Journal Papers

Tsung Heng Wu, Md Amiruzzaman, Ye Zhao, Deepshikha Bhati, Jing Yang. Visualizing Routes With AI-Discovered Street-View Patterns. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems 11(5): 6380-6391 (2024)

Tinghao Feng, Jing Yang, Martha-Cary Eppes, Zhaocong Yang, and Faye Moser. EVis: Visually Analyzing Environmentally Driven Events. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 28(1): 912-921 (2022)

Shamal Al-Dohuki, Ye Zhao, Farah Kamw, Jing Yang, Xinyue Ye, and Wei Chen. QuteVis: Visually Studying Transportation Patterns Using Multisketch Query of Joint Traffic Situations. IEEE Computer Graphics And Applications 41 (2): 35-48 (2021)

Suphanut Jamonnak, Ye Zhao, Andrew Curtis, Shamal Al-Dohuki, Xinyue Ye, Farah Kamw, and Jing Yang. GeoVisuals: a visual analytics approach to leverage the potential of spatial videos and associated geonarratives. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 34(11): 2115-2135 (2020)

Chao Ma, Ye Zhao, Shamal AL‐Dohuki, Jing Yang, Xinyue Ye, Farah Kamw, and Md Amiruzzaman. GTMapLens: Interactive Lens for Geo‐Text Data Browsing on Map. Computer Graphics Forum, 39(3): 469-481 (2020)

Chao Ma, Ye Zhao, Andrew Curtis, Farah Kamw, AL-Dohuki Shamal, Jing Yang, Suphanut Jamonnak, and Ismael Ali. CLEVis: A Semantic Driven Visual Analytics System for Community Level Events. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 41(2): 49-62 (2020)

Tom Polk, Dominik Jäckle, Johannes Häußler, and Jing Yang. CourtTime: Generating Actionable Insights into Tennis Matches Using Visual Analytics. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 26(1): 397-406 (2019)

Farah Kamw, AL-Dohuki Shamal, Ye Zhao, Thomas Eynon, David Sheets, Jing Yang, Xinyue Ye, and Wei Chen. Urban structure accessibility modeling and visualization for joint spatiotemporal constraints. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 21(1): 104-116 (2019)

Chong Zhang, Yang Chen, Jing Yang, and Zhengcong Yin. An association rule based approach to reducing visual clutter in parallel sets. Visual Informatics 3(1): 48-57 (2019)

Christopher Collins, Natalia Andrienko, Tobias Schreck, Jing Yang, Jaegul Choo, Ulrich Engelke, Amit Jena, and Tim Dwyer. Guidance in the human–machine analytics process. Visual Informatics 2(3): 166-180 (2018)

Shamal Al-Dohuki, Farah Kamw, Ye Zhao, Chao Ma, Yingyu Wu, Jing Yang, Xinyue Ye, Fei Wang, Xin Li, and Wei Chen. SemanticTraj: A New Approach to Interacting with Massive Taxi Trajectories. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 23(1): 11-20 (2017) (preprint) (video)

Xiaoke Huang, Ye Zhao, Jing Yang, Chong Zhang, Chao Ma, and Xinyue Ye. TrajGraph: A Graph-Based Visual Analytics Approach to Studying Urban Network Centralities Using Taxi Trajectory Data, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VAST 2015), 22(1): 160-169 (2016) (full paper) (video)

Shixia Liu, Yang Chen, Hao Wei, Jing Yang, Kun Zhou, and Steven M. Drucker. Exploring Topical Lead-Lag across Corpora. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 27(1): 115-129 (2015) (full paper) (video)

Cong Xie, Wei Chen, Xinxin Huang, Yueqi Hu, Scott Barlowe, and Jing Yang. VAET: A Visual Analytics Approach for E-transactions Time-series. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VAST 2014), 20(12): 1743-1752 (2014) (full paper) (video)

Tom Polk, Jing Yang, Yueqi Hu, and Ye Zhao. TenniVis: Visualization for Tennis Match Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE InfoVis 2014), 20(12): 2339-2348. (full paper) (video) 

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 12(1): 25-43 (2013).

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 19(6): 1034- 1047 (2013). (video) (an earlier video with more detailed introduction to the interface)

Chen, Yang, and Jing Yang: ManyInsights: A visual analytics approach to supporting effective insight management. Tsinghua Science and Technology 18(2): 171-181 (2013). (full paper)

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). (video)

D. Luo, J. Yang, M. Krstajic, W. Ribarsky, and D. Keim: EventRiver: Visually Exploring Text Collections with Temporal References. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(1): 93-105 (2012). (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. Yang, D. Luo, Y. Liu: Newdle: Interactive Visual Exploration of Large Online News Collections. IEEE Computer Graphics & Application 30(5): 32-41 (2010).

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. Signal Processing: 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)  (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)

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)

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).

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).

Conference Papers

Tinghao Feng, Yueqi Hu, Jing Yang, Tom Polk, Ye Zhao, Shixia Liu, and Zhaocong Yang. TimePool: Visually Answer “Which and When” Questions On Univariate Time Series. IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS) 2023, pp. 201-205. IEEE, 2023.

Shamal AL-Dohuki, Farah Kamw, Ye Zhao, Xinyue Ye, Jing Yang, and Suphanut Jamonnak. An Open Source TrajAnalytics Software for Modeling, Transformation and Visualization of Urban Trajectory Data. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC) 2019, pp. 150-155. IEEE, 2019.

