Readings in information visualization
by Stuart K. Card · first published 1999
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This book defines the emerging field of information visualization and offers the first-ever collection of the classic papers of the discipline, with introductions and analytical discussions of each topic and paper. The authors' intention is to present papers that focus on the use of visualization to discover relationships, using interactive graphics to amplify thought. This book is intended for research professionals in academia and industry; new graduate students and professors who want to begin work in this burgeoning field; professionals involved in financial data analysis, statistics, and
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…brilliant. For dynamic charts, his first book (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information) is the most relevant, it covers the theory - how to tell a good representation from a bad one - and the basics. Readings in Information Visualization ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Readings-Information-Visualization-I... ) is a collection of papers covering a wide range of techniques for a wide range of tasks. Apart from that, it's mostly a matter of picking…
on “Ask HN: Any good books on graphing/charting/visualization?” ↗Thanks. The textbooks I used in school were /Algorithms in C/ by Robert Sedgwick (now just /Algorithms/) and /Introduction to Algorithms/ by Cormen et al. For visualization, I mentioned /Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think/ in the article, which is a compilation of classic papers in infovis. Also Tufte’s /The Visual Display of Quantitative Information/. And for design, Norman’s /The Design of Everyday…
…TreeViz application ran on color Macintosh models and led to the widely cited paper (HCIL TR 91-06) jointly authored paper in the October 1991 IEEE Conference on Visualization. This paper was reprinted in Readings in Information Visualization. I think treemaps are a convenient representation that has unmatched utility for certain tasks. The capacity to see tens of thousands of nodes in a fixed space and find large areas or duplicate directories…
on “Visualizing Large Trees Using the Hyperbolic Browser (2021) [video]” ↗Also touched on in the sections on "Fisheye View" by Leung et al., "A Review and Taxonomy of Distortion-Oriented Presentation Techniques" in Card et al., "Readings in Information Visualization", Morgan Kaufman, 1999. A bit of googling also turns up http://eagereyes.org/blog/2008/fisheye-calendar-at-yahoo.htm... and a PDF of Bederson's paper on Fisheye calendars http://www.lib.umd.edu/drum/bitstream/1903/1201/1/CS-TR-4368...
on “Logarithmic calendar view” ↗