ALifeVis2020: Visualization Principles and Techniques for Research in ALife

A tutorial held at ALife 2020
Presenter: Michael McGuffin, Professor, ETS, Montreal, Canada

Video: https://youtu.be/_UZls2l96Z8
The description on youtube contains an outline pointing to each of the sections within the video.

Slides: mcguffin-visualisation-ALife2020-v3.pptx

Here's a tweet about this tutorial that you can favorite or retweet.

Supplementary stuff: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D-yInwL58FdxFzLSP69IqzAAkHmS87Lg?usp=sharing

Topics:

• basic theory of the design of charts and information visualizations, including the hierarchy of visual channels and practical color theory;
• techniques for visualizing multidimensional multivariate data (glyphs, parallel coordinates, scatterplot matrix, and others);
• a 5-minute design exercise for the audience to get folks thinking;
• a brief critique of some example visualizations taken from papers on artificial life and related fields;
• suggested visualization strategies for research in ALife (ideas for visualization of trees, of networks, of time series data, of time-varying artificial chemistries, of time-varying cellular automata);
• some remarks on 2D vs 3D visualizations / virtual reality;
• pointers to textbooks, classic papers, surveys, and software libraries related to information visualization.