Information Visualization
Stuart Card

1. Intro
   • Examples
   • History
2. Sensemaking
   • Sensemaking model
3. External cognition
   • Visualization Levels of Use
   • Cost Structure
   • How visualization amplifies cognition
   • Visual sensemaking model
4. Reference model - Visualization Pipeline
   • Data structures
     • Variable types
     • Meta data
     • Data transformations
   • Visual structures
     • Spatial substrate
     • Marks
     • Connection and enclosure
     • Retinal properties
   • View transformations
5. Static mappings
   • Space
     • Physical -> physical
     • 1D
     • 2D
     • 3D
     • nD
   • Trees
   • Networks
6. Interaction
   • Dynamic Queries
   • Overview + Detail
7. Attention-based systems (Focus + Context)
   • Fisheye Views
   • Bifocal Views
   • Focus + Context
   • Visutl Transfer Functions
   • Alternate Geometries
8. Visual sensemaking
   • Attribute explorer-like systems
9. Mixed-inititive Systems
   • Backends
   • Frontends
10. Applications
    • Databases & statistics
    • Textual analytics & libraries
    • Web Analytics
    • Networks
    • History analysis