i247: Information Visualization and Presentation

Other Infoviz Courses

Good books for further reading.

Robert Spence, Information Visualization Pearson Education, 2000.
Chaomei Chen, Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments, Springer Verlag, 1999.

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.

Stephen Few's site, Perceptual Edge, as well as his books, Show Me the Numbers and Information Dashboard Design. We will use Now You See It as a textbook for this course.
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.

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:
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.

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.

(People who pointed these out to me appear in parentheses.)