(Readings and assignments due on date of indicated class. Schedule subject to change.)

Week 1: Monday, Mar 26 Introduction / Data, Graph and Visualization Types

Readings

• Introduction, Chapters 1-2, Stephen Few's Now You See It, Analytics Press, 2009.
• "A classification of visual representations", Lohse, Biolsi, Walker, Reuter, CACM 1994. pdf (Or see CommonView for PDF)

Assignments

• Download and install Tableau before class today (must be registered for the course).
• Post an introduction to the class discussion board following the instructions there.

Week 2: Monday, Apr 2 Graphical Excellence / Interactive Data Exploration

Guest Lecture 6pm-7pm Sophia Kan, Tableau Software

• Guide to using the Tableau software package:
  The Beginner's Guide to Data Visualization.

Readings

• Chapter 1 from Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte. (see CommonView for PDF)
• 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.

Assignments

• Assignment 1 (due before class today)

Links

• Cars dataset, adapted from the ASA 1983 dataset.
• Example of Tableau being used for relief work in Haiti

Week 3: Monday, Apr 9 Data Encoding and Graphical Integrity / How to Critique a Visualization

Readings

• Chapter 2 from Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte. (see CommonView for PDF)
• The Structure of the Information Visualization Design Space (pdf), Card and Mackinlay, 1997.
• Chapter 3 from Now You See It

Optional Readings

• Mackinlay's Ranking of Visual Encodings: Published Paper

Assignments

• Assignment 2, Exploratory Data Analysis Due before class today.
• Project Proposal Due Friday, Apr 13, 9pm.

Week 4: Monday, Apr 16 Visual Perception

Readings

• Perception in Visualization (html), C. Healey, 2011.
• 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

• Assignment 3, Visualization Critiques Due before class today.
• Revised Project Proposal Due Friday, Apr 20, 9pm.

Week 5: Monday, Apr 23 Multivariate Analysis

Readings

• Chapters 6 and 12 from Now You See It

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

• PaperLens video
• NVSS video
• Influence (Attribute) Explorer Video

Week 6: Monday, Apr 30 Interaction / Mid-term Presentations

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.

Assignments

• Mid-term presentations due today (should be uploaded to GoPost before class)

Links

• ggobi
• LA Homicides Heer's example of generalized selection.

Week 7: Monday, May 7 Distortion Techniques / 3D in Visualization

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.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of spatial memory in 2D and 3D physical and virtual environments, Cockburn and McKenzie, CHI 2002.

Week 8: Monday, May 14 Animation / Network and Tree Visualization

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.

• treevis.net

Week 9: Monday, May 21 Color

Readings

• No readings; work on projects.

Week 10: 6:00 pm Wednesday, June 6 Final Project Presentations

Presentations