Automatic text processing: the transformation, analysis, and retrieval of information by computer
Automatic text processing: the transformation, analysis, and retrieval of information by computer
Envisioning information
Cyberspace
Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
Visualizing digital library search results with categorical and hierarchical axes
DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Self-Organizing Maps
Graph Visualization and Navigation in Information Visualization: A Survey
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Designing Pixel-Oriented Visualization Techniques: Theory and Applications
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Features, Objects, and Other Things: Ontological Distinctions in the Geographic Domain
COSIT 2001 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science
Evaluating the Usability of the Scale Metaphor for Querying Semantic Spaces
COSIT 2001 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science
The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations
VL '96 Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages
Visualizing the non-visual: spatial analysis and interaction with information from text documents
INFOVIS '95 Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
The structure of the information visualization design space
INFOVIS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '97)
A Taxonomy of Visualization Techniques Using the Data State Reference Model
INFOVIS '00 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Vizualization 2000
From Metaphor to Method: Cartographic Perspectives on Information Visualization
INFOVIS '00 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Vizualization 2000
Tree-Maps: a space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures
VIS '91 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Visualization '91
Semiology of graphics
A cartographic approach to visualizing conference abstracts
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Attribute space visualization of demographic change
GIS '03 Proceedings of the 11th ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems
Information space partitioning using adaptive Voronoi diagrams
Information Visualization
Making sense of it all: implementing an emerging KM technology within the organisation
International Journal of Information Technology and Management
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A number of visualization techniques have been put forward that implement a map metaphor to display abstract, non-georeferenced information. This paper refers to these as map-like information visualizations that are distinguished from other information visualization approaches in a number of ways. It interprets some of the principles underlying these techniques within a framework informed by geographic information science (GIScience). Recent geographic efforts in this research area have linked ideas about the nature of geographic information to cognitive schemata proposed by cognitive linguists. This paper draws on the arguments that have emerged from those efforts regarding the nature and usefulness of geographic metaphors. It proposes to discuss particular projection techniques, like multidimensional scaling or self-organizing maps, with reference to the geometric primitives they employ. These primitives will drive the choice of geometric and symbolic transformations that are necessary to achieve a particular visualization. Designers of map-like visualizations are thus challenged to seriously consider the implications of particular computational techniques and the consequences of symbolization choices.