Michael Friendly: "The golden age of statistical graphics" Paper on history of statistics and data visualization
M Denis and MJ Friendly : ”Milestones in the History of Data Visualization" Paper on important discoveries in data visualization
Datavis/milestones Repository of important milestones of data visualization
Histomap 4000 years of human history covered in a graphic from 1931
we feel fine Interactive visualization of feelings mentioned in web logs
Baby name wizard Interactive visualization of the popularity of baby names
Santiago Ortiz: lostalgic Interactive visualization of the tv show “abc’s lost”
Opte project Static and dynamic maps of the internet
US gun deaths Dynamic visualization of gun deaths in the US
Penguin sci-fi-covers Visualization of color trends of penguin book covers
Skatavis Visualizaion of the trace of a skateboard with a smartphone taped to the deck
Shape of song Visualization of the structure of songs
Newsmap Visualization of news headlines according to related articles
Map of tic tac toe All possible states of tic tac toe in one pic
xkcd: lord of the rings Chart representation of lord of the rings
Nicholas Felton: annual reports Personal annual reports by the author
Eric Fischer: locals and tourists Maps based on photos taken by tourists vs. locals
Ben Fry: all streets maps of the US based on streets
Flight patterns Visualization of plane flights in the US
Wind map Live wind map of the US
William Lidwell :"more with less" Paper on propositional density, design and meaning
Andrew Vande:"On the role of design in information visualization" Aesthetics in information visualization
Scott Bateman et al.:"Useful Junk? The Effects of Visual Embellishment on Comprehension and Memorability of Charts" Paper on better memory of facts based on embellished pics
Iraqs bloody toll Information graphic on deaths in iraq
Jacques Bertin: “Semiology of Graphics” A classic book by a geographer
Stevens: “The psychophysics of sensory function”, 1961 Scientific perspective on perception
blog.visual.ly 45 ways to communicate quantities
Stephen Few: "Practical Rules for Using Colors in Charts” Article on the use of colors
Drew Skau: ”Dear NASA: No More Rainbow Color Scales, please ” Article against the use of rainbow color scales for data visualization
How To Avoid Equidistant HSV Colors Clever choice of equidistant colors
Color Interpolation How to interpolate colors
Colorbrewer Color advice for maps
NASA series on color Web page about the use of color to represent data
Reading, writing, earning money Map that ignores separability vs integrality issue
His and hers colors Interactive visualization of gender dependent color naming skills
Ben Fry: “Visualizing Data” Textbook with a focus on processing
Moritz Stefaner: "The Design of X by Y" Book chapter in "Beautiful visualization", page 205
Andy Kirk: "Data Visualization: a successful design process" Structured approach to the data visualization process
Christian Behrens: "The Form of Facts and Figures - Design Patterns For Interactive Information Visualization" Master’s Thesis on interactive visualization
Chart suggestions: A thought starter Visualization of how to choose the right chart
Many eyes Page by IBM about visualization
Fast Faust Visualization of Goethes Faust
Elastic Tag Maps Elastic tag maps
one week Stream graph of Obama’s “One week speech”
Literary organism Visualization of the structure of texts in a tree
Ben Fry: “On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured traces” Visualization of editions of Darwin’s book ”the origin of species” and differences between them
Treevis A visual Bibliography of Tree Visualizations
Treemaps Treemap software by the Human Computer Interaction Lab of the University of Maryland
TimeViz A visual survey of techniques for visualitation of time-orientedl data
Lee Byron & Martin Wattenberg: "Stacked Graphs - Geometry & Aesthetics" Paper on streamgraphs
Visual complexity Net ressource for complex networks
Danny Holten & Jarke J. van Wijk: "A User Study on Visualizing Directed Edges in Graphs" Comparison of different ways to represent directed links in networks
Mercator puzzle Why we should care about map projections
The true true size of Africa Why we should care about map projections pt. II
hobo dryer equal area world map (Upside down equal area world map)
Open Street Map Free worldwide map created by users
mapbox platform for styling open street maps
Imhof: "Positioning Names on Maps" An early article by a carthographer on placing labels
CartoDB Software for visualization and analysis of geospatial data
d3.geo(projections in d3), extended plugin
Axis Maps Company offering custom made maps
Buckminster Fuller: Dymaxion world map The earth surface unfolded with minimal distortions
Robert Kosara: "Storytelling: The Next Step for Visualization" Paper on the importance of storytelling
Edward Segel and Stephen Heer: "Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data" Paper on narrative visualization
Dörk et al.: “Exploring the Politics of Visualization” Data visualization and critical theory
scientific communications as sequential art Visualization of a scientific paper that has been redesigned as a sequence of illustrations with captions
Michael Najjar: high altitude Art and data visualization. For example visualization of stock exchange prices with rocky mountains
“Beyond the Tyranny of the Pixel: Exploring the Physicallity of Information Visualization" Paper on unconventional visualizations
News knitter Data knitted to pullovers
Andreas Nicolas Fischer: a week in life Motion path of one week transformed to a sculpture
Data cuisine Data visualization with food
d3 Data-Driven-Documents: A Javascript library to visualize data on the internet
prepros for running a local web server
gephi Interactive visualization and exploration for networks and complex systems, sigma.js exporter
Tableau Software for analytics on tabular, quantitative data
circos Radial visualizations
visualisingdata resources A collection of ressources
gridcalculator Generator for grids to optimize layouts
PIJM nice case studies
(For practical projects, you can work in teams up to 3 people)
Pick one:
Data: Google docs
of a facebook community (from an anonymized sample, see dropbox, or by getting your own one by using the netvizz facebook app)
10 minute (5 slides) presentation of a scientific paper on data visualization
Scott Bateman et al.:"Useful Junk? The Effects of Visual Embellishment on Comprehension and Memorability of Charts" Paper on better memory of facts based on embellished pics
Anna “Evaluating the effect of style in information visualization”
Danny Holten & Jarke J. van Wijk: "A User Study on Visualizing Directed Edges in Graphs" Comparison of different ways to represent directed links in networks
Robert Kosara: "Storytelling: The Next Step for Visualization"
Edward Segel and Stephen Heer: "Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data"
The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations
Jeffrey Heer, Ben Shneiderman: "Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis"