Peer-reviewed papers:

S. Barlowe, J. Yang, D. Jacobs, D. Livesay, J. Alsakran, Y. Zhao, D. Verma, and J. Mottonen: A Visual Analytics Approach to Exploring Protein Flexibility Subspaces. Proc. IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2013, accepted.

Y. Liu, S. Barlowe, Y. Feng, J. Yang, and M. Jiang: Evaluating exploratory visualization systems: A user study on how clustering-based visualization systems support information seeking from large document collections. Information Visualization, accepted. (full paper)

 

J. Yang, Y. Liu, X. Zhang, X. Yuan, Y. Zhao, S. Barlowe, and S. Liu: PIWI: Visually exploring graphs based on their community structure. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, to appear.  (full paper) (video)

 

J. Alsakran, Y. Zhao, X. Huang, A. Midget, and J. Yang: Using Entropy in Enhancing Visualization of High Dimensional Categorical Data, VisWeek 2012, poster.

 

J. Alsakran, Y. Chen, D. Luo, Y. Zhao, J. Yang, W. Dou, and S. Liu: Real-time Visualization of Streaming Text with Force-Based Dynamic System, IEEE Computer Graphics & Application, 32(1): 34-45 (2012). (full paper) (video)

D. Luo, J. Yang, M. Krstajic, J. Fan, W. Ribarsky, and D. Keim: EventRiver: An Event-Based Visual Analytics Approach to Exploring Large Text Collections with a Temporal Focus. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(1): 93-105 (2012). (full paper) (video)

Y.Chen, J. Alsakran, S. Barlowe, J. Yang, and Y. Zhao: Supporting effective common ground construction in asynchronous collaborative visual analytics. IEEE VAST 2011:101-110. (full paper) (video)

S. Barlowe, Y. Liu, J. Yang, D. Livesay, D. Jacobs, J. Mottonen, and D. Verma: WaveMap: A Visual Analytics Approach for Feature Discovery in Complex Computational Biology Datasets. Computer Graphics Forum 30(3) (EuroVis 2011): 1001-1010. (full paper) (video)

J. Alsakran, Y. Chen, Y. Zhao, J. Yang, and D. Luo: STREAMIT: dynamic visualization and interactive exploration of text streams. Proc. IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2011: 131-138. (full paper) (video)

J. Alsakran, Y. Zhao, D. Luo, and J. Yang: Visual Analysis of Stream Texts with Keyword Significance. InfoVis 2010, poster. (paper)

J. Yang, D. Luo, Y. Liu: Newdle: Interactive Visual Exploration of Large Online News Collections. IEEE Computer Graphics & Application 30(5): 32-41 (2010). (full paper)

Y. Chen, J. Yang, and S. Barlowe: Click2Annotate: Automated Insight Externalization with Rich Semantics. IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2010: 155-162. (full paper)

Y. Chen, J. Yang, S. Barlowe, and D. Jeong: Touch2Annotate - Generating better annotations with less human effort on multi-touch interfaces. CHI 2010 work-in-progress (full paper)

Y. Chen, J. Yang, and W. Ribarsky: Toward Effective Insight Management in Visual Analytics Systems. Proc. IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2009: 49-56 (full paper)

S. Barlowe, T. Zhang, Y. Liu, J. Yang and D. Jacobs. Multivariate Visual Explanation for High Dimensional Datasets. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2008: 147-154  (full paper)

D. Jeong, A. Darvish, K. Najarian, J. Yang, and W. Ribarsky: Interactive Visual Analysis of Time-series Microarray Data. The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics 24(12): 1053-1066, 2008  

Remco Chang, Alvin Lee, Mohammad Ghoniem, Robert Kosara, William Ribarsky, Jing Yang, Evan Suma, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Daniel Kern, Agus Sudjianto: Scalable and Interactive Visual Analysis of Financial Wire Transactions for Fraud Detection. Information Visualization 7(1): 63-76, 2008

