Links on Visualization
SAP Design Guild Articles and Guidelines on Visualization | Web Links on Visualization | Books on Visualization
Last update: 08/20/2008
This page offers information on visualization techniques. Examples of new visualization techniques, especially controls and applications, can be found here.
SAP Design Guild Articles and Guidelines on Visualization
Charts and Graphics
- Recommendations for Charts and Graphics (Experimental guidelines)
Presentation in General
- The Art of Hiding - Part 1
- The Art of Hiding - Part 2
- Efficient MiniApp Design - The Right Information Right on the Spot
- Orion - A Visual Approach to Business Analytics
- Knowledge Reporting with InfoZoomŪ
- Making the Truth Visible - Designing Graphics for Visual Reporting Tools
Hierarchies
- Hierarchies - Categories vs. Vectors
- Fighting (with) Hierarchies - Part I: Basics
- Fighting (with) Hierarchies - Part II: Presentation
- Appendix: Fighting (with) Hierarchies - Presentation Techniques I
- Appendix: Fighting (with) Hierarchies - Presentation Techniques II
Colors
Visual Deficiencies
Book Reviews
- Elements of Graph Design (Kosslyn)
- Information Dashboard Design (Few)
- Information Visualization (Spence)
- Information Visualization, 2nd Edition (Spence)
- The Craft of Information Visualization (Bedersen, Shneiderman)
Web Links on Visualization
General
- Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward Tufte's Principles (by University of Washington): www.washington.edu/computing/training/560/zz-tufte.html
- A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods: www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html (see also link below)
HCIL
- HCIL (University of Maryland): www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/
- Treemap: www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/index.shtml
- Overview article "Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies" (Ben Shneidermap): www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/
Hyperbolic Trees, Focus+Context
- A Focus+Context Technique Based on Hyperbolic Geometry for Visualizing Large Hierarchies (John Lamping, Ramana Rao, and Peter Pirolli, CHI 95): www.acm.org/sigchi/chi95/proceedings/papers/jl_bdy.htm
- Focus+Context Visualization with Flip Zooming and the Zoom Browser (Lars Erik Holmquist, CHI 97)): www.acm.org/sigchi/chi97/proceedings/poster/leh.htm
- InXight (hyperbolic trees): www.inxight.com/
MIT
- Page about the Macroscope (MIT, Henry Lieberman): lieber.www.media.mit.edu/people/lieber/Lieberary/Macroscope/Macroscope.html
- Tangible Media Group (MIT): tangible.media.mit.edu/
Fraunhofer Instiute
- AWAKE Project: awake.imk.fraunhofer.de/index.html
- Matrix Browser (part of the AWAKE project): awake.imk.fraunhofer.de/matrix_browser.html
Other
- Visual-Literacy.Org (Visual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on Visualization for Communication, Engineering and Business): www.visual-literacy.org
- visuos (a visuospatial operating software for knowledge work): www.visuos.com
Books on Visualization
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Cover Image |
Author(s) |
Year |
Publisher |
Review |
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Bederson, Benjamin B.; Shneiderman, Ben The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections |
2003 |
Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 1558609156 |
Review |
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Card, Stuart; Mackinlay, Jock; Schneiderman, Ben Readings in Information Visualization |
1999 |
Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 1558605339 |
n.a. |
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Fowler, Susan; Stanwick, Victor The GUI Style Guide |
1994 |
AP Professional ISBN: 0122635906 |
n.a. |
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Few, Stephen Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data |
2006 | O'Reilly ISBN: 0596100167 |
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Fry, Ben Visualizing Data |
2008 | O'Reilly ISBN-10: 0596514557
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Information: Information presentation |
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Kahn, Paul & Lank, Krysztof Mapping Web Sites (German version: Websites visualisieren) |
2001 |
RotoVision SA ASIN: 2880464641 (German version: Rowohlt ISBN: 3499612003) |
n.a. |
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Kosslyn, Stephen M. Elements of Graph Design |
1993 1993 |
W H Freeman & Co ISBN: 0716722631 ISBN: 071672362X |
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Clemens Lango Visuos |
2003 |
Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag der Autoren ISBN: 3935025467 |
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Mitchell, William J. The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era: Visual Truth in the Post-photographic Era |
1994 | MIT Press ISBN: 0262631601 |
General |
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Reas, Casey, & Fry, Ben Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists |
2007 | The MIT Press ISBN-10: 0262182629 ISBN-13: 978-0262182621 |
Design |
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Solso, Robert L. Cognition and the Visual Arts |
1996 (1994) |
MIT Press ISBN: 0262691868 (Paperback, 1996) |
General, Design |
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Spence, Robert |
2007 | Prentice-Hall (Pearson) ISBN: 0132065509 |
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Robert Spence, ACM Press Information Visualization |
2000 |
Addison-Wesley Pub Co ISBN: 0201596261 |
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Tufte, Edward R. Envisioning Information |
1990 |
Graphics Press ISBN: 0961392118 |
n.a. |
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Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information |
1983 |
Graphics Press (1999) ISBN: 096139210X |
n.a. |
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Tufte, Edward R. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative |
1997 |
Graphics Press ISBN: 0961392126 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Wandmacher, Jens Software-Ergonomie (German) |
1993 |
de Gruyter ISBN: 3-11-012971-X |
n.a. |
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Colin Ware Visual Thinking: For Design |
2008 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 0123708966
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Design, Visualization |
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Information Visualization, Second Edition: Perception for Design | 2004 | Morgan Kaufmann ISBN-10: 1558608192 |
Design, Visualization |
