• Time-Lapse of Writing a Research Paper

• Choosing the Best Form
  • simple R tutorial
• [[http://flowingdata.com/2012/11/30/time-lapse-writing-of-a-research-paper/|Time-Lapse of Writing a Research Paper]

• 7 Classic Foundational Vis Papers You Might not Want to Publicly Confess you Don’t Know, Enrico Bertini

20-WrapUp

• What is Progress in Visualization, Enrico Bertini

• Hierarchical Cluster Explorer

19-BigData (Dec 4)

• IN-SPIRE

Dec 4

• How Tax Rates Have Changed, post at flowingdata
  • NY Times vis, Nov 29, 2012

• Internet Stats Over Time (2010) - video (5:21, watch until 3:30)

• Zoetrope - video (5:15)
• WebForager - video (5:40)
• Data Mountain - video (3:09)

• live demo
• two short (< 1m) videos at website

• Interactive Data Visualization for the Web, new book, lots of d3 examples
  • source for examples at github

Nov 29

• d3 Examples from Mike Bostock
• Obama's Secret Weapon In The South: Small, Dead, But Still Kickin' - provides context to the voting map - why are there pockets of Dems in Deep South?
• Storytelling with Infographics and visualization

• Digging into Data Challenge

• Conference Paper View

Nov 27

• The statisticians at Fox News use classic and novel graphical techniques to lead with data
• The Changing Goals of Data Visualization, Robert Kosara

• Digging into Data Challenge

18-WWW (Nov 29)

• IPsonar
• Opte Project
• The Internet Map
• Visualization Research at CAIDA
  • NSFnet visualization
  • Skitter
  • Cuttlefish
  • Influence Map
  • AS Core Topology
  • AS Core Network - historical view
  • Walrus
  • Mapnet
• Akamai Network Statistics
• Census of the Internet Address Space
• XKCD's Map of the Internet
• InViz
• Dynamic Diagrams
• NattoView
• VisGets
• Internet Stats Over Time - video
• Evolution of Web Technologies
• Web Archive Visualizations
• Wayback Machine example
• Past Web Browser
• Zoetrope - video
• WebForager - video
• Data Mountain - video

17-Eval (Nov 27)

• BELIV Workshop - http://www.beliv.org
• Amazon's Mechanical Turk

• chartsnthings - behind the scenes at the NY Times graphics department
• The Design Process Behind the Pursuit of Faster Project, Andy Kirk
• Storytelling and Focus, Robert Kosara
• Big Pictures with Big Messages, Google Research Blog
• What Does the Obama Job Chart Really Mean?
• Marino Rivera interactive video, NY Times, (2:40, most discussed in Cox's talk above)

• Electoral Map w/o the Map

16-Storytelling (Nov 20)

• Journalism in the Age of Data video (vimeo link)
  • 1:15-1:53 - Viegas and Wattenberg
  • 1:53-2:48 - Ben Fry
  • 4:30-5:10 - data.gov, problem w/data
  • 5:10-9:13 - NY Times, Amanda Cox
  • 11:11-13:24 - Jeffery Heer, storytelling
  • 13:43-14:28 - bad visualizations
  • 15:00-18:26 - Jeffery Heer, narrative visualization paper
  • 19:12-20:21 - Nigel Holmes, "vampire energy"
  • 31:20-32:22 - visualizing live data
  • 33:08-34:00 - Ola Rosling (Hans' son), Google Public Data explorer
  • 34:40-35:45 - importance of sketches
  • 38:29-39:15 - visualizations for openness and transparency

• Behind the scenes at NY Times election coverage
  • Sketches for How Obama Won Re-election
  • Sketches from the Swinging Swing States
  • Some sketches from the Times' scenario builder (512 Paths to the White House)
    • How we made the interactive D3 decision tree
    • Shan Carter's talk slides

• Robert Kosara's VisWeek 2012 Digest - part 2

• writeup at flowingdata.com

• Viegas and Wattenberg - 1:15-1:53
• Ben Fry - 1:53-2:48

• NY Times, Amanda Cox - 5:10-9:13

• Ch 1 - Introduction – 4m
• Ch 2 - Data Vis in Journalism, includes NY Times, Amanda Cox – 11m
• Ch 3 - Telling "Data Stories", includes Narrative Visualization paper – 6m
• Ch 6 - Exploring Data – 7m

• interview, (55:33, talk 1:40-36:33)

• Marino Rivera interactive, NY Times, (2:40, most discussed in Cox's talk above)

• David McCandless TED talk (18:00)

(:if false:)

• Hans Rosling
  • 2006 TED talk
  • 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes
• Telling Stories with Data
  • 2010 Workshop
  • Writeup at flowingdata.com
• Data Driven Journalism
• Journalism in the Age of Data video
  • Introduction – 4m
  • Data Vis in Journalism – 11m
  • Telling "Data Stories" – 6m
  • Exploring Data – 7m
• Megan Jaegerman - praise from Tufte
• Amanda Cox
  • praise from Tufte
  • interview
• Obama Job Chart controversy
• Marino Rivera interactive, NY Times
• Causalities of War, cnn.com
• http://www.viseyes.org
• Enhanced State of the Union
• David McCandless TED talk

(:ifend:)

Nov 13

• Sketches for How Obama Won Re-election - description of process for developing NY Times graphic
• Popcorn Infographics - critique of Seeing the Bigger Picture

• Jigsaw - video 1 (5:00), video 2 (5:00, demonstrates cluster view early on)
• FacetAtlas video (3:10, watch until 1:30)

• Jigsaw - video 1 (5:00), video 2 (5:00)
• FacetAtlas video (3:10)
• Pacific Northwest National Lab

Nov 6

• 512 Paths to the White House, NY Times, Nov 2, 2012.