Farah Kamw, AL-Dohuki, Ye Zhao, Jing Yang, Xinyue Ye, and Wei Chen. Visually Analyzing Latent Accessibility Clusters of Urban POIs. EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics, 2019.

Xiting Wang, Shixia Liu, Yang Chen, Tai-Quan Peng, Jing Su, Jing Yang, Baining Guo. How Ideas Flow across Multiple Social Groups. IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2016, pp. 51-60 (full paper) (video)

Spike E. Dog, Alex Tweed, LeRoy Rouse, Bill Chu, Duan Qi, Yueqi Hu, Jing Yang, and Ehab Al-Shaer. Strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing: A Case Study of IDS Logs. In Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), 2016 25th International Conference on, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2016

Chong Zhang, Jing Yang, F. Benjamin Zhan, Xi Gong, Jean D. Brender, Peter H. Langlois, Scott Barlowe, and Ye Zhao: A Visual Analytics Approach to High-Dimensional Logistic Regression Modeling and its Application to an Environmental Health Study. IEEE Symposium on Pacific Visualization 2016, pp. 136-143, 2016 (full paper) (video)

Yueqi Hu, Tom Polk, Jing Yang, Ye Zhao, and Shixia Liu: Spot-Tracking Lens: A Zoomable User Interface for Animated Bubble Charts. IEEE Symposium on Pacific Visualization 2016, pp.16-23, 2016 (full paper) (video) (an older video with a different background) (video showing the scrolling operation)

Ding Chu, David A. Sheets, Ye Zhao, Yingyu Wu, Jing Yang, Maogong Zheng, and George Chen. Visualizing Hidden Themes of Taxi Movement with Semantic Transformation. IEEE Symposium on Pacific Visualization: 137-144, 2014. (full paper)

Jamal Alsakran, Xiaoke Huang, Ye Zhao, Jing Yang, Karl Fast. Using Entropy-Related Measures in Categorical Data Visualization, IEEE Symposium on Pacific Visualization: 81-88, 2014. (full paper)

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: 193-200.

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)

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)

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, 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)

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)

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, 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)

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

Peer Reviewed Posters and Extended Abstracts

Colin Kay, Aleksandr Smirnov, Jessica Everhart, Harry Schulz, Ciara Conway, Zhaocong Yang, Jing Yang, Xiuxia Du. The Metabolome of Food Knowledge Database: development of a nutrition database to support precision nutrition. Nutrition 2022

Colin Kay, Aleksandr Smirnov, Yuanyuan Li, Blake Rushing, Zhaocong Yang, Ciara Conway, Jing Yang, Susan Sumner, Xiuxia Du. MetaboFood: A cloud knowledgebase for mass spectrometry-based precision nutrition. The 2022 annual American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) meeting.

Colin Kay, Aleksandr Smirnov, Jessica Everhart, Harry Schulz, Ciara Conway, Zhaocong Yang, Jing Yang, Xiuxia Du. Development of a nutrition knowledge database to support precision nutrition. 42nd National Nutrient Databank Conference 2022.

Colin Kay, Aleksandr Smirnov, Yuanyuan Li, Blake Rushing, Zhaocong Yang, Ciara Conway, Jing Yang, Susan Sumner, Xiuxia Du. MetaboFood-KDB: A cloud knowledgebase for searching metabolomics data for nutritionally relevant compounds. The annual Metabolomics Association of North America (MANA) conference 2021.

Colin Kay, Aleksandr Smirnov, Yuanyuan Li, Blake Rusing, Zhaocong Yang, Ciara Conway, Jing Yang, Susan Sumner, Xiuxia Du. MetaboFood-KDB: A Cloud Knowledgebase for Searching Metabolomics and Exposomics Data for Nutritionally Relevant Compounds. Metabolomics Online 2021.

Yang Chen, Jing Yang, and Ye Zhao, Toward Effective Narrative Animation in Streaming Text Visualization. IEEE Symposium on Pacific Visualization 2014, poster.

Y. Hu, X. Huang, C. Zhang, Y. Wu, J. Yang, Y. Zhao, S. Barlowe, and W. Chen: CateDocs: A New Visual Analytics Approach to Exploring High Dimensional Categorical Datasets. VAST 2013, poster.

C. Zhang, J. Yang, F. B. Zhan, X. Gong, J. D. Brender, P. Langlois, and S. Barlowe: Identifying Risk Factors for Birth Defects in High Dimensional Environmental Health Data. VAST 2013, poster.

D. Chu, D. A. Sheets, Y. Zhao, Y. Wu, M. Zheng, G. Chen, J. Yang: Visualizing Hidden Themes of Trajectories with Semantic Transformation. VAST 2013, poster.

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

Book Chapters

Jonathan C. Roberts, Jing Yang, Oliver Kohlbacher, Matthew O. Ward, and Michelle X. Zhou:  Novel Visual Metaphors for Multivariate Networks, Multivariate Network Visualization, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8380, pp. 127-150, Andreas Kerren,  Helen C. Purchase, and Matthew O. Ward (editors), Springer, 2014

Jing Yang and Scott Barlowe: A Dimension Management Framework for High Dimensional Visualization. Advances in Information and Intelligent Systems, Z. Ras and W. Ribarsky (editors), Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 267-288, 2009

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)

PhD Dissertation

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

updated 2/17/2017