Project Presentations Project Presentations

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.


Jan. 6 -- Introduction

Readings

  • Tufte Shuttle recap

    Jan. 8 -- InfoVis Overview

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Readings
  • 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.
  • More

    Websites
  • The Expanding Digital Universe - by EMC and IDC
  • Butterfly Ballot - Palm Beach County ballot, 2000 Presidential Election
  • London subway site (The "Tube"), Page with just the map
  • Realistic map of the subway
  • Tube map with walk lines
  • Smart Money's Map of the Market
  • Use of candidate's names - from the NY Times
  • Glass Engine from Philip Glass
  • NameVoyager of the Baby Name Wizard
  • InfoVis Wiki
  • Infosthetics Blog

    Software
  • HomeFinder, Univ. of Maryland download

    Videos
  • Remind Me, by Royksopp
  • Areva commercial

    Jan. 13 -- Multivariate Data & Table/Graph Design

    Lecture slides
  • 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
  • Perceptual Edge - S. Few's company
  • Nationmaster - Nice set of graphs

    Jan. 15 -- Case Studies

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Readings
  • C. Weaver, et al, "Visual exploration and analysis of historic hotel visits", Information Visualization, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 89-103.

    Additional Papers
  • B. Bederson et al, "DateLens: A fisheye calendar interface for PDAs," ACM Trans. on CHI, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 90-119.
  • 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.
  • J. van Wijk and E. van Selow, "Cluster and Calendar based Visualization of Time Series Data", Proceedings of Information Visualization '99, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 1999, pp. 4-9.
  • R. Xiong and J. Donath, "People Garden: Creating Data Portraits for Users," Proc. of UIST '99, Nov. 1999, pp. 37-44.
  • More

    Websites
  • DateLens, Maryland

    Videos
  • Hotel visitaton with Improvise, Penn State
  • WireVis, UNCC
  • DateLens, Maryland & MSR

    Jan. 20 -- Visual Perception

    Lecture slides
  • 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

    Websites
  • Visual perception and data visualization CHI '00 tutorial
  • Color labeling via Mechanical Turk
  • Color Brewer, Color Brewer
  • Heatmap from NASDAQ
  • Maureen Stone's site
  • Color in political maps form the Daily Show
  • Optical illusions
  • Change blindness picture examples, from UBC
  • Change blindness video examples, from Illinois

    Jan. 22 -- Cognitive Issues

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Readings
  • 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.
  • 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.

    Additional Papers
  • 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. Larkin, H.A. Simon, "Why a Diagram is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words", Cognitive Science, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 65-99, 1987.
  • D. Norman, "Visual Representations", Chapter 3 in Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
  • More

    Jan. 27 -- Multivariate Visual Representations

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Readings
  • R. Spence and L. Tweedie, "The Attribute Explorer: information synthesis via exploration", Interacting with Computers, Vol. 11, pp. 137-146, 1998.

    Additional Papers
  • T. Lanning, K. Wittenburg, M. Heinrichs, C. Fyock, and G. Li, "Multidimensional Information Visualization through Sliding Rods", Proc. of AVI 2000, May 2000, pp. 173-180.
  • 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, Boston, MA, pp. 318-322.
  • M. Spenke, C. Beilken, T. Berlage, "FOCUS: The Interactive Table for Product Comparison and Selection." Proceedings of ACM UIST '96, Seattle, WA, Nov. 1996, pp. 41-50.
  • 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
  • More Chernoff faces

    Videos
  • Table Lens, Xerox PARC, CHI '95
  • Attribute Explorer, Imperial College UK, CHI '94
  • Dust & Magnet, InfoVis '05

    Software
  • EZChooser

    Jan. 29 -- Parallel Coordinates and more

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Readings
  • A. Inselberg, "Multidimensional Detective," Proceedings of Information Visualization '97, pp. 100-107, 1997.