(:if false:)

15-Text (Nov 13, Nov 15)

• Tilebars video (5:55, watch 1:30-3:10)
• Tag Clouds
  • Examples and Good Practices
  • Word Clouds Considered Harmful
  • Word Clouds Cause Death... or Something
  • Gravestone comic
• 2012 Convention Word Counts, NY Times, Sep 6, 2012.
• Taglines - visualizing tags over time
• Wordle
  • implementation in Python
  • State of the Union wordles
• ManiWordle video (3:20, no audio - saved in Dropbox)
• State of the Union address vis, NY Times, Jan 23, 2007.
• Concordance software
• WordTree example at ManyEyes
• PhraseNets example at ManyEyes
• TextArc - Hamlet example
• Document Cards video (1:43, no audio)
• PaperLens video (2:00)
• NetLens
• Jigsaw

(:ifend:)

14-Trees (Nov 1, Nov 6)

Nov 1

• The Birth of Gapminder
• Beginner's Guide to Streamed Data from Twitter
• Visual Encoding, article, Michael Dubakov
• Patterns for Information Visualization, article, Michael Dubakov
• Keynote on Visualization Principles, Tamara Munzner, 2011

• Indented Tree Layout - Protovis example
• Node-Link Tree Layout - Protovis example
• Icicle Tree Layout - Protovis example

• Protovis example

• Radial Layout - Protovis example

• Protovis example

• Circle Packing - Protovis example

• Treemap layout applet
• SequoiaView

• SpaceTree - video 1 (0:18), video 2 (0:11), no audio

• DOI Trees - video (0:48, no audio)
• Map of the Market, smartmoney.com
• News Map
• FundExplorer - video (3:58)
• SunBurst - video (3:54)

• SpaceTree - video 1 (0:18), video 2 (0:11)
• Hyperbolic Browser - video (3:02, watch until 1:25)
• H3Viewer - video 1 (0:50), video 2 (0:49)

14-Trees (Oct 30-Nov 1)

• More VisWeek updates, Jon Schwabish at visualizingdata.com

• TableLens video (9:51, watch 0:38-2:28, 2:28-5:09)
• Dust & Magnet - video (4:30, watch 0:33-4:20)
• Parallel Coordinates
  • Robert Kosara's explanation (@eagereyes.org)
  • Protovis example
• Toolkits
  • XMDV
  • Mondrian
  • GGobi
• Uncertainty in parallel coordinates, blog post and link to paper
• Data mining helps New York catch tax cheats, syracuse.com, Jan 17, 2010
• Parallel Sets
  • d3 demo

13-Multivariate (Oct 23-25)

• Chernoff Faces
  • Java applet
  • Kosara's criticism
• TableLens video (9:51, watch 0:38- )

Oct 23

• XKCD-style plots - D3, R
• More VisWeek updates - Jon Schwabish at visualizingdata.com

• Focus Change Animation video (3:55, watch 0-1:57)
• NVSS Semantic Substrates, video (1:40)

• NY Times circular layout

• d3 tutorial at VisWeek, Jerome Cukier

• Apps4VA, challenges the public to develop software applications (apps) that will use or analyze education information in unique ways (open competition, deadline Nov 15)
• Dashboard competition winners
• VisWeek - Day 1

• Junk Charts Trifecta Checkup, evaluating charts

• JUNG (Java Universal Network/Graph Framework)

• Graph Drawing tutorial, talk slides

• MoireGraph - video (3:09)

• NVSS Semantic Substrates, video (1:40)
• Vizster - video (3:34)
• SocialAction - video (1:55, no audio, subtitles)
• SANDVis - video (2:13)
• Adam Perer's talk at MIT about SocialAction and SANDVis (55:43)

Oct 16

• Processing tutorial, includes how to grab data from Google Docs

12-Graphs (Oct 16-18)

• International Symposium on Graph Drawing 2012
• Information Visualization for Social Network Analysis, slides from talk by Ben Shneiderman, 2012
• Mapping the Human 'Diseasome', NY Times vis, 2008
• liveplasma, music networks
• Death and Taxes, US budget graph
• International Network for Social Network Analysis
• Wolfram Alpha Facebook analysis
• Steroids in Baseball vis, Slate.com
• CAIDA's NSFNet vis
• Follow the Money, Where's George?
• Sugiyama Layout example
• Force-directed layout example
• JUNG layout examples
• Protovis Examples
  • force-directed layout
  • arc layout
  • matrix layout
• Visual Complexity, graph layout examples
• Graph Drawing Libraries
  • http://jung.sourceforge.net/ JUNG
  • Graphviz
  • sigma.js
• Graph Drawing Systems
  • Gephi
  • TouchGraph
  • NodeXL, Excel plugin
• http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/rt/papers/gd-tutorial/gd-constraints.pdf?, talk slides
• How to make an interactive network visualization with D3, FlowingData.com
• MoireGraph - video
• Focus Change Animation video
• http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/nvss , video
• Vizster - video
• SocialAction - video
• Adam Perer's talk at MIT about SocialAction and SANDVis
• Graphs as Maps

