Information visualization

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

Contents 1 Topics 2 Web sites 2.1 Visualization projects and examples 2.1.1 collections 2.1.2 Society 2.1.3 Movies 2.1.4 Economy 2.1.5 Environment 3 Methods 4 Tools 4.1 General 4.2 Javascript/Web 4.3 Scientific 4.4 3D 4.5 Vector graphics 4.6 Conversation analysis 5 History 6 Articles 7 Courses 8 Documentaries 9 References 9.1 Books 9.2 Papers

Topics

• Visualization
• Color
• Interactive visualization
• Graph visualization
• Geovisualization
• Gestalt psychology
• Music notation, Music visualization
• Scientific visualization
• Visual perception
• Timeline

Web sites

• http://www.visualizing.org/
• http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
• http://www.visualisingdata.com
• http://flowingdata.com/

• The top ten worst graphs

Visualization projects and examples

collections

• http://richworks.in/2010/04/50-most-stunning-examples-of-data-visualization-and-infographics/
• http://www.nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/index.html
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/
• http://blog.visual.ly/20-great-visualizations-of-2011/
• http://infodisiac.com/Wikimedia/Visualizations/ - visualization projects on wikipedia.
• Information is Beautiful data visualisation and infographic awards: the winners gallery - 20120927
• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/30/multimedia/2012-the-year-in-graphics.html - NYT 2012 visualization highlights.

Society

• http://oecdbetterlifeindex.org
• A Visual HDI by César A. Hidalgo
  • http://alum.mit.edu/pages/sliceofmit/2010/11/19/human-development-tree/
• Nightingale's rose
• 10 GRAPHS THAT PROVE THE UNITED STATES IS A LOWTAX COUNTRY
• http://globaia.org/en/anthropocene/
• THE YEAR IN DATA
• NYT:Mapping America: Every City, Every Block
• NYT:Mapping the Nation’s Well-Being
• http://ibmresearchnews.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-can-visualization-help-citizens-use.html
• NYT: budget proposal
• Drone war: every attack in Pakistan visualised
• Mapping the Dead: Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook
• INEQUALITY AND NEW YORK’S SUBWAY

Movies

• http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/

Economy

• Visualizing Ocean Shipping
• Wealth Inequality in America
• The Crisis of Credit Visualized

Environment

• http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/drought/

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/

Javascript/Web

• Protovis --> d3.js - 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

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

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. Card (Editor), Jock Mackinlay (Editor), Ben Shneiderman (Editor)

• Edward R. Tufte - 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. Cleveland 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. Frankel and Angela H. DePace

Papers

• Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis by Jeffrey Heer and Ben Shneiderman