H. Luo, J. Fan, S. Satoh, J. Yang, W. Ribarsky: Integrating Multi-Modal Content Analysis and Hyperbolic Visualization for Large-Scale News Videos Retrieval and Exploration. Image Communication 23(7): 538-553 , 2008

J. Yang, D. Hubball, M. Ward, E. Rundensteiner and W. Ribarsky. Value and Relation Display: Interactive Visual Exploration of Large Datasets with Hundreds of Dimensions. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 13(3): p494-507 (2007) (full paper) (video, note that the system had a bug in the jigsaw map layout when the video was created so the jigsaw layout in the video is wrong. The figures in the paper are correct) (source code release in Windows)

M. Ghoniem, D. Luo, J. Yang and W. Ribarsky: NewsLab: Exploratory Broadcast News Video Analysis. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2007: 123-130 (full paper)

H. Luo, J. Fan, J. Yang, W. Ribarsky and S. Satoh: Mining Large-Scale News Video Databases for Supporting Knowledge Visualization and Intuitive Retrieval. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2007: 107-114

R. Chang and M. Ghoniem and R. Kosara and W. Ribarsky and J. Yang and E. Sumak and C. Ziemkiewicz and D. Kerm and A. Sudjianto: WireVis: Visualization of Categorical, Time-Varying Data From Financial Transactions. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2007: 155-162 (full paper)

J. Yang, J. Fan, D. Hubball, Y. Gao, H. Luo, W. Ribarsky and M. Ward. Semantic Image Browser: Bridging Information Visualization with Automated Intelligent Image Analysis. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2006: 191-198  (full paper) (video) (source code release in Windows)

Q. Cui, M. Ward, E. Rundensteiner and J. Yang. Measuring Data Abstraction Quality in Multiresolution Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 12(5)(Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2006): 709-716 (full paper)

H. Luo, J. Fan, J. Yang, W. Ribarsky, and S. Satoh: Exploring Large-Scale Video News via Interactive Visualization. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2006: 75-82

J. Yang, A. Patro, S. Huang, N. Mehta, M. Ward and E. Rundensteiner: Value and Relation Display for Interactive Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2004: 73-80  (full paper)

M. Ward and J. Yang: Interaction Spaces in Data and Information Visualization.Proc. Eurographics/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization 2004: 137-146 (full paper)

J. Yang, M. Ward and E. Rundensteiner: Interactive Hierarchical Displays: A General Framework for Visualization and Exploration of Large Multivariate Data Sets. Computers & Graphics 27(2): 265-283 (2003) (full paper)

J. Yang, M. Ward, E. Rundensteiner and A. Patro: InterRing: A Visual Interface for Navigating and Manipulating Hierarchies. Information Visualization 2(1): 16-30 (2003) (full paper)

J. Yang, W. Peng, M. Ward and E. Rundensteiner: Interactive Hierarchical Dimension Ordering, Spacing and Filtering for Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2003: 105-112 (full paper)

J. Yang, M. Ward, E. Rundensteiner and S. Huang: Visual Hierarchical Dimension Reduction for Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets. Proc. Eurographics/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization 2003: 19-28  (full paper)

J. Yang, M. Ward and E. Rundensteiner: Hierarchical Exploration of Large Multivariate Data Sets. F. Post, G. Nielson, G.-P. Bonneau (Eds.): Data Visualization: The State of the Art 2003: 201-212  (full paper)

J. Yang, M. Ward and E. Rundensteiner: InterRing: An Interactive Tool for Visually Navigating and Manipulating Hierarchical Structures. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2002: 77-84  (full paper)

E. Rundensteiner, M. Ward, J. Yang, and P. Doshi: XmdvTool: Visual Interactive Data Exploration and Trend Discovery of High-dimensional Data Sets. Proc. SIGMOD 2002: 631 (full paper)

PhD dissertation:

Jing Yang: A general framework for multi-resolution visualization (dissertation)

updated 12/06/2012