information visualization theory and taxonomic framework

and

from http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~ccollins/publications/depthPaper.pdf

my thesis ideas… 12-8-2007

For my dissertation I am looking less at doing detailed data crunching, but more on how participants (project managers, geeks, managers, etc) react (or interact) with complex data and/or “information overload” for the very purpose of improving their own (or the organizations) information management.

Seth

Websites to check out on visualization

information aesthetics

visualcomplexity.com

data mining (and more)

flowing data

eagereyes.org

many eyes

Junk Charts

Stat. Graphics & Data Visualization

Pictures of Numbers

Forest and the Trees

visual-literacy.org

programmableweb

knowledge-visualization.org

serial consign

coding horror

bokardo - social design

Information Visualization Journal

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.html

Forthcoming in 2007 is our special issue on Visual Analytics by Guest Editor: Pak Chung Wong. Free online access to these papers will be available to you upon publication.

Included in the Visual Analytics special issue:

• Interactive Wormhole Detection and Evaluation;
  Weichao Wang, Aidong Lu
• NetLens: Iterative Exploration of Content-Actor Network Data;
  Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Bongshin Lee, Benjamin B. Bederson
• ScentIndex and ScentHighlights: Productive Reading Techniques for Conceptually Reorganizing Subject Indexes and Highlighting Passages;
  Ed H. Chi, Lichan Hong, Julie Heiser, Stuart K. Card, Michelle Gumbrecht
• Ewall: A Visual Analytics Environment for Collaborative Sense-Making;
  Paul E. Keel
• A Visualization Testbed for Analyzing the Performance of Computational Linguistics Algorithms;
  Stephen G. Eick , Justin Mauger, Alan Ratner
• An Automated Approach for the Optimization of Pixel Based Visualizations;
  Jörn Schneidewind, Mike Sips, Daniel A. Keim
• Visual Analysis of Historic Hotel Visits;
  Chris Weaver, David Fyfe, Anthony Robinson, Deryck Holdsworth, Donna Peuquet, Alan M. MacEachren

List of Graph Visualization tools

List of Graph Visualization tools from http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/community/tools.cfm

Easy - Bubbl.us - MindGenius - MindMapper - ConceptDraw - Axon - MindManager - Freemind - HMC concept map - Microsoft Visio - Visual Mind - XML 3D Node Diagram Medium - Inxight StarTree - Wandora - Hypergraph - JGraph - aiSee - Graph Visualization Framework - GUESS - Welkin Advanced - Adobe Flash - Processing - VVVV: A multipurpose toolkit - Prefuse            - Graphviz - H3Viewer - yFiles - Walrus

Other Resources

- CAIDA Directory - SourceForge Directory - INSNA Directory - Google Directory - Wikipedia Directory - graphdrawing.org - List of Mind Mapping Software - List of Concept Mapping Software - Open Source Graphs in Java

visualcomplexity.com

from http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
methods: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/method.cfm
trends: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/trend.cfm

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

 

From:  http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
One page PDF with links to EACH example: periodic_table-one-page.pdf
Full paper: a-periodic-table-of-visualization-methods.pdf

Counter:

Anyone looking for an encyclopedic reference for data visualization should consider Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference, by Robert L. Harris. (from http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=81)

Fascinated about visualization models and tools (Gallery 1)

 http://prefuse.org/

DocuBurst by Christopher Collins Uncertainty Lattices by Christopher Collins   sense.us by Heer, Viégas, and Wattenberg   StudiAnalyse by Christoph Gerstle and Florian Moritz   Enron Explorer by Trampoline Systems   Social Action by Adam Perer Nearword by Gregory Vaughan 34all by Martin Dudek Zone Manager by Martin Dudek timeVis by Can Altineller Small-World Networks by Stephen Frowe Ingram

NameVoyager by Martin Wattenberg, rebuilt by Jeffrey Heer ¢ongress by Jeffrey Heer zipdecode by Ben Fry, rebuilt by Jeffrey Heer TreeMap Demo by Jeffrey Heer RadialGraphView Demo by Jeffrey Heer TreeView Demo by Jeffrey Heer GraphView Demo by Jeffrey Heer FisheyeMenu Demo by Jeffrey Heer DataMountain Demo by Jeffrey Heer Vizster by Jeffrey Heer and danah boyd Flow Map Layout by Doantam

 PDF archive: vis.pdf