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Week Dates Topic Topic HW 1 Jan 12, 14 Introduction InfoVis overview HW1 2 Jan 19, 21 Multivariate data & table/graph design Visual perception 3 Jan 26, 28 Cognitive issues Multivariate visual representations HW2 4 Feb 2, 4 Parallel coordinates & more Big data 5 Feb 9, 11 InfoVis systems & toolkits InfoVis toolkit tutorial HW3 6 Feb 16, 18 Commercial systems demos Tufte's principles HW4 7 Feb 23, 25 Text & documents Graphs and networks 8 Mar 2, 4 Graphs and networks (contd) Hierarchies & trees 1 HW5 9 Mar 9, 11 No Class -- Work day Hierarchies & trees 2 10 Mar 16, 18 Visual analytics Time series data 11 Mar 23, 25 No Class -- Spring break No Class -- Spring break 12 Mar 30, Apr 1 Interaction Casual InfoVis 13 Apr 6, 8 Overview & detail Pan & zoom HW6 14 Apr 13, 15 No Class -- Work day Social Visualization 15 Apr 20, 22 Evaluation Animation 16 Apr 27, 29 Project Presentations Project Presentations/Review

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Software  EZChooser

Feb. 2 -- Parallel Coordinates and more http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~stasko/7450/syllabus.html 8/23/2010 CS 4460/7450 - Information Visualization - Syllabus Page 4 of 13 Lecture slides  PDF

Readings  A. Inselberg, "Multidimensional Detective," Proceedings of Information Visualization '97, pp. 100-107, 1997.

Additional Papers  H. Hauser, F. Ledermann, and H. Doleisch, "Angular Brushing of Extended Parallel Coordinates", Proc. of IEEE InfoVis '02, October 2002, pp. 127-134.  D. Brodbeck and L. Girardin, "Visualization of Large-Scale Customer Satisfaction Surveys Using a Parallel Coordinate Tree", Proc. of IEEE InfoVis '03, Oct. 2003, pp. 197-201.  R. Kosara, F. Bendix, and H. Hauser, "Parallel Sets: Interactive Exploration and Visual Analysis of Categorical Data", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphis, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 558-568. InfoVis '05, October 2005, pp. 133-140.  E. Wegman, "Hyperdimensional Data Analysis Using Parallel Coordinates", Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 85, No. 411, Sept. 1990, pp. 664-675.  More

Websites  Finding NY tax cheats, Application of parallel coordinates

Videos  Angular brushing from VRVis  Parallel Sets from InfoVis '05

Software  XmdvTool from WPI  ParVis, Parallel coordinates system  SurveyVisualizer from Macrofocus  Star Coordinates from IBM

Feb. 4 -- Visualizing Big Data

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Readings  Jing Yang, et al., "Value and Relation Display for Interactive Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets", Proceedings of IEEE InfoVis '04, Oct. 2004, pp. 73-80.

Additional Papers  J.-D. Fekete & C. Plaisant, "Interactive Information Visualization of a Million Items", Proceedings of InfoVis '02, Oct. 2002, pp. 117- 124.  D. A. Keim and H.-P. Kriegel, "VisDB: Database Exploration Using Multidimensional Visualization", IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, pp. 40-49, Sept. 1994.  D. Keim, M. Hao, U. Dayal, and M. Hsu, "Pixel Bar Charts: A visualization technique for very large multi-attribute data sets", Information Visualization, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2002, pp. 20-34.  J. Seo and B. Shneiderman, "A rank-by-feature framework for interactive exploration of multidimensional data", Information Visualization, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 96-113.  More

Software  HCE from Maryland

Feb. 9 -- InfoVis Systems & Toolkits

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Readings  F. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, F. van Ham, J. Kriss, and M. McKeon, "ManyEyes: A Site for Visualization at Internet Scale", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2007, pp. 1121-1128.