    Additional Papers
  • H. Hauser, F. Ledermann, and H. Doleisch, "Angular Brushing of Extended Parallel Coordinates", Proc. of IEEE InfoVis '02, October 2002, pp. 127-134.
  • D. Brodbeck and L. Girardin, "Visualization of Large-Scale Customer Satisfaction Surveys Using a Parallel Coordinate Tree", Proc. of IEEE InfoVis '03, Oct. 2003, pp. 197-201.
  • R. Kosara, F. Bendix, and H. Hauser, "Parallel Sets: Interactive Exploration and Visual Analysis of Categorical Data", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphis, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 558-568. InfoVis '05, October 2005, pp. 133-140.
  • E. Wegman, "Hyperdimensional Data Analysis Using Parallel Coordinates", Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 85, No. 411, Sept. 1990, pp. 664-675.
  • More

    Videos
  • Angular brushing from VRVis
  • Parallel Sets from InfoVis '05

    Software
  • XmdvTool from WPI
  • SurveyVisualizer from Macrofocus
  • Star Coordinates from IBM

    Feb. 3 -- Visualizing Big Data

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Jing Yang, et al., "Value and Relation Display for Interactive Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets", Proceedings of IEEE InfoVis '04, Oct. 2004, pp. 73-80.

    Additional Papers
  • J.-D. Fekete & C. Plaisant, "Interactive Information Visualization of a Million Items", Proceedings of InfoVis '02, Oct. 2002, pp. 117-124.
  • D. A. Keim and H.-P. Kriegel, "VisDB: Database Exploration Using Multidimensional Visualization", IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, pp. 40-49, Sept. 1994.
  • 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.
  • J. Seo and B. Shneiderman, "A rank-by-feature framework for interactive exploration of multidimensional data", Information Visualization, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 96-113.
  • More

    Software
  • HCE from Maryland

    Feb. 5 -- InfoVis Systems & Toolkits

    Lecture slides
  • 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
  • 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, S. Card, J. Landay, "prefuse: a toolkit for interactive information visualization", Proceedings of ACM CHI '05, April 2005, pp. 421-430.
  • J. Heer, "Software Design Patterns for Information Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 5, September 2006, pp. 853-860.
  • C. Weaver, "Building Highly-Coordinated Visualizations in Improvise", Proceedings of IEEE InfoVis '04, October 2004, pp. 159-166.
  • More

    Videos
  • prefuse from prefuse.org
  • sense.us from Jeff Heer

    Software
  • Improvise
  • ILOG Discovery
  • InfoVis Toolkit
  • prefuse
  • Piccolo

    Feb. 10 -- Commercial Systems Demos

    Lecture slides
  • 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
  • Table Lens from Inxight
  • InfoZoom from HumanIT
  • Advizor from Advizor Solutions
  • Spotfire Pro from Spotfire
  • InfoScope from Macrofocus

    Feb. 12 -- Learning Tableau

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Readings

    Additional Papers
  • J. Mackinlay, P. Hanrahan, C. Stolte, "Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2007, pp. 1137-1144.
    Software
  • Tableau Software

    Feb. 17 -- Tufte's Visual Design Principles

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Tufte, Envisioning Information

    Websites
  • Tufte's website
  • Junk charts
  • USA Today's news snapshots

    Feb. 19 -- Time Series Data

    Lecture slides
  • 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
  • LifeLines, Maryland
  • LifeLines2, Maryland
  • Movie receipts over time from NY Times
  • History flow from IBM
  • History of Sampling

    Software
  • TimeSearcher, Maryland

    Feb. 24 -- Interaction

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Readings
  • 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.
  • K. Fishkin and M. Stone, "Enhanced dynamic queries via movable filters." Proc. of CHI '95, pp. 415-420.
  • B. Shneiderman, "Dynamic Queries for Visual Information Seeking", IEEE Software, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 70-77, 1994.
  • R. Spence and L. Tweedie, "The Attribute Explorer: information synthesis via exploration", Interacting with Computers, Vol. 11, pp. 137-146, 1998.
  • More

    Videos
  • FilmFinder, Univ. Maryland, CHI '94
  • Attribute Explorer, Imperial College UK, CHI '94
  • Magic Lens & See Through Tools, Xerox PARC, CHI '94 & '95

    Software
  • HomeFinder, Univ. of Maryland download
  • Spotfire
  • DataMaps, Virginia Tech

    Websites
  • Interactive histogram from Alan Dix
  • US History dynamic browser
  • Excentric labeling from Maryland
  • Visual Thesaurus
  • Interactive house finder
  • Cellphone chooser with dynamic queries
  • Diamond finder with dynamic queries

    Feb. 26 -- Overview and Detail (Focus & Context)

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Readings
  • M. Q. Wang Baldonado, A. Woodruff, A. Kuchinsky, "Guidelines for Using Multiple Views in Information Visualization," Proc. of AVI '00, May 2000, pp. 110-119.

