Codes assigned to papers from VAST, InfoVis, EuroVis, and IVS.

Original 17 codes:

Data analysis;
Decision making;
Collaboration;
Adoption;
Communication, learning, teaching, publishing ;
Usability/effectiveness, further split into EXP for user ;experience, and PER for user performance;
People's workflow, work practices;
Perception and cognition;
Algorithm performance;
Knowledge discovery;
Potential usage;
Proposed evaluation methodologies;
Visualization-analytical operation;
Causal information acquisition ;
Evaluation metric development ;
Algorithm quality ;
Knowledge management;

Two other works also categorize publications in their field according to their evaluation methods:

(24 years of CHI)
L. Barkhuus and J.A. Rode, “From Mice to Men: 24 Years of Evaluation in CHI,” Proc. alt.chi: Extended Abstracts of the Conf. Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2007.

(3 years InfoVis + 1 year VAST)
A. Perer and B. Shneiderman, “Integrating Statistics and Visualization for Exploratory Power: From Long-Term Case Studies to Design Guidelines,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 39-51, May/June 2009.