Comments on: 5 Data Visualization Dissertations Worth a Look

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 25 May 2008 01:02:22 +0000

@Moritz: thanks for the pointer! the name sounds really familiar, but i can’t quite figure out where from..

By: http://www.gofrostfire.com

http://www.gofrostfire.com — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:15:50 +0000

wow, great list, thanks

By: Moritz Stefaner

Moritz Stefaner — Sat, 24 May 2008 08:08:37 +0000

Thanks for the link; another really interesting and original work is Yuri Engelhardt’s dissertation “The Language of Graphics”, where information design gets a thorough linguistic treatment.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:48:53 +0000

@Greg: yup. computational information design is one of the few dissertations i’ve read cover-to-cover. really fun read.

By: Greg J. Smith

Greg J. Smith — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:57:03 +0000

Fantastic idea for a post Nathan!

Ben Fry’s Masters thesis “Organic Information Design” is also an essential read.. it is (expectedly) a lot looser than “Computational Information Design” and fun to read now considering how popular visualization has become. The history/precedents that he tracks in it reads as quite an essential list of early web based work and applications.

Personally, I’m really excited to read Mike Danziger’s thesis. His writing at Visual Methods is fantastic so I look forward to seeing his more formal research.

By: Noah Iliinsky

Noah Iliinsky — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:38:00 +0000

I'll not-so-humbly put forth my own master's thesis for consideration. The focus is qualitative representation, not quantitative but, the foundations in human perception and cognition are 100% applicable to the design of any knowledge visualization. Generation of Complex Diagrams: How to Make Lasagna Instead of Spaghetti