• Outside In excerpt. Silvio Levy, Tamara Munzner, and Delle Maxwell. AK Peters 1994.

• Perlin autostereo applet
• Table Lens
• Blink Comparator
• Small Multiples Animation

• Hyperdimensional Data Analysis Using Parallel Coordinates Edward J. Wegman. Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 85, No. 411. (Sep., 1990), pp. 664-675. [Archived version]
• Visualizing Proximity Data Rich DeJordy, Stephen P. Borgatti, Chris Roussin and Daniel S. Halgin. Field Methods 19(3):239-263, 2007. [Archived version]
• Fast Multidimensional Scaling through Sampling, Springs and Interpolation Alistair Morrison, Greg Ross, Matthew Chalmers, Information Visualization 2(1) March 2003, pp. 68-77. [Archived version]
• Cluster Stability and the Use of Noise in Interpretation of Clustering, George S. Davidson, Brian N. Wylie, Kevin W. Boyack, Proc InfoVis 2001. [Archived version]
• Interactive Hierarchical Dimension Ordering, Spacing and Filtering for Exploration Of High Dimensional Datasets Jing Yang, Wei Peng, Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, Proc. InfoVis 2003. [Archived version]

Further Readings

• Visualizing the non-visual: spatial analysis and interaction with information from text documents James A. Wise, James J. Thomas, Kelly Pennock, David Lantrip, Marc Pottier, Anne Schur, and Vern Crow. Proc InfoVis 1995.
• Hierarchical Parallel Coordinates for Visualizing Large Multivariate Data Sets Ying-Huey Fua, Matthew O. Ward, and Elke A. Rundensteiner, IEEE Visualization '99. [Archived version]
• Parallel Coordinates: A Tool for Visualizing Multi-Dimensional Geometry. Alfred Inselberg and Bernard Dimsdale, IEEE Visualization '90, 1990.
• Steerable, Progressive Multidimensional Scaling Matt Williams and Tamara Munzner Proc. InfoVis 2004, pp 57-64
• The Automated Multidimensional Detective, Alfred Inselberg and Tova Avidan, Proc. InfoVis 99, p 112-119
• Spatialization Design: Comparing Points and Landscapes Melanie Tory, David W. Sprague, Fuqu Wu, Wing Yan So, and Tamara Munzner. Proc InfoVis 2007, to appear.

• Tufte, Chapter 2: Micro/Macro Readings
• Ware, Chapter 10: Interacting with Visualizations: second half, p 325-345
• Space-Scale Diagrams: Understanding Multiscale Interfaces George Furnas and Ben Bederson, Proc SIGCHI '95. [Archived version]
• Smooth and Efficient Zooming and Panning. Jack J. van Wijk and Wim A.A. Nuij, Proc. InfoVis 2003, p. 15-22 [Archived version]
• OrthoZoom Scroller: 1D Multi-Scale Navigation Catherine Appert and Jean-Daniel Fekete. Proc. SIGCHI 06, pp 21-30. [Archived version]

• Pad++: A Zooming Graphical Interface for Exploring Alternate Interface Physics Ben Bederson, and James D Hollan, Proc UIST 94. [Archived version]
• Speed-Dependent Automatic Zooming for Browsing Large Documents Takeo Igarashi and Ken Hinckley, Proc. UIST'00, pp. 139-148. [Archived version]
• Rapid Controlled Movement Through a Virtual 3D Workspace Jock Mackinlay, Stuart Card, and George Robertson. Proc SIGGRAPH '90, pp 171-176. [Archived version]
• Design Guidelines for Landmarks to Support Navigation in Virtual Environments, Norman G. Vinson, Proc. SIGCHI 99. [Archived version]
• Effective View Navigation, George W. Furnas, Proc. SIGCHI 97, pp. 367-374 [Archived version]
• Critical Zones in Desert Fog: Aids to Multiscale Navigation, Susanne Jul and George W. Furnas, Proc. UIST 98 [Archived version]
• Tuning and testing scrolling interfaces that automatically zoom Andy Cockburn, Joshua Savage, Andrew Wallace. Proc CHI 05. [Archived version]

Videos: OrthoZoom movie1, movie2

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• Graph Visualisation in Information Visualisation: a Survey Ivan Herman, Guy Melancon, M. Scott Marshall. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 6(1), pp. 24-44, 2000 [Archived version]
• Cushion Treemaps Jack J. van Wijk and Huub van de Wetering, Proc InfoVis 1999, pp 73-78 [Archived version]
• Multiscale Visualization of Small World Networks David Auber, Yves Chiricota, Fabien Jourdan, Guy Melancon, Proc. InfoVis 2003 [Archived version]
• Topological Fisheye Views for Visualizing Large Graphs, Emden Gansner, Yehuda Koren and Stephen North, IEEE TVCG 11(4), p 457-468, 2005 [Archived version]
• IPSep-CoLa: An Incremental Procedure for Separation Constraint Layout of Graphs Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, and Yehuda Koren. Proc. InfoVis 2006, published as IEEE TVCG 12(5), Sep 2006, p 821-828. [Archived version]

