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.
Mentioned in Class (not in slides)
Dec 4
Nov 29
Nov 27
Nov 13
Nov 6
Nov 1
Oct 23
Oct 16
Oct 11
Sep 25
Sep 20
Sep 18
Sep 13
Sep 11 - A Winning Graphic of Early Voting, JunkCharts - critique of nice pair of graphs from the Wall Street Journal
20-WrapUp
19-BigData (Dec 4)
18-WWW (Nov 29)
17-Eval (Nov 27)
16-Storytelling (Nov 20)
- Hans Rosling
- 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
- Megan Jaegerman - praise from Tufte
- Amanda Cox
- Obama Job Chart controversy
- 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)
- Causalities of War, cnn.com
- http://www.viseyes.org
- Enhanced State of the Union
- David McCandless TED talk (18:00)
15-Text (Nov 13, Nov 15)
- Tilebars video (5:55, watch 1:30-3:10)
- Tag Clouds
- 2012 Convention Word Counts, NY Times, Sep 6, 2012.
- Taglines - visualizing tags over time
- Wordle
- 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 - video 1 (5:00), video 2 (5:00, demonstrates cluster view early on)
- FacetAtlas video (3:10, watch until 1:30)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab
14-Trees (Nov 1, Nov 6)
13-Multivariate (Oct 23-25)
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?
- NY Times circular layout
- Sugiyama Layout example
- Force-directed layout example
- JUNG layout examples
- Protovis Examples
- Visual Complexity, graph layout examples
- Graph Drawing Libraries
- Graph Drawing Systems
- Graph Drawing tutorial, talk slides
- How to make an interactive network visualization with D3, FlowingData.com
- MoireGraph - video (3:09)
- Focus Change Animation video (3:55, watch 0-1:57)
- 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)
- Graphs as Maps
11-Time (Oct 11)
10-Interaction (Sep 27)
09-OverviewDetail (Sep 25)
- 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
- Information Mural
- Perspective Wall video (0:55)
- Graphical Fisheye Views video (4:00, watch 1:00-2:02), MPEG1 version
- Fisheye Menu demo
- Fisheye Tabs for Firefox
- Continuous Zoom video (4:20, watch 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)
07-Perception (Sep 13)
06-Data (Sep 11)
Data Formats
Data Sources
- Universities
- General Data Apps
- Geography
- Sports
- World
- Government
- Other
Web Scraping
Data Cleaning
Linking Data
05-GraphDesign (Sep 06)
Tables
Design Principles
Graph Types
Graphical Integrity
Wrapping Up
04-Tutorials (Sep 04)
03-Systems (Aug 30)
Overview of many tools - http://selection.datavisualization.ch/
Graphing Tools
Free/Academic Systems
Commercial Systems
Toolkits
Specialized Tools
- Gapminder - animated bubble charts
- Networks
- NodeXL - analyzing networks in Excel
- Sci2Tool - study of science (scholarly publications)
- Time Series
- Maps
- Visual.ly - infographics
- Inkscape - essentially an open-source version of Adobe Illustrator
02-InfoVis (Aug 28)
Research Groups
Publication Venues
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
- Junk Charts
- Edward Tufte's Forum
Other Sites
Famous Examples
01-Admin (Aug 28)
Books
Admin
Other
Tutorials
- Robert Kosara, A Protovis Primer (part 1, part 2, part 3)
- Jerome Cukier, Working with Data in Protovis (overview, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5)
- Enrico Bertini, Tools from the Pros (Processing, Tableau, D3 and Protovis)
Articles
- 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
- AT&T Labs Research InfoVis group, Getting and Understanding the Bigger Picture
- Nathan Yau, 5 Misconceptions about Visualization
- Robert Kosara, Visual.ly: The Future of Data-Based Infographics
Videos
For Fun
Exercises / Challenges