• line graph with rollover
• smoothing
• area chart

• Protovis example from Visualization Zoo (Heer et al.)
  • index chart
• Time Series with R, examples from Visualize This

• Protovis examples from Visualization Zoo (Heer et al.)
  • stacked chart
  • small multiples
  • horizon graphs

• Time Series, Chapter 4 of Visualizing Data
  • work through examples of points, lines, rollover, curve, area plots
  • points graph
  • lines graph
  • lines/points graph

• LifeLines - video (7:42, don't show in class)
• LifeLines2 - video (4:58, don't show in class)

• ThemeRiver video (4:30, watch 0:25-3:27)

• LiveRAC video (5:15, watch 0-1:10)
• TimeSearcher - video (watch 0-1:55)
• ChronoLenses video (5:57, watch 0-1:23)

• What If Everybody Flushed At Once

11-Time (Oct 11)

• http://www.patspapers.com/blog/item/what_if_everybody_flushed_at_once_Edmonton_water_gold_medal_hockey_game/
• LifeLines - video (7:42)
• LifeLines2 - video (4:58)
• memolane
• Interactive Spiral
• History Flow
• ThemeRiver video (4:30)
• Streamgraph
  • NY Times vis
• LiveRAC video (5:15)
• TimeSearcher video

Oct 11

• Google Big Query, interactively analyze massive datasets

• LifeLines video (7:42)
• LifeLines2 video (4:58)
• LiveRAC video (5:15)
• TimeSearcher video
• ThemeRiver video (4:30)

• ChronoLenses video (5:57)
• TimeWheel video (3:30)

11-Time (Oct 11) - still being updated

(:if false:)

(:if false:)

11-Time (Oct 11)

• TimeViz Browser: A Visual Survey of Visualization Techniques for Time-Oriented Data
• ChronoLenses video

(:ifend:)

• Query Relaxation video (3:36, watch 1:01-2:40)

• SunBurst - video (ftp, 3:53, watch 0-1:51)

• FacetMap video (4:14, watch 1:16-2:54)
• HomeFinder video (9:38, watch 0:30-2:00)
• FilmFinder video (volume loud, 6:12, watch 2:03-3:35)

• Query Relaxation video (3:36)

• SunBurst - video (ftp)

• FacetMap video (4:14)

• DataKind - Using Data in the Service of Humanity (video, 6:32)

• Show Me Something Good, Nathan Yau

• American Community Survey, US Census Bureau, 2011 data released

Sep 25

• XKCD color names plotted against gender (interactive)
• Creating Animations and Transitions With D3, Jerome Cukier

(:if false:)

(:if false)

10-Interaction (Sep 27)

• Dancing Histograms
• Excentric Labeling
• Query Relaxation video
• Visual Thesaurus
• SunBurst - video
• NameVoyager
• FacetMap video
• HomeFinder video
• FilmFinder video
• Spotfire - TIBCO Spotfire (commercial site)
• Cellphone finder
• Dynamic query with Magic Lenses video
• InfoScope

(:ifend:)

• Continuous Zoom video (4:20, watch 0:29-1:30, 2:25-2:40)

• Toolglass and magic lenses video (10:37, watch 0-1:15, 3:15-3:55)
• DragMag video (2:50, watch 0:30-1:25) , MPEG1 version

• Graphical Fisheye Views video (4:00, watch 1:00-2:02), MPEG1 version

• Continuous Zoom video (4:20, 0:29-1:30, 2:25-2:40)
• Unifying Framework/Alternative Methodology video (3:56, watch 0-2:20)
• Table Lens video (9:51, watch 1:05-2:20)
• DateLens video (3:02)
• Melange video (3:01, watch 1:24-2:10)
• Sigma Lens video (4:07, watch 0:35-2:30)

• World

• Government

• Universities
  • StatLib @ CMU, Data and Story Library
  • Berkeley Social Science Data Search
  • UCLA Stats Data Sets
• General Data Apps
  • Freebase
  • Infochimps
  • Numbrary
  • Amazon Public Data Sets
  • Google Table Search
• Geography
  • TIGER
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Geocommons
• Sports
  • Basketball Reference
  • Baseball DataBank
  • databaseFootball
  • College Football Data Warehouse
  • NCAA Sports Statistics

• Global Health Facts
• UNdata
• World Health Organization
• OECD Statistics
• World Bank

• Census Bureau
  • Statistical Abstract of the US
  • http://census.ire.org/ - simpler way to access 2010 Census data
• Data.gov
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics, current employment statistics
• Data.gov.uk
• Follow the Money
• OpenSecrets
• Real-Time Congress API

• Other
  • Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection
  • New York Times API - grab results of queries in XML, JSON, ...
  • Stats about webpages over time

Other

• Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection
• New York Times API - grab results of queries in XML, JSON, ...
• Stats about webpages over time

Web Scraping

• Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data (propublica.org)
• Scraping Data from HTML
• Beautiful Soup (Python)
• scraping example
  • http://wunderground.com
  • http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/ORF/2011/1/1/DailyHistory.html
• Reading Flash Data (propublica.org)
• Reading PDF Data (propublica.org)
• Comet Docs

Data Cleaning

• Data Science Toolkit - collection of online data processing tools
• Mr. People
• Mr. Data Converter
• Data Wrangler (video)
• Google Refine (video, more info from propublica.org)

Linking Data

• WikipediaVision
• Linked Open Data
• D-Dupe (video)
• FRIL
• Clustergram

09-OverviewDetail (Sep 25)

• Toolglass and magic lenses video (10:37)
• DragMag video (2:50)
• Information Mural
• Perspective Wall video (0:55)
• Graphical Fisheye Views video (4:00, start at 0:35)
• Fisheye Menu demo
• Fisheye Tabs for Firefox
• Continuous Zoom video (4:20)
• Unifying Framework/Alternative Methodology video (3:56)
• Table Lens video (9:51)
• DateLens video (3:02, volume is loud)
• Melange video (3:01)
• Sigma Lens video (4:07)

07-Perception (Sep 13)

• Perception in Visualization, Christopher Healey, NC State
• Heatmap example
• Color Brewer - help for selecting map colors
• Maureen Stone - many references and links
• Optical Illusions
• Change Blindness
  • http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~rensink/flicker/download/ - static images, Ron Rensink, UBC
  • http://www.simonslab.com/videos.html - videos, Dan Simons, Illinois
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nL5ulsWMYc - video, Dan Simons, Illinois

06-Data (Sep 11)

Data Formats

• Mr. Data Converter

Data Sources

Universities

• StatLib @ CMU, Data and Story Library
• Berkeley Social Science Data Search
• UCLA Stats Data Sets

General Data Apps

• Freebase
• Infochimps
• Numbrary
• Amazon Public Data Sets
• Google Table Search

Geography

• TIGER
• OpenStreetMap
• Geocommons

Sports

• Basketball Reference
• Baseball DataBank
• databaseFootball
• College Football Data Warehouse
• NCAA Sports Statistics

World

• Global Health Facts
• UNdata
• World Health Organization
• OECD Statistics
• World Bank

Government

• Census Bureau
  • Statistical Abstract of the US
  • http://census.ire.org/ - simpler way to access 2010 Census data
• Data.gov
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics, current employment statistics
• Data.gov.uk
• Follow the Money
• OpenSecrets
• Real-Time Congress API

05-GraphDesign (Sep 06)

Tables

• Save the Pies for Dessert, Steven Few (pdf)

Design Principles

• Benefitting InfoVis with Visual Difficulties? Provocation Without a Cause, Steven Few - critique of Hullman et al. (pdf)
• Promising Difficulties, Jerome Cukier - discussion of Few and Hullman
• 3 Worthwhile Alternatives to the Pie Chart, Nathan Yau
• XKCD No Labels Comic
• How Governments Can Better Use Data Visualization

Graph Types

• Pie Chart example in Protovis
• Stacked Bar Chart example in Protovis
• Stem and Leaf example
• 45 Ways to Communicate Two Quantities

Graphical Integrity

• Fox News Makes the Best Pie Chart Ever, Nathan Yau, Nov 26, 2009
• Fox News Still Makes Awesome Charts, Nathan Yau, Dec 12, 2011
• Fox News Continues Charting Excellence, Nathan Yau, Aug 6, 2012

Wrapping Up

• Parliament Guide to Statistical Charts (pdf)
• Graph Design for Effective Communication, Steven Few - presentation slides (pdf)

04-Tutorials (Sep 04)

• Barchart Examples
  • hot dog contest data (csv)

02-InfoVis (Aug 28)

• Statistical Abstract of the US - marriages by state table
• Statistics (Anscombe graphs) - http://astro.swarthmore.edu/astro121/anscombe.html

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
• UNC-Charlotte Charlotte Visualization Center - William Ribarsky, Robert Kosara
• 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
• IBM Visual Communication Lab
• Google "Big Picture" visualization research group - Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg
• NY Times - Amanda Cox, Kevin Quealy, Matthew Bloch

Publication Venues

• IEEE VisWeek 2012 - includes Vis, InfoVis, and VAST
• IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis)
  • 2011 papers, 2010 papers, 2009 papers, 2008 papers
• IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)
  • 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

Blogs

• Flowing Data, Nathan Yau, PhD student (UCLA)
• EagerEyes, Robert Kosara, assistant professor (UNC-Charlotte)
• Visualising Data, Andy Kirk
• Information is Beautiful, David McCandless, writer-designer
• Visual Business Intelligence, Steven Few
• Communicating with Data, Jerome Cukier
• Fell in Love with Data, Enrico Bertini, Univ. of Konstanz, Germany
  • highlights
  • Data Stories - Enrico's podcasts, w/great interviews (Jeff Heer, Andy Kirk)
• Junk Charts
• Edward Tufte's Forum

Other Sites

• My collection of resources
• http://www.visualizing.org/ - InfoVis community, share visualizations, access data, compete in challenges

Famous Examples

• NYC Weather
• Minard's Map
• Nightingale's Diagram
• London Subway
• Hans Rosling's 5 min talk
  • TED 2006 talk (20 min)

Other

• Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection
• New York Times API - grab results of queries in XML, JSON, ...
• Stats about webpages over time

Web Scraping

• Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data (propublica.org)
• Scraping Data from HTML
• Beautiful Soup (Python)
• scraping example
  • http://wunderground.com
  • http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/ORF/2011/1/1/DailyHistory.html
• Reading Flash Data (propublica.org)
• Reading PDF Data (propublica.org)
• Comet Docs

Data Cleaning

• Data Science Toolkit - collection of online data processing tools
• Mr. People

01-Admin (Aug 28)

Books

• Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics by Nathan Yau
  • downloads
  • errata
• Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment by Ben Fry - ODU subscription
  • code examples
• 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 (@amazon)
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
• Designing Data Visualizations by Steele and Iliinsky - ODU subscription

Admin

• Class Email List
• Research Methods
• Plagiarism
• ODU's Writing Tutorial Services
• ODU's Graduate Writing Assistance Program
• Code Development/Maintenance
  • GitHub
  • Project Hosting at Google Code
  • Subversion (svn)

Sep 20

• American Community Survey, US Census Bureau, 2011 data released Sep 20
  • data, American Fact Finder
• Pictures Can Sway Your Moral Judgement, NPR story (Sep 20, 2012)
  • You See, the Ends Don’t Justify the Means: Visual Imagery and Moral Judgment, Psychological Science, August 2012

Sep 18

• lxml: an underappreciated web scraping library (HT Mat)
• Goodbye, Academia; Hello (Again), Tableau! - Robert Kosara leaving UNC-C
• TV News Archives (@Internet Archive)

Sep 13

• InfoDesignPatterns - examples of many different graph types and interaction techniques
• SAS Don't Lose Your Way, Steven Few

Sep 11 - A Winning Graphic of Early Voting, JunkCharts - critique of nice pair of graphs from the Wall Street Journal

• American Community Survey, US Census Bureau, 2011 data released Sep 20
  • data, American Fact Finder
• Pictures Can Sway Your Moral Judgement, NPR story (Sep 20, 2012)
  • You See, the Ends Don’t Justify the Means: Visual Imagery and Moral Judgment, Psychological Science, August 2012

• Pictures Can Sway Your Moral Judgement, NPR story (Sep 20, 2012) (You See, the Ends Don’t Justify the Means: Visual Imagery and Moral Judgment, Psychological Science, August 2012.

• Sep 20
  • American Community Survey, US Census Bureau - 2011 data released Sep 20, also see American Fact Finder
  • Pictures Can Sway Your Moral Judgement, NPR story (Sep 20, 2012) ([[http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797611434965|You See, the Ends Don’t Justify the Means:

Visual Imagery and Moral Judgment]], Psychological Science, August 2012.

• Table Lens video (9:51)

• Information Mural

• Perspective Wall video (0:55)
• Graphical Fisheye Views video (4:00, start at 0:35)
• Fisheye Menu demo
• Fisheye Tabs for Firefox
• Continuous Zoom video (4:20)
• Unifying Framework/Alternative Methodology video (3:56)
• DateLens video (3:02, volume is loud)
• Melange video (3:01)
• Sigma Lens video (4:07)

09-OverviewDetail (Sep 25)

• Toolglass and magic lenses video (10:37)
• DragMag video (2:50)

Mentioned in Class (not in slides)

• Sep 18
  • lxml: an underappreciated web scraping library (HT Mat)
  • Goodbye, Academia; Hello (Again), Tableau! - Robert Kosara leaving UNC-C
  • TV News Archives (@Internet Archive)
• Sep 13
  • InfoDesignPatterns - examples of many different graph types and interaction techniques
  • SAS Don't Lose Your Way, Steven Few
• Sep 11 - A Winning Graphic of Early Voting, JunkCharts - critique of nice pair of graphs from the Wall Street Journal

Mentioned in Class

Other

04-Tutorials (Sep 04)

05-GraphDesign (Sep 06)

06-Data (Sep 11)

07-Perception (Sep 13)

• TV News Archives (@Internet Archive)

• Sep 18

• Goodbye, Academia; Hello (Again), Tableau! - Robert Kosara leaving UNC-C

• lxml: an underappreciated web scraping library (HT Mat)

• Sep 13
  • InfoDesignPatterns - examples of many different graph types and interaction techniques
  • SAS Don't Lose Your Way, Steven Few
  • [[http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/12/10/lxml-an-underappreciated-web-scraping-library/|lxml: an underappreciated web scraping library] (HT Mat)

• Sep 13 - SAS Don't Lose Your Way, Steven Few

• Sep 11 - A Winning Graphic of Early Voting, JunkCharts - critique of nice pair of graphs from the Wall Street Journal
• Sep 13 - InfoDesignPatterns - examples of many different graph types and interaction techniques

• (Sep 11) A Winning Graphic of Early Voting, JunkCharts - critique of nice pair of graphs from the Wall Street Journal
• (Sep 13) InfoDesignPatterns - examples of many different graph types and interaction techniques

This list contains links contained in the lecture notes and will be continually updated throughout the semester (see history for latest updates). See the "Other" category for other links that don't appear in the lecture notes.

