From CS 725/825 Spring 2015

CS725-S15: Links

Admin

• Class Email List
• Academic Integrity: "The More You Know... Plagiarism", ODU Office of Student Conduct & Academic Integrity
• Writing Help: ODU Writing Center, ODU Graduate Writing Assistance Program, PaperRater - free grammar checker
• Code Development: GitHub, Project Hosting at Google Code, Subversion (svn)

Weigle's Pages

• CS 725/825, Spring 2015 examples
• Research Methods
• InfoVis Resources - blogs, datasets, tutorials, cool things
• InfoVis Links - wordpress blog with links to interesting articles
• InfoVis Gallery - projects from previous semesters

Software and Tutorials

• The R Project, RStudio (front-end IDE for R), ClickMe (interactive vis using R)
  • R manual, R wiki
  • Getting Started with Charts in R, Nathan Yau
  • Google's Intro to R Youtube Playlist - basic R tutorials, no plotting
  • "Incomplete" R Tutorial, Martin Klein (ODU alum)
  • Introduction to R course notes, Steven Buechler
• Tableau Desktop - on-demand training videos
  • Getting Started with Tableau (20 min video)
• d3
  • d3 wiki
  • Mike Bostock's examples
  • Jerome Cukier's tutorials: Hello World, Selects, Scales and Color
  • Scott Murray's tutorials, from Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
  • d3 APIs: NVD3.js, Dimple.js, Vega

Books

• Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics by Nathan Yau
• Beautiful Visualization by Steele and Iliinsky - ODU subscription
• Beautiful Data by Segaran and Hammerbacher - ODU subscription
• Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten by Stephen Few
• Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis by Stephen Few
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
• Designing Data Visualizations by Steele and Iliinsky - ODU subscription
• Data Visualization: A Successful Design Process, by Andy Kirk
• Effective Data Visualization video, by Jeffery Heer ( slides)

Publication Venues

• IEEE VIS - includes SciVis, InfoVis, and VAST
• IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis)
  • 2012 papers, 2011 papers,2010 papers, 2009 papers, 2008 papers
• IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)
  • 2012 papers, 2011 papers, 2010 papers, 2009 papers, 2008 papers
• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (@ IEEE Xplore)
• IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (@ IEEE Xplore)
• InfoVis Academic References Visualization

Research Groups

• UMd Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) - Visualization Group - Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant
• Stanford Vis Group - Jeffery Heer, Pat Hanrahan
• UC-Berkeley Visualization Lab - Maneesh Agrawala
• Georgia Tech Information Interfaces Group - John Stasko
• NC State - Christopher Healey
• Indiana InfoVis Lab - Katy Borner
• Virginia Tech Center for Human Computer Interaction - Chris North
• UBC (Canada) Imager Lab - Tamara Munzner
• INRIA (France) Aviz Group - Jean-Daniel Fekete
• Google "Big Picture" visualization research group - Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg
• NY Times - Amanda Cox, Kevin Quealy, Mike Bostock, Shan Carter

In-Class Links

The list below contains links found in the lecture notes or mentioned in class (that aren't included above). It will be continually updated throughout the semester and kept in reverse chronological order.

Ch 11 - Manipulate View (Mar 24)

• Creating Animations and Transitions With D3, Jerome Cukier

Ch 10 - Map Color and Other Channels (Mar 17)

• Bivariate Choropleth Maps: A How-to Guide
• Chroma.js
• The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of this Dress, wired.com
• Brain Games, National Geographic program
  • see "Watch This" (Season 1, Episode 1), "Pay Attention" (Season 1, Episode 2)

Ch 7 - Arrange Tables (Feb 24)

• Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization

02-Data (Jan 20)

• Mr. Data Converter
• Data Science Toolkit - lots of quick conversion tools
• Mr. People - formats lists of names
• Data Wrangler (video, 3:37)
• Open Refine (video, 6:47)
  • Using Google Refine to Clean Messy Data, propublica.org
• Births, Deaths, Marriages, & Divorces, US Census Bureau
• Data Sources
  • Essential Resources: A big collection of sites and services for accessing data, Andy Kirk
  • http://www.data.gov
  • Google Public Data Explorer
  • Census Bureau
  • Federal Reserve: FRASER, FRED
  • TIGER data, Census Bureau
  • OpenStreetMap
  • geocommons

01b-InfoVis (Jan 13)

• Statistical Abstract of the US - marriages by state table
• Anscombe's Quartet graphs
• SNOW movie trailer
• Nightingale's Rose
• Hans Rosling's 5 min talk, TED 2006 talk (20 min)
• Hierarchical Edge Bundling example
• NY Times Bubbles example
• 2004 Cars and Trucks data set
• Data Visualization Tools
• Excel: 6 Charts To Never Use, Recreating the NY Times Cancer Graph