Information visualisation references
This page lists publications on information visualisation recommended for students on the Interaction Design programme at IUAV University of Venice.
INFORMATION DESIGN BOOKS
Bertin, Jacques. La Semiologie Graphique.
Tufte, Edward R. 1983. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire CT: Graphics Press.
- 1990. Envisioning Information.
- 1997. Visual Explanations
- 2006. Beautiful evidence
Visocky O'Grady, Jenn and Ken. 2008. The Information Design Handbook. Rotovision.
DATA VISUALISATION BOOKS
Fry, Ben. 2008. Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment. O'Reilly Media.
Klanten, R, Bourquin, N, Ehmann, S, vanHeerden, F. 2008. Data Flow. Die Gestalten Verlag.
Spence, Robert. 2007. Information Visualization: Design for Interaction. 2nd edition. Prentice Hall.
ICON DESIGN BOOKS
Caplin, Steve. 2001. Icon Design: Graphic Icons in Computer Interface Design. New York: Watson-Guptill.
INFORMATION VISUALISATION LINKS
Please let us know if you find any of these links are dead or moved.
Guardian newspaper open data
http://www.guardian.co.uk/data
Visualization community
http://www.visualizing.org/
My Society
http://www.mysociety.org/projects/mapumental/
Periodic Table of visualisation techniques
http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
Gallery of network visualisations
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
Information aesthetics
http://infosthetics.com/
Bestiario studio
http://www.bestiario.org/
Stamen studio
http://stamen.com/
Nice magnifying list (Jonathan Harris)
http://tenbyten.org/10x10.html
Jonathan Harris’s site
http://www.number27.org/
Tom Carden's blog
http://www.tom-carden.co.uk/
David Lu’s projects
www.velluminous.org
http://velluminous.org/portfolio/detail/?14
Visualising conversations:
(Boris Muller)
http://www.forestandthetrees.com/findr/findr.html
(Mike Migurski)
http://backchannel.stamen.com/
Semantic links between websites (only still pix at the moment)
http://www.ralphammer.de/projects/sinnzeug/sinnzeug_en.html
Power links between companies (Josh On)
http://www.theyrule.net/
(other work by Josh)
http://www.futurefarmers.com/josh/rca/index.html
Hyperbolic net visualisations
Visual thesaurus
Hypergraph - Hyperbolic graphs and trees : ThinkMap
KartOO visual meta search engine
Inxight: a spin off from Xerox Park from the visualization team of Stu Card
http://www.inxight.com/products/sdks/
Inxight StarTree
Inxight TimeWall
Inxight TableLens
(Inxight has been acqired by SAP. At present there are no pictures or demos on the site. Google 'hyperbolic visualisation' to find similar examples. 1/dec/2008)
Map of creativity
http://www.ngf.org.uk/map/map.html
Explore the Flikr space
http://www.quasimondo.com/tagnautica.php
World development statistics
G A P M I N D E R: HOME
Semantic Indexing
http://www.knowledgesearch.org/
Timelines (look at the live examples)
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/
AT&T telecoms company’s visualisation research group
http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery.php
Overview of the stockmarket
www.smartmoney.com (look at Tools in the menu on the left)