Information visualization

Visual perception is the most important perception in human. It is very important to clearly present data in a scientific paper.

Topics

• Dashboard
• Data visualization literacy
• Visualization
• Color
• Interactive visualization
• Graph visualization
• Geovisualization
• Gestalt psychology
• Music notation, Music visualization
• Scientific visualization
• Visual perception
• Visualization projects
• Timeline
• Physical visualization

Books

• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R
• Fundamentals of Data Visualization by Claus O
• [Data Visualization: A practical introduction] by Kieran Healy

Web sites

• The Data Visualisation Catalogue
• http://www.visualizing.org/
• http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
• http://www.visualisingdata.com
• http://flowingdata.com/
• The top ten worst graphs

Visualization projects

Methods

Overviews

• A Tour through the Visualization Zoo
• The data visualization catalogue

Specific methods

• Edge bundling
• Histogram
• Slopegraph
• Sparkline
• Timeline
• Treemapping
• Word cloud

Tools

• A selection of tools
• http://techslides.com/50-javascript-charting-and-graphics-libraries/

General

• Processing
• Cinder
• OpenGL
• Tableau - http://www.tableausoftware.com/
• Bokeh

Javascript/Web

• Protovis –> d3 - http://mbostock.github.com/d3/
• dygraphs - http://dygraphs.com/
• SIMILE - timeline visualization http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/
• JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit - http://thejit.org/demos/
• cubism.js - time series visualization
• Binify - heatmap

Scientific

• gnuplot
• R
• http://code.google.com/p/svgfig/ - Quantitative drawing in Python and SVG

3D

• Grasshopper 3D

Vector graphics

• http://paperjs.org/about/

Conversation analysis

• Discursis

History

• Ph.D. Thesis by Max Schich

• The Oxford History of Western Art (ed. Martin Kemp) 2000

• Martin Kemp: The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat, Yale University Press
• Anthony Grafton: Cartographies of Time: A history of the Timeline
• Palmer: Vision Science 1997
• Rudolf Arnheim: Art and visual Perception
• Ernst Gombrich: Art & Illusion
• Josef Albers: The interaction of colors
• Wassily Kandinsky
• Helvetica. The Movie
• Katy Borner
• Otl Aicher

Articles

• 데이터 시각화 공부하기 by Alan Kang

• A Tour through the Visualization Zoo by Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky

• 데이터 시각화와 인포그래픽 관련 책 소개 (1)

  • 데이터 시각화와 인포그래픽 관련 책 소개 (2)

• http://well-formed-data.net/archives/669/on-the-role-of-bacon-in-visualization

• BBC: Diagrams that changed the world
• Nightingale’s Rose
• alankang:정보시각화 공부하기
• alankang:엑셀로 웹페이지 긁어와서 시각화하기
• Four Easy Visualization Mistakes to avoid
• How can we get our map colours right? How open journalism helped us get better
• Tradeoffs in information graphics by Andrew Gelman and Antony Unwin
• Visualizing vastness by Steven Strogatz
• Why Most People’s Charts & Graphs Look Like Crap
• How to Visualize and Compare Distributions
• Junk Charts Trifecta Checkup: The Definitive Guide

Courses

• Courses by Katy Börner

  • SLIS S637 - Information Visualization by Angela Zoss

• Visual analytics by Dennis Groth

• Interactive Art & Computational Design / Spring 2011 by Golan Levin
• Berkeley:CS294-10 Visualization by Maneesh Agrawala
• Stanford:Data visualization by Jeffrey Heer
• University of British Columbia:Information Visualization by Tamara Munzner

• Data visualization by Hadley Wickham

  • Looking at Data by Hadley Wickham

• Visual Analytics by yy

• Information Visualization by Miriah Meyer

• Information Visualization by John Stasko

• http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/data-visualized-more-on-teaching-with-infographics/

Documentaries

• BBC:The Beauty of Diagrams
• Journalism in the age of data

Talks

• Information Visualization for Large-Scale Data Workflows by Michael Conover

References

Books

• Semiology of Graphics by Jacques Bertin

  • Jaques Bertin: Matrix Theory of Graphics. Information Design Journal 2001

• Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think by Stuart K (Editor), Jock Mackinlay (Editor), Ben Shneiderman (Editor)

• Edward R - Probably the first two will suffice.

  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
  • Envisioning Information
  • Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
  • Beautiful Evidence

• Graphical Perception: The Visual Decoding of Quantitative Infromation on Graphical Displays of Data by William S and Robert McGill

• Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment by Ben Fry - practical. contains many source codes.

• Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon by Chaomei Chen

• Colin Ware - More about perception

  • Information Visualization, Second Edition: Perception for Design
  • Visual Thinking: for Design

• Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts

• Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information by Manuel Lima

• Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics by Nathan Yau

• Stephen Few

  • Now you see it
  • Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
  • Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

• The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich

• James Elkins: How to use your eyes

• Information Graphics by Sandra Rendgen

• Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and Engineers by Felice C and Angela H

Papers

• Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis by Jeffrey Heer and Ben Shneiderman
• Graphical Inference for Infovis by Hadley Wickham et al., connecting visualization with Statistics