Series: Lists of Influences
Ever wondered where the successful visualization researchers take their ideas from? How they got to know all that stuff that they draw from? What made them work on a certain project? Well wonder no...
View ArticleList of Influences: Pat Hanrahan
Since Pat Hanrahan was part of the reason for starting this project, it was only fair to ask him first. I also didn’t get all the titles written down that he mentioned, so there is also a practical...
View ArticleList of Influences: Chaomei Chen
The second list of influences is by Chaomei Chen. He is an associate professor at Drexel University and the editor-in-chief of the Information Visualization journal. He has also authored or co-authored...
View ArticleList of Influences: Jarke “Jack” van Wijk
A colleague of mine describes Jarke van Wijk as “somebody who has not just worked in several areas of visualization, but also written the landmark papers in each of them.” His contributions include...
View ArticleList of Influences: Alan MacEachren
The first time I saw Alan MacEachren speak was as the keynote speaker at the Diagrams 2000 conference in Edinburgh. Because of his background in geography, he was introduced as “a practitioner” of...
View ArticleList of Influences: Penny Rheingans
I was going to describe Penny Rheingans as the first purely scientific visualization person on this list, but that would have been a gross oversimplification. Penny has done groundbreaking work in...
View ArticleList of Influences: Colin Ware
Several lists of influences reference work by Colin Ware, mostly of course his book Information Visualization: Perception for Design. It therefore makes sense to ask an influencer of influencers about...
View ArticleList of Influences: Jock Mackinlay
Jock D. Mackinlay was working on information visualization long before the field or the term even existed. His Ph.D. thesis on the automatic visual representation of data translated Bertin’s...
View ArticleList of Influences: Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman’s name has been with me through my entire computing life. In high school, we used to draw Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams to understand structured programming. In the HCI course at my...
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List of Influences: Nigel Holmes
Few people have influenced the face of information graphics like Nigel Holmes. I am honored to not only present his very extensive and detailed list of influences here, but also do so on the occasion...
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