CS 686: Reproducible Data Visualization

Learn to critically evaluate research papers, conduct literature reviews, implement large projects, run experimental studies, present research findings, familiarity with tools and software used in the research fields. Prerequisite: CS 514 and CS 545.

Introduction

Heer, Jeffrey, Michael Bostock, and Vadim Ogievetsky. "A tour through the visualization zoo." Commun. ACM 53.6 (2010): 59-67.
Laramee, Robert S, How to read a visualization research paper: Extracting the essentials. Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE 31.3 (2011): 78-82.
Introduction to D3

D3 Tutorials
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web by Scott Murray

Introduction to LaTeX
Getting LaTeX

References and Reference Management

Time-series visualization

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.
Kondo, Brittany, and Christopher Collins. Dimpvis: Exploring time-varying information visualizations by direct manipulation. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 20, no. 12 (2014): 2003-2012.
Miranda, F., M. Lage, H. Doraiswamy, C. Mydlarz, J. Salamon, Y. Lockerman, J. Freire, and C. Silva. Time Lattice: A Data Structure for the Interactive Visual Analysis of Large Time Series. In Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis' 18), vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 13-22. 2018.

Graph Visualization

Bruls, M., Huizing, K., & Van Wijk, J. J. (2000). Squarified treemaps. In Data visualization 2000 (pp. 33-42). Springer, Vienna.
Holten, Danny. Hierarchical edge bundles: Visualization of adjacency relations in hierarchical data. IEEE Transactions on visualization and computer graphics 12, no. 5 (2006): 741-748.
Ghoniem, J.-D. Fekete, and P. Castagliola. A Comparison of the Readability of Graphs Using Node-Link and Matrix-Based Representations. In Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis’04), pages 17–24, 2004.
Saket, Bahador, Paolo Simonetto, Stephen Kobourov, and Katy Börner. Node, node-link, and node-link-group diagrams: An evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 20, no. 12 (2014): 2231-2240.

Network visualization

Henry, Nathalie, Jean-Daniel Fekete, and Michael J. McGuffin. NodeTrix: a hybrid visualization of social networks. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 13, no. 6 (2007): 1302-1309.
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.
Bach, Benjamin, Nathalie Henry Riche, Christophe Hurter, Kim Marriott, and Tim Dwyer. Towards unambiguous edge bundling: Investigating confluent drawings for network visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics 1 (2017): 1-1.
Romat, Hugo, Caroline Appert, Benjamin Bach, Nathalie Henry-Riche, and Emmanuel Pietriga. Animated Edge Textures in Node-Link Diagrams: a Design Space and Initial Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p. 187. ACM, 2018.

Geovisualization (Maps)

Harrower, Mark, and Cynthia A. Brewer. Colorbrewer. org: an online tool for selecting colour schemes for maps. The Cartographic Journal 40.1 (2003): 27-37.
MacEachren, A. M., Gahegan, M., Pike, W., Brewer, I., Cai, G., Lengerich, E., & Hardistry, F. (2004). Geovisualization for knowledge construction and decision-support. Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, 24(1), 13-17.
Phan, Doantam, Ling Xiao, Ron Yeh, Pat Hanrahan, and Terry Winograd. "Flow map layout" (2005): 29.
Bleisch, Susanne, and Jason Dykes. "Quantitative data graphics in 3D desktop-based virtual environments - an evaluation." International Journal of Digital Earth 8, no. 8 (2015): 623-639.
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.
Ellis, Geoffrey, and Alan Dix. "An explorative analysis of user evaluation studies in information visualisation." In Proceedings of the 2006 AVI workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaluation methods for information visualization, pp. 1-7. ACM, 2006.
Lam, Heidi, Enrico Bertini, Petra Isenberg, Catherine Plaisant, and Sheelagh Carpendale. Empirical Studies in Information Visualization: Seven Scenarios" IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 18, no. 9 (2012): 1520-1536.
Cleveland and McGill paper and follow-up papers

Cleveland, William S., and Robert McGill. "Graphical perception: Theory, experimentation, and application to the development of graphical methods." Journal of the American statistical association 79, no. 387 (1984): 531-554.
Heer, Jeffrey, and Michael Bostock. "Crowdsourcing graphical perception: using mechanical turk to assess visualization design." In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems, pp. 203-212. ACM, 2010.
Hullman, Jessica, Eytan Adar, and Priti Shah. "The impact of social information on visual judgments." In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1461-1470. ACM, 2011.
Harrison, Lane, Drew Skau, Steven Franconeri, Aidong Lu, and Remco Chang. "Influencing visual judgment through affective priming." In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 2949-2958. ACM, 2013.
Skau, Drew, Lane Harrison, and Robert Kosara. "An evaluation of the impact of visual embellishments in bar charts." In Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 221-230. 2015.
Saket, Bahador, Arjun Srinivasan, Eric D. Ragan, and Alex Endert. "Evaluating interactive graphical encodings for data visualization." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 24, no. 3 (2018): 1316-1330.

