Fry, Ben. Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment. 1 edition. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2008.
Chapter 1 – The Seven States of Visualizing Data
Meirelles, Isabel. Design for Information: An Introduction to the Histories, Theories, and Best Practices Behind Effective Information Visualizations. Rockport Publishers, 2013. – Chapter 2 – Relational Structures: Networks
McHale, John. Toward the Future. Design Quarterly, no. 72 (1968): 3–31. doi:10.2307/4047350.
Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. “They Say / I Say”: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. Third Edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Murray, Scott. Interactive Data Visualization for the Web. 1 edition. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2013.
Murray, Scott. Interactive Data Visualization for the Web. – Free Online Version: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.html
Recommended
Theory:
Tufte, Edward. Envisioning Information. Graphics Press, 1990.
Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 2nd edition. Cheshire, Conn: Graphics Pr, 2001.
Tufte, Edward. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire, Conn: Graphics Press, 1997.
Bertin, Jacques. Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps. 1 edition. Redlands, Calif: Esri Press, 2010.
Card, Stuart K., Jock D. MacKinlay, and Ben Shneiderman. Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think. 1 edition. San Francisco, Calif: Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
Munzner, Tamara. Visualization Analysis and Design. Har/Psc edition. Boca Raton: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2014.
Ware, Colin. Information Visualization, Third Edition: Perception for Design. 3 edition. Waltham, MA: Morgan Kaufmann, 2012.
Norman, Don. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition. Revised Edition. New York, New York: Basic Books, 2013.
Practice:
Fry, Ben. Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment. 1 edition. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2008.
Anthologies:
Yau, Nathan. Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics. 1 edition. Indianapolis, Ind: Wiley, 2011.
Steele, Julie, and Noah Iliinsky, eds. Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts. 1 edition. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2010.
Cairo, Alberto. The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization. 1 edition. Berkeley, California: New Riders, 2012.
Lima, Manuel. Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011.
Papers:
Kiehl, J. T., and Kevin E. Trenberth. 1997. "Earth's annual global mean energy budget."
Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society 78, 197-208. Applied Science &
Technology Source, EBSCOhost (accessed February 16, 2016).
Websites
Research:
Rennsearch - http://library.rpi.edu/setup.do
Zotero - https://www.zotero.org/
Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com
Visualization-related initiatives:
The Jefferson Project at Lake George - http://fundforlakegeorge.org/JeffersonProject
CLOSED WORLDS - http://www.anacycle.com/CLOSED-WORLDS
EcoRedux – Design Remedies for a Dying Planet - http://www.ecoredux.com/
Visualization Tutorials:
D3 Data Driven Documents - https://d3js.org/
Mike Bostock’s d3 tutorials - https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Tutorials
Flowing Data - http://flowingdata.com/
Flowing Data – d3 tutorials - https://flowingdata.com/tag/d3/
Dashingd3.js - https://www.dashingd3js.com
Linked Small Multiples - https://flowingdata.com/2014/10/15/linked-small-multiples/
A Big Article About Wee Things - https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/a-big-article-about-wee-things
Animation Principles for the Web - https://cssanimation.rocks/principles/
Visualization Excellence – Practitioners, content aggregators:
Mike Bostock, author of d3 - https://bost.ocks.org/mike/
Stamen Design - http://stamen.com/
Moritz Stefaner - http://truth-and-beauty.net/projects
Data Is Beautiful Subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful
Infosthetics - http://infosthetics.com/
Density Design - https://www.flickr.com/photos/densitydesign/
Ben Fry - http://benfry.com/
Fathom - http://fathom.info/
Casey Reas - http://reas.com/
Isabel Meirelles - http://isabelmeirelles.com/
Elijah Meeks - http://elijahmeeks.com/
Visualization Exemplars:
Networks:
• Violence and guns in best-selling video games - http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/apr/30/violence-guns-best-selling-video-games
• Among the Oscar Contenders, a Host of Connections - http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/20/movies/among-the-oscar-contenders-a-host-of-connections.html?_r=0
• Force-Directed Graph - http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4062045
Sankey Diagrams:
• http://elijahmeeks.com/#repos – and - https://github.com/emeeks/d3.sankey-multipart
• World Consumption of Petroleum - http://www.iea.org/sankey/
• Sankey Diagrams - https://bost.ocks.org/mike/sankey/
• Sankey by tamc - http://tamc.github.io/Sankey/
• Alluvial Diagrams - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvial_diagram
• Sankey Diagram - https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/sankey
• A Sankey diagram (says more than 1000 pie charts) - http://www.sankey-diagrams.com/
• Sankey Diagrams - https://www.pinterest.com/davecolumbus/sankey-diagrams/
Small Multiples:
• Minute by Minute Point Differentials of 2015 NBA Games (small multiples)- http://roadtolarissa.com/nba-minutes/
• A stunning visualization of our divided Congress https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/23/a-stunning-visualization-of-our-divided-congress/
The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives (Related paper) - http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0123507
Datasets:
• http://www.statsci.org/datasets.html
• Index of Local Datasets - http://www.umass.edu/statdata/statdata/data/index.html
Visualizing Ecologies and Metabolisms
Energy
• Earth’s Annual Global Mean Energy Budget - http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/papers/KiehlTrenbBAMS97.pdf
Nutrient Cycle
• Nutrient cycle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrient_cycle
“The persistent legacy of environmental feedback that is left behind by or as an extension of the ecological actions of organisms is known as niche construction or ecosystem engineering. Many species leave an effect even after their death, such as coral skeletons or the extensive habitat modifications to a wetland by a beaver, whose components are recycled and re-used by descendants and other species living under a different selective regime through the feedback and agency of these legacy effects.[28][29] Ecosystem engineers can influence nutrient cycling efficiency rates through their actions.
Earthworms, for example, passively and mechanically alter the nature of soil environments. Bodies of dead worms passively contribute mineral nutrients to the soil. The worms also mechanically modify the physical structure of the soil as they crawl about (bioturbation), digest on the moulds of organic matter they pull from the soil litter. These activities transport nutrients into the mineral layers of soil. Worms discard wastes that create worm castings containing undigested materials where bacteria and other decomposers gain access to the nutrients. The earthworm is employed in this process and the production of the ecosystem depends on their capability to create feedback loops in the recycling process.[30][31]
Shellfish are also ecosystem engineers because they: 1) Filter suspended particles from the water column; 2) Remove excess nutrients from coastal bays through denitrification; 3) Serve as natural coastal buffers, absorbing wave energy and reducing erosion from boat wakes, sea level rise and storms; 4) Provide nursery habitat for fish that are valuable to coastal economies.[32]”
o “The term ecological recycling appears in a 1968 publication on future applications of ecology for the creation of different modules designed for living in extreme environments, such as space or under sea: "For our basic requirement of recycling vital resources, the oceans provide much more frequent ecological recycling than the land area. Fish and other organic populations have higher growth rates, vegetation has less capricious weather problems for sea harvesting"[39]”
McHale, John. 1968. “Toward the Future”. Design Quarterly, no. 72. Walker Art Center: 20. doi:10.2307/4047350.
o http://www.jstor.org/stable/4047350
o http://www.walkerart.org/magazine/2014/design-quarterly-andrew-blauvelt - available for download
Food Web
• Food Web - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_web
Disease
A Model of Breast Cancer Causation - http://www.cabreastcancer.org/causes/
