Byrd Vis Lab

Tools

Cytoscape.js

ParaView

VisIt

Tableau Desktop

• Tableau for Students (Free)

Tutorials

• Learn how to use Gephi, Popular tutorials by the Community
• Gephi Tutorial Quick Start
• Introduction to Gephi Network Visualization Software

• NODEXL Basics
• NodeXL Turorial (Part 1 of 3)
• NodeXL Tutorial (Part 2 of 3)
• NodeXL Tutorial (Part 3 of 3)

• Getting started with Cytoscape.js The first in a seriese of tutorials by Joseph Stahl about Cytoscape.js
• Visualizing Glycolysis with Cytoscape.js The second in a series of tutorials by Joseph Stahl about Cytoscape.js

• Introduction to D3.js
• An Introducation to D3 by Sam Selikoff
• D3.js Tutorials

• Introduction to ParaView by Andrew Bauer, Kitware
• ParaView Tutorial

• Prcessing tutorial Overview of data visualization (approx 12:25 min) | lynda.com
• Video Tutorials
• Examples (running online through p5.js using HTML Canvas for rendering
• Tutorial 1 How to download Processing. How to use point() and line()
• Tutorial 2 This tutorial explains about shades of gray and colors. And also shows how to use frameRate()
• Tutorial 3 How to change line colors - How to animate white lines across the display
• Tutorial 4 Create Something Useful (Create an animated Banner).
• Tutorial 5 Basic 3D: Covers the basics of 3d rendering in processing and animated some boxes.
• Tutorial 6 Android Processing Basic and 3D texturing
• Tutorial 7 Classes
• Defining a Class Part 1
• p5.js (download)
• Books

• Introduction to Tableau
• Training Videos
• Quick Starts
• Tableau Workbook Library
• Tableau Technology
• Tableau Whitepapers
• Introductory Training - Introduction to Tableau (approx. 20 min)

Visualization Books

Tufte, Edward R. (2001). The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (2nd ed.). Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press. ISBN 0961392142.

Tufte, Edward R. (1990). Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press. ISBN 0961392118.

Tufte, Edward R. (1997). Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press. ISBN 0961392126.

Few, Stephen (2004). Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten. Analytics Press. ISBN 978-0970601995.

Few, Stephen (2006). Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data. O’Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0596100162.

Few, Stephen (2009). Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis. Analytics Press. ISBN 978-0970601988.

Ware, C. (2004) Information Visualization: Perception for Design . (2nd Edition) Morgan Kaufman. December, 435 pages.

Ware, C. (2008) Visual Thinking for Design. Morgan Kaufman

Casey Reas and Ben Fry (2007), Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists. MIT Press. 736 pages.

Ben Fry (2007), Visualizing Data, O'Reilly. 384 pages.

William S. Cleveland (1985). The Elements of Graphing Data, Hobart Press.

William S. Cleveland (1993). Visualizing Data, Hobart Press.

WWW Resources