SIMS 247: Information Visualization and PresentationReadings and Software |
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Readings
Online InfoViz Resources |
The required book is:
Readings
in Information Visualization : Using Vision to
Think
by
Stuart K. Card, Jock D. MacKinlay, Ben Shneiderman, Morgan
Kaufmann, 1999. The following books are strongly recommended, but not required:
Cleveland is a classic reference; it is also more advanced, scientific,
expensive, and longer (and takes longer to arrive from Amazon).
Kosslyn is more like a cookbook or how-to guide and should be useful
for people not very experienced with making graphs (although I think
it is useful even if you are experienced; it puts a lot of your implicit
knowledge explicitly in one place). Although it is light on the scientific
justifications, it is written by a distinguished cognitive psychologist
with considerable experience in the field. It has the added bonus
of giving a little bit of psychological background, and it is a very
fast read.
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