I will often include Livescribe pencasts here, which record what I say while I'm drawing (or between drawings). You will need Adobe Reader 10.x+ to listen to these.
- History
- Contemporary
- Pencast on treemaps
- Introduction and process
- notes
- pictures
- pencast (sorry, visual only, forgot to press "stop recording")
- videos and references
- Charts and graphs
- notes
- Healey's pictures
- pencast
- references
- Jock Mackinlay. 1986. Automating the design of graphical presentations of relational information. ACM Trans. Graph. 5, 2 (April 1986), 110-141. (ncsu)
- S. Few, "Effectively Communicating Numbers - Selecting the Best Means and Manner of Display", 2006
- Kosslyn, S. M. (1989). Understanding Charts and Graphs. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 3(3), 185-226. (ncsu)
- Wilkinson, Leland. (2010). The grammar of graphics. Wiley interdisciplinary reviews: computational statistics, 2, 6, 673-0677 (ncsu)
- Perception and cognition
- notes
- pictures
- pencast
- references
- Mike Scaife and Yvonne Rogers. 1996. External cognition: how do graphical representations work?. Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud. 45, 2 (August 1996), 185-213. (ncsu)
- W. S. Cleveland and R. McGill, "Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation and the Application to the Development of Graphical Models", J. Am. Stat. Assoc., Vol.79, No.387, pp. 531-554, 1984. (ncsu)
- Healey, C. G. and Enns, J. T. "Attention and Visual Memory in Visualization and Computer Graphics." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, to appear.
- M. Stone, "Choosing Colors for Data Visualization", 2006.
- Jiaje Zhang, Donald A. Norman, Representations in distributed cognitive tasks, Cognitive Science, Volume 18, Issue 1, January-March 1994, Pages 87-122. (ncsu)
- Z. Liu, N. Nersessian, J. Stasko, "Distributed Cognition as a Theoretical Framework for Information Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2008, pp. 1173-1180. (ncsu)
- Z. Liu and J. Stasko, "Mental Models, Visual Reasoning and Interaction in Information Visualization: A Top-down Perspective", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, (InfoVis '10), Vol. 16, No. 6, November/December 2010, pp. 999-1008. (ncsu)
- Stephen Few. 2008. Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts, Perceptual Edge Visual Business Intelligence Newsletter, February.
- Interaction
- notes
- figures
- examples
- videos
- Grand tour, McDonald & Willis, 1987
- Grand tour & projection pursuit, Cook et al., 1994
- Brushing on a scatterplot matrix, Becker & McGill, 1985
- Multidimensional scaling, Kruskal, 1962
- GGobi brushing
- leading reading discussion: Ju Hee Bae
- references
- B. Shneiderman, "The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations." Proc. 1996 IEEE Visual Languages, Sept. 1996, pp. 336-343. (ncsu)
- M. Ward and J. Yang. 2004. Interaction spaces in data and information visualization. Proc. Eurographics Symp. Visualization, 137-145.
- A. Cockburn, A. Karlson, and B. Bederson, "A Review of Overview+Detail, Zooming, and Focus+Context Interfaces", ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 41, No. 1, Dec. 2008, pp. 2:1-2:31. (ncsu)
- J.S. Yi, Y.A. Kang, J.T. Stasko and J.A. Jacko, "Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Role of Interaction in Information Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2007, pp. 1224-1231. (ncsu)
- Spatial visualization
- notes
- pictures
- videos
- references
- Volumes
- William E. Lorensen and Harvey E. Cline. 1987. Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm. Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH, 163-169. (ncsu)
- Lee Westover. 1990. Footprint evaluation for volume rendering. In Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH '90). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 367-376. (ncsu)
- T. Todd Elvins. 1992. A survey of algorithms for volume visualization. SIGGRAPH Comput. Graph. 26, 3 (August 1992), 194-201. (ncsu)
- Ken Brodlie, Jason Wood. 2002. Recent Advances in Volume Visualization. Computer Graphics Forum, 20, 2, 125–148. (ncsu)
- Flow
- Brian Cabral and Leith Casey Leedom. 1993. Imaging vector fields using line integral convolution. In Proceedings of the 20th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH '93). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 263-270. (ncsu)
- Robert S. Laramee, Helwig Hauser, Helmut Doleisch, Benjamin Vrolijk, Frits H. Post, Daniel Weiskopf. 2004. The State of the Art in Flow Visualization: Dense and Texture-Based Techniques. Computer Graphics Forum, 23, 2, 203–221. (ncsu)
- Tony McLoughlin, Robert S. Laramee, Ronald Peikert, Frits H. Post, Min Chen. 2010. Over Two Decades of Integration-Based, Geometric Flow Visualization. Computer Graphics Forum, 29, 6, 1807–1829. (ncsu)
- Geospatial visualization
- High dimensional visualization
- Graphs and hierarchies
- leading reading discussion: Eric Helms
- references
- Herman, I.; Melancon, G.; Marshall, M.S. 2000. Graph visualization and navigation in information visualization: A survey. Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.6, no.1, pp.24-43. (ncsu)
- Bongshin Lee, Catherine Plaisant, Cynthia Sims Parr, Jean-Daniel Fekete, and Nathalie Henry. 2006. Task taxonomy for graph visualization. In Proceedings of the 2006 AVI workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaluation methods for information visualization (BELIV '06). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1-5. (ncsu)
- Brian Johnson and Ben Shneiderman. 1991. Tree-Maps: a space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures. In Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Visualization '91 (VIS '91), Gregory M. Nielson and Larry Rosenblum (Eds.). IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 284-291. (ncsu)
- Stasko, J.; Zhang, E. 2000. Focus+context display and navigation techniques for enhancing radial, space-filling hierarchy visualizations Information Visualization, 2000. InfoVis 2000. IEEE Symposium on , vol., no., pp.57-65. (ncsu)
- Perer, A.; Shneiderman, B. 2006. Balancing Systematic and Flexible Exploration of Social Networks. Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.12, no.5, pp.693-700, Sept.-Oct. (ncsu)
- Holten, D. 2006. Hierarchical Edge Bundles: Visualization of Adjacency Relations in Hierarchical Data. Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.12, no.5, pp.741-748, Sept.-Oct. (ncsu)
- Text and documents
- leading reading discussion: Venkata Manda
- references
- Evaluation
- leading reading discussion: Lavanya Mohanan
- Research frontiers
- C. R. Johnson, R. Moorhead, T. Munzner, H. Pfister, P. Rheingans, and T. S. Yoo, (Eds.). 2006. NIH-NSF Visualization Research Challenges Report, IEEE Press.