I’ve been blogging and writing on font attributes, multi-attribute labels and novel text based encodings in data visualization for a while. Eventually these get published. Here are a number of recent peer-reviewed papers, chapters and books (since 2013). The first section is specifically about text, typography and font attributes:
- The Design Space of Typeface
(with Ebad Banissi) @ VisWeek, 2014: short paper and poster
very short introduction into type attributes - Using Font Attributes in Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval
(with Ebad Banissi) @ First Workshop on Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval, 2014: paper
application of type attributes to search, information retrieval and knowledge maps; first publication of techniques for proportional encoding and skim formatting - Evaluating Lossiness and Fidelity in Information Visualization
(with Ebad Banissi) @ SPIE 2105: paper
a novel technique for measuring relative lossiness of visualization design alternatives - Using Text in Visualizations for Micro/Macro Readings
(with Ebad Banissi) @ TextVis 2015: paper
more focused on labels; first publication with variants of textual stem & leaf plots - Using Type to Add Data to Data Visualizations
(with Ebad Banissi) @ TypeCon 2015: paper
a fairly broad introduction to the topic; first publication with variation in x-height and font-width, in this case applied to prosodic encoding - Font Attributes enrich Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval
(with Ebad Banissi) @ International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2016: journal article in HTML or PDF
a comprehensive discussion of application of type attributes to search, information retrieval and knowledge maps
Some other recent papers about glyphs, financial vis, 3D and sports:
- High-Category Glyphs in Industry
@ VisWeek 2015: paper - Challenges in Financial Visualization: Panel
@ VisWeek 2014: paper - 3D InfoVis is Here to Stay
@ 2014 IEEE VIS International Workshop on 3DVis: paper - Bloomberg Sports Visualization for Pitch Analysis
w/ co-author Bo Moon @ 1st Workshop on Sports Data Visualization: paper
Some chapters and full books on shapes, spheres and graphs:
- The Multiple Visual Attributes of Shape
chapter in book: Information Visualisation: Techniques, Usability and Evaluation, 2014. Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Editors: Ebad Banissi, Francis T. Marchese, Camilla Forsell, Jimmy Johansson, pp.43-66. link to book (amazon) or here is a subset from an earlier paper. - Information Visualization on Spheres
w/ co-author Peter MacMurchy, chapter in the same book: Information Visualisation: Techniques, Usability and Evaluation, 2014. Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Editors: Ebad Banissi, Francis T. Marchese, Camilla Forsell, Jimmy Johansson, pp. 24-42. - Graph Analysis and Visualization: Discovering Business Opportunity in Linked Data
book co-authored with David Jonker, published by Wiley (2015), avail at Amazon.