Information Visualization
CPSC 583, Fall 2017
Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 14:00 - 15:45, TI D&E.
Office Hours: By arrangement (680J).
Contact: sheelagh@ucalgary.ca.
Course Overview:
Grading:
The course will not have a final written examination.
Course Details
Required reading:
Information Visualization: An Introduction (3rd Edition)
Robert Spence, Prentice Hall.
Recommended readings:
There are many books that are interesting and useful. Here is a selection:
Visualization Analysis and Design
Tamara Munzner
Semiology of graphic: Diagrams, Networks, Maps
Jacques Bertin.
Information Visualization: Perception for Design
Colin Ware, Morgan Kaufmann.
Sketching the User Expereince: The Workbook
Saul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale, Nicolai Marquardt, Bill Buxton.
Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think
Stuart K. Card, Jock Mackinlay, Ben Shneiderman (editors), Morgan Kaufmann.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward Tufte.
Envisioning Information
Edward Tufte.
Things That Make Us Smart
Don Norman.
Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis
Stephen Few.
Visualizing Data
Ben Fry, O'Reilly.
Visual Thinking for Design
Colin Ware, Morgan Kaufmann.
Online resources:
Data sources:
- Database of dataset
- Various Machine Learning dataset
- 30 Places to Find Open Data on the Web from Visual.ly
- various dataset from Daily Tekk
- various dataset from faostats
- 100+ dataset
- Datasets Available in R
- Berkley Data Links
- Google Public Data
- various dataset From Quora
- Reddit Open Data
- InfoVis Benchmarks Repository From HCIL
- Countries/states dataset
- World Bank Data Catalog - thousands of indicators for all countries in the world over the years
- Gapminder - contains many measurements about the development of nations
- OECD better life index - indicators for almost all countries in the world
- OECD regional index - indicators by regions
- StateMaster - indicators by US state
- Environmental / sustainability dataset
- Governmental open data
- Sports dataset
- Security dataset
- Health dataset
- Volumetric dataset
- Other dataset
- Knowledge Discovery in Databases Archive
- Civic Data Sets for the Pacific Northwest
- Dataverse Network
- Credit card complaints - From Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Free SVG Maps - useful to show maps in background
- National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
- World Wine Statistics from the Wine Institute
Interesting websites to find collections of visualizations and infographics:
- visualizing.org
- visualizingdata.com
- collection of popular visualizations
- tumblr gallery
- Physical Visualizations
- Temporal Visualizations
- Visualizations from the VIS conference
- Tree Visualizations
- Dynamic Graph Visualizations
- Strange maps
Interesting Infovis related blogs:
- ChartsNThings, NY Times
- Eager Eyes, Robert Kosara
- Datablog, The Guardian
- Infovis wiki, collaborative
- Fell in love with data, Enrico Bertini
- infovis.net, Juan C. Durstler
- Visual business intelligence, Stephen Few
- Visual complexity, Manuel Lima
- Statistical graphics, Martin Theus
- Information wants to be seen, TJ Jankun-Kelly
- Flowing data, Nathan Yau
- Functional color, Maureen Stone
- Information is Beautiful
- Ask E.T., Edward Tufte
- Information aesthetics, Andrew Vande Moere
- Well formed data, Moritz Stephaner
- visual.ly
- Kelso cartography
- Heerforce one, Jeff Heer
- Atlas of Cyberspaces, Martin Dodge
- Datastories, podcast, Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner
Resources for coding visualizations:
- Processing
- d3 (javascript)
- Other Javascript libraries
- Other toolkits
Some tools to visualize your data: