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VisWeek is the annual Visualization conference where researchers, users and enthusiasts of data visualization meet to present their work and discuss new ideas. This year the conference will be in Atlantic City, NJ from October 11th-16th and promises to be a very exciting event.

In this post, I focus more on a preview from the ‘Vis‘ side of things for VisWeek. I have previously posted previews for the InfoVis conference and for the VAST conference.

There are so many events that instead of listing all of them, I have categorized them by day. It includes Workshops, Panels, Tutorials and Paper talks.

Read Alark’s recommended events after the break.

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One of the best resources for innovations in the field of visualization for network security is the Annual VizSec Workshop. This year the VizSec Workshop will be held in Atlantic City, NJ along with the Visualization conference and the InfoVis conference. Click here for more details about the workshop – VisSec 2009.

Before I discuss some innovative visualizations for network security, let me point out that there are two excellent books written by visualization for network security experts. Here they are:

Security Data Visualization: Graphical Techniques for Network Analysis by Greg Conti

Security Data Visualization is a well-researched and richly illustrated introduction to the field. Greg Conti, creator of the network and security visualization tool RUMINT, shows you how to graph and display network data using a variety of tools so that you can understand complex datasets at a glance. And once you’ve seen what a network attack looks like, you’ll have a better understanding of its low-level behavior–like how vulnerabilities are exploited and how worms and viruses propagate.

Applied Security Visualization by Raffy Marty (who has a security visualization blog at http://secviz.org).

In Applied Security Visualization, leading network security visualization expert Raffael Marty introduces all the concepts, techniques, and tools you need to use visualization on your network. You’ll learn how to identify and utilize the right data sources, then transform your data into visuals that reveal what you really need to know. Next, Marty shows how to use visualization to perform broad network security analyses, assess specific threats, and even improve business compliance.

Read after the break for some other excellent sources of innovations in the network security visualization field:

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Social media is ubiquitous now. With more 200 millions registered users now on Facebook, visualizing the large amounts of connections between online friends is a challenging information visualization problem. Infovis researchers have proposed various approaches to visualize these large connectivity graphs in various ways. Here are a few of those techniques and some of the other approaches that have been seen online to visualizing social media.

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I have been thinking about making a list of some of the most seminal information visualization papers. These are papers that have made an impact and can be widely seen in the media (print/web) or are being adopted in visualization software/systems such as VTK, Prefuse, Many Eyes  and so on. I may have missed out on a few papers, so please feel free to add any that you think are ‘must-reads’ for an infovis researcher.

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