Department of Information Science

Jason Dykes

Senior Lecturer, Geographic Information

Photo of Dr Jason Dykes Dr Jason Dykes
Senior Lecturer, Geographic Information
Room: A304C
Information Science
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB

jad7@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 8906
fax: +44 20 7040 8584

Current and Recent Activities ...

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I am a senior lecturer in Geographic Information in the Department of Information Science with research expertise in interactive cartography, geovisualization and information visualization. I have developed a number of innovative and interactive visualization techniques and applications and published research papers on geovisualization and information visualization - many are listed below. Notable software and techniques include the cartographic visualization application 'cdv', the panoraMap software that supports visualization through georeferenced panoramic imagery, 'geowigs', spatially ordered treemaps and the HiVE expression language. Much of my work is available through the giCentre website.

Co-chair of the ICA Commission on Geovisualization, I have been an active contributor to the ICA Commission on Visualization and Virtual Environments over the years, coordinating the 2002 international colloquium and editing the multi-disciplinary "Exploring Geovisualization" (Dykes, MacEachren and Kraak, 2005).

I am an Editorial Board member of Computers Environment and Urban Systems and The Cartographic Journal and a member of the Programme Committee for IEEE VAST. I am a member of the Organizing Committee of IEEE Information Visualization and have served on the Programme Committee. I have been heavily involved in the teaching and organisation of the various giCentre courses in Geographic Information and was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy in 2005.

I have authored the 'Best Paper' at the GIS Research UK meetings in 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010 for innovative visualization work with various colleagues with whom I have achieved an 'Honorable Mention' at InfoVis 2009 and won an award at the 2009 VAST challenge.

I am personal tutor to undergraduate Computer Scientists.

recent news ... VRERI kick-off meeting [link : chronological record of 'recent news' and activity]

Jo, Aidan and I recently attended the kick-off meeting for the JISC funded VRE Rapid Innovation programme at the University of London.

I gave a short presentation on our plans for vizTweets which we are implementing rapidly!

The event was a useful showcase of VRE RI projects and formed part of JISC's dev8D developer days.

Key and Recent Publications

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Slingsby, A., Dykes, J. & Wood, J., (2009) Configuring Hierarchical Layouts to Address Research Questions. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization / Information Visualization 2009), 15(6), 977-984.
Honorable Mention - IEEE Information Visualization 2009.

Dykes, J. & Wood, J., 2009 The Geographic Beauty of a Photographic Archive. In T. Segaran & J. Hammerbacher, eds. Beautiful Data. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, pp. 79-94.

Wood, J., Dykes, J., Slingsby, A. & Radburn, R., (2009) , Flow Trees for Exploring Spatial Trajectories. In Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 17th Annual Conference GISRUK 2009. Durham, UK: University of Durham, pp. 229-234.
Best Paper Award.

Wood, J. and Dykes, J. (2008), Spatially Ordered Treemaps, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization / Information Visualization 2008), 14(6), 1348-1355 pp.

Slingsby, A., Dykes, J. and Wood, J. (2008), Using Treemaps for Variable Selection in Spatio-Temporal Visualization, Information Visualization, 7(3/4), 210-224 pp.

Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., Dykes, J., Fabrikant, S. I. and Wachowicz, M. (2008), Geovisualization of dynamics, movement and change: key issues and developing approaches in visualization research, Information Visualization, 7(3-4), 173-180 pp.

Bleisch, S., Dykes, J. and Nebiker, S. (2008), Evaluating the effectiveness of representing numeric information through abstract graphics in 3D desktop virtual environments, The Cartographic Journal, 45(3), 1-12 pp.

Kerren, A., Stasko, J. T. and Dykes, J. (2008), Teaching Information Visualization. In Information Visualization : Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives, Volume 4950 of LNCS State-of-the-Art Survey (Eds, A. Kerren, J.T. Stasko, J.-D. Fekete and C. North), Springer, pp. 71-97.

Dykes, J. and Brunsdon, C. (2007), Geographically Weighted Visualization - Interactive Graphics for Scale-Varying Exploratory Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization / Information Visualization 2007) 13(6): 1161-1168.

Wood, J., Dykes, J., Slingsby, A. and Clarke, K. (2007), Interactive visual exploration of a large spatio-temporal dataset: reflections on a geovisualization mashup, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization / Information Visualization 2007) 13(6): 1176-1183.

Rushmeier, H., Dykes, J., Dill, J. and Yoon, P. (2007), Revisiting the Need for Formal Education in Visualization, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 27(6), 12-16 pp.