Additional Papers  M. Bostock and J. Heer, "Protovis: A Graphical Toolkit for Visualization", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 15, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2009, pp. 1121-1128.  J. Heer, F. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, "Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization", http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~stasko/7450/syllabus.html 8/23/2010 CS 4460/7450 - Information Visualization - Syllabus Page 5 of 13 ggygygy Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007, April 2007, pp. 1029-1038.  J. Heer, S. Card, J. Landay, "prefuse: a toolkit for interactive information visualization", Proceedings of ACM CHI '05, April 2005, pp. 421-430.  J. Heer, "Software Design Patterns for Information Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 5, September 2006, pp. 853-860.  C. Weaver, "Building Highly-Coordinated Visualizations in Improvise", Proceedings of IEEE InfoVis '04, October 2004, pp. 159- 166.  More

Videos  prefuse from prefuse.org  Talk about Many Eyes from Wattenberg and Viegas  sense.us from Jeff Heer

Software  Improvise  ILOG Discovery  InfoVis Toolkit  prefuse  Flare  Protovis  Piccolo

Feb. 11 -- InfoVis Toolkit Tutorial

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Software  prefuse  Flare  Protovis  Processing

Feb. 16 -- Commercial Systems Demos & Discussion

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Readings  M. Spenke and C. Beilken, "InfoZoom - Analysing Formula One racing results with an interactive data mining and visualization tool," Proceedings of 2nd Intl. Conf. on Data Mining, July 2000.

Additional Papers  S. Eick, "Visual Discovery and Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan-Mar 2000, pp. 44-58.  More

Software  Table Lens from Inxight  InfoZoom from HumanIT  Spotfire Pro from Spotfire  InfoScope from Macrofocus  Tableau from Tableau Software

Feb. 18 -- Tufte's Visual Design Principles

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Readings  Now You See It, chapters 8-11  Tufte, Envisioning Information http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~stasko/7450/syllabus.html 8/23/2010 CS 4460/7450 - Information Visualization - Syllabus Page 6 of 13 Websites  Tufte's website  Junk charts  USA Today's news snapshots

Feb. 23 -- Text and Documents

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Readings  M. Wattenberg, F. Viegas, "The Word Tree, an Interactive Visual Concordance", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2008, pp. 1245-1252.

Additional Papers  S. Havre, B. Hetzler, and L. Nowell, "ThemeRiver: Visualizing Theme Changes over Time", Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Information Visualization Symposium, Salt Lake City, Oct. 2000, pp. 115-123.  M. Hearst, "Tilebars: Visualization of Term Distribution Information in Full-Text Information Access," Proc. of CHI '95, May 2005, pp. 59-66.  B. Lee, et al, "Understanding Research Trends in Conferences using PaperLens", CHI '05 Late Breaking Results, May 2005, pp. 1969-1972.  X. Lin, "Visualization for the Document Space," Proc. of Visualization '92, Oct. 1992, pp. 274-281.  J. Novak and A. Canas, "The origins of the concept mapping tool and the continuing evolution of the tool", Information Visualization, Vol. 5, No. 3, Autumn 2006, pp. 175-184.  K. Olsen, et al, "Visualization of a Document Collection: The Vibe System." Information Processing & Management Vol. 29, No. 1, 1993, pp. 69-81.  F. van Ham, M. Wattenberg, F. Viegas, "Mapping Text with Phrase Nets", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 15, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2009, pp. 1169-1176.  F. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, "Tag Clouds and the Case for Vernacular Visualization", interactions, Vol. 15, No. 4, Jul-Aug 2008, pp. 49-52.  J. Wise, "Visualizing the Non-Visual: spatial analysis and interaction with information from text documents," Proceedings of the Information Visualization '95 Conference, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 1995, pp. 51-58.  More

Videos  SPIRE, PNL, InfoVis '95  PaperLens, MSR, CHI '05  TileBars, UC Berkeley, CHI '96

Websites  Many Eyes, Tag clouds and Word Trees  Wordle  Concordance software  State of Union words, NY Times  TextArc  TileBars, UC Berkeley  Kartoo  Jigsaw, Georgia Tech  Web Self-Organizing Map  Information visualization, Pacific Northwest Labs  stamen

Feb. 25 -- Graphs and Networks

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Readings  A. Perer, B. Shneiderman, "Balancing Systematic and Flexible Exploration of Social Networks," IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 5, Sep.-Oct. 2006, pp. 693-700.

