Art & Science of Data Visualization

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1. 10 Things You Can Learn From the New York Times’ Data Visualizations | Visual.ly Blog

   Added 2012-04-03 1 reader
2. It Figures: The Historical Aesthetics of Scientific Publishing : Uncertain Principles

   Added 2012-03-30 1 reader
3. Big Data’s Impact in the World - NYTimes.com

   Added 2012-03-14 6 readers
4. A Tour through the Visualization Zoo

   Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky in Queue (2010)

   Added 2012-03-08 60 readers
5. Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis

   Jeffrey Heer, Ben Shneiderman in Queue (2012)

   Added 2012-03-08 55 readers
6. Visual Analytics: Definition, Process and Challenges

   Daniel Keim, Gennady Andrienko, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Carsten Görg, Jörn Kohlhammer, Guy Melançon in Information Visualization: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2008)

   Added 2012-02-11 8 readers
7. Narrative visualization: telling stories with data.

   Edward Segel, Jeffrey Heer in IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics (2010)

   Data visualization is regularly promoted for its ability to reveal stories within data, yet these “data stories” differ in important ways from traditional forms of storytelling. Storytellers, especially online journalists, have increasingly been…

   Added 2011-10-19
8. The impact of color combinations on the legibility of a Web page text presented on CRT displays

   Iztok Humar, Mirko Gradisar, Tomaz Turk in International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics (2008)

   This paper describes the impact of color combinations on the legibility of a Web page text presented on a calibrated cathode ray tube display. Four hundred and sixty-eight participants tested the legibility of 56 color combinations, compounded of…

   Added 2011-01-20 15 readers
9. Receiver psychology and the evolution of multicomponent signals.

   C Rowe in Animal behaviour (1999)

   Many animals produce and respond to signals made up of multiple components. For example, many avian sexual displays are highly extravagant combinations of visual and acoustic elements, and are described as being 'multicomponent'. One possible reason…

   Added 2011-01-20 87 readers
10. "Fear Won't Do It": Promoting Positive Engagement With Climate Change Through Visual and Iconic Representations

    S. O'Neill, S. Nicholson-Cole in Science Communication (2009)

    Added 2011-01-20 47 readers
11. Visual Bias in Time's "The Great Divide": A Semiotic Analysis of Clinton and Obama Photographs

    T. Goodnow in American Behavioral Scientist (2010)

    Added 2011-01-20 2 readers
12. Visualizing Enlightenment-Era Social Networks | Brain Pickings

    Added 2011-01-20 1 reader
13. Data visualization in reporting and storytelling

    Peter Aldhous (2010)

    Added 2011-01-20 2 readers
14. Information retention from PowerPoint(TM) and traditional lectures

    April Savoy, Robert W. Proctor, Gavriel Salvendy in Computers & Education (2009)

    The benefit of PowerPoint(TM) is continuously debated, but both supporters and detractors have insufficient empirical evidence. Its use in university lectures has influenced investigations of PowerPoint's effects on student performance (e.g.,…

    Added 2011-01-20 4 readers
15. Creating retroactive and proactive interference in multimedia learning

    Richard E. Mayer, Krista E. DeLeeuw, Paul Ayres in Applied Cognitive Psychology (2007)

    When students learn how a physical system works, does it help if they also learn how similar systems work? Some college students (concise group) studied a multimedia lesson that explained how hydraulic brakes work, consisting of narrated animation…

    Added 2011-01-20 12 readers
16. Graphs as aids to knowledge construction: Signaling techniques for guiding the process of graph comprehension.

    Priti Shah, Mary Hegarty, Richard E. Mayer in Journal of Educational Psychology (1999)

    Graphical displays are frequently used to express quantitative information in texts, but viewers are sometimes unable to comprehend and learn the relevant information. According to a cognitive analysis, graph interpretation involves (a) relatively…

    Added 2011-01-20 25 readers