Schedule
Subject to change
Week 1
Lecture 1: Introduction
Tuesday, August 22, 2017What is visualization? Why is it important? Who are we? Course overview.
Recommended reading
- A Tour through the Visualization Zoo. Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky. Communications of the ACM, 53(6), pp. 59-67, Jun 2010.
- The Value of Visualization.Jarke van Wijk. Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference, pp. 79-86, 2005.
Lecture 2: Perception, Cognition, Color
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Mandatory reading
- VAD, Chapters 10.2-10.3, Color Theory and Colormaps
Recommended reading
- Perception in Visualization, Christopher G. Healey
- Gestalt principles (part 1). Bang Wong. Nature Methods 7, pp. 863, Nov 2010.
- Gestalt principles (part 2). Bang Wong. Nature Methods 7, pp. 941, Dec 2010.
Week 2
Lecture 3: Version Control; HTML and SVG.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017Introduction to git. HTML, CSS and the DOM. Selectors, etc.
Mandatory reading
- D3 Book, Chapters 1-3
- VDA Book, Chapter 1
Recommended reading
Lecture 4: Data Abstraction, Data Types.
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Mandatory reading
- VAD, Chapter 2, Data Abstraction
Recommended reading
- On the Theory of Scales of Measurement. S. S. Stevens. Science, 103(2684), pp. 677-680, June 1946.
Week 3
Lecture 5: JavaScript Basics
Tuesday, September 5, 2017An Introduction to JavaScript and D3.
Mandatory reading
- D3 Book, Chapter 3, go over JavaScript parts.
Recommended reading
- MDN JavaScript Guide
- Book: JavaScript - the Good Parts. Get this book for <20$ if you’re interested in learning more about JavaScript.
- Code Academy Javascript Tutorial
Lecture 6: The Visualization Alphabet: Marks and Channels.
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Mandatory reading
- Crowdsourcing graphical perception: using mechanical turk to assess visualization design. Jeff Heer, Mike Bostock. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2010.
- VAD, Chapter 5, Marks and Channels
- VAD, Chapter 10.4, Mapping Other Channels
Recommended reading
- Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation and the Application to the Development of Graphical Models. William S. Cleveland, Robert McGill, J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 79:387, pp. 531-554, 1984.
- The Structure of the Information Visualization Design Space. Stuart Card and Jock Mackinlay. Proceedings of InfoVis, 1997.
Week 4
Lecture 7: DOM Manipulation, D3
Tuesday, September 12, 2017Manipulating the DOM with the standard API, D3 Selections, Data Binding, Scales, Axes
Mandatory reading
- D3 book, Chapters 4, 5 and 6
Recommended reading
Lecture 8: Design Guidelines, Tasks
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Mandatory reading
- VAD, Chapters 6.3-6.6, and 6.9, Rules of Thumb
- VAD, Chapter 6.10, Function First, Form Next
- VAD, Chapter 3, Why: Task Abstraction
Recommended reading
- Design Principles for Visual Communication. Maneesh Agrawala, Wilmot Li, Floraine Berthouzoz. Communications of the ACM, 54(4), pp. 60-69, Apr 2011.
- Design of data figures. Bang Wong. Nature Methods 7, pp. 665, Sept 2010.
- Low-Level Components of Analytic Activity in Information Visualization. Robert Amar, James Eagan, and John Stasko. Proceedings of InfoVis, 2005.
- A Multi-Level Typology of Abstract Visualization Tasks. Matthew Brehmer and Tamara Munzner. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 19(12), p. 2376–2385, 2013.
- A Design Space of Visualization Tasks. Hans-Jorg Schulz, Thomas Nocke, Magnus Heitzler, and Heidrun Schumann. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 19(12), p. 2376–2385, 2013.
Week 5
Lecture 9: D3 Maps
Tuesday, September 19, 2017GeoJSON, TopoJSON, Choropleth Maps, Proportional Symbol Maps, Google Maps
Lecture 10: Interaction
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Mandatory reading
- Interactive dynamics for visual analysis, Heer, J., & Shneiderman, B. Communications of the ACM 55(4), 2012.
