• Plaisant, C., Fekete, J., Grinstein, G., Promoting Insight Based Evaluation of Visualizations: From Contest to Benchmark Repository, IEEE Transactions inVisualization and Computer Graphics (2007) (tech report) .
• Plaisant, C., The challenge of information visualization evaluation, in Proc. of Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2004) ACM, New York, pp. 109-116 (tech report)
• (in French) Fekete, J.-D., Plaisant, C., Les lecons tirees des deux competitions de visualisation d'information, Proc. de la conference Interface- Homme-Machine 2004 (IHM'04), Namur (2004).

• The KDD Cup
• The Graph Drawing Contest

• TREC - Text retrieval conference

• UCI KDD Archive
• KDnuggets list of datasets

• The French site on InfoVis Evaluation
• Infovis Cyberinfrastructure (software repository)
• Infovis Toolkit (INRIA)

• Infovis.org
• Infovis.net

The Repository was created by Jean-Daniel Fekete, Catherine Plaisant, Shabnam Tafreshi.

Our sponsors for the Benchmark Repository are:

• The Human_Computer Interation Laboratory of the University of Maryland
• The IN-SITU Project of INRIA Futurs, France