    Additional Papers
  • 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.
  • 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
  • DragMag Image Magnifier, Univ. of New Brunswick, CHI '95
  • Information Mural, Georgia Tech, InfoVis '95
  • Table Lens, Xerox PARC, CHI '95
  • Fisheye Views of Graphs, DEC SRC, CHI '93
  • Continuous Zoom and Pliable surfaces, Simon Fraser, UIST '95
  • Cone Trees and Perspective Wall, Xerox PARC, CHI '91
  • Fishcal/DateLens, Univ. of Maryland, HCIL '02

    Websites
  • Fisheye menus from Univ. Maryland
  • Ten by Ten

    Mar. 3 -- Zooming and Panning

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Additional Papers
  • B. Bederson, et al, "Pad++: A Zoomable Graphical Sketchpad for Exploring Alternate Interface Physics", Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Mar. 1996, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 3-31.
  • 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.
  • G. Furnas and B. Bederson, "Space-Scale Diagrams: Understanding Multiscale Interfaces", Proc. of CHI '95, May 1995, pp. 234-241.
  • S. Jul and G. Furnas, "Critical zones in desert fog: aids to multiscale navigation", Proc. of UIST '98, Nov. 1998, pp. 97-106.
  • T. Masui, M. Minakuchi, G. Borden IV, K. Kashiwagi, "Multiple-View Approach for Smooth Information Retrieval ", Proceedings of UIST '95, November 1995, pp.199-206.
  • More

    Videos
  • Wing, Sony Corp., UIST '95
  • PadPrints, New Mexico, UIST '98
  • PhotoMesa, Maryland, UIST '01
  • Desert Fog, Michigan, UIST '98
  • Illusions of Infinity, Michigan, UIST '00

    Websites
  • Powers of 10
  • NASA Zooms
  • prezi.com

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

    Mar. 5 -- Visual Analytics

    Lecture slides
  • 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.
    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.
  • D. Gotz, M.X. Zhou, V. Aggarwal, "Interactive Visual Synthesis of Analytic Knowledge", Proceedings of IEEE VAST '06, Oct. 2006, pp. 51-58.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • NVAC at PNNL
  • Jigsaw, Georgia Tech

    Videos
  • IN-SPIRE, PNNL
  • HARVEST, IBM, VAST '06
  • D-Dupe, Maryland, VAST '06
  • Jigsaw, Georgia Tech, VAST '07
  • Sandbox, Oculus, VAST '07 Contest
  • Entity Workspace, PARC

    Mar. 10 -- Hierarchies and Trees 1 - Node-link

    Lecture slides
  • 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
  • CHEOPS

    Software
  • Hyperbolic tree demo from Prefuse

    Mar. 12 -- Hierarchies and Trees 2 - Space-filling

    Lecture slides
  • 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, 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, Montreal, Canada, 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
  • Product reviewer, The Hive Group
  • Panopticon
  • Grokker, from Groxis

    Websites
  • Smart Money's Map of the Market
  • Dynamic layout algorithm comparison applet created by Martin Wattenberg and Ben Bederson
  • Treemaps, Maryland HCIL
  • Marumushi news map
  • EnCon

    Mar. 24 -- Graphs and Networks

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Readings
  • 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.
  • T.J. Jankun-Kelly and K.-L. Ma, "MoireGraphs: Radial Focus+context Visualization and Interaction for Graphs with Visual Nodes", Proc. of InfoVis '03, Oct. 2003, pp. 59-66.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • P.C. Wong, H. Foote, P. Mackey, G. Chin, H. Sofia and J. Thomas, "A dynamic multiscale magnifying tool for exploring large sparse graphs", Information Visualization, Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 2008, pp. 105-117.
  • More

    Videos
  • MoireGraphs, Miss. State, InfoVis '03
  • Animated graph exploration, Cal-Berkeley, InfoVis '01 (link)
  • Vizster, UC Berkeley, InfoVis '05
  • Semantic Substrates and SocialAction, Maryland, InfoVis '06

    Websites
  • Graph drawing tutorial, Brown
  • Graph drawing resources, graphdrawing.org
  • Graph drawing resources, AT&T Labs
  • Social Science visualization gallery
  • Social network analysis
  • TouchGraph
  • TouchGraph's Google browser
  • Visual Complexity - Graph Visualizations
  • Graham Wills home page
  • Semantic substrates, Maryland
  • Vizster, UC Berkeley
  • Social Action, Maryland
  • Planarity - graph layout game
  • Atlas of Cyberspace

    Mar. 26 -- Text and Documents

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Readings
  • 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.

