Information Visualization - No longer updated

• BFS Spider - The Best-First Search (BFS) spider begins at the URLs you provide, then follows the links on those first pages deeper and deeper.
• Big Picture(sm) Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases - HotSauce "is a 3D information navigation system that allows users to effortlessly explore Internet or intranet websites and desktop content"
• EDV: The Exploratory Data Visualizer - Bell labs application. Allows multiple linked perspective views for analysing large data sets.
• ET-Map - ET-Map is a prototype Internet homepage categorization system developed by the AI Group in the MIS Department at the University of Arizona
• HCI Research at Georgia Tech - We are conducting research in immersive and 3D HCI.
• IEC - IRIS Explorer Center - a powerful, easy-to-use, sophisticated visualisation system with a user environment that allows users and application developers to build complex applications for visualising sets of data.
• Information Retrieval at Glasgow - follow the research from people such as C.J. van Rijsbergen and Matthew Chalmers.
• Information Visualization at CWI - based in the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands.
• Information Visualization research at GVU - working on concepts like Information Murals and Semantic Zooming.
• Information Visualization at the Univ. Texas. - Pan American - projects have explored information visualization and interactive environments for visualization primarily in the domain of document retrieval.
• Institute for Visualization and Perception Research - The Institute for Visualization and Perception Research (IVPR) is an interdisciplinary group whose research and contract activities focus on the development of systems, displays and interaction techniques that enable scientists to explore multidimensional databases by visual and other perceptual means.
• Internet Mapping Project
• Indiana Univ. Visual Inference Laboratory - a multi-disciplinary research institute aimed at investigating the ways that visual representations support reasoning.
• Lighthouse - a novel interface concept for information retrieval that integrates the traditional ranked list and a clustering visualization
• NESTOR Navigator - a graphical Web browser which supports collaborative learning.
• NicheWorks - tool developed by Graham Wills for analysing trends in huge datasets using node/link structures.
• NIST Information Retrieval Visualization Engine (NIRVE) - a 3-dimensional interface designed to enhance the information retrieval process by providing an overview of a set of text documents as well as access to the details of the individual documents through seamless user navigation and manipulation.
• Nonlinear Magnification Home Page - Nonlinear magnification is a term that reflects the fundamental process that is central to the many techniques which have been described in the literature under such names as "fisheye views" "distortion-oriented presentation" and "focus+context".
• Pad++ Zoomable User Interfaces
• PERSONA HOME
• Q-PIT : a populated information terrain - examines issues from multi-user virtual reality, data visualisation and the use of databases to support cooperative work.
• SAGE Visualization Group - investigating novel ways of exploring information. These include new types of visualizations based on 3D graphics, animation, distortion and other types of techniques.
• SGI - MineSet - data mining software: "data warehousing, data mining, and visualization are the new paradigm for analyzing and understanding your vast wealth of information."
• ThinkMap - produce software that uses 3D animation to facilitate a diverse range of IT tasks including information retrieval.
• TreeMaps - another visualisation approach for hierarchical data from HCIL, U of Maryland.
• Umap.com the mapping search-engine by Trivium
• Visualization and Virtual Reality Group - conducts research in visualization and virtual environment technologies in order to demonstrate the utility and feasibility of visual displays of information to industry and government.
• VIVID Centre, Brunel University, UK - under the direction of Chaomei Chen, this group seeks to bring together researchers from closely related research fields in order to pursue high-quality research within the field of visualisation and HCI.
• WEBSOM - A novel SOM-based approach to free-text mining - Self Organised Maps.
• Xerox PARC UIR Information Visualization - have created a set of new interactive visualizations for hierarchical information (cone tree, Hyperbolic Tree, Spiral Calendar, Disk Tree), linear information (Perspective Wall), matrix information (Table Lens), information space x time (Time Tube), document visualization (Document Lens).

• Applications of Information Visualization - classified list of InfoVis approaches, by Rika Furuhata
• An Atlas of Cyberspaces Information Space Maps - The aim of these maps is to provide a sense of the "lie of the land" of an information domain to aid searching and data retrieval.
• Gary Ng's Information Visualisation Resources site - extremely good site and very current.
• Graphical Interfaces to Support Information Search - a structured introduction to graphical interfaces to information systems.
• Keith Andrew's Lecture Notes - great introduction and overview of this exciting field.
• NooFace - site devoted to the discussion of next-generation interfaces. Contains lots of InfoVis features.
• OLIVE: On-line Library of Information Visualization Environments - from Ben Shneiderman's research group (HCIL, U of Maryland).
• Peter Young's review of 3D Information Visualisation (Internet Archive copy)
• The Geography of Cyberspace Directory - Maintained by Martin Dodge of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London: "This resource list is the result of my research into the geographies of Cyberspace."

Useful Software

• Advanced Visual Systems - variety of high quality tools for visual data mining
• Cosmo Player - excellent VRML player
• Hypercosm, Inc. - web-oriented 3D toolkit
• KDNuggets - long list of links to commercial visualisation software.
• Latent Semantic Indexing - Telcordia now issue licenses for this well respected text analysis algorithm
• LSA@CU Boulder, USA - Nice interactive site demonstrating the power of Latent Semantic Analysis.
• Morfit 3-D Software - Developers - comprehensive and free world/game development kit (looks good but I haven't tried it yet)
• Vios - free software that puts the entire Internet inside a single shared 3D landscape. Software can be downloaded or ordered on CD
• ViSta The Visual Statistics System - Free visual data analysis software. Nice scaling algorithms and graphing functions.
• VTK - Open source C++ library for developing visualisations.
• Wild Tangent - Free SDK for developing DirectX applications using Visual Basic, Java and JavaScript. Includes a nice web-driver that allows you to embed your applications within HTML pages. Powerful and very easy to learn. Highly recommended.
• ZOMIT - package to aid development of zoomable user interfaces.