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

1. Tue, Jan 3 Introduction

No Readings

Assignments

• Assignment 1 (due Tue Jan 10 before class)

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

• 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)
• 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

4. Thu, Jan 12 Data Encoding and Graphical Integrity

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.

Optional Readings

• Mackinlay's Ranking of Visual Encodings: Published Paper

Assignment 2

• Exploratory Data Analysis Due Friday, Jan 20, 9pm.

5. Tue, Jan 17 Visual Perception

Readings

• Chapter 3 from Now You See It
• Perception in Visualization (html), C. Healey, 2011.

Assignment

• Project Proposal Due Friday, January 20th, 9pm.

Thu, Jan 19 Cancelled Due to Weather

6. Tue, Jan 24 How to Critique a Visualization

Readings

• Three Blind Men and An Elephant (pdf), Stephen Few, 2007.
• 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.

Assignment 3

• Visualization Critiques Due Monday, January 30th, 9pm.

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:

• 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.

Links

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

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

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

9. Tue, Feb 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.

10. Thu, Feb 9 Mid-term Presentations

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.
• (optional background) Generalized fisheye views, G. W. Furnas, CHI 1986.

Tue, Feb 14 Guest Lecture: VizDeck, Bill Howe

Speaker Bio

• Bill Howe bio

Readings

• No readings; work on projects.
• Optional background: VizDeck: Self-Organizing Dashboards for Visual Analytics (PDF), SIGMOD 2012 paper.

In class

• Time to work in project teams

11. Thu, Feb 16 Distortion Techniques

Readings

• No readings; work on projects.

12. Tue, Feb 21 3D in Visualization

Readings

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

13. Thu, Feb 23 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

• (optional) Animation: Does It Facilitate? Barbara Tversky, Julie Morrison, Mireille Betrancourt, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, v57, p247-262. 2002.

14. Tue, Feb 28 Color

Readings

• 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)