• Animated Exploration of Graphs with Radial Layout Ka-Ping Yee, Danyel Fisher, Rachna Dhamija, and Marti Hearst, Proc InfoVis 2001. [Archived version]
• Interactive Visualization of Small World Graphs Frank van Ham and Jarke van Wijk, Proc. InfoVis 2005
• Interactive Information Visualization of a Million Items Jean-Daniel Fekete and Catherine Plaisant, Proc InfoVis 2002. [Archived version]
• Online Dynamic Graph Drawing Yaniv Frishman and Ayellet Tal. Proc EuroVis 2007, 75-82.
• TopoLayout: Multi-Level Graph Layout by Topological Features. Daniel Archambault, Tamara Munzner, and David Auber Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(2):305--317, Mar/Apr 2007.

Videos

• Animated Exploration of Graphs with Radial Layout video, Video Proceedings Vis/InfoVis 2001
• Online Dynamic Graph Drawing

• Ware, Appendix C: The Perceptual Evaluation of Visualization Techniques and Systems
• Snap-Together Visualization: Can Users Construct and Operate Coordinated Views? Chris North, B. Shneiderman. Intl. Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Academic Press, 53(5), pg. 715-739, (November 2000). [Archived version]
• Navigating Hierarchically Clustered Networks through Fisheye and Full-Zoom Methods Doug Schaffer and Zhengping Zuo, and Saul Greenberg, and Lyn Bartram and John C. Dill and Shelli Dubs and Mark Roseman. ACM Trans. Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI), 3(2) p 162-188, 1996. [Archived version]
• Turning Pictures into Numbers: Extracting and Generating Information from Complex Visualizations J. Gregory Trafton, Susan S. Kirschenbaum, Ted L. Tsui, Robert T. Miyamoto, James A. Ballas, and Paula D. Raymond. Intl Journ. Human Computer Studies 53(5), 2000, 827-850. [Archived version]
• The Perceptual Scalability of Visualization Beth Yost and Chris North. Proc. InfoVis 06, published as IEEE TVCG 12(5), Sep 2006, p 837-844. [Archived version]

• Task-Centered User Interface Design, Clayton Lewis and John Rieman, Chapters 0-5. [Archived version] (Book available in its entirety online.)
• The challenge of information visualization evaluation Catherine Plaisant. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2004 [Archived version]
• Strategies for Evaluating Information Visualization Tools: Multi-dimensional In-depth Long-term Case Studies. Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant, Proc. AVI Workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization (BELIV), 2006, p 38--43.
• Enrico Bertini's great BELIV06 list of evaluation in infovis

• High Dimensionality: Donovan Parks
  papers to pick from
  also, Martin Law's manifold learning page is a great list of papers on dimensionality reduction
  • Eigensolver Methods for Progressive Multidimensional Scaling of Large Data, Ulrik Brandes and Christian Pich, Proc. Graph Drawing 2006, LNCS 4372, Springer, p 42--53, 2006.
  • chosen:Charting a manifold, Matthew Brand, NIPS 2003.
  • Multiscale hybrid MDS Fabien Jourdan, Guy Melancon. Proc. Information Visualization (London) 2004.
  • chosen:Think Globally, Fit Locally: Unsupervised Learning of Nonlinear Manifolds. Lawrence K. Saul & Sam T. Roweis. University of Pennsylvania Technical Report MS-CIS-02-18, 2002
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Intrinsic Dimension E. Levina and P.J. Bickel, NIPS 2004
  • Dimensional Anchors: a Graphic Primitive for Multidimensional Multivariate Information Visualizations Patrick Hoffman, Georges Grinstein, and David Pinkney. Proc. Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation, Nov. 1999, pp. 9-16.
  • chosen:Isometric mapping (ISOMAP): Mapping a Manifold of Perceptual Observations. Joshua B. Tenenbaum. Proc. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 1998.
  • chosen:Action Synopsis: Pose Selection and Illustration. Jackie Assa, Yaron Caspi, Daniel Cohen-Or. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH) 2005.
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• Graph Drawing: Cody Robson
  papers to pick from
  • chosen:Drawing on Physical Analogies Ulrik Brandes. In Michael Kaufmann and Dorothea Wagner (Eds.): Drawing Graphs: Methods and Models. LNCS Tutorial 2025, p 71-86, Springer 2001.
  • chosen:Multi-Level Graph Layout on the GPU Yaniv Frishman and Ayellet Tal. Proc InfoVis 2007
  • chosen: Drawing large graphs with a potential-field-based multilevel algorithm S. Hachul and M. Junger. Proc. Graph Drawing 2004, volume 3383 of LNCS, p 285--295. Springer-Verlag.
  • chosen: Interactive Visualization of Small World Graphs Frank van Ham and Jarke van Wijk, Proc. InfoVis 2005
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• Networks: Jonatan Schroeder
  papers to pick from:
  • chosen:Visualizing Network Data Richard A. Becker, Stephen G. Eick, Allan R. Wilks. IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) Vol 1 No 1, March 1995, pp 16-28. [Archived version]
  • chosen:Visualizing Large-Scale Telecommunication Networks and Services Eleftherios Koutsofios, Stephen C. North, Russell Truscott, Daniel A. Keim. Proc IEEE Visualization 1999, pp 457-461.
  • chosen: Countering Security Analyst and Network Administrator Overload Through Alert and Packet Visualization G. Conti, K. Abdullah, J. Grizzard, J. Stasko, J. Copeland, M. Ahamad, H. Owen and C. Lee. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), March 2006.
  • chosen: Mapping and Visualizing the Internet Bill Cheswick, Hal Burch, and Steve Branigan USENIX, San Diego, CA, June 2000.
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• Animation: Michael Welsman-Dinelle
  papers to pick from
  • chosen:Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics Jeffrey Heer, George Robertson. Proc IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2007
  • chosen:Animation: Can It Facilitate? Barbara Tversky, Julie Morrison, Mireille Betrancourt. International Journal of Human Computer Studies 57:4, pp 247-262, 2002.
  • chosen:Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to Computer Animation John Lasseter, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 87, Computer Graphics, 21(4), pp. 35-44, July 1987.
    Illustrations of 11 Principles
  • Interactive Visualization of Genealogical Graphs Michael J. McGuffin, Ravin Balakrishnan. Proc. InfoVis 2005, pp 17-24.
  • chosen:User-controlled animated diagrams: the solution for learning dynamic content?. Richard Lowe. Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
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Further Readings Project Proposals

