awesome-visualization-research

how can different color palette convey different emotions?

An overview of the CIECAM16 and CIECAM02 color appearance models, thought to be successors to the popular CIELAB model.

overview of designing color palettes in tableau

An attempt to model how color is perceived depending on form and viewing conditions of the visualization

detailed account of designing a better colormap for the popular matplotlib library

Hunt's color appearance model, which was used as the basis for the Colorbrewer palettes.

description of ggplot2 by Hadley Wickham.

Investigation of the design of declarative, domain-specific languages for constructing interactive visualizations. Informs decisions in Vega and Protovis.

a formal framework for representing design knowledge about effective visualization design as a collection of constraints. Can be used to build visualization recommendation systems.

Discussion of how to effectively design software for information visualizations.

an open source visualization grammar, enables other applications to build powerful abstractions on top of it

an interactive tool to animate the visual elements of a static picture

lessons that interface designers can learn from cartoonists

a study on the impact of different easing curves in animations

Kosara's attempt to breakdown alternative narrative structures from the inverted pyramid suitable for data stories.

Study of strategies for ordering visualizations in a narrative

Heer's attempt in 2010 to describe a shift happening in the use of visualizations toward what he calls "narrative visualization"

Breakdown of rhetorical techniques in the framing of visualizations

Discussion of scrollers and steppers and whether readers prefer a "flow" experience over something more static

Robert Kosara's study on reading accuracy with pie charts.

Evaluation of visualizations that reveal other user's expectations around a dataset, like NYT's You Draw It results graphs.

User study of different timeline styles (line, star, radial etc.).

Follow-up to Cleveland's 1984 study that looks closer at why and when bar charts are preferable

Cleveland study on dot plots over bar charts

Classic paper with ranked lists of how well people decode visual cues.

An attempt to refine studies of visual encoding by including the task performed by the viewer when measuring visualization performance

The capacity of attention is limited. How does this limitation impact visualization?

Borkin paper that builds on her memorability study (in this section below) to investigate which components of a visualization are recalled after viewing.

An evaluation of four perceptual tasks performed by audiences of data visualization.

Classic Cleveland paper looks at the effectiveness of different graphical forms

An attempt to model how people make sense of information visualizations -- in particular unfamiliar visualization forms.

algorithm for automatically creating a visualization, given a dataset.

general visualization methods for large datasets

a model for multiscale representations of data, enabling more scalable visualization techniques

in browser system that leverages the GPU for real-time interaction

specialized database system for visualizing spatiotemporal datasets