Additional Papers  I. Herman, et al, "Graph Visualization and Navigation in Information Visualization: A Survey", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan-Mar 2000, pp. 24-43.  D. Holten, "Hierarchical edge bundles: Visualization of adjacency relations in hierarchical data," IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 5, Sep.-Oct. 2006, pp. 741-748. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~stasko/7450/syllabus.html 8/23/2010 CS 4460/7450 - Information Visualization - Syllabus Page 7 of 13 p p ,,,p ,pp  T.J. Jankun-Kelly and K.-L. Ma, "MoireGraphs: Radial Focus+context Visualization and Interaction for Graphs with Visual Nodes", Proc. of InfoVis '03, Oct. 2003, pp. 59-66.  B. Shneiderman, A. Aris, "Network Visualization by Semantic Substrates," IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 5, Sep.-Oct. 2006, pp. 733-740.  M. Wattenberg, "Visual exploration of multivariate graphs," Proceedings of ACM CHI '06, Montreal, Canada, April 2006, pp. 811- 819.  P.C. Wong, H. Foote, G. Chin, P. Mackey, K. Perrine, "Graph Signatures for Visual Analytics", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2006, pp. 1399-1413.  P.C. Wong, H. Foote, P. Mackey, G. Chin, H. Sofia and J. Thomas, "A dynamic multiscale magnifying tool for exploring large sparse graphs", Information Visualization, Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 2008, pp. 105-117.  More

Videos  MoireGraphs, Miss. State, InfoVis '03  Animated graph exploration, Cal-Berkeley, InfoVis '01 (link)  Vizster, UC Berkeley, InfoVis '05  Semantic Substrates and SocialAction, Maryland, InfoVis '06

Websites  Graph drawing tutorial, Brown  Graph drawing resources, graphdrawing.org  Graph drawing resources, AT&T Labs  Social Science visualization gallery  Social network analysis  TouchGraph  TouchGraph's Google browser  Visual Complexity - Graph Visualizations  Graham Wills home page  Semantic substrates, Maryland  Vizster, UC Berkeley  Social Action, Maryland  Planarity - graph layout game  Atlas of Cyberspace

Mar. 4 -- Hierarchies and Trees 1 - Node-link

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Readings  S. Card and D. Nation, "Degree-of-Interest Trees: A Component of an Attention-Reactive User Interface", Proc. of AVI '02, May 2002, pp. 231-245.

Additional Papers  J. Lamping and R. Rao, "The Hyperbolic Browser: A Focus + Context Technique for Visualizing Large Hierarchies", Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 33-55, March 1996.  Q.V. Nguyen and M.L. Huang, "Space-optimized tree: a connection + enclosure approach for the visualization of large hierarchies", Information Visualization, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2003, pp. 3-15.  C. Plaisant, et al, "SpaceTree: Design Evolution of a Node Link Tree Browser", Proc. of InfoVis '02, Oct. 2002, pp. 57-64.  G. Robertson, S. Card, and J. Mackinlay, "Information Visualization Using 3D Interactive Animation", Communications of the ACM, vol. 36, no. 4, Apr. 1993, pp. 57-71.  More

Videos  Information Visualizer, Xerox PARC  Hyperbolic Tree, Xerox PARC, CHI '96  3D Hyperbolic graphs, Stanford, T. Munzner  SpaceTree, Univ. of Maryland, HCIL '02

Websites  CHEOPS

Software  Hyperbolic tree demo from Prefuse

Mar. 11 -- Hierarchies and Trees 2 - Space-filling http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~stasko/7450/syllabus.html 8/23/2010 CS 4460/7450 - Information Visualization - Syllabus Page 8 of 13 Mar. 11 Hierarchies and Trees 2 Space filling

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Readings  B. Johnson and B. Shneiderman, "Tree-maps: A Space Filling Approach to the Visualization of Hierarchical Information Structures", Proc. of Vis '91, Oct. 1991, pp. 284-291.