• Cartography: April Webster
  papers to pick from
  • Geographically weighted visualization - interactive graphics for scale-varying exploratory analysis Jason Dykes and Chris Brunsdon, IEEE TVCG 13(6):1161-1168 (Proc. InfoVis 2007)
  • Hotmap: Looking at Geographic Attention Danyel Fisher, IEEE TVCG 13(6):1184-1191 (Proc. InfoVis 2007) [Archived version]
  • Interactive Visual Exploration of a Large Spatio-temporal Dataset: Reflections on a Geovisualization Mashup Jo Wood, Jason Dykes, Aidan Slingsby, and Keith Clarke IEEE TVCG 13(6):1176-1183 (Proc. InfoVis 2007)
  • chosen:CartoDraw: A Fast Algorithm for Generating Contiguous Cartograms Daniel A. Keim, Stephen C. North, Christopher Panse. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 95-110, 2004
  • Case Study: Design and Assessment of an Enhanced Geographic Information System for Exploration of Multivariate Health Statistics Robert M. Edsall, Alan M. MacEachren and Linda Pickle. Proc. InfoVis 2001.
  • chosen:Geographic visualization: designing manipulable maps for exploring temporally varying georeferenced statistics Alan M. MacEachren, A.M. Boscoe, F.P. Haug, D. Pickle, L.W. (1998). Information Visualization. 1998, 87-94.
  • chosen:Conditioned Choropleth Maps and Hypothesis Generation. Daniel B. Carr, Denis White, Duncan MacPherson, and Alan M. MacEachren, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 95(1), 2005, pp. 32-53
  • chosen: The space-time cube revisited from a geovisualization perspective. Menno-Jan Kraak, Proceedings of the 21st International Cartographic Conference (ICC), 2003, pp. 1988-96
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• Perception: Alex Gukov
  papers to pick from
  • chosen: Stevens Dot Patterns for 2D Flow Visualization. Laura G. Tateosian, Brent M. Dennis, and Christopher G. Healey. Proc. Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV) 2006.
  • chosen:Visualizing Data with Motion Daniel E. Huber and Christopher G. Healey. Proc. IEEE Visualization 2005, pp. 527-534.
  • chosen: Internal vs. External Information in Visual Perception Ronald A. Rensink. Proc. 2nd Int. Symposium on Smart Graphics, pp 63-70, 2002. [Archived version]
  • chosen:Current approaches to change blindness Daniel J. Simons. Visual Cognition 7, 1/2/3 (2000), 1-15.
  • Why a Diagram is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words, Larkin, J. and Simon, H.A., Cognitive Science, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 65-99, 1987.
  • Face-based Luminance Matching for Perceptual Colormap Generation Gordon Kindlmann, Erik Reinhard, and Sarah Creem Proc. Vis 2002 [Archived version] [Software]
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custom evaluation form

Further Readings

• The Ten Simple Rules For Scientists Collection

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• Process and Pitfalls in Writing Information Visualization Research Papers, Tamara Munzner, to appear.

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• April Webster and Michael Welsman-Dinelle, Law Enforcement Resource Allocation (LERA) Visualization System
• Jonatan Schroeder, A Visualization Tool for Geographic Information of NTP Servers
• Cody Robson, Graph Animation and Labeling on a Large Scale
• Donovan Parks, Structure of a Motion Capture Database under Different Similarity Metrics
• Alex Gukov, Exploring Categorical Relationships in History of InfoVis Publications