information visualisation
periodic table of visualisation methods > http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
the InfoVisu group at CWI provides a good overview, and many links to papers, software, and general information on the topic http://www.cwi.nl/InfoVisu/
various
“Bokeh is an interactive visualization library for modern web browsers. It provides elegant, concise construction of versatile graphics, and affords high-performance interactivity over large or streaming datasets. Bokeh can help anyone who would like to quickly and easily make interactive plots, dashboards, and data applications.” > https://docs.bokeh.org/en/latest/
overview of tools
- The Guardian has summarised many of its favourite free data journalism tools in an article: http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/mar/28/data-visualisation-tools-free
- Big Data Visualization: Review of the 20 Best Tools: http://inspire.blufra.me/big-data-visualization-review-of-the-20-best-tools/
text, and textual information
- “Graphical visualization of text similarities in essays in a book” > http://www.munterbund.de/visualisierung_textaehnlichkeiten/essay.html
re.mapping_projects
- INA/Infographics > http://www.princeton.edu/~ina/
- visual complexity collation > http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
related
- there is are large sections of overlap with Graph Drawing and Network Topology
- general resources, http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ngg/InfoViz/
- visual representations of a body of text(s) http://textarc.org/
- … the 'history flow' of collaborative text editing http://www.research.ibm.com/history/
- the sunburst radial spacefilling heirarchical diagram » http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/sunburst/
code graphing
- linux kernel development in 3d >
- freecode graphing http://fcgp.sourceforge.net/
- the linux kernel, later version > http://lug.oregonstate.edu/projects/kernelmap/map.php
- the social life of cvs and mailing lists » http://www2.parc.com/csl/members/nicolas/
- a series of animations visualising commit histories to FLOSS projects > http://www.vimeo.com/1076588
- code_swarm / codeswarm
- example of the PLT tree http://vimeo.com/1508560
software/program visualisation
- Blaine A. Price, Ronald Baecker, and Ian Small. A principled taxonomy of software visualization. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 4(3):211-266, 1993.
- gcspy
- “SHriMP (Simple Hierarchical Multi-Perspective) is a domain-independent visualization technique designed to enhance how people browse and explore complex information spaces.” » http://www.thechiselgroup.org/shrimp
volumetrics
- openQVIS http://openqvis.sourceforge.net/
software
- vtk (visualization toolkit) http://public.kitware.com/VTK/
- graphviz (in GraphDrawing)
- Data Explorer http://www.opendx.org/ (see: VisualProgramming)
- scientific computing + imaging institute http://software.sci.utah.edu/
- for weather like datasets http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis5d.html
- mathematical visualisation http://mvs.sourceforge.net/
- orange, for fruitful data mining > http://magix.fri.uni-lj.si/orange/
- paraVIEW “is an open-source, multi-platform application designed to visualize data sets of size varying from small to very large” > http://paraview.org/
heirarchical
- M.S.T. Carpendale and A. Agarawala (2004). PhylloTrees?: Harnessing Nature's Phyllotactic Patterns for Tree Layout. > http://honeybrown.ca/Pubs/PhylloTrees.pdf
personal
rNd_links
- Tamara Munzner, Stanford Graphics Group http://graphics.stanford.EDU/~munzner/papers.html
- functional and aesthetic research focusing on developing approaches to data, in particular, the human genome. http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/
- infoViz resources http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348c-96-fall/resources.html
- visualising social networks http://www.netvis.org/resources.php
- infoaesthetics blog > http://www.infosthetics.com/
- citespace > http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/citespace/
- gori.garden > http://jee.manme.org.uk/
- topic maps > http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.html
free online services
- many eyes, “shared visualzation and discovery” > http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home
- info visualization widgets > http://widgenie.com/
sci.viz
- “Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2007” > http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2007/
books
- Richard Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/index