Data, Information, and Visualization
A CODATA Task Group
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What is the Task Group All About?
People
What is Visualization?
Meetings
Resources (Tutorials, Books, Journals, & Links)
Contact
What is the Task Group All About?
The technical areas of this task group, visualization and data, information, and knowledge management, have gone in the past years through an enormous expansion in research and development and in their use. These technical areas include advances in data mining, heterogeneous systems, and visual presentations enabling the linking of data, information, and knowledge.
The Task Group mission is to enable CODATA (www.codata.org) to take advantage of state-of-the-art developments in the areas visualization and information and knowledge management.
This is done through:
¥ Being a liaison between academia, industry and government and CODATA
¥ Organizing meetings, workshops, and sessions on the subject area and publishing information
¥ Organizing tutorials for CODATA on the subject areas
¥ Creating and managing a Web page on the subject areas
This task group
brings the state of the art developments in these important technological areas
(visualization, data, information, and knowledge management, human information
interaction) to CODATA members (through workshops, tutorials and
publications). The task group
assesses the applicability of these technologies to CODATA mission and
activities. It brings to CODATA
standards activities done in other organizations (e.g., IEEE Task Force on
Human Centered Information Systems) and conversely, the task groups informs
other organization about CODATA activities.
People
Dr. Nahum Gershon, MITRE, USA (Chair)
Prof. Helene Bestougeff, Universite Denis-Diderot, France, Secretary
Prof. Keith Andrews, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Prof. Shuichi Iwata, University of Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Milan Konecny, Masaryk University Faculty of Science, Brno, Czech Republic
Dr. Michael Kurtz,
Harvard Univ., USA
Prof. Paul Mezey, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Dr. Victor Pilyugin, Institute for Computer-aided Design, Russia
Consultants
Prof. Francois Bouille, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Mr. Jams Crease, Hindhead, Surrey, U.K.
Prof. Anne-Francoise Cutting-Decelle, Universite de Savoie, France
Prof. Alexei Gvishiani, Centre of Geophysical Computer, Data Studies, Russia
Dr. Micah I. Krichevsky, Bionomics International, U.S.A.
Mr. Paul F., Uhlir, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, USA
Dr. Rengachari Venkataraghavan
CODATA Executive Committee Liaison
Prof. Horst Kremers, Berlin, Germany
What is Visualization?
Elaine
Mullen
Visualization is more than a method of computing! It is a process of transforming information into a visual form enabling the viewer to observe, browse, make sense, and understand the information. It typically employs computers to process the information and computer screens to view it using methods of interactive graphics, imaging, and visual design. It relies on the visual system to perceive and process the information.
Visualization is more than pretty pictures. This is not to lessen the importance of visual aesthetics. The latter is quite important in making the user like to look at the information. However, the beauty of an effective visualization is more than skin deep.
Meetings
29-30 March 2004, Prague
CODATA Workshop on Information Visualization, www.cgg.cvut.cz/infoviz
7-10 November 2004, The 19th
CODATA International Conference Ñ The Information Society: New Horizons for
Science, Berlin, Germany, www.codata.org/04conf/index.html
Resources (Tutorials, Books, Journals, &
Links)
Course on Information Visualization- under construction
Books:
Envisioning
Information by Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press, 1990
The
Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press,
1992
Visual
Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Edward R. Tufte,
Graphics Press, 1997
Readings
in Information Visualization : Using Vision to Think, Stuart Card, Jock
Mackinlay, & Ben Shneiderman, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
Information
Visualization : Perception for Design, Colin Ware, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.
A
new edition is scheduled to be published in Spring 2004.
Information
Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference, Robert L. Harris, Management
Graphics, 1996
Information
Visualization by Robert Spence, Pearson Addison Wesley, 2000
Digital
Diagrams: How to Design and Present Statistical Information Effectively, Trevor
Bounford, Alastair Campbell,
Digital
Diagrams: How to Design and Present Statistical Information Effectively by
Trevor Bounford & Alastair Campbell, Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000
Say It With Charts: The Executive's Guide to Visual Communication, Gene Zelazny, McGraw-Hill Trade; 4th edition, 2001
Journals:
Information
visualization, www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/
Computer
Graphics and Applications, CS Press
Transactions
in Visualization, IEEE Press
Links:
Information
Visualization Resources on the Web,
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs348c-96-fall/resources.html
Superior
Visualization
Organize,
See and Share Info Faster Create Visual Knowledge Maps
Visualization
Specialists
Find
advanced visualization tools for engineers and researchers.
Contact: Nahum Gershon, gershon@mitre.org