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Robert Kosara / January 25, 2015

Seminal InfoVis Papers: Introduction

Some of the most fundamental and important papers in information visualization are around 30 years old. This is interesting for several reasons. For one, it shows that the field is still very young. Most research fields go back much, much further. Even within such a short time frame, though, there is a danger of not knowing some of the most important pieces of research.

While 30 years is not much, it is also a lot. Some papers get cited over and over again, but more for convenience than with an eye towards truly building upon them and questioning them. They are treated as gospel a bit too much.

The goal of this little series is to describe a few of the most fundamental papers (not just ones that are that old, but also a few more recent ones). I don’t just want to summarize the papers though, but show the way forward: what work has been done since, what questions remain open, what new work could be done based on them?

A paper’s publication is only the beginning. Its value comes from the work that is built on top of it, questioning it, improving upon it – and, sometimes, proving it wrong.

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Robert Kosara is Senior Research Scientist at Tableau Software, and formerly Associate Professor of Computer Science. His research focus is the communication of data using visualization. In addition to blogging, Robert also runs and tweets. Read More…

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