CS-7960 | Design Studies | Spring 2013

INSTRUCTOR: Miriah Meyer
TIME: T/Th 2-3:20pm
PLACE: WEB 1450
OFFICE HRS: T 12-2pm, WEB 4887

toolkits

general systems Tableau
ggplot2
ImageVis3D
recommendations from Datavisualization.ch
processing Processing main page
Learning Processing
OpenProcessing.org
Examples by Ben Fry
Using Processing in Eclipse
vtk VTK download page
ParaView
VisTrails
other vis toolkits D3
Protovis
Piccolo
75+ Tools
JIT: JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit
Improvise
dimensionality reduction R
ggobi DR and statistical graphics package (windows, mac, linux)
DimStiller, java DR framework includes MDS, PCA, and dimensionality estimators
Glimmer MDS, C++. GPU version requires recent nVidia graphics card, CPU version runs anywhere
Isomap matlab
LLE matlab
SOM
graph drawing Gephi interactive viewing/filtering, forcedirected and multilevel layouts, metrics
Jung java-based library
Tulip handles large data
yfiles (evaluation version available)
AiSee (noncommercial/trial version available)
Tom Sawyer commercial, trial available
H3, 3D hyperbolic graphs through spanning trees, free for noncommercial use

presentation and writing advice

presentations

How to Give a Talk Paul N. Edwards
How to give a good research talk Simon L Peyton Jones, John Hughes, and John Launchbury
How To Present A Paper Leslie Lamport
Scientific Presentation Planning Jason Harrison
Things I Hope Not to See or Hear at SIGGRAPH Jim Blinn
The secret structure of great talks. Nancy Duarte.

writing

Writing Correctness and Style Pet Peeves, Tamara Munzner
The Science of Scientific Writing Gopen and Swan, American Scientist (Nov-Dec 1990)
How to do good research, get it published, and get it cited. Eamonn Keogh, UC Riverside

blogs

Handsome Atlas, Brooklyn Brainer
ChartsNThings, The NYTimes Graphics Dept
DataBlog, The Guardian Newspaper
Fell In Love With Data, Enrico Bertini
Visual Business Intelligence, Stephen Few
Eager Eyes, Robert Kosara
infovis wiki, Vienna
infovis.net, Juan C. Durstler
Statistical Graphics, Martin Theus
Functional Color, Maureen Stone
Well-Formed Data, Moritz Stefaner
Flowing Data, Nathan Yau
information aesthetics, Andrew Vande Moere
visual complexity, Manuel Lima
Ask ET, Edward Tufte
Information Wants to be Seen, TJ Jankun-Kelly

data sources

Census.gov
Data.gov
Dataverse Network
Data Market
Reddit Open Data
Climate Data Sources
Climate Station Records
CDC Data
World Bank Catalog
Free SVG Maps
StateMaster
VolVis
Whole Frog Project
Berkley Data Links
Google Public Data
Gordon Kindlmann's Brain
Volume Library
TU Vienna Vis Group Volume Datasets
Time-varying Hurricane Dataset