Resources
Other Infoviz Courses
- Previous version of this course, Fall 2005.
- Zellweger and Stone's class at U Washington iSchool, Fall 2007.
- Maneesh Agrawala's course in CS, Fall 2007.
- Munzner's class at UBC, 2004
- Stasko's class at Georgia Tech, 2003
- North's class at Virginia Tech, 2003
- Borner's class at IU, 2002
- Spoerri's class at Rutgers 2003
- Brookes' class at UW, 2001
- Kobsa's class at UCI, 2002
Software and Tools
- Prefuse
- Processing
- Tableau
- Bonavista's Microcharts
- TreeMap software from UMD HCIL
- Thinkmap SDK, and some examples
- TreeMap software from the Hive Group (commercial product)
- The Infoviz Toolkit
- The ILOG Discovery Preview
- A set of 2D and 3D tools
- The Rivet Toolkit and the Polaris Project
- ManyEyes (use the software on site)
- Swivel (use the software on site)
Relevant Books
None of the books listed below are appropriate as a textbook for the course, but I've listed them here in case you want to know more. I have copies of most of these; feel free to borrow them from me.
Infoviz Overviews
- Robert Spence, Information Visualization Pearson Education, 2000.
- Chaomei Chen, Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments, Springer Verlag, 1999.
Perceptual and Psychological Principles
I recommend Ware if you are interested in perceptual principles:- Colin Ware, Information Visualization: Perception for Design, Morgan Kaufmann 2000.
- Stephen E. Palmer, Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology , MIT Press, 1999.
- Stephen M. Kosslyn, Image and Mind , Harvard University Press, 1986.
Graphic Design in Infoviz
- Stephen Few's site, Perceptual Edge, as well as
his books, Show Me the Numbers and Information Dashboard
Design.
- Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press, 1983.
- Edward Tufte, Envisioning Information, Graphics Press, 1990.
- Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations, Graphics Press, 1997.
- Edward Tufte,
Beautiful Evidence, Graphics Press, 2006.
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 cognitive psychologist with considerable experience in the field.
- Stephen Kosslyn, Elements of Graph Design, W.H. Freeman & Co., 1993.
- Howard Wainer, How to Display Data Badly (Video) http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/ChanceLecture/AudioVideo.html
- Color Lovers How to choose and mix colors.
Information Visualization Research
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This is the best compiled collection of readings, but it is out of date now:
- Stuart K. Card, Jock D. MacKinlay, Ben Shneiderman (Eds.) Readings in
Information Visualization : Using Vision to Think , Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, 1999.
This is a new book. The advantage is that the chapters are available online if you access it using the UCB proxy. I haven't read any of the chapters yet:
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Knowledge and Information Visualization: Searching for Synergies,
edited collection by Sigmar-Olaf Tergan, Tanja Keller, Springer
Verlag, 2005.
This is the best conference for Infoviz research results:
- Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, 1995-present.
From campus machines you can access these online at
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org (Click on Conference Proceedings, then search on Visualization)
Some journals now have relevant results published:
- International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Special Issue on Empirical evaluation of information visualizations, Vol. 53, No. 5, November 1, 2000.
- Information Visualization (Journal), Published by Palgrave Macmillan A review of this journal.
Classics
- William S. Cleveland,
Elements of Graphing Data, Hobart Press,
1994.
- Jacques Bertin
Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks,
William Berg (Translator), University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 (out of print).
- Donis Dondis, A Primer of Visual Literacy, MIT Press, 1973.
Infoviz Collections
- Infovis.net include a magazine called Inf@Vis
- Visual Complexity, Visualizing Complex
Networks
- Atlas of Cyberspaces
A really big collection of interesting visualization links, especially maps, graphs, and landscapes.- Jonathan Harris' site including WordCount (Zipf distribution demo).
- Visual Complexity Collection A unified view of many different network visualizations.
- Gallery of Data Visualization; The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics
- UMD On-line Library of Information Visualization Environments
- Information Visualization Resources on the Web by Tamara Munzner
- Gallery of Visual Illusions
- InfoVis:Wiki project
- VisualComplexity.com Network Viz's
- Atlas of Cyberspaces
Interesting Visualizations
(People who pointed these out to me appear in parentheses.)- NationMaster
- The John Edwards Policy Speech Map (Ryan Shaw)
- Secret Lives of Numbers by Golan Levin (Egon Pasztor)
- Visual Illusions and Movement (Shahar Maoz)
- Interactive depiction of distribution of democrat delegates (Maria Lawrence)
- TreeMaps applied to Online News (Mary Hodder)
Other Readings
Research papers by Michael Bernard on psychological factors in Web designThe Great Powerpoint Controversy:
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NYTimes Article:
Powerpoint Makes you Dumb
Wired Magazine Tufte elaborates
ADTMag has a counterargument
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Dad vs. AOL (Jane Lee)