Spring 2007 - Links
This page provides selected links to courses, research labs and researchers, and Information Visualization tools. This list obviously only scratches the surface.
If you find anything that should be on this list but is not, please let me know.
Selected Information Visualization Courses, People, and Research Groups
Ben Shneiderman and Ben Bederson are at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland. InfoVis courses: Spring 2001, Spring 2003, Spring 2005, and Spring 2006.
John Stasko's InfoVis course from Spring 2004.
Chris North's class at Virginia Tech.
Marti Hearst taught InfoVis at U.C. Berkeley in Spring 2002.
Tamara Munzner's course at the University of British Columbia.
Melanie Tory's course at the University of Victoria.
Visualization Tools
SmartMoney's Map of the Market. This is based on the long history of work in treemaps - space-filling visualizations of hierarchies.
An example treemap is SequoiaView, which will map space on your hard drive.
A Treemap visualization of Google News.
TimeSearcher versions 1 and 2, for time series exploration.
The Hierarchical Clustering Explorer for interactive exploration of clustered data.
Fisheye Menus provide a nice demonstration of distortion techniques.
SpaceTree. Available for download.
SiteLens - an example hyperbolic tree browser, complete with links to external data sets.
Stretch: A hierarchy visualization tool with both 2D and 3D displays.
XmdvTool is a general-purpose visualization tool that suppports many different visualizations.
Mondrian interactive visualization of statistical data.
The Baby Name Navigator is fun and interesting
Grokker - choose the "map view"
Circos - comparative genomics visualization.
Visualization Toolkits
Piccolo: A structured 2D graphic framework.
The Prefuse visualization toolkit.
Jean-Daniel Fekete's Infovis toolkit.
InfoVis Companies
Inxight sells commercial versions of the Hyberbolic Tree, TableLens, and other tools.
Spotfire - starfield visualizations and related tools.
Data Sources
National Center for Health Statistics - Statistical Export and Tabulation System.
U.C. Irvine Machine Learning Data Repository
Digital Librarian - statistics
Other Web Resources
The InfoVis Wiki.
Conferences and Publishing Resources
The IEEE InfoVis Symposium and formatting guidelines.
International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization.
ACM SIGCHI conference publications format.
Information Visualization Journal
IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
Guides on reading and writing research papers
How to Read an Engineering Research Paper
How to Read a Research Paper, so that you will be able to use it later
Ben Bederson's notes on how to read a research paper.
How to write a great research paper
How to give a good research talk
Cook Library on avoiding plagiarism