HCDE 511 Information Visualization | Class Schedule
(Readings due on date of indicated class. Schedule subject to change.)

1. Tue, Jan 3 Introduction

No Readings

Assignments

2. Thu, Jan 5 Data, Graph and Visualization Types

Readings

  • Introduction, Chapters 1-2, Stephen Few's Now You See It, Analytics Press, 2009.
  • pp. 1-34, Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, Card, Mackinlay, and Shneiderman, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999. (see CommonView for PDF)

Assignments

  • Download and install Tableau (must be registered for the course)

Links

  • (FYI, not assigned reading) "A classification of visual representations", Lohse, Biolsi, Walker, Reuter, CACM 1994. pdf

3. Tue, Jan 10 Graphical Excellence; Interactive Data Exploration

Guest Lecture 12:30-1:20 Sophia Kan, Tableau Software

Readings

Assignments

  • Assignment 1 due before class today

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4. Thu, Jan 12 Data Encoding and Graphical Integrity

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Optional Readings

Assignment 2

5. Tue, Jan 17 Visual Perception

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Assignment

Thu, Jan 19 Cancelled Due to Weather

6. Tue, Jan 24 How to Critique a Visualization

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Assignment 3

7. Thu, Jan 26Visual Perception 2

Readings

  • Chapters 4 and 5 from Now You See It
  • (optional background) Space-scale diagrams, Furnas & Bederson, CHI 1995.

8. Tue, Jan 31 Multivariate Analysis

Readings

  • Chapters 6 and 12 from Now You See It

Read at least one of these:

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Thu, Feb 2 Guest Lecture: Visualizing Citation Networks, Jevin West

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In class

  • Time to work in project teams

9. Tue, Feb 7 Interaction

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Links

10. Thu, Feb 9 Mid-term Presentations

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Tue, Feb 14 Guest Lecture: VizDeck, Bill Howe

Speaker Bio

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In class

  • Time to work in project teams

11. Thu, Feb 16 Distortion Techniques

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  • No readings; work on projects.

12. Tue, Feb 21 3D in Visualization

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13. Thu, Feb 23 Animation

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14. Tue, Feb 28 Color

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  • No readings; work on projects.

15. Thu, Mar 1 Color (2)

Presentation

  • Visualizing Scientific Networks - Betsy Rolland and Drew Paine

Readings

  • treevis.net

16. Tue, Mar 6 Hierarchical and Network Visualization

Presentation

  • Living Voters Guide - Alexis Hope, Katie Kuksenok, Robin Mays, Bilge Soran

Readings

  • No readings; work on projects.

Thu, Mar 8 Final Project Presentations

Presentations

  • Michael Brooks
  • Dan Leventhal
  • Denny and Garrison-Laney
  • Chaudhuri, Gilbert, Jones, Krause
  • Porter and Scott (deferred)