    Additional Papers
  • 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.
  • M. Hearst, "Tilebars: Visualization of Term Distribution Information in Full-Text Information Access," Proc. of CHI '95, May 2005, pp. 59-66.
  • B. Lee, et al, "Understanding Research Trends in Conferences using PaperLens", CHI '05 Late Breaking Results, May 2005, pp. 1969-1972.
  • 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.
  • K. Olsen, et al, "Visualization of a Document Collection: The Vibe System." Information Processing & Management Vol. 29, No. 1, 1993, pp. 69-81.
  • F. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, "Tag Clouds and the Case for Vernacular Visualization", interactions, Vol. 15, No. 4, Jul-Aug 2008, pp. 49-52.
  • 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
  • SPIRE, PNL, InfoVis '95
  • PaperLens, MSR, CHI '05
  • TileBars, UC Berkeley, CHI '96

    Websites
  • Many Eyes, Tag clouds and Word Trees
  • Wordle
  • Concordance software
  • State of Union words, NY Times
  • TextArc
  • TileBars, UC Berkeley
  • Kartoo
  • Jigsaw, Georgia Tech
  • Web Self-Organizing Map
  • Information visualization, Pacific Northwest Labs
  • stamen

    Mar. 31 -- Evaluation

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Readings
  • C. Plaisant, "The challenge of information visualization evaluation", Proc. of AVI '04, May 2004, pp. 109-116.

    Additional Papers
  • C. M. Danis, F. B. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, J. Kriss, "Your place or mine?: visualization as a community component", Proceedings of ACM CHI '08, April 2008, pp. 275-284.
  • Q. Li and C. North, "Empirical Comparison of Dynamic Query Sliders and Brushing Histograms", Proc. of InfoVis '03, Oct. 2003, pp. 147-154.
  • Adam Perer and Ben Shneiderman, "Integrating statistics and visualization: case studies of gaining clarity during exploratory data analysis", Proceedings of ACM CHI '08, Florence, Italy, April 2008, pp. 265-274.
  • Catherine Plaisant, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Georges 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.
  • 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.
  • Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, "Strategies for evaluating information visualization tools: multi-dimensional in-depth long-term case studies", Proceedings 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, November 2000, pp. 663-694.
  • More

    Apr. 2 -- Animation

    Lecture slides
  • 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

    Videos
  • Hans Rosling talk - from TED Conference, 2006
  • Hans Rosling talk - from TED Conference, 2007

    Apr. 9 -- Geovisualization

    Lecture slides
  • PDF

    Readings
  • D. Dorling, A. Barford, M. Newman, "Worldmapper: The World as You've Never Seen it Before," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 5, Sep-Oct 2006, pp. 757-764.
  • J. Dykes and C. Brunsdon, "Geographically weighted visualization - interactive graphics for scale-varying exploratory analysis ", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov-Dec 2007, pp. 1161-1168.
  • D. Fisher, "Hotmap: Looking at Geographic Attention", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphcis, Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov-Dec 2007, pp. 1184-1191 .
  • D. A. Keim, S. C. North, C. Panse, "CartoDraw: A Fast Algorithm for Generating Contiguous Cartograms", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 10, No. 1, Jan. 2004, pp. 95-110.
  • D. Peuquet and M.-J. Kraak, "Geobrowsing: Creative thinking and knowledge discovery using geographic visualization", Information Visualization, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2002, pp. 80-91.
  • More

    Websites

    Videos

    Apr. 14 -- Casual InfoVis

    Lecture slides
  • 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

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

    Apr. 16 -- Social Visualization

    Lecture slides
  • 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
  • J. Donath, K. Karahalios, and F. Viegas, "Visualizing Conversations", Proc. of HICSS-32, Jan. 1999.
  • 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

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