• A Winning Graphic of Early Voting, JunkCharts - critique of nice pair of graphs from the Wall Street Journal

06-Data

Data (Formats, Gathering, Cleaning, Linking)

• Scraping Data from HTML

• http://wunderground.com
• http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/ORF/2011/1/1/DailyHistory.html

• Clustergram

• PhraseNet example
• WordTree example

Mentioned in Class

• FRIL

• 45 Ways to Communicate Two Quantities

• NY Times - Amanda Cox, Kevin Quealy, Matthew Bloch

• Pie Chart example in Protovis
• Stacked Bar Chart example in Protovis

• How Governments Can Better Use Data Visualization

• New York Times API - grab results of queries in XML, JSON, ...

• Statistical Abstract of the US - marriages by state table

• NY Times - Amanda Cox, Kevin Quealy

• InfoVis Academic References Visualization

• Polaris

• QlikView

• Processing, Processing.JS

• Inkscape - essentially an open-source version of Adobe Illustrator

• Barchart Examples
  • hot dog contest data (csv)

• Pie Chart example in Protovis
• Stacked Bar Chart example in Protovis

Data Formats

• Mr. Data Converter

Universities

• StatLib @ CMU, Data and Story Library
• Berkeley Social Science Data Search
• UCLA Stats Data Sets

General Data Apps

• Freebase
• Infochimps
• Numbrary
• Amazon Public Data Sets
• Google Table Search

Geography

• TIGER
• OpenStreetMap
• Geocommons

Sports

• Basketball Reference
• Baseball DataBank
• databaseFootball
• College Football Data Warehouse
• NCAA Sports Statistics

World

• Global Health Facts
• UNdata
• World Health Organization
• OECD Statistics
• World Bank

Government

• Census Bureau
  • Statistical Abstract of the US

• Data.gov
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics, current employment statistics
• Data.gov.uk
• Follow the Money
• OpenSecrets
• Real-Time Congress API

Other

• Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection

• WordPress data

• Stats about webpages over time
• Datasets at reddit.com

Web Scraping

• Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data (propublica.org)
• Beautiful Soup (Python)
• scraping example
• Reading Flash Data (propublica.org)
• Reading PDF Data (propublica.org)
• Comet Docs

• Mr. Data Converter
• Data Wrangler (video)
• Google Refine (video, more info from propublica.org)

Linking Data

• WikipediaVision
• Linked Open Data
• D-Dupe (video)

• Google Public Data Explorer (docs)

• Data Stories - Enrico's podcasts, w/great interviews (Jeff Heer, Andy Kirk)

• http://datastori.es/ - podcasts, w/great interviews (Jeff Heer, Andy Kirk)

• Junk Charts

• downloads
• errata

• code examples

• downloads - http://book.flowingdata.com/downloads.html
• errata - http://book.flowingdata.com/errata.html

• code examples - http://benfry.com/writing/archives/3

Data Sources

• http://data.gov
• 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

Data Cleaning

• Google Refine
• Data Wrangler
• Mr. People

06-Acquiring and Parsing Data

07-Perception

• Perception in Visualization, Christopher Healey, NC State
• Heatmap example
• Color Brewer - help for selecting map colors
• Maureen Stone - many references and links
• Optical Illusions
• Change Blindness
  • http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~rensink/flicker/download/ - static images, Ron Rensink, UBC
  • http://www.simonslab.com/videos.html - videos, Dan Simons, Illinois
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nL5ulsWMYc - video, Dan Simons, Illinois

Graph Types

• Save the Pies for Dessert, Steven Few (pdf)

• Parliament Guide to Statistical Charts (pdf)

04-Tutorials

05-GraphDesign

Tables

• Save the Pies for Dessert, Steven Few

Design Principles

• Benefitting InfoVis with Visual Difficulties? Provocation Without a Cause, Steven Few - critique of Hullman et al. (pdf)
• Promising Difficulties, Jerome Cukier - discussion of Few and Hullman
• 3 Worthwhile Alternatives to the Pie Chart, Nathan Yau
• XKCD No Labels Comic

2D Graphs

• Stem and Leaf example
• Q-Q example

Graphical Integrity

• Fox News Makes the Best Pie Chart Ever, Nathan Yau, Nov 26, 2009
• Fox News Still Makes Awesome Charts, Nathan Yau, Dec 12, 2011
• Fox News Continues Charting Excellence, Nathan Yau, Aug 6, 2012

Wrapping Up

• Parliament Guide to Statistical Charts
• Graph Design for Effective Communication, Steven Few - presentation slides (pdf)

• My collection of resources

• Research Methods

• My collection of resources

• Communicating with Data, Jerome Cukier

• Jerome Cukier, Working with Data in Protovis (overview, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5)

• Robert Kosara, A Protovis Primer (part 1, part 2, part 3)
• Jerome Cukier, Working with Data in Protovis (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5)

• Intro to R, Martin Klein, ODU

Other Sites

• My collection of resources
• http://www.visualizing.org/ - InfoVis community, share visualizations, access data, compete in challenges

• Hans Rosling's 5 min talk
  • TED 2006 talk (20 min)

