Readings & Resources
- Main text for this class:
- Primary books on perception and visual design:
- C. Ware: Information Visualization: Perception for Design, Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, (1st ed. 2000, 2nd ed. 2004)
- C. Ware: Visual Thinking for Design, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008
- Robin Williams, The non-designers design book design and typographic principles for the visual novice, Peachpit Press, 2004;
- Robin Williams, The non-designer's presentation book principles for effective presentation design, Peachpit Press, 2010;
- Stephen Few, Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten, Analytics Press, 2004.
- Primary books on Spatial Data / Volume Graphics:
- C.D. Hansen, C.R. Johnson (eds.): The Visualization Handbook, Elsevier, 2005
- K. Engel, M. Hadwiger, J.M. Kniss, C. Rezk-Salama, D. Weiskopf, Real-time volume graphics, AK Peters, 2006
- Primary books on Non-Spatial Data:
- Ch. Chen, Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon, Springer Verlag, 2004
- Card, Mackinlay, and Shneiderman, (eds.), Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision To Think; Morgan Kaufmann 1999
- References
- G.M. Nielson, H.Hagen, H. Müller: Scientific Visualization, IEEE CS Press, Los Alamitos, 1997
- W.J. Schroeder, K.W. Martin, B. Lorenson: The Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics, 4th ed., Kitware, Clifton Park, 2006
- The Visualization Toolkit User's Guide, 11th ed, Kitware, 2010
- E.R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press 1983
- E.R. Tufte, Envisioning Information, Graphics Press 1990
- E.R. Tufte, Visual Explanations, Graphics Press 1997
Vis Tools
- Spatial
- Great/Free
- Commercial Tools
- Non-Spatial