Schedule
Please note, all dates subject to change
Office Hours
Paul Rosen: Thur, 3:30-5pm, WEB 4887
Rahat Zaman: Thur, 12-1:30pm, WEB 2750
Sefat Rahman: Tues, 3:30-5pm, WEB 4720
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Week 1 (Aug 22/24)
Introduction - What is visualization and why is it important?
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.
Recommended watching
HTML - HTML Basics (elements, attributes..)
Recommended reading
CSS - CSS styling and selectors
Recommended reading
Perception & Cognition
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 (Aug 29/31)
Color
Recommended reading
- VAD, Chapters 10.2-10.3, Color Theory and Colormaps
Recommended watching
Group Activity - Greatest Infographic Ever (due Tuesday at 7:00 pm)
Recommended watching
Git - Project Management with Git
Week 3 (Sep 5/7)
SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) – shapes, curves, and styling
Recommended reading
JavaScript Basics - An Introduction to JavaScript
Recommended reading
- D3 Book, Chapter 3, go over JavaScript parts.
- MDN JavaScript Guide
- Code Academy Javascript Tutorial
Data Abstraction
Recommended reading
- On the Theory of Scales of Measurement. S. S. Stevens. Science, 103(2684), pp. 677-680, June 1946.
Group Activity - Coffee Shop Menu Abstraction (due Thursday at 7:00 pm)
Assignment 1 - Critique and Redesign (due Friday at 11:59 pm)
Week 4 (Sep 12/14)
DOM Manipulation, D3 Intro - Manipulating the DOM with the standard API, D3 Selections, Data Binding, Scales
Recommended reading
D3 - D3 Selections and Data Binding Recap, Scales, Axis, Grouping
Visual Encoding: Marks and 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.
- How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations, Lisa Charlotte Rost
Project - Project Proposal (due Friday at 11:59 pm)
Week 5 (Sep 19/21)
Design Guidelines
Recommended reading
- The good, the bad, and the biased: five ways visualizations can mislead (and how to fix them). Danielle Albers Szafir. Interactions. 2018.
- VAD, Chapters 6.3-6.6, and 6.9, Rules of Thumb
Group Activity - Name That Channel! (due Tuesday at 7:00 pm)
Visualization Critique
Recommended reading
- VAD, Chapter 6.10, Function First, Form Next
Assignment 2 - Drawing in JavaScript and D3 (due Friday at 11:59 pm)
Project - Project Review w/ Staff (as a group!) (scheduled w/ staff)
Week 6 (Sep 26/28)
Tasks and Interaction
Recommended 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
Tasks, Design, and Evaluation
Recommended reading
- VAD, Chapter 3, Why: Task Abstraction
- 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.
- USA Temperature: can I sucker you?
Group Activity - Determine the Task (due Thursday at 7:00 pm)
Project - Project Review w/ Staff (as a group!) (scheduled w/ staff)
Week 7 (Oct 3/5)
Tasks, Design, and Evaluation
Recommended reading
- VAD, Chapter 3, Why: Task Abstraction
- 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.
- USA Temperature: can I sucker you?
Multiple Views, Dashboards
Recommended reading
- VDA Chapter 14, Embed: Focus + Context
- VDA Chapter 12, Facet into Multiple Views
- What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dashboards? Alper Sarikaya, Michael Correll, Lyn Bartram, Melanie Tory, and Danyel Fisher. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 29(1): 682–692. 2019.
D3 Layouts - Pie charts, tree maps, node-link diagrams, matrices, etc.
Recommended reading
Assignment 3 - Drawing Basic Charts (due Friday at 11:59 pm)
Week 8 (Oct 10/12)
No Class - Fall Break!
Week 9 (Oct 17/19)
D3 Maps - GeoJSON, TopoJSON, Choropleth Maps, Proportional Symbol Maps, Google Maps
