Expressing Information
Christian Marc Schmidt
anything@christianmarcschmidt.com
Interactive Telecommunications Program
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Fall 2007

overview / assignments / resources / glossary
General Reference Websites
 · Ask E.T.
· Gallery of Information Visualization
· Information Aesthetics
· InfoVis.net
· Many Eyes
· Parsons Info-Vis Database
· Processing
· Swivel
· UC Berkeley Visualization Lab
· Visual Complexity

 Coding resources
 · Prefuse: Interactive infovis toolkit for Java and Flash
· ActionScript for Flash MX, by Colin Moock (O'Reilly)
· Essential ActionScript 3.0, by Colin Moock (O'Reilly)
· Processing: A Programming Handbook for Designers and Artists, by Casey Reas and Ben Fry (MIT Press)

 Lectures/Presentations
 · Fernanda Viegas: Democratizing Visualization
· George Siemens: Patterns & Sensemaking
· Hans Rosling at TED
· Jonathan Harris at TED

 Data Resources
· Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester
· Bay Area public transit schedules data
· Biomapping data
· CIA World Factbook Online
· CLUI Land Use Database
· DayLife API
· Digg API
· Environment XML Datastreams
· Flickr API
· Freebase API
· Geo-Names
· Google APIs
· Mapping Globalization Transation Database
· MetaCarta Labs: Geospatial Parsing APIs
· National Climatic Data Center
· Trulia API
· University of Dayton Temperature Data Archive
· United Nations Statistics Division
· US Census Bureau: International Data Base (IDB)
· US DOT: National Bridge Inventory
· We Feel Fine API
· Weather Channel API
· Wikipedia Datadump
· Worldmapper Data Sources
· Yahoo! TagMaps API

 Techniques/Methods
 · Arc Diagrams
· Chromograms
· Hyperbolic Tree Visualization
· Matrix Charts
· Network Diagrams
· Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
· Sankey Diagrams
· Sparklines
· Tag Clouds
· Treemaps
 Visualization: Art/Research
 Aaron Koblin
The Sheep Market  multiplicities
Visualization of Flight Patterns  tracings

Alexander Galloway/RSG
Carnivore  network diagrams

Christian Nold
Bio Mapping  tracings  maps

Dietmar Offenhuber
Wegzeit  tracings  maps

George LeGrady
Pockets Full of Memories  multiplicities

Golan Levin
The Secret Lives of Numbers  multiplicities
The Dumpster  multiplicities  simulations

Ingo Günther
Worldprocessor  maps

Jim Campbell
Illuminated Averages  prototypes

Jason Salovon
The work of Jason Salavon  prototypes

Jonathan Harris
We Feel Fine (with Sepandar Kamvar)  multiplicities  simulations
10x10  multiplicities

Josh On
They Rule  network diagrams

Joshua Portway and Lise Autogena
Stock Market Planetarium  maps

Jussi Ängeslevä & Ross Cooper
The Last Clock  tracings

Kim Dingle
United Shapes of America  prototypes

Kevan Davis
The Smaller Picture  prototypes

Komar and Melamid
The Most Wanted Paintings  prototypes

Mark Lombardi
The work of Mark Lombardi  network diagrams

Martin Wattenberg
The Shape of Song  maps
Copernica  multiplicities
Gothamberg (with Marek Walczak and others)  multiplicities  simulations
Apartment (with Marek Walczak)  simulations

 Visualization: Tools/Apps/Documentation
 Ben Fry
Zipdecode  maps
Valence  tracings
Anemone  tracings

Brad Paley
TextArc  maps
Map of Science  maps

Charles Joseph Minard
Napoleon's March  maps

Hans Rosling/Google
Gapminder World 2006  maps  simulations

K10K
Moodstats  maps  simulations

Marcos Weskamp
Newsmap  maps

Martin Wattenberg
SmartMoney Map of the Market  maps
History Flow  maps

Michael Naimark
Aspen Moviemap  tracings

NASA
J-Track  maps

Stamen Design
Digg Labs  simulations
Trulia Hindsight  maps  simulations

Thinkmap
Visual Thesaurus  network diagrams
Books
 Colin Ware
Information Visualization

Denis Wood
The Power of Maps

Edward R. Tufte
Visual Explanations
Envisioning Information
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Beautiful Evidence

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Metaphors We Live By

Janet Abrams & Peter Hall
Else/Where: Mapping

Robert Harris
Information Graphics

Roland Barthes
Mythologies


Texts
 Benjamin Fry
Computational Information Design

Bradford Paley
InfoVis Tests

David Womack
Seeing is believing: Information visualization and the debate over global warming

Jack Burnham
System Esthetics

James Corner
The Agency of Mapping

Jean Baudrillard
from The System of Objects:
A Marginal System: Collecting

Lev Manovich
The Anti-Sublime in Data Art
Database as Symbolic Form

Martin Wattenberg
Artistic Data Visualization: Beyond Visual Analytics

Susan Sontag
Melancholy Objects
from: On Photography

Jarke van Wijk
The Value of Visualization

Zachary Pousman, John T. Stasko
Casual Information Visualization: Depictions of Data in Everyday Life