From CS 796 Spring 2011

CS796-S11: Links

Motivation

• Turning Data into Knowledge, CACM, Nov 2010

Contest

• VAST 2010 Challenge
• VAST Contest Dataset Use in Education, IEEE VAST 2009

Conferences/Journals

• IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST)
  • 2010 papers, 2009 papers
• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (@ IEEE Xplore)
• IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (@ IEEE Xplore)

Visual Analytics Research

• National Visual Analytics Center
• VA Community
• Visual Analytics Digital Library @ GaTech
• Vis Center @ UNC-C
  • Visual Analytics Course (Robert Kosara - UNCC)
• Purdue Visual Analytics Center
• VisMaster - European Coordination Action Project
  • video (7 min)

Books

Visual Analytics

• Mastering the Information Age: Solving Problems with Visual Analytics (pdf)
• Illuminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics (pdf)

Other

• Programming Collective Intelligence (available online through ODU)

Data Visualization

• The essential collection of visualisation resources (part 1, part 2, part 3), @ visualizingdata.com
• Real-time Web Monitor, Akamai
• Data Visualization Tools, @ mashable.com blog
• Data Visualization Techniques, @ seomoz.org blog
• Telling Stories with Data, VisWeek 2010 Workshop
• Getting and Understanding the Bigger Picture, AT&T Labs Research InfoVis group article, Oct 2009
• XKCD comic - no axis labels
• Videos:
  • Hans Rosling talk @ TED 2006 (20 min)
  • David McCandless talk @ TED 2010 (19 min)
  • Gary Flake talk @ TED 2010 (7 min)
  • The Joy of Stats, BBC video with Hans Rosling (1 hr)

Collecting Data

• Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data, Dec 2010

Think Quarterly - Google

• http://thinkquarterly.co.uk/ - First issue was "Think Data"

Digital Government

• Gov 2.0 Summit (set of videos)
• Challenge.gov
• Data.gov
  • data.gov may be shut down due to budget cuts, FlowingData.com, March 31, 2011

Blogs

• Flowing Data, Nathan Yau, PhD student (UCLA)
• Information is Beautiful, David McCandless, writer-designer
• EagerEyes, Robert Kosara, assistant professor (UNC-Charlotte)
• Visualising Data

Software / Tools

Free Software

• R
• Weka - collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks
• RapidMiner - data mining tool (also has commercial versions)
  • tour video (3 min)
• VisTrails - scientific workflow management system (Utah)
• Protovis - visualization tool (Stanford)
  • examples
• Google Refine
• Prefuse - interactive information visualization tooklit

Commercial Software

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

Web-based Tools

• D3 - Data-Driven Documents
• ManyEyes (IBM)
• Gapminder
  • Gapminder Labs (exercises)
• Data Cleaning Tool (for people's names)
• http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/Data Science Toolkit - collection of online data processing tools

APIs

• SIMILE Project @ MIT
  • Timeplot
  • Timeline
  • Exhibit
• Google Visualization API
• Google Prediction API - pattern-matching and machine learning capabilities
• Flare - ActionScript library for Flash visualizations

Exercises / Challenges

• VAST Challenges and Benchmarks
• Visualize This! Challenges from FlowingData
• IOM-NAE Health Data Collegiate Challenge
• Digging into Data Challenge

Admin

• Blackboard
  • Submitting Assignments via Blackboard
• CS 796/896 Mailing List
• 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)