Physical representations of data have existed for thousands of years. Yet it is now that
advances in digital fabrication, actuated tangible interfaces, and shape-changing displays …

The conflux of two growing areas of technology–collaboration and visualization–into a new
research direction, collaborative visualization, provides new research challenges …

General visualization tools typically require manual specification of views: analysts must
select data variables and then choose which transformations and visual encodings to apply …

While there have been a dozen of authoring systems and programming toolkits for visual
design and development, users who do not have programming skills, such as data analysts …

Visual data analysis involves both open-ended and focused exploration. Manual chart
specification tools support question answering, but are often tedious for early-stage …

High-quality immersive display technologies are becoming mainstream with the release of
head-mounted displays (HMDs) such as the Oculus Rift. These devices potentially represent …

It remains challenging for information visualization novices to rapidly construct visualizations
during exploratory data analysis. We conducted an exploratory laboratory study in which …

As more people rely on visualization to inform their personal and collective decisions,
researchers have focused on a broader range of audiences, including “novices.” But …

The uptake and consumption of Linked Data is currently restricted almost entirely to the
Semantic Web community. While the utility of Linked Data to non-tech savvy web users is …

With the development of social media (eg Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, Sina Weibo, etc.), a
large number of people are now using them and post microblogs, messages and multi …