Overview of many tools - http://selection.datavisualization.ch/

• Cubism.js - Time Series Visualization (uses D3)

Articles

• Robert Kosara, Visual.ly: The Future of Data-Based Infographics

• Tableau

• Processing, Processing.JS

Tutorials

• Robert Kosara, A Protovis Primer - (part 1, part 2, part 3)

• Re-creating a NY Times graph with Excel - includes screencast showing how this was done

• NumPy, SciPy

• Improvise (examples)

• Google Fusion Tables (tour)

• Protovis - JavaScript toolkit (examples)

• d3.js - Data-Driven Documents - JavaScript toolkit replacing Protovis (examples)

• Inkscape - essentially an open-source version of Adobe Illustrator

• d3.js - Data-Driven Documents - JavaScript library
  • examples
• Google Visualization API

• Highcharts JS

• Gapminder - animated bubble charts
• Networks
  • NodeXL - analyzing networks in Excel
  • Sci2Tool - study of science (scholarly publications)
• Time Series
  • SIMILE Timeplot
  • SIMILE Timeline
  • http://square.github.com/cubism/Cubism.js - Time Series Visualization (uses D3)
  • jQuery Sparklines
• Maps
  • ModestMaps
  • PolyMaps
• Visual.ly - infographics

• Illustration
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Inkscape - free Adobe Illustrator

Acquiring and Parsing Data

• TIBCO Spotfire
• QlikView
• SAS JMP
• Advizor Analyst
• Panopticon

• Processing
  • Processing.JS
• prefuse - interactive information visualization toolkit
• flare - ActionScript library for Flash visualizations

• Google Visualization API
  • Choosel - data vis framework for GWT

• jQuery Sparklines?
• Highcharts JS?

• Cube - Time Series Visualization (uses D3)

• Sci2Tool
• Data Science Toolkit - collection of online data processing tools

• Excel
  • Help for creating nice graphs in Excel - http://chandoo.org/wp/, http://peltiertech.com/
  • Excel Charts Chooser
  • Re-creating a NY Times graph with Excel - includes screencast showing exactly how this was done

• NYC Weather
• Minard's Map
• Nightingale's Diagram
• London Subway

• Intro to R, Martin Klein, ODU
• R Course Notes, Steven Buechler, Notre Dame

• Improvise
  • examples

03-Systems (Aug 30)

Graphing Tools

Free/Academic Systems

• ManyEyes - online app from IBM
• Microsoft Pivot - Silverlight PivotViewer, Pivot @ MSR
• Google Fusion Tables
  • Tour

Commercial Systems

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

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
• 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
• Cube - Time Series Visualization (uses D3)
• Data Science Toolkit - collection of online data processing tools

Specialized Tools

• Visual.ly - infographics (tools coming soon)
  • Inkscape - free Adobe Illustrator
  • Visual.ly: The Future of Data-Based Infographics, Robert Kosara
• Gapminder
  • Gapminder Labs (exercises)

Other

Articles

Videos

Data Sources

For Fun

Software / Tools

Exercises / Challenges

01-Admin (Aug 28)

Course Overview

Books

Admin

02-InfoVis (Aug 28)

Research Groups

Publication Venues

Blogs

Famous Examples

Aug 30, 2012

Systems/Toolkits

Graphing Tools

01-Admin - Aug 28

02-InfoVis - Aug 28

03-Systems - Aug 30

Systems and Toolkits (03-Systems) - Aug 30

Graphing Tools

• Help for creating nice graphs in Excel - http://chandoo.org/wp/, http://peltiertech.com/
• Re-creating a NY Times graph with Excel - includes screencast showing exactly how this was done
• R
• Intro to R, Martin Klein, ODU
• R Course Notes, Steven Buechler, Notre Dame
• Gnuplot
• Flot - JavaScript library
• Python NumPy, SciPy

Free/Academic Systems

• Improvise - examples

Commercial Systems

Specialized Tools

• Statistical Abstract of the US - marriages by state table

• Statistical Abstract of the US - [[http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0133.pdf

• InfoVis quote - from http://conferences.computer.org/infovis/
• Statistics (Anscombe graphs) - http://astro.swarthmore.edu/astro121/anscombe.html
• InfoVis Wiki
• InfoVis References Visualization

• IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)
  • 2011 papers, 2010 papers, 2009 papers, 2008 papers

• IEEE VisWeek 2012 - includes Vis, InfoVis, and VAST

• 2011 papers, 2010 papers, 2009 papers, 2008 papers

• IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)
  • (2011 papers, 2010 papers, 2009 papers, 2008 papers)

• Digging into Data Challenge

Course Overview

Books

Admin

Research Groups

Publication Venues

Blogs

Famous Examples

First Day Admin (01-Admin) - Aug 28

Intro to Info Vis (02-InfoVis) - Aug 28

First Day Admin (01-Admin, Aug 28)

Intro to Info Vis (02-InfoVis, Aug 28)

• Research Methods
• Plagiarism
• ODU's Writing Tutorial Services
• ODU's Graduate Writing Assistance Program

Books

• Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics by Nathan Yau
• Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment by Ben Fry - ODU subscription
• 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 (@amazon)
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
• Designing Data Visualizations by Steele and Iliinsky - ODU subscription

• Subversion (svn)

• Code Development/Maintenance
  • GitHub
  • Project Hosting at Google Code
  • Subversion (svn)

Other

Books

Articles

Videos

Data Sources

For Fun

Software / Tools

Systems

Toolkits

Commercial Systems

Data Cleaning

Exercises / Challenges

Admin

Unix

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This list contains links mentioned in the lecture notes and will be continually updated throughout the semester (see history for latest updates). See the "Other" category for links not specifically mentioned in class.

