| Starting Places | Government Research | Companies | Events |
I highly recommend the book "Readings
in Information Visualization" edited by Stuart K. Card, Jock Mackinlay,
and Ben Shneiderman.
Also see my trip report on the IEEE
InfoVis'98 symposium
| Title | URL |
| InfoVis Web Community | http://www.infovis.org |
| OLIVE Online Library of Information Visualization Environments | http://otal.umd.edu/Olive |
| Peter Young’s Info & Software Vis Documents | http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dcs3py |
| Martin Graham’s Information Visualization Links | http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~marting/links.html |
| Web3D Consortium Enterprise Technology Workgroup | http://www.vrml.org/WorkingGroups/dbwork |
| Title & Description | URL |
| ESPRIT eSCAPE project: Inhabited information spaces | http://escape.lancs.ac.uk/ |
| USA NIST Visualization and Virtual Reality Group (VVRG): Utility and feasibility of visual displays of information in virtual environments | http://www.itl.nist.gov/div894/vvrg |
| USA DARPA Intelligent Collaboration and Visualization: Supports numerous VE and collaboration projects. | http://www.darpa.mil/ito/research/icv |
| Company | Products |
| Advanced Visual Systems
300 Fifth Ave Waltham, MA 02451, USA Tel: 781 890 4300 Fax: 781 890 8287 http://www.avs.com |
AVS data visualization system with visual programming interface is a mainstay of conventional data vis and used in conjunction with VR equipment. |
| AlterVue System
1520 East Franklin Street Chapel Hill, NC USA 27514 Tel: 919 929 6111 Fax: 919 929 1462 http://www.vrcharts.com |
VR Charts "first practical application of PC based virtual reality technology for widespread business use" - simple VRML charts in space for PC spreadsheets. Note that Altervue's products were developed by Electrohouse. |
| Bittco Solutions
80 Chippewa Road # 220 Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada T8A 4W8 Tel: 403 417 8850 Fax: 403 417 5189 http://bittco.com/vrtuoso |
VRtuoso, NeuralVRSite, interactive 3d data visualization and VRML models of web sites |
| Cartia, Inc.
1500 114th Avenue S.E. suite 130 Bellevue, WA, 98004 USA Tel: (425) 468-9020 Fax: (425) 468-9099 http://www.cartia.com |
ThemeScape: an Enterprise Information Mapping tool, automatically extracts the themes and topics from document set, and organizes them into an interactive information topological map. Commercialization of PNL product |
| Compression Sciences Ltd
2 Chalfont Square Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 2AJ UK E-mail: Marketing@Kwiz-solutions.com http://www.Kwiz-solutions.com |
K-Wiz - a Knowledge Discovery workbench and development tool with visual editor and client/server web deployment. |
| DTAI, Incorporated
3900 Harney St. Suite 210 San Diego, CA 92110 USA Tel: 619 542 1700 Fax: 619 542 8675 http://www.dtai.com/leif |
LEIF (Lightweight Extensible Information Framework): a Java framework built on an InfoBus for accessing various data sources into a multiple viewers including maps, 3D, gantt charts, bar charts, pie charts, table views, and integrated Microsoft office products. DARPA funded development. |
| ECOlogic Corp.
19 Eye St., NW, Washington, DC 20001 USA Tel: 800-NET-4001 Tel: 202-218-4100 E-mail: askECO@ecologic.net http://www.ecologic.net |
ECOlogic Visualization DataBlade module is an extension to the INFORMIX-Universal Server that offers a comprehensive suite of data visualization and analysis funtions. |
| ELECTROHOUSE, INC.
300/200 Parham St., Suite D Raleigh NC 27601 USA Ph./FAX 919-821-5109 Email: ehaus@em7.com http://www.em7.com |
"The Visual Data Mining Company": Active-X, and Java VRML database and 3D UI/Navigation widgets. |
| Facet Decision Systems, Inc.
Suite 305, 1505 West 2nd Avenue Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6H 3Y4 Tel: (604) 606-8070 Fax: (604) 739-7753 E-mail: info@facet.com http://www.facet.com |
Facet integrates object-oriented database, mapping, and image analysis software with an easy-to-use spreadsheet style of graphical user interface. |
| MUSE Technologies Inc.
1601 Randolph SE, Suite 210 Albuquerque, NM 87106 USA Tel: (505) 843-6873 http://www.musetech.com |
The µuSE Scalable Solution Environment™, creates a multisensory environment that represents and allows simultaneous interaction with the data so users can very quickly perceive and assimilate important information. |
| Oracle Worlds
Oracle Corporation 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065 U.S.A. Tel: 650 506 7000 Fax: 650 506 7200 http://www.olab.com/vrml |
Oracle Worlds is Oracle's VRML Cartridge for building and deploying business applications in VRML |
| Randy Woodson
Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNL) P.O. Box 999 / MS K6-48 Richland, WA 99352 USA Tel: 509 376 1482 Fax: 509 373 0719 email: randy.woodson@pnl.gov |
Starlight is one of several infoVis products
from this US Govt research facility. It characterizes information content
and provides exploratory analysis via visualization system/user interface
http://multimedia.pnl.gov:2080/showcase/?it_content/starlight.node |
| PLATINUM Technology, Inc.
1815 S. Meyers Road Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois 60181, USA Tel: 800 890 7528 Fax: 630 691 0718 Email: info@platinum.com http://www.platinum.com/3dbiz |
Platinum, a leading VRML provider with Cosmo,
Intervista, VRCreator, has been developing business InfoVis
applications with cross over products like Forest & Trees, |
| Portola Systems
4655 Old Ironsides, Suite 170 Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA Tel: 408.588.9710 Fax: 408.588.9720 http://www.portolasystems.com |
Coronado visualization tool ties into Microsoft SQL Server for Charts in Space and more advanced analysis tools. |
| Silicon Graphics
2011 N Shoreline Blvd Mountain View CA 94043 USA Tel: 650 960 1980 http://www.sgi.com/software/mineset |
MineSet: Data Mining Visualization Tool includes trees, geographic, scatter, cluster and other visualizers |
| Visible Decisions Inc.
200 Front Street West, Suite 2203, P.O. Box 35 Toronto, ON M5V 3K2 Canada Tel: 416 595 6282 Fax: 416 595 7292 1-888-7-3D-DATA (1-888-733-3282) http://www.vdi.com |
VDI is one of the leaders in InfoVis. They are very active in building high end business visualization into corporate board rooms. |
| Visual Numerics, Inc.
1300 W. Sam Houston Pkwy S., Ste. 150 Houston, Texas 77042 USA Tel: 800-222-4675 Tel: 713-784-3131 FAX: 713-781-9260 e-mail: info@houston.vni.com http://www.vni.com |
Visual Numerics, PV_Wave is a well known tool for advanced client/server mathematical, and staistical solutions with visual analysis tools. |
| Event |
| IEEE InfoVis ’99
San Francisco, California USA Oct 24-29 1999 http://WWW.ERC.MsState.Edu/conferences/vis99/ |
| VRML’99
23 - 26 February 1999, Paderborn, Germany http://www.c-lab.de/vrml99/ |
| IV'99 International Conference on Information Visualisation
14-16 July 1999 London, England http://www.it-link.demon.co.uk/IV99/ |
| VisSym ’99 : Joint Eurographics -IEEE TCCG Symposium
on Visualization
May 26-28, Vienna Austria http://www.cg.tuwein.ac.at/conferences/VisSym99 |