Prepare (do before class)
none
Readings
- S. K. Card, “Information visualization.” In The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, J. Jacko, A. Sears, (editors), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 2003.
- J.-D. Fekete, J. van Wijk, J. Stasko, C. North, “The Value of Information Visualization”, in Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives, (Editors: A. Kerren, J. Stasko, J.-D. Fekete, C. North), Springer, 2008, pp. 1-18.
- C. North, “Information Visualization”, in Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, G. Salvendy (editor), John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
- 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.
- J. van Wijk, “Views on Visualization”, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 4, Jul-Aug 2006, pp. 421-433.
Websites and Other Resources
- Anscombe’s Quartet
- What is Data Science? – O’Reilly
- For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics – NY Times
- The Three Sexy Skills of Data Geeks – Dataspora
- Data Visualization Is Reinventing Online Storytelling – Advertising Age
- Nuclear arms race – visual.ly
- Death and Taxes – visual.ly
- Best beer in America – Mike Wirth Art
- Beer – Beer graph
- Beeriodic Table – Beer Mongers
- Religious belief and income – awesome.good.is
- Where We Live – Joe Lertola
- Best Pie Chart ever – Jamie Schimley
- FOX News pie chart
- NameVoyager of the Baby Name Wizard
- Use of candidate’s names – from the NY Times
- Netflix Queues – from the NY Times
- InfoVis Wiki
- Infosthetics Blog
- Flowing Data
- Visual.ly
- Scoop.It!
- The Economist’s Graphic Detail
- Visualization Blog Compendium