Additional Papers  B. Bederson, B. Shneiderman, and M. Wattenberg, Ordered and Quantum Treemaps: Making Effective Use of 2D Space to Display Hierarchies, ACM Trans. on Graphics, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 833-854.  D.M. Bruls, C. Huizing and J.J. van Wijk, "Squarified Treemaps", Proceedings of EuroGraphics 2000, pp. 33-42.  Q.V. Nguyen & M.L. Huang, "EncCon: an approach to constructing interactive visualization of large hierarchical data", Information Visualization, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-21.  J. Stasko and E. Zhang, "Focus+Context Display and Navigation Techniques for Enhancing Radial, Space-Filling Hierarchy Visualizations", Proc. of InfoVis '00, Oct. 2000, pp. 57-65.  W. Wang, H. Wang, G. Dai, H. Wang, "Visualization of large hierarchical data by circle packing", Proceedings of ACM CHI '06, Montreal, Canada, April 2006, pp. 517-520.  More

Videos  Treemaps, Maryland, 1992  FundExplorer from Georgia Tech  Sunburst from Georgia Tech  Zoomology, InfoVis '03, Georgia Tech

Software  Treemap and SunBurst local demos  SequoiaView file visualizer by Technische Universiteit Eindhoven  Product reviewer, The Hive Group  Panopticon  Grokker, from Groxis

Websites  Smart Money's Map of the Market  Dynamic layout algorithm comparison applet created by Martin Wattenberg and Ben Bederson  Treemaps, Maryland HCIL  Marumushi news map  EnCon

Mar. 16 -- Visual Analytics

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Readings  D. Keim, G. Andrienko, J.-D. Fekete, C. Gorg, J. Kohlhammer, and G. Melancon, "Visual Analytics: Definition, Process, and Challenges", in Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives, (Editors: A. Kerren, J. Stasko, J.-D. Fekete, C. North), Springer, 2008, pp. 1-18.

Additional Papers  M. Bilgic, L. Licamele, L. Getoord, B. Shneiderman, "D-Dupe: An Interactive Tool for Entity Resolution in Social Networks", Proceedings of IEEE VAST '06, Oct. 2006, pp. 43-50.  R. Chang, et al, "Scalable and interactive visual analysis of financial wire transactions for fraud detection", Information Visualization, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 63-76.  D. Gotz, M.X. Zhou, V. Aggarwal, "Interactive Visual Synthesis of Analytic Knowledge", Proceedings of IEEE VAST '06, Oct. 2006, pp. 51-58.  J. Stasko, C. Gorg, and Z. Liu, "Jigsaw: Supporting Investigative Analysis through Interactive Visualization", Information Visualization, Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 2008, pp. 118-132.  J. Thomas and K. Cook, Illuminating the Path - The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics, IEEE Press, 2005.  C. Weaver, et al, "Visual exploration and analysis of historic hotel visits", Information Visualization, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 89-103.  P.C. Wong, et al, "Walking the path: a new journey to explore and discover through visual analytics", Information Visualization, Vol. 5, No. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 237-249.  W. Wright, D. Schroh, P. Proulx, A. Skaburskis, and B. Cort, "The sandbox for analysis: concepts and evaluation", Proceedings of ACM CHI '06, April 2006, pp. 801-810.  More http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~stasko/7450/syllabus.html 8/23/2010 CS 4460/7450 - Information Visualization - Syllabus Page 9 of 13

Websites  NVAC at PNNL  Jigsaw, Georgia Tech

Videos  IN-SPIRE, PNNL  HARVEST, IBM, VAST '06  D-Dupe, Maryland, VAST '06  Jigsaw, Georgia Tech, VAST '07  Hotel visitaton with Improvise, Penn State  WireVis, UNCC  Sandbox, Oculus, VAST '07 Contest  Entity Workspace, PARC

Mar. 18 -- Time Series Data

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Readings  Now You See It, chapter 7  W. Aigner, S. Miksch, W. Muller, H. Schumann, C. Tominski, "Visual Methods for Analyzing Time-Oriented Data", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2008, pp. 47-60.

