Introduction
- Hans Rosling TED Talk
- Stephen Few's Graph IQ Test
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Data and Tasks
- B. Shneiderman, The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations, Visual Languages, 1996.
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Multivariate data
- Inselberg, Alfred, and Bernard Dimsdale. "Parallel coordinates," Human-Machine Interactive Systems. Springer US, 1991. 199-233. (Only the first 9 pages)
- Chris Stolte, Diane Tang and Pat Hanrahan, Multiscale Visualization Using Data Cubes, Proc. InfoVis 2002.
- Stolte, C., Tang, D., and Hanrahan, P., Polaris: a system for query, analysis, and visualization of multidimensional databases, Commun. ACM 51, 11 (Nov. 2008), 75-84.
Time-series data
- Jarke J. Van Wijk and Edward R. Van Selow. Cluster and Calendar Based Visualization of Time Series Data. In Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (INFOVIS '99). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA.
- Weber, Marc, Marc Alexa, and Wolfgang Moller. Visualizing time-series on spirals. Information Visualization, IEEE Symposium on. IEEE Computer Society, 2001.
- Zhao, J., Chevalier, F., Pietriga, E., & Balakrishnan, R. (2011). Exploratory analysis of time-series with chronolenses. Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on, 17(12), 2422-2431.
- Fuchs, J., Fischer, F., Mansmann, F., Bertini, E., & Isenberg, P. (2013, April). Evaluation of alternative glyph designs for time series data in a small multiple setting. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 3237-3246). ACM.
- Javed, Waqas, Bryan McDonnel, and Niklas Elmqvist. Graphical perception of multiple time series. Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on 16.6 (2010): 927-934.
Geovisualization (Maps)
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- Afzal, S., Maciejewski, R., Jang, Y., Elmqvist, N., & Ebert, D. S. (2012). Spatial text visualization using automatic typographic maps. Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on, 18(12), 2556-2564.
User Evaluation
- Robert Kosara, Christopher G. Healey, Victoria Interrante, David H. Laidlaw, and Colin Ware. User Studies: Why, How, and When?. IEEE Comput. Graph. Appl. 23, 4 (July 2003), 20-25.
- Plaisant, C. The Challenge of Information Visualization Evaluation. Advanced Visual interfaces, Italy, 2004, ACM Press.
- Heidi Lam, Enrico Bertini, Petra Isenberg, Catherine Plaisant, Sheelagh Carpendale, Empirical Studies in Information Visualization: Seven Scenarios, TVCG, December 2011
Graphs and Trees
- Tamara Munzner, "Chapter 9: Arrange Networks and Trees", Visualization Analysis and Design, AK Peters, November 2014
- Ben Shneiderman, "Tree visualization with tree-maps: 2-d space-filling approach." ACM Transactions on graphics (TOG) 11.1 (1992): 92-99.
- Holten, Danny, and Jarke J. Van Wijk. "Force Directed Edge Bundling for Graph Visualization," Computer Graphics Forum. Vol. 28. No. 3. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009.
- Bezerianos, A., Chevalier, F., Dragicevic, P., Elmqvist, N., & Fekete, J. D., Graphdice: A system for exploring multivariate social networks. In Computer Graphics Forum (Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 863-872). Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010