Marsh, S. L., Dykes, J. and Attliakou, F. (2006), Evaluating a Geovisualization Prototype with Two Approaches: Remote Instructional vs. Face-to-Face Exploratory, in E. Banissi (ed.) Information Visualization 06, London, IEEE Computer Society, 310-315.

Dykes, J. A., MacEachren, A. M. and Kraak, M.-J., (2005), Exploring Geovisualization, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 710 pp.

Dykes, J. (2005), Facilitating Interaction for Geovisualization. In Exploring Geovisualization (Eds, J. Dykes, A. MacEachren and M.-J. Kraak), Amsterdam: Elsevier, 265-291.

Rana, S. S. and Dykes, J. A. (2003), A framework for augmenting the visualization of dynamic raster surfaces, Information Visualization, (2), 126-139.

Dykes, J. A. and Mountain, D. M. (2003), Seeking structure in records of spatio-temporal behaviour: visualization issues, efforts and applications, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 43(Data Visualization II Special Edition), 581-603.
online: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~jad7/csda/

Raper, J., Dykes, J., Wood, J., Mountain, D., Krause, A. and Rhind, D. (2002), A framework for evaluating geographical information, Journal of Information Science, 28(2), 39-50.

Dykes, J. (2002), Creating information-rich virtual environments with geo-referenced digital panoramic imagery. In Virtual Reality in Geography (Eds, P. Fisher and D. Unwin), London: Taylor & Francis, 68-92 pp.

Brodlie, K., Dykes, J., Gillings, M., Hacklay, M., Kitchen, R. and Kraak, M.-J. (2002), Geography in VR: Context. In Virtual Reality in Geography (Eds, P. Fisher and D. Unwin), London: Taylor & Francis, 7-16 pp.

Fisher, P. F., Arnot, C., Bastin, L. and Dykes, J. A. (2001), Exploratory visualization software for reporting environmental survey results, Journal of Environmental Management, 62(4), 399-413.

Fairbairn, D., Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., Buziek, G. and Dykes, J. (2001), Representation and its relationship with cartographic visualization : A research agenda, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 28(1), 13-28.

Dykes, J. A. (2000), An Approach to Virtual Environments for Fieldwork Using Linked Geo-Referenced Panoramic Imagery, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 24(2), 127-152.
online: http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/jad7/CE&US/

Wood, J. D., Fisher, P. F., Dykes, J. A., Unwin, D. J. and Stynes, K. S. (1999), The Use of the Landscape Metaphor in Population Mapping, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 26, 281-295.

Moore, K. M., Dykes, J. A. and Wood, J. D. (1999), Using Java to interact with geo-referenced VRML within a Virtual Field Course, Computers and Geosciences, 25, 1125-1136.
online: http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/mek/usingjava.html

Dykes, J. A., Moore, K. E. and Wood, J. D. (1999), Virtual Environments for Student Fieldwork using Networked Components, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 13(4), 397-416.
online: http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/vfc/ijgis/

Dykes, J. A. (1998), Cartographic Visualization: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis with Local Indicators of Spatial Association using Tcl/Tk and cdv, The Statistician, 47(3), 485-497.

Dykes, J. A. and Unwin, D. J. (1998), Maps of the Census: A Rough Guide. In Case Studies of Visualization in the Social Sciences: Technical Report 43, Vol. 43 (Eds, D.J. Unwin and P.F. Fisher), Loughborough, UK: Advisory Group on Computer Graphics, 29-54.
online: http://www.acogc.ac.uk

Dykes, J. A. (1997), Techniques for Adding Spatial Information to Statistical Plots of Geographical Data. In EuroStat: New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics II (Ed, W. Kloesgen), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 261-278.

Dykes, J. A. (1996), Dynamic Maps for Spatial Science: A Unified Approach to Cartographic Visualization. In Innovations in Geographical Information Systems 3 (Ed, D. Parker), London: Taylor & Francis, 171-181.

Dykes, J. A. (1995), Cartographic Visualization for Spatial Analysis, Proceedings International Cartographic Conference, Barcelona, 1, 1365-1370.

MacEachren, A. M., Bishop, I., Dorling, D., Dykes, J. A., Gatrell, A. C. and Langford, M. (1994), Advances in Visualizing Spatial Data. In Visualization in Geographical Information Systems (Eds, H. Hearnshaw and D.J. Unwin), London: Bellhaven Press, 51-59.

Fisher, P. F., Dykes, J. A. and Wood, J. D. (1993), Map Design and Visualization, The Cartographic Journal, 30(2), 136-142.

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