Additional Papers  L. Byron & M. Wattenberg, "Stacked Graphs - Geometry & Aesthetics", IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2008, pp. 1245-1252.  H. Hochheiser and B. Shneiderman. "Dynamic query tools for time series data sets: Timebox widgets for interactive exploration," Information Visualization, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 1-18.  T. Kapler and W. Wright, "GeoTime Information Visualization", Information Visualization, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 136- 146.  P. McLachlan, T. Munzner, E. Koutsofios, and S. North, "LiveRAC: interactive visual exploration of system management time- series data," Proc. of CHI '08, April 2008, pp. 1483-1492.  C. Plaisant, et al, "LifeLines: Visualizing Personal Histories." Proc. of CHI '96, pp 221-227.  J. van Wijk and E. van Selow, "Cluster and Calendar based Visualization of Time Series Data", Proc. of InfoVis '99, Oct. 1999, pp. 4-9.  More

Videos  Lifelines & Lifelines2, Univ. Maryland, CHI '96, CHI '08  LiveRAC, UBC, CHI '08

Websites  LifeLines, Maryland  LifeLines2, Maryland  Movie character timelines  Web browser percentage of market  Movie receipts over time from NY Times  History flow from IBM  History of Sampling

Software  TimeSearcher, Maryland

Mar. 30 -- Interaction

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Readings  Now You See It, chapter 4  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.

Additional Papers A Di d G Elli "St ti Si l ddi l t t ti i li ti th h i l i t ti " P f AVI '98 M 1998 http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~stasko/7450/syllabus.html 8/23/2010 CS 4460/7450 - Information Visualization - Syllabus Page 10 of 13  A. Dix and G. Ellis, "Starting Simple - adding value to static visualisation through simple interaction." Proc. of AVI '98, May 1998, pp. 124-134.  K. Fishkin and M. Stone, "Enhanced dynamic queries via movable filters." Proc. of CHI '95, pp. 415-420.  J. Heer, M. Agrawala, W. Willett, "Generalized Selection via Interactive Query Relaxation", Proc. of CHI '08, Apr 2008, pp. 959- 968.  B. Shneiderman, "Dynamic Queries for Visual Information Seeking", IEEE Software, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 70-77, 1994.  R. Spence and L. Tweedie, "The Attribute Explorer: information synthesis via exploration", Interacting with Computers, Vol. 11, pp. 137-146, 1998.  More

Videos  FilmFinder, Univ. Maryland, CHI '94  Attribute Explorer, Imperial College UK, CHI '94  Magic Lens & See Through Tools, Xerox PARC, CHI '94 & '95  FacetMap, MSR, InfoVis '06  Generalized Selection, Stanford, CHI '08

Software  HomeFinder, Univ. of Maryland download  Spotfire  DataMaps, Virginia Tech

Websites  Interactive histogram from Alan Dix  US History dynamic browser  Excentric labeling from Maryland  Visual Thesaurus  Interactive house finder  Google maps mash-up of homefinder style tool  Cellphone chooser with dynamic queries  Diamond finder with dynamic queries

Apr. 1 -- Casual InfoVis

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Readings  Z. Pousman, J. T. Stasko and M. Mateas, "Casual Information Visualization: Depictions of Data in Everyday Life", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, November/December 2007, pp. 1145-1152.

Additional Papers  T. Skog, et al, "Between Aesthetics and Utility: Designing Ambient Information Visualizations", Proc. of InfoVis '03, pp. 233-240.  J. Fogarty, et al., "Aesthetic information collages: generating decorative displays that contain information," Proc. UIST '01, Nov. 2001, pp. 141-150.  J. Stasko, et al, "Personalized Peripheral Information Awareness through Information Art", Proc. of UbiComp '04, Sept. 2004, pp. 18-35.  M. van Dantzich, et al., "Scope: Providing awareness of multiple notifications at a glance," Proc. AVI '02, May 2002, pp. 267-281.  F. Viegas and M. Wattenberg, "Artistic data visualization: Beyond visual analytics," Proceedings of HCII 2007, July 2007, pp. 182- 191.  More

