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SIMS 247: Information Visualization and Presentation

Readings and Software


 

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Readings

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 course reader.

The following books are strongly recommended, but not required:

The following are of interest.
  • Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
    From campus machines you can access these online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org (Click on Proceedings, then search on Visualization)

    Cleveland is a classic reference; it is also more advanced, scientific, expensive, and longer (and takes longer to arrive from Amazon).

  • Elements of Graphing Data, William S. Cleveland, Hobart Press, 1994.

    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.

  • Elements of Graph Design, Stephen Kosslyn, W.H. Freeman & Co., 1993.

  • Designing Visual Interfaces, Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano, Prentice-Hall, 1995.

  • Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (3rd Edition), Ben Shneiderman, Addison-Wesley, 1997.
    (I recommend you buy this book if you are planning on taking the user interfaces course next year.)