Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon

by Chaomei Chen

Information visualization is not only about creating graphical displays of complex and latent information structures. It also contributes to a broader range of cognitive, social, and collaborative activities. This is the first book to examine information visualization from this perspective. This 2nd edition continues the unique and ambitious quest for setting information visualization and virtual environments in a unifying framework. It pays special attention to the advances made over the last 5 years and potentially fruitful directions to pursue. It is particularly updated to meet the need for practitioners. The book is a valuable source for researchers and graduate students.

332 pages, Paperback

First published July 28, 2004

About the author

Dr. Chaomei Chen is a Professor of Informatics in the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University. He is a Chang Jiang Scholar at Dalian University of Technology, China since 2008 and was a visiting professor at Brunel University in the United Kingdom (2002-2008). He received his bachelor degree in mathematics from Nankai University, China, a master degree in computation from the University of Oxford in England and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Liverpool, England. His research interests include information visualization, visual analytics, knowledge domain visualization, mapping scientific frontiers, and theories of scientific discoveries and creativity.

His work has been cited over 7,950 times on Google Scholar. He is the principal investigator of research grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other government agencies and industrial sponsors such as Pfizer and IMS Health. His earlier research was funded by the European Commission, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK), and the Library and Information Commission (UK). Dr. Chen created the widely used software CiteSpace for visualizing and analyzing emerging trends in scientific literature. CiteSpace has been used by users worldwide.

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Reviews

[Ben Sweezy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh I'm battling my way through this. The first few chapters are acceptable without a rigorous mathematical background. I'm still with you, man, when you're talking about tree graphs or the different types of search (semantic, social, and --uh-- something else), but I'm beginning to lose you. I guess this isn't a very helpful review.

If you're at the MIT Press store and you have to buy something, focus on the cartography section, no the information visualization section. Unless you're me and expect to purchase the entire cartography section somewhere down the line as your income rises. Yes. Mmmm, cartography section.