Saturday, September 18, 2010

A Survey of the Research Community's Contribution to Information Visualization


Ringmap from Zhao, Forer, Harvey. Information Visualization Journal  (2008)
The purpose of this post will be different then ones from the past. Instead of talking about research others have done, I'm going to include some of my own work. This paper was the practicum project for my Master of Business Intelligence degree for the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. The focus of this paper is on information visualization contributions from the research community. This is not featuring visualizations such as bar and pie charts, although you can find them on another site I created, but what ways you can deal with large amounts of data. Primarily this paper explores how this can be done through interaction, animation, and some other clever methods.


This paper was especially fun to write since, like my degree, was interdisciplinary. Computer Science was of course strongly represented, but researchers such as Zhao, Forer, and Harvey were geography researchers. Non-academic researchers, such as George Furnas of Bell Communications, was also strongly covered in this paper.