Jason Dykes
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intro

I am a Professor of Visualization at the giCentre with research expertise in interactive cartography and its use in geographic data visualization and information visualization. I am Course Director of the MSc in Information Management and contribute to a number of the postgraduate modules in the School of Informatics. I am a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. My colleagues and I were awarded the 'Best Paper' prize at the GIS Research UK meetings in 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010, 'Honorable Mentions' at IEEE InfoVis in 2009 and 2010 and prizes in the IEEE VAST Challenge in 2009 and 2010 for innovative and effective visualization work.

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research

My research focuses on designing analytical methods and tools for visually exploring geographic information. As such I have interests in Cartography, Information Visualization, Data Visualization, Design, GIScience and Human Computer Interaction. I have developed software and ideas that explore cartographic design possibilities for geovisualization. This includes software, such as 'cdv' and 'panoraMap', and novel exploratory views, such as geowigs, geo-centric parallel coordinates plots, space-time spotlights, the use of surface feature networks to describe behaviour in time and space and spatially ordered treemaps. I am a member of the British Cartographic Society and co-chair the International Cartographic Association Commission on Geovisualization. I organized the 2002 meeting of the Commission at City University. The work that developed from the meeting has been published by Elsevier Science in a collated volume that I co-edited. I am involved in the EU funded VisMaster consortium and have undertaken consultancy in the UK for Local Government, the Department for Communities and Local Government and the National Academic Data Centre, EDINA as well as overseas.

I have reviewed papers for a variety of publications, including the International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Computers and GeoSciences, the Journal of Documentation, JASIST, Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Information Visualization and Computational Statistics. I am a member of the organising committee of the IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis), the programme committee of the IEEE VAST Symposium and the editorial boards of Computers Environment and Urban Systems and The Cartographic Journal. I have served on the programme committee of IEEE Information Visualization and co-authored editorials for special issues of IEEE CG&A, IVS and CEUS. In 2010 special issues of JLBS, IJGIS and CEUS will be published through the ICA Commission and I have acted in an editorial capacity on each.

teaching

I teach on a number of modules at City, usually with a geographic and visualization bias! I am personal tutor to students on our Information Management Masters courses and to undergraduate Computer Scientists. I have won grants and awards at City for teaching including an 'Innovations in Teaching Award' (2002) a 'Teaching & Learning Development Grant' (2004) and a 'Learning Development Project Award' from the Learning Development Centre (2009) and published papers on education in visualization. In 2005 I was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Educatiom Academy.

administration

I have chaired the School of Informatics Academic Standards, Programmes and Practice Committee and acted as a member of the Board of Studies. I represent the School and Department on a number of University Committees and working groups.

key and recent publications

Dykes, J., Wood, J. & Slingsby, A., (2010) Rethinking Map Legends with Visualization IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization / Information Visualization 2010), 16(6), 890-899.
Honorable Mention - IEEE Information Visualization 2010.

Slingsby. A., Dykes. J., Wood. J. & Radburn. R., (2010) OAC Explorer: Interactive exploration and comparison of multivariate socioeconomic population characteristics Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference GISRUK 2010, 167-174.
Best Paper Award.

Wood, J., Dykes, J. & Slingsby, A., (2010) Visualization of origins, destinations and flows with OD maps The Cartograpic Journal, 47(2), 117-129.

Dykes, J., Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., Paelke, V., & Schiewe, J., (2010) GeoVisualization and the Digital City (Special Issue Guest Editorial) Computers Environment and Urban Systems, 34(6), 443-451.

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.