Syllabus

Overview

 Week  Dates Topic Topic HW
1 Jan 11, 13 Introduction InfoVis overview HW 1
2 Jan 18, 20 Multivariate data & table/graph design Visual perception HW 2
3 Jan 25, 27 Cognitive issues Multivariate visual representations HW 3
4 Feb 1, 3 Overview & detail Interaction 1
5 Feb 8, 10 Interaction 2 Storytelling HW 4
6 Feb 15, 17 InfoVis systems & toolkits Commercial systems demos HW 5
7 Feb 22, 24 Tufte's principles Few's design guidance
8 Mar 1, 3 Hierarchies & trees 1 Hierarchies & trees 2 HW 6
9 Mar 8, 10 Graphs and networks 1 Graphs and networks 2 HW 7
10 Mar 15, 17 Text & documents 1 Text & documents 2 HW 8
11 Mar 22, 24    No Class -- Spring break No Class -- Spring break
12 Mar 29, 31 Visual analytics 1 Visual analytics 2
13 Apr 5, 7 Pan & zoom Time series data
14 Apr 12, 14 Big data Evaluation
15 Apr 19, 21 Casual InfoVis Social Visualization
16 Apr 26, 28 Animation Review

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. 11 -- Introduction

Readings

  • Tufte Shuttle recap

    Websites
  • Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
  • Challenger disaster - Wikipedia page about accident

    Jan. 13 -- InfoVis Overview

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Interactive Data Vis, chapter 1
  • 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.
  • More

    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
  • Smart Money's Map of the Market
  • US Open tennis - IBM
  • Music listening history - Frederick Seiffert
  • Glass Engine from Philip Glass
  • We Feel Fine - Visualizing feelings
  • Casualties of War - CNN
  • 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

    Software
  • HomeFinder, Univ. of Maryland download

    Videos
  • Remind Me, by Royksopp
  • Areva commercial
  • Little Red Riding Hood infographic

    Jan. 18 -- Multivariate Data & Table/Graph Design

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Interactive Data Vis, chapters 2 and 4
  • 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. 20 -- Visual Perception

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Interactive Data Vis, chapter 3
  • 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
  • Interactive color labeller form Doloreslabs
  • 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. 25 -- Cognitive Issues

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • D. Norman, "Visual Representations", Chapter 3 in Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
  • 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, 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. 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 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.
  • P. Pirolli and S. Card, "Information Foraging in Information Access Environments," Proc. of ACM CHI '95, May 1995, pp. 51-58.
  • More

    Jan. 27 -- Multivariate Visual Representations

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Interactive Data Vis, chapter 7
  • A. Inselberg, "Multidimensional Detective," Proceedings of IEEE InfoVis '97, pp. 100-107, 1997.

    Additional Papers
  • 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.
  • 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, pp. 318-322.
  • 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. 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
  • Finding NY tax cheats, Application of parallel coordinates

    Videos
  • Table Lens, Xerox PARC, CHI '95
  • Attribute Explorer, Imperial College UK, CHI '94
  • EZChooser from MERL
  • Angular brushing from VRVis
  • Parallel Sets from InfoVis '05
  • Dust & Magnet, Information Visualization '05

    Software
  • EZChooser
  • XmdvTool from WPI
  • ParVis, Parallel coordinates system
  • SurveyVisualizer from Macrofocus
  • Star Coordinates from IBM

    Feb. 1 -- Overview and Detail (Focus & Context)

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • B. Bederson et al, "DateLens: A fisheye calendar interface for PDAs," ACM Trans. on CHI, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 90-119.

    Additional Papers
  • 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.
  • G. Furnas, "Generalized Fisheye Views", Proc. of CHI '86, pp. 16-23.
  • 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
  • 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
  • DateLens, Maryland & MSR

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

    Feb. 3, 8 -- Interaction

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Interactive Data Vis, chapters 10 and 11
  • 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.
  • K. Fishkin and M. Stone, "Enhanced dynamic queries via movable filters." Proc. of CHI '95, pp. 415-420.
  • J. Heer, M. Agrawala, W. Willett, "Generalized Selection via Interactive Query Relaxation", Proc. of CHI '08, Apr 2008, pp. 959-968.
  • 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
  • Dust & Magnet, Information Visualization '05
  • FacetMap, MSR, InfoVis '06
  • Generalized Selection, Stanford, CHI '08

    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
  • Google maps mash-up of homefinder style tool
  • Cellphone chooser with dynamic queries
  • Diamond finder with dynamic queries

    Feb. 10 -- 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.