- VAD, Chapter 11, Manipulate View
- VAD, Chapter 6.8, Responsiveness Is Required
Week 6
Lecture 11: D3 Layouts
Tuesday, September 26, 2017Pie charts, tree maps, node-link diagrams, matrices, etc.
Mandatory reading
- D3 book, Chapters 7, 8, 9 and 10
Recommended reading
Lecture 12: Views; Focus and Context
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Mandatory reading
- VDA Chapter 12, Facet into Multiple Views
- VDA Chapter 14, Embed: Focus + Context
Week 7
Tuesday: Class cancelled, staff is traveling.
Midterm: Fundamentals.
Thursday, October 6, 2017
Week 8
Fall Break
Week 9
Lecture 13: Visualizing Tabular Data (Two Parts)
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Mandatory reading
- VDA Chapter 7, Tables
Lecture 14: Visualizing Tabular Data (Two Parts)
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Mandatory reading
- VDA Chapter 7, Tables
Week 10
Week 11
Tuesday: Classes canceled by President.
Lecture 18: Project Peer Feedback in Groups
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Week 12
Lecture 20: Molecular Visualization & Animation
Thursday, November 9, 2017Guest lecturer: Janet Iwasa
Week 13
Project Feedback with Instructors
Mo, Nov. 14 - Fr, Nov. 18, 2017You will schedule a 20-minute time-slot with one of the instructors to receive feedback on your project.
Lecture 21: Filtering & Aggregation
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Mandatory reading
- VDA Ch. 13 Reduce Items and Attributes
Lecture 22: Visualizing Sets and Text
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Mandatory reading
Recommended reading
- B. Alsallakh, L. Micallef, W. Aigner, H. Hauser, S. Miksch, and P. Rodgers, “The State-of-the-Art of Set Visualization,” in Computer Graphics Forum, 2016, vol. 35, pp. 234–260.
- A. Lex, N. Gehlenborg, H. Strobelt, R. Vuillemot, and H. Pfister, “UpSet: Visualization of Intersecting Sets,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’14), vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 1983–1992, 2014.
Week 14
Lecture 23: Visualizing Sets and Text
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Mandatory reading
Recommended reading
- B. Alsallakh, L. Micallef, W. Aigner, H. Hauser, S. Miksch, and P. Rodgers, “The State-of-the-Art of Set Visualization,” in Computer Graphics Forum, 2016, vol. 35, pp. 234–260.
- A. Lex, N. Gehlenborg, H. Strobelt, R. Vuillemot, and H. Pfister, “UpSet: Visualization of Intersecting Sets,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’14), vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 1983–1992, 2014.
Thursday: Thanksgiving Break
Week 15
Lecture 24: Storytelling with Visualization
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Lecture 25: Designing and Evaluating Visualizations, Tasks
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Mandatory reading
- A nested model for visualization design and validation. Tamara Munzner. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 15(6), 2009.
- VAD, Chapter 4, Analysis: Four Levels for Validation
Recommended reading
- H. Lam, E. Bertini, P. Isenberg, C. Plaisant, and S. Carpendale, “Empirical Studies in Information Visualization: Seven Scenarios,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 1520–1536, 2012.
- Design Activity Framework for Visualization Design (Section 4-4.3). Sean McKenna, Dominika Mazur, James Agutter, Miriah Meyer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’14), 20(12), pp. 2191-2200, 2014.
- Visual Thinking: For Design, Chapter 8
- The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization, Chapter 2
- Parallel Prototyping Leads to Better Design Results, More Divergence, and Increased Self-Efficacy. Dow, Steven P., et al. Design Thinking Research. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. 127-153.
- Sketching Designs Using the Five Design-Sheet Methodology. Roberts, Jonathan C., Chris Headleand, and Panagiotis D. Ritsos. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 22.1 (2016): 419-428.
- VizItCards: A Card-Based Toolkit for Infovis Design Education. He, Shiqing, and Eytan Adar. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2016).
- Creative User-Centered Visualization Design for Energy Analysts and Modelers. Goodwin, Sarah, et al. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 19.12 (2013): 2516-2525.
Week 16
Exam 2.
Thursday, December 7, 2017, 2017