Websites  InfoVis & Art, Presentation by Viegas & Wattenberg at InfoVis '06  Jason Salavon's art  Feltron Annual Report, One's life as an annual report  Ambient Devices  Informative Art, Viktoria Institute  InfoCanvas, Georgia Tech

Videos  ambientROOM, MIT, CHI '98  InfoCanvas, InfoVis '05

Apr. 6 -- Overview and Detail (Focus & Context) http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~stasko/7450/syllabus.html 8/23/2010 CS 4460/7450 - Information Visualization - Syllabus Page 11 of 13 Lecture slides  PDF

Readings  Now You See It, chapters 5 and 6  B. Bederson et al, "DateLens: A fisheye calendar interface for PDAs," ACM Trans. on CHI, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 90- 119.

Additional Papers  G. Furnas, "Generalized Fisheye Views", Proc. of CHI '86, pp. 16-23.  C. Plaisant, D. Carr, and B. Shneiderman, "Image-Browser Taxonomy and Guidelines for Designers", IEEE Software, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 21-32, March 1995.  M. Sarkar and M. H. Brown, "Graphical fisheye views", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 37, No. 12, pp. 73-84, Dec. 1994.  M. Q. Wang Baldonado, A. Woodruff, A. Kuchinsky, "Guidelines for Using Multiple Views in Information Visualization," Proc. of AVI '00, May 2000, pp. 110-119.  More

Videos  DragMag Image Magnifier, Univ. of New Brunswick, CHI '95  Information Mural, Georgia Tech, InfoVis '95  Table Lens, Xerox PARC, CHI '95  Fisheye Views of Graphs, DEC SRC, CHI '93  Continuous Zoom and Pliable surfaces, Simon Fraser, UIST '95  Cone Trees and Perspective Wall, Xerox PARC, CHI '91  DateLens, Maryland & MSR

Websites  Fisheye menus from Univ. Maryland  DateLens, Maryland  Ten by Ten

Apr. 8 -- Zooming and Panning

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Additional Papers  B. Bederson, et al, "Pad++: A Zoomable Graphical Sketchpad for Exploring Alternate Interface Physics", Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Mar. 1996, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 3-31.  B. Bederson, J. Meyer, L. Good, "Jazz: An Extensible Zoomable User Interface Graphics Toolkit in Java", Proceedings of UIST 2000, Nov. 2000, pp.171-180.  G. Furnas and B. Bederson, "Space-Scale Diagrams: Understanding Multiscale Interfaces", Proc. of CHI '95, May 1995, pp. 234- 241.  S. Jul and G. Furnas, "Critical zones in desert fog: aids to multiscale navigation", Proc. of UIST '98, Nov. 1998, pp. 97-106.  T. Masui, M. Minakuchi, G. Borden IV, K. Kashiwagi, "Multiple-View Approach for Smooth Information Retrieval ", Proceedings of UIST '95, November 1995, pp.199-206.  More

Videos  Wing, Sony Corp., UIST '95  PadPrints, New Mexico, UIST '98  PhotoMesa, Maryland, UIST '01  Desert Fog, Michigan, UIST '98  Illusions of Infinity, Michigan, UIST '00

Websites  Powers of 10  NASA Zooms  prezi.com

Software  Piccolo from Univ. of Maryland download  PhotoMesa from Univ. Maryland

Apr. 13 -- Social Visualization http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~stasko/7450/syllabus.html 8/23/2010 CS 4460/7450 - Information Visualization - Syllabus Page 12 of 13 Lecture slides  PDF

Readings  F. Viegas, S. Golder, and J. Donath, "Visualizing Email Content: Portraying Relationships from Conversational Histories", Proceedings of CHI 2006, Montreal, Canada, April 2006, pp. 979-988.  M. Wattenberg and J. Kriss, "Designing for Social Data Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Vol. 12, No. 4, Jul.-Aug. 2006, pp. 549-557.