    Videos
  • Hans Rosling talk - from TED Conference, 2006
  • Hans Rosling talk - from TED Conference, 2007
  • 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
  • Telling Stories with Data Workshop - from VisWeek 2010
  • Telling Stories with Data Workshop summary - at FlowingData
  • Data-Driven Journalism Seminar
  • Tufte praises Megan Jaegerman
  • Obama job chart discussion
  • Home and Away - Iraq & Afghanistan casualties from CNN
  • VisualEyes - from Univ. Virginia
  • Enhanced State of the Union address 2011 - from whitehouse.gov

    Feb. 15 -- InfoVis Systems & Toolkits

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Interactive Data Vis, chapter 14
  • 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 and J. Heer, "Protovis: A Graphical Toolkit for Visualization", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 15, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2009, pp. 1121-1128.
  • 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
  • Talk about Many Eyes from Wattenberg and Viegas
  • sense.us from Jeff Heer

    Software
  • Improvise
  • MS Pivot
  • InfoVis Toolkit
  • prefuse
  • Flare
  • Protovis
  • Piccolo
  • InfiView
  • Google visualization and chart tools
  • Processing

    Feb. 17 -- 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 Pro from Spotfire
  • InfoZoom from HumanIT
  • Tableau from Tableau Software
  • QlikView from QlikTech
  • InfoScope from Macrofocus

    Feb. 22 -- 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.

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

    Feb. 24 -- Few's Design Guidance

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Now You See It, chapters 5-12

    Websites
  • Perceptual Edge

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

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Interactive Data Vis, chapter 8.1
  • 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. 3 -- 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
  • 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. 8, 10 -- Graphs and Networks

    Topic Notes
  • PDF 1
  • PDF 2

    Readings
  • Interactive Data Vis, chapter 8
  • 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
  • Where does the money go?, NSF
  • 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
  • Social Action, Senator voting patterns, Maryland

    Websites
  • Force-directed example, Protovis, Stanford
  • 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
  • MatrixExplorer & NodeTrix, INRIA
  • Planarity - graph layout game
  • Atlas of Cyberspace

    Mar. 15, 17 -- Text and Documents

    Topic Notes
  • PDF 1
  • PDF 2

    Readings
  • Interactive Data Vis, chapter 9
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • TileBars, UC Berkeley, CHI '96
  • Mani-Wordle, Seoul Natl. Univ., InfoVis '10
  • Document Cards, Univ. Konstanz, InfoVis '09.
  • PaperLens, MSR, CHI '05
  • Jigsaw, Georgia Tech
  • FacetAtlas, IBM, InfoVis '10.
  • SPIRE, PNL, InfoVis '95

    Websites
  • Many Eyes, Tag clouds and Word Trees
  • Wordle
  • State of the Union Wordles, The Guardian
  • Concordance software
  • State of Union words, NY Times
  • TextArc
  • TileBars, UC Berkeley
  • Jigsaw, Georgia Tech
  • Information visualization, Pacific Northwest Labs
  • stamen

    Mar. 29, 31 -- Visual Analytics

    Topic Notes
  • PDF 1
  • PDF 2

    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.
  • D. Gotz, M.X. Zhou, V. Aggarwal, "Interactive Visual Synthesis of Analytic Knowledge", Proceedings of IEEE VAST '06, Oct. 2006, pp. 51-58.
  • J. Thomas and K. Cook, Illuminating the Path - The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics, IEEE Press, 2005.
  • C. Weaver, et al, "Visual exploration and analysis of historic hotel visits", Information Visualization, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 89-103.
  • 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
  • Visual Analytics Community
  • Visual Analytics in the EU
  • Jigsaw, Georgia Tech

    Videos
  • Visual Analytics, VisMaster
  • Precision Information Environments vision video
  • IN-SPIRE, PNNL
  • HARVEST, IBM, VAST '06
  • D-Dupe, Maryland, VAST '06
  • Jigsaw, Georgia Tech, VAST '07
  • Hotel visitaton with Improvise, Penn State
  • WireVis, UNCC
  • Sandbox, Oculus, VAST '07 Contest
  • Entity Workspace, PARC

    Apr. 5 -- Zooming and Panning

    Topic Notes
  • 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.
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    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

    Apr. 7 -- Time Series Data

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

    Websites
  • LifeLines, Maryland
  • LifeLines2, Maryland
  • Movie character timelines
  • Web browser percentage of market
  • Movie receipts over time from NY Times
  • History flow from IBM
  • History of Sampling

    Software
  • TimeSearcher, Maryland

    Apr. 12 -- Visualizing Big Data

    Topic Notes
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    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.
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    Software
  • HCE from Maryland

    Apr. 14 -- Evaluation

    Topic Notes
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    Readings
  • Interactive Data Vis, chapter 13
  • C. Plaisant, "The challenge of information visualization evaluation", Proc. of AVI '04, May 2004, pp. 109-116.

    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, "Evaluating Visual Analytics Systems for Investigative Analysis: Deriving Design Principles from a Case Study", Proc. of VAST '09, Oct. 2009, pp. 139-146.
  • 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, 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.
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    Apr. 19 -- Casual InfoVis

    Topic Notes
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    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.
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    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

    Apr. 21 -- Social Visualization

    Topic Notes
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    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.
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    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

    Apr. 26 -- Animation

    Topic Notes
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    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

    Apr. 28 -- Review

    Topic Notes
  • PDF

    Readings
  • Interactive Data Vis, chapter 15
  • 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