HCDE 411:
Information Visualization
Winter 2013, Prof. Cecilia Aragon
(Readings and assignments due on date of indicated class. Schedule subject to change.)
Week 1 - Tues Jan 8: Introduction
Readings
- Introduction, Chapters 1-2, Stephen Few's Now You See It, Analytics Press,
2009.
Assignments (due by 2:30pm Tuesday Jan 8)
- 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 - Thurs Jan 10:Data, Graph and Visualization Types
Guest Lecture, Jason Schumacher, Tableau Software
Readings
- "A classification of visual representations", Lohse, Biolsi, Walker, Reuter, CACM 1994. pdf
(Or see CommonView for PDF)
Links
Assignments (due by 2:30pm Thursday Jan 10)
- 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 - Tues Jan 15:
Graphical Excellence
Readings
- Chapter 1 from Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte. (see CommonView for PDF)
Assignments (due at noon Monday Jan 14)
- Assignment 1
- Find a dataset for Assignment 2 and turn in the link on dropbox.
Week 2 - Thurs Jan 17:
Data Exploration
Readings
Recitation Sections (Labs)
- Wed Jan 16 12-1:30
- Wed Jan 16 1:30-3
- Fri Jan 18 12-1:30
- Fri Jan 18 1:30-3
Week 3 - Tues Jan 22: 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
Week 3 - Thurs Jan 24:How to Critique a Visualization; Peer Review of
Assignment 2
Readings
Assignments (due 2:30pm Thursday Jan 24)
Week 4 - Tues Jan 29: Visual Perception
Readings
Assignments
- Revised version of Assignment 2 due 2:30pm Tuesday
Week 4 - Thurs Jan 31: Visual Perception 2
Readings
Assignments
- Revised Project Proposal due 2:30pm today.
Week 5 - Tues Feb 5:
Color
Readings
- The first 4 pages of http://www.poynton.com/PDFs/ColorFAQ.pdf
Assignments
Week 5 - Thurs Feb 7:
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 - Tues Feb 12:
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 - Thurs Feb 14:
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 - Tues Feb 19:
Interaction
Readings
Links
Week 7 - Thurs Feb 21:
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.
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Generalized fisheye views,
G. W. Furnas, CHI 1986.
Week 8 - Tues Feb 26:
Guest Lecture: Jevin West, Visualizing Citation Networks
Readings
In class
- Time to work in project teams
Week 8 - Thurs Feb 28:
3D in Visualization
Readings
Week 9 - Tues Mar 5:
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 - Thurs Mar 7:
Network and Tree Visualization/Visual Analytics
Readings
- No readings; work on projects.
Links
Week 10 - Tues Mar 12:
Final Project Presentations
Presentations
Week 10 - Thurs Mar 14:
Final Project Presentations
Presentations