Additional Papers  J. Donath, K. Karahalios, and F. Viegas, "Visualizing Conversations", Proc. of HICSS-32, Jan. 1999.  J. Heer and d. boyd, "Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks", Proc. of IEEE InfoVis '05, Oct. 2005, pp. 33-40.  F. Viegas, d. boyd, D. Nguyen, J. Potter, J. Donath, "Digital Artifacts for Remembering and Storytelling: PostHistory and Social Network Fragments," Proc. of HICSS'04, Jan. 2004.  F. Viegas, E. Perry, E. Howe, and J. Donath, "Artifacts of the Presence Era: Using Information Visualization to Create an Evocative Souvenir," Proc. of IEEE InfoVis '04, Oct. 2004, pp. 105-111.  R. Xiong and J. Donath, "People Garden: Creating Data Portraits for Users," Proc. of UIST '99, Nov. 1999, pp. 37-44.  More

Websites  Social Visualization Workshop, from CHI '06  Social Media Group, MIT  Social Spaces Group, Illinois  NameVoyager of the Baby Name Wizard

Apr. 20 -- Evaluation

Lecture slides  PDF

Readings  C. Plaisant, "The challenge of information visualization evaluation", Proc. of AVI '04, May 2004, pp. 109-116.

Additional Papers  C. M. Danis, F. B. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, J. Kriss, "Your place or mine?: visualization as a community component", Proc. of ACM CHI '08, April 2008, pp. 275-284.  Y. Kang, C. Gorg, J. Stasko, "Evaluating Visual Analytics Systems for Investigative Analysis: Deriving Design Principles from a Case Study", Proc. of VAST '09, Oct. 2009, pp. 139-146.  Q. Li and C. North, "Empirical Comparison of Dynamic Query Sliders and Brushing Histograms", Proc. of InfoVis '03, Oct. 2003, pp. 147-154.  A. Perer and B. Shneiderman, "Integrating statistics and visualization: case studies of gaining clarity during exploratory data analysis", Proc. of ACM CHI '08, April 2008, pp. 265-274.  C. Plaisant, J.-D. Fekete, G. Grinstein, "Promoting Insight-Based Evaluation of Visualizations: From Contest to Benchmark Repository," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 1, Jan-Feb 2008, pp. 120-134.  P. Saraiya et al, "An Insight-Based Methodology for Evaluating Bioinformatics Visualizations", IEEE Trans. on Vis. and Computer Graphics, Vol. 11, No. 4, Jul/Aug 2005, pp. 443-456.  B. Shneiderman, C. Plaisant, "Strategies for evaluating information visualization tools: multi-dimensional in-depth long-term case studies", Proc. of BELIV '06, May 2006, pp. 1-7.  J. Stasko, et al, "An Evaluation of Space-Filling Information Visualizations for Depicting Hierarchical Structures", International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 53, No. 5, Nov. 2000, pp. 663-694.  More

Apr. 22 -- Animation

Lecture slides  PDF

Readings  J. Heer and G. Robertson. "Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2007, pp. 1240-1247.

Additional Papers  L. Bartram, et al, "Moticons: detection, distraction, and task", Intl. Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 58, No. 5, May 2003, pp. 515-545.  G.G. Robertson, S.K. Card, and J.D. Mackinlay, "Information Visualization Using 3D Interactive Animation", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 36, No. 4, Apr. 1993, pp. 57-71. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~stasko/7450/syllabus.html 8/23/2010 CS 4460/7450 - Information Visualization - Syllabus Page 13 of 13 the ACM, Vol. 36, No. 4, Apr. 1993, pp. 57 71.  G. Robertson, R. Fernandez, D. Fisher, B. Lee, and J. Stasko, "Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization," IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2008, pp. 1325-1332.  More

Websites

Videos  Hans Rosling talk - from TED Conference, 2006  Hans Rosling talk - from TED Conference, 2007

Apr. 29 -- Review

Lecture slides  PDF

Readings  Now You See It, chapter 13

Additional Papers

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~stasko/7450/syllabus.html 8/23/2010