From CS 795 Fall 2011

CS795-F11: Useful Links

This list will be continually updated throughout the semester. Email me if you have something to add.

Conferences/Journals

• IEEE VisWeek 2011 - includes Vis, InfoVis, and VAST
• IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis)
  • (2010 papers, 2009 papers, 2008 papers)
• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (@ IEEE Xplore)
• IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (@ IEEE Xplore)
• VisWeek 2011 updates by Jérôme Cukier (Oct 23, Oct 25, Oct 26, Oct 27-28)

Books

• Beautiful Visualization by Steele and Iliinsky - ODU subscription
• Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment by Ben Fry - ODU subscription
• Designing Data Visualizations by Steele and Iliinsky - ODU subscription
• Beautiful Data by Segaran and Hammerbacher - ODU subscription
• Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few - ODU subscription
• Data Analysis with Open Source Tools by Philipp K. Janert - ODU subscription

Research Groups

• UC-Berkeley Visualization Lab - Maneesh Agrawala
• Stanford Vis Group - Jeffery Heer, Pat Hanrahan
• Georgia Tech Information Interfaces Group - John Stasko
• Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) - Visualization Group - Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant
• IBM's Visual Communication Lab

Articles

• Enrico Bertini, Tools from the Pros (Processing, Tableau, D3 and Protovis)
• Enrico Bertini, Data Visualization Beginner’s Toolkit (part 1, part 2)
• Andy Kirk, The Essential Collection of Visualisation Resources (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8)
• Enrico Bertini, Data Visualization and Influence (part 1, part 2)
• Robert Kosara, Visualization Choice Influences Decisions
• Carla Casilli, Information Visualization: A New Visual Language (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8)
• Enrico Bertini, 7 Classic Vis Papers
• Joan DiMicco, Telling Stories with Data, A VisWeek 2010 Workshop
  • Telling Stories with Data 2011 writeup
• AT&T Labs Research InfoVis group, Getting and Understanding the Bigger Picture
• Nathan Yau, 5 Misconceptions about Visualization

Videos

• Hans Rosling talk @ TED 2006 (20 min)
• The Joy of Stats, BBC video with Hans Rosling (1 hr)
• David McCandless talk @ TED 2010 (19 min)
• Gary Flake talk @ TED 2010 (7 min)

Data Sources

• http://data.gov
  • data.gov may be shut down due to budget cuts, FlowingData.com, March 31, 2011
• Google Public Data Explorer - http://www.google.com/publicdata/home
• http://census.gov
  • Statistical Abstract of the US - http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
  • http://census.ire.org/ - simpler way to access 2010 Census data
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics - http://bls.gov
• Real-Time Congress API - http://services.sunlightlabs.com/docs/Real_Time_Congress_API/
• Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection - http://snap.stanford.edu/data/
• StatLib @ CMU - http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/index.php
  • Data and Story Library - http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/
• http://developer.nytimes.com - grab results of queries in XML, JSON, ...
• http://wolframalpha.com
• http://infochimps.org
• http://numbrary.com - links to lots of data sources
• http://databasefootball.com - NFL
• http://wordpress.org/news/2011/08/state-of-the-word/ - WordPress data
  • example visualization
• http://httparchive.org/ - stats about webpages over time
• Datasets at reddit.com - http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets

Blogs

• Flowing Data, Nathan Yau, PhD student (UCLA)
• Information is Beautiful, David McCandless, writer-designer
• EagerEyes, Robert Kosara, assistant professor (UNC-Charlotte)
• Visualising Data, Andy Kirk
• NeoFormix - Discovering and Illustrating Patterns in Data
• Fell in Love with Data, Enrico Bertini, Univ. of Konstanz, Germany
  • highlights
• The Why Axis
• Media and Psychology, Carla Casilli
• Understanding Visual Sensemaking, Zhicheng Liu, Georgia Tech (John Stasko's student)

For Fun

• Periodic Table of Visualizations
• XKCD No Labels Comic
• Most Popular Infographics

Software / Tools

• http://www.wikiviz.org/wiki/Tools
• table of free/web-based tools

Systems

• Improvise - Java
• ManyEyes - online app from IBM
• Microsoft Pivot - Silverlight PivotViewer, Pivot @ MSR
• VIDI - Drupal data-visualization modules for Google Visualization and Google Maps APIs
• Impure - online app
• Visual.ly - infographics (tools coming soon)
  • Inkscape - free Adobe Illustrator
  • Visual.ly: The Future of Data-Based Infographics, Robert Kosara
• Google Fusion Tables
  • Tour
• Gapminder
  • Gapminder Labs (exercises)
• R
  • Intro to R, Martin Klein, ODU
  • R Course Notes, Steven Buechler, Notre Dame

Toolkits

• IVTK
• Prefuse - interactive information visualization toolkit
• Flare - ActionScript library for Flash visualizations
• Protovis - visualization tool (Stanford)
  • examples
  • A Protovis Primer, Robert Kosara - (part 1, part 2, part 3)
• d3.js - Data-Driven Documents - JavaScript library
• Piccolo - built-in zooming and panning support, Java or C#
• InfiView - Ajax-based, free "for limited time"
• Choosel - data vis framework for GWT
• SIMILE Project @ MIT
  • Timeplot
  • Timeline
  • Exhibit
• Google Visualization API
• Java InfoVis Toolkit
• Ext JS 4 - JavaScript library (has a open-source version)
• Processing
  • Processing.JS
  • HASCANVAS - Processing.JS IDE
• Cube - Time Series Visualization (uses D3)
• Data Science Toolkit - collection of online data processing tools

Commercial Systems

• Spotfire
• InfoZoom
• Tableau (Windows)
  • tour video (doesn't work on my Mac)
• QlikView

Data Cleaning

• Google Refine
• Data Wrangler
• Mr. People

Exercises / Challenges

• VAST Challenges and Benchmarks
• Visualize This! Challenges from FlowingData
• Digging into Data Challenge

Admin

• CS 795/895 Mailing List
• Blackboard
  • Submitting Assignments via Blackboard
• ODU Honor Council
• CS Dept Systems Group (Unix account questions)
  • Create a CS Account
  • CS Lab Hours
• Printing Lecture Notes

Unix

• Opening X Windows Remotely
• Intro to Unix (Dr. Zeil's CS 252)
• Unix/C/HTML Useful Links
• Emacs Tutorial (Unix text editor)