• Introduction, definitions, scope, Comparison with SciViz
• 7 types (1-, 2-, 3-, multi-dimensional, temporal, tree, and network data)
• 7 tasks (overview, zoom, filter, details-on-demand, relate, history, and extract)
• Direct manipulation (visual representation of the objects and actions of interest and rapid, incremental, and reversible operations)
• Dynamic queries (HomeFinder, Dynamap, Spotfire)
• Visual Info Seeking mantra: Overview First, Zoom and Filter, then Details-on-Demand
• Evaluation methods (controlled experiments, observations, case studies)

• 1a) Catherine Plaisant (January 2005). Information Visualization and the Challenge of Universal Usability. To appear in book on GeoVisualization (HCIL-2004-36).
• 1b) Catherine Plaisant (May 2004). The Challenge of Information Visualization Evaluation. Proc. of Conf. on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI’04 (2004), p.109-116 (HCIL-2004-19).
• Other sources: Chapter 14 DTUI & First chapter of Readings Book

Assignment Due: Assignment #1: Static displays for data presentation

• Multidimensional and Multidimensional and multivariate data (HCE)
• Parallel Coordinates (HCE, MacroFocus)

• 2a) MacEachren, A., Dai, X., Hardisty, F., Guo, D., and Lengerich, G. Exploring high-D spaces with multiform matrices and small multiples. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (2003), 31–38.

• Class Presentation by Xu Liu & Ming Luo (size: 1MB)
• Related Movies (zip file size: 6.1 MB)

• Multidimensional and Multidimensional and multivariate data (HCE)
• Parallel Coordinates (HCE, MacroFocus)

• 2b) Jinwook Seo and Ben Shneiderman (November 2004). A Rank-by-Feature Framework for Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional Data. Information Visualization, to appear June 2005 (HCIL-2004-31).

Assignment Due: Application Proposal

Readings:

• 3a) Lin, J., Keogh, E., Lonardi, S., Lankford, J. P. & Nystrom, D. M. (2004). Visually Mining and Monitoring Massive Time Series. Proc. 10th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data MiningSeattle, WA, Aug 22-25, 2004.

Readings:

• 3b) Hochheiser, Harry. and Shneiderman, Ben (November 2004). Dynamic Query Tools for Time Series Data Sets, Timebox Widgets for Interactive Exploration. Information Visualization, 3, 1 (March 2004), 1-18 (HCIL-2004-26).

Class Materials:

• Slides of the Infovis 2004 contest session at InfoVis 2004.
• Lindwarm D., Rose, A., Plaisant, C., Norman, K. (May 1997). Viewing personal history records: A comparison of tabular format and graphical presentation using LifeLines. CS-TR-3795, UMIACS-TR-97-45. Revised version appeared in Behavior and Information Technology, 17, 5, 1998, 249-262.
• Slides from a good insight–based evaluation paper at InfoVis 2004. An Evaluation of Microarray Visualization Tools for Biological Insight. Purvi Saraiya, Chris North, Karen Duca (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University).

Assignment Due: Proposal for Term Project (send via email to Dr. Shneiderman ben@cs.umd.edu)

Materials:

• http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/piccolo

Readings:

• 4a) Bederson, B.B., Shneiderman, B., and Wattenberg, M. (July 2001). Ordered and Quantum Treemaps: Making Effective Use of 2D Space to Display Hierarchies. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) , 21, (4), October 2002, 833-854 (HCIL-2001-18).

Materials: Class Presentation by Layla Shahamat & Kenny Weiss

Readings:

• 4b) Plaisant, C., Grosjean, J., and Bederson, B. (April 2002). SpaceTree: Supporting Exploration in Large Node Link Tree, Design Evolution and Empirical Evaluation. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, 2002: 57 -64, Boston, October 2002 (HCIL-2002-05).

Materials: Class Presentation by  Mei Huang & Chunyuan Liao

What we will look at:

• Data Mining Email to Discover Social Networks and Emergent Communities — http://www.orgnet.com/email.html
• Social Network Analysis of the 9-11 Terrorist Network — http://www.orgnet.com/hijackers.html
• Organizational Hierarchy — http://www.orgnet.com/orgchart.html

Materials: Class Presentation by Louis Licamele & Mustafa Bilgic

Readings:

• 5a1) Kunz, C., Botsch, V., Ziegler, J., and Spath, D. Contextualizing Search Results in Networked Directories. Proceedings of HCII2003, Crete, Greece, 2003.
• 5a2) Ziegler, J., Kunz, C., and Botsch, V. (April 2002). Matrix Browser: Visualizing and exploring large networked information spaces. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, 2002: 57 -64, Boston, October 2002 (HCIL-2002-05).

Materials: Presented by Sandro Fouche

Readings:

• 5b) Lee, B., Czerwinski, M., Robertson, G., and Bederson, B. (January 2005). Understanding Research Trends in Conferences Using PaperLens. To appear in CHI 2005.

Materials: Class Presentation by Jerry Alan Fails

Readings:

• 6) Shneiderman, B. (November/December 2003). Why not make interfaces better than 3D reality?. In IEEE-CG&A 2003.

• 7) MacDonald, L. (July/Aug 1999). Using Color Effectively in Computer Graphics. In IEEE CG&A, 1999.
• ColorBrewer — www.colorbrewer.org

• 8) North, C., Conklin, N., and Saini, V (2002). Visualization schemas for flexible information visualization. In IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, 2002.

• 9) Sripada, Y., Reiter, E., Hunter, J., and Yu, J. (2003). Generating English summaries of time series using the Gricean maxims. In ACM SIGKDD, 2003.