Spatio-Temporal Visualization

Andrienko, Gennady, and Natalia Andrienko. "Spatio-temporal aggregation for visual analysis of movements." In Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2008. VAST'08. IEEE Symposium on, pp. 51-58. IEEE, 2008.
Maciejewski, Ross, Stephen Rudolph, Ryan Hafen, Ahmad Abusalah, Mohamed Yakout, Mourad Ouzzani, William S. Cleveland, Shaun J. Grannis, and David S. Ebert. "A visual analytics approach to understanding spatiotemporal hotspots." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 16, no. 2 (2010): 205-220.
Chae, Junghoon, Dennis Thom, Harald Bosch, Yun Jang, Ross Maciejewski, David S. Ebert, and Thomas Ertl. "Spatiotemporal social media analytics for abnormal event detection and examination using seasonal-trend decomposition." In Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2012 IEEE Conference on, pp. 143-152. IEEE, 2012.
Andrienko, Gennady, Natalia Andrienko, Harald Bosch, Thomas Ertl, Georg Fuchs, Piotr Jankowski, and Dennis Thom. "Thematic patterns in georeferenced tweets through space-time visual analytics." Computing in Science and Engineering 15, no. 3 (2013): 72-82.
Miranda, Fabio, Harish Doraiswamy, Marcos Lage, Kai Zhao, Bruno Gonçalves, Luc Wilson, Mondrian Hsieh, and Cláudio T. Silva. "Urban pulse: Capturing the rhythm of cities." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 23, no. 1 (2017): 791-800. - Presented by Nate Wilson

Uncertainty Visualization

Kay, Matthew, Tara Kola, Jessica R. Hullman, and Sean A. Munson. "When (ish) is my bus?: User-centered visualizations of uncertainty in everyday, mobile predictive systems." In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 5092-5103. ACM, 2016. - Presented by Claire Pang
Kale, Alex, Francis Nguyen, Matthew Kay, and Jessica Hullman. "Hypothetical Outcome Plots Help Untrained Observers Judge Trends in Ambiguous Data." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics (2018). - Presented by Domingo Huang
Hullman, Jessica, Matthew Kay, Yea-Seul Kim, and Samana Shrestha. "Imagining Replications: Graphical Prediction & Discrete Visualizations Improve Recall and Estimation of Effect Uncertainty." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 24, no. 1 (2018): 446-456. - Presented by Martino Kuan
Correll, Michael, and Michael Gleicher. "Error bars considered harmful: Exploring alternate encodings for mean and error." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 20, no. 12 (2014): 2142-2151. - Presented by Sarah Hu
Fernandes, Michael, Logan Walls, Sean Munson, Jessica Hullman, and Matthew Kay. "Uncertainty Displays Using Quantile Dotplots or CDFs Improve Transit Decision-Making." In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p. 144. ACM, 2018. - Presented by Nikhil Barapatre

Set Visualization

Gratzl, Samuel, Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg, Hanspeter Pfister, and Marc Streit. "Lineup: Visual analysis of multi-attribute rankings." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 19, no. 12 (2013): 2277-2286. - Presented by Sarah Hu.
Lex, Alexander, Nils Gehlenborg, Hendrik Strobelt, Romain Vuillemot, and Hanspeter Pfister. "UpSet: visualization of intersecting sets." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 20, no. 12 (2014): 1983-1992.
Yalcin, M. Adil, Niklas Elmqvist, and Benjamin B. Bederson. "AggreSet: Rich and scalable set exploration using visualizations of element aggregations." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 22, no. 1 (2016): 688-697. - Presented by Nate Wilson
Alsallakh, Bilal, and Liu Ren. "Powerset: A comprehensive visualization of set intersections." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 23, no. 1 (2017): 361-370.

Systems and Tools

Wongsuphasawat, Kanit, Dominik Moritz, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, Bill Howe, and Jeffrey Heer. "Voyager: Exploratory analysis via faceted browsing of visualization recommendations." IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics 1 (2016): 1-1.
Ren, Donghao, Bongshin Lee, and Matthew Brehmer. "Charticulator: Interactive Construction of Bespoke Chart Layouts." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics (2018).- Presented by Nikhil
Sarikaya, Alper, Michael Correll, Lyn Bartram, Melanie Tory, and Danyel Fisher. "What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dashboards?." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics (2018). - Presented by Tae
Conlen, Matthew, and Jeffrey Heer. "Idyll: A Markup Language for Authoring and Publishing Interactive Articles on the Web." In The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 977-989. ACM, 2018. - Presented by Domingo
Stolper, Charles D., Adam Perer, and David Gotz. "Progressive visual analytics: User-driven visual exploration of in-progress analytics." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 20, no. 12 (2014): 1653-1662.
Song, Hayeong, and Danielle Albers Szafir. "Where's My Data? Evaluating Visualizations with Missing Data." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics (2018). - Presented by Kian