Other

• Visualizing Data - on-campus link

• Course Website
• Class Email List
• Visualizing Data on-campus link
• Research Methods
• Plagiarism
• ODU's Writing Tutorial Services
• ODU's Graduate Writing Assistance Program

InfoVis References Visualization - http://moebio.com/datavisnetwork/

Blogs

• Flowing Data, Nathan Yau, PhD student (UCLA)
• EagerEyes, Robert Kosara, assistant professor (UNC-Charlotte)
• Visualising Data, Andy Kirk
• Information is Beautiful, David McCandless, writer-designer
• Visual Business Intelligence, Steven Few
• NeoFormix - Discovering and Illustrating Patterns in Data
• Fell in Love with Data, Enrico Bertini, Univ. of Konstanz, Germany
  • highlights
• The Why Axis
• Edward Tufte's Forum

Course Overview

'Course Overview

Admin

Research Groups

Publication Venues

Blogs

Famous Examples

• Vizster

• Graph Design - Communicating Numbers
• Perception - example 1, grid illusion, map example
• Time Series - Yahoo! Finance Chart, Global Mean Precipitation
• Wordle
• Maps - Cancer Mortality Rates by County
• Storytelling - GapMinder
• Overview+Detail - Information Mural
• [[http://hci.stanford.edu/jheer/projects/vizster/images/basic.png

• WWW - Growth of NSFNET, Past Web Browser
• Big Data - Interactive Information Visualization of a Million Items

• Docuburst Example
• Minard's Map

First Day Admin

Intro to Info Vis

Venues

• 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)

• NY Times - Amanda Cox

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
• UNC-Charlotte Charlotte Visualization Center - William Ribarsky, Robert Kosara
• 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
• IBM Visual Communication Lab
• Google "Big Picture" visualization research group - Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg
• NY Times - Amanda Cox

Blogs

• Time Series - http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^DJI+Basic+Chart, http://cookbooks.opengrads.org/images/3/3b/Precip_time_series_ss.png

• Vizster - http://hci.stanford.edu/jheer/projects/vizster/images/basic.png

• http://conferences.computer.org/infovis/
• http://astro.swarthmore.edu/astro121/anscombe.html
• http://www.infovis-wiki.net

Blogs

• http://infosthetics.com
• http://flowingdata.com/
• http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a?topic_id=1
• http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/
• http://moebio.com/datavisnetwork/

Famous Examples

• NYC Weather - http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00014g
• Minard's Map - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minard.png
• Nightingale's Diagram - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nightingale-mortality.jpg
• London Subway - http://www.clarksbury.com/cdl/maps/tube33.gif

• Minard's Map - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minard.png

• Time Series - http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^DJI+Basic+Chart, http://cookbooks.opengrads.org/images/3/3b/Precip_time_series_ss.png

• Maps - http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/pix/data-map.png

Course Overview Links

• Docuburst Example - http://faculty.uoit.ca/collins/research/docuburst/index.html
• Minard's Map - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minard.png
• Graph Design - http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/Whitepapers/Communicating_Numbers.pdf
• Perception - http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/PP/index.html#Fig_1, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion, http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/PP/index.html#Fig_17
• Time Series - http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^DJI+Basic+Chart, http://cookbooks.opengrads.org/images/3/3b/Precip_time_series_ss.png
• Wordle - http://www.wordle.net/create
• Maps - http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/pix/data-map.png
• Storytelling - http://www.gapminder.org
• Overview+Detail - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/softvis/infoviz/information_mural.html
• Vizster - http://hci.stanford.edu/jheer/projects/vizster/images/basic.png
• WWW - http://www.caida.org/projects/internetatlas/gallery/nsfnet/visual.xml, http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~adam/pastwebbrowser.html
• Big Data - http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/millionvis/

Admin Links

• Course Website - http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mweigle/CS795-F12
• Email List - http://list.odu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cs795-mcw
• Visualizing Data on-campus link - http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/book/databases/business-intelligence/9780596514556
• Research Methods - http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mweigle/Main/ResearchMethods
• Plagiarism - http://gentlemansc.blogspot.com/2011/08/more-you-know.html
• ODU's Writing Tutorial Services - http://al.odu.edu/wts/students/
• ODU's Graduate Writing Assistance Program - http://al.odu.edu/gwap

Links from Lecture Notes

First Day Admin

Intro to Info Vis

This list will be continually updated throughout the semester (see history for latest updates). Email me if you have something to add.

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• Carla Casilli, Information Visualization: A New Visual Language (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8)

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(:title Useful Links:)

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

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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)

Books

• Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment by Ben Fry - ODU subscription
• Beautiful Visualization by Steele and Iliinsky - 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
• 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)