Word clouds have emerged as a straightforward and visually appealing visualization
method for text. They are used in various contexts as a means to provide an overview by …

We present an overview of the last ten years of research on visualizations that support close
and distant reading of textual data in the digital humanities. We look at various works …

Data analysis often involves the comparison of complex objects. With the ever increasing
amounts and complexity of data, the demand for systems to help with these comparisons is …

Recent advances in technology have enabled social media services to support space-time
indexed data, and internet users from all over the world have created a large volume of time …

Serendipity, a trigger of exciting yet unexpected discoveries, is an important but
comparatively neglected factor in information seeking, research, and ideation. We suggest …

Abstract In 2005, Franco Moretti introduced Distant Reading to analyse entire literary text
collections. This was a rather revolutionary idea compared to the traditional Close Reading …

Do court cases differ from place to place? What kind of picture do we get by looking at a
country's collection of law cases? We introduce parallel tag clouds: a new way to visualize …

We present VizDeck, a web-based tool for exploratory visual analytics of unorganized
relational data. Motivated by collaborations with domain scientists who search for complex …

We present PivotPaths, an interactive visualization for exploring faceted information
resources. During both work and leisure, we increasingly interact with information spaces …

We introduce the concept of a Visual Backchannel as a novel way of following and exploring
online conversations about large-scale events. Microblogging communities, such as Twitter …