Week 1: Introduction
Readings
- Introduction, Chapters 1-2, Stephen Few's Now You See It, Analytics Press, 2009.
Assignments (due by 2:30pm Tuesday)
- Download and install Tableau before class on Tuesday (must be registered for the course).
- Post an introduction to the class discussion board following the instructions there.
Week 1:Data, Graph and Visualization Types
Guest Lecture, Jason Schumacher, Tableau Software
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Guide to using the Tableau software package:
The Beginner's Guide to Data Visualization.
Readings
- "A classification of visual representations", Lohse, Biolsi, Walker, Reuter, CACM 1994. pdf (Or see CommonView for PDF)
Links
- Example of Tableau being used for relief work in Haiti
- Cars dataset, adapted from the ASA 1983 dataset. (Version used in class exercise.)
Assignments (due by 2:30pm Thursday)
- Turn in 411 Group Info Form if you didn't do it in class Tuesday.
- Post a comment on the readings (Few Ch 1-2 and Lohse) on the class discussion board.
Week 2: Graphical Excellence
Readings
- Chapter 1 from Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte. (see CommonView for PDF)
Assignments (due at noon Monday)
- Assignment 1
- Find a dataset for Assignment 2 and turn in the link on dropbox.
Week 2: Data Exploration
Readings
- pp. 1-34, Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, Card, Mackinlay, and Shneiderman, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999. (see CommonView for PDF)
- The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations (pdf), Shneiderman, Proc. IEEE Conference on Visual Languages, Boulder 1996.
Recitation Sections (Labs)
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TBD
Week 3: Data Encoding and Graphical Integrity; How to Critique a Visualization
Readings
- Chapter 2 from Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte. (see CommonView for PDF)
Links
- Cars dataset used in class exercise.
Week 3:How to Critique a Visualization; Peer Review of Assignment 2
Readings
- Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis (pdf), Heer and Shneiderman, 2012.
- Chapter 3 from Now You See It
Assignments (due 2:30pm Thursday)
Week 4: Visual Perception
Readings
- Perception in Visualization (html), C. Healey, 2011.
Assignments
- Revised version of Assignment 2 due 2:30pm Tuesday
Week 4: Visual Perception 2
Readings
- Chapters 4 and 5 from Now You See It
- Graph Design I.Q. Test (html), Stephen Few, 2009.
- Graphical Perception (pdf), W. Cleveland and R. McGill, J. Amer. Statistical Assoc., Vol 79, No 387 (Sep 1984), pp. 531-554.
Assignments
- Revised Project Proposal due 2:30pm today.
Week 5: Color
Readings
- The first 4 pages of http://www.poynton.com/PDFs/ColorFAQ.pdf
Assignments
- Assignment 3, Visualization Critiques Due before class today.
Week 5: Mid-term Presentations
Teams 1-5 present today
Readings
- Chapter 6 from Now You See It
Assignments
- Mid-term presentations due today (should be uploaded to GoPost before class)
Week 6: Mid-term Presentations
Teams 6-11 present today
Readings
- Chapter 12 from Now You See It
Assignments
- Mid-term presentations due today (should be uploaded to GoPost before class)
Week 6: Color 2; Multivariate Analysis
Read at least two of these:
- Stephen Few on Parallel Coordinates, Business Intelligence Network, Sept 2006.
- Network Visualization by Semantic Substrates, Shneiderman & Aris, IEEE TVCG 2006.
- Understanding research trends in conferences using PaperLens, Lee et al., CHI'05 extended abstracts, 2005. website
- Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis, and Visualization of Multidimensional Relational Databases, Stolte, Tang, Hanrahan, IEEE TVCG 8 (1), 2002.
- Multidimensional Detective, Inselberg, IEEE Infoviz Symposium, 1997.
- The attribute explorer, Tweedie et al. CHI 1994.
- Space-scale diagrams, Furnas & Bederson, CHI 1995.
Links
Week 7: Interaction
Readings
- Now You See It, pp. 143-162 (first half of chapter 7).
- Generalized selection via interactive query relaxation, J. Heer, M. Agrawala, W. Willett, CHI 2008, pp. 959-968.
- Visual information seeking: Tight coupling of dynamic query filters with starfield displays, Ahlberg & Shneiderman.
Links
- ggobi
- LA Homicides Heer's example of generalized selection.
Week 7: Distortion Techniques
Readings
- A framework for unifying presentation space, Carpendale and Montagnese, UIST 2001.
- A review and taxonomy of distortion-oriented presentation techniques, Y.K. Leung and M.D. Apperley, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1994, pp. 126-160.
- Generalized fisheye views, G. W. Furnas, CHI 1986.
Week 8: Guest Lecture: Visualizing Citation Networks
Readings
- eigenfactor.org: Read information pages and look at some of the visualizations.
- Mapping Change in Large Networks, M. Rosvall and C. Bergstrom, PLoS ONE 5(1): e8694 (2010).
In class
- Time to work in project teams
Week 8: 3D in Visualization
Readings
- Evaluating the effectiveness of spatial memory in 2D and 3D physical and virtual environments, Cockburn and McKenzie, CHI 2002.
Week 9: Animation
Readings
- Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface Bay-Wei Chang, David Ungar, UIST 1993.
- Animated Exploration of Graphs with Radial Layout, Ping Yee, Danyel Fisher, Rachna Dhamija, and Marti Hearst, in IEEE Infovis Symposium, San Diego, 2001
- Animation: Does It Facilitate? Barbara Tversky, Julie Morrison, Mireille Betrancourt, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, v57, p247-262. 2002.
Week 9: Network and Tree Visualization/Visual Analytics
Readings
- No readings; work on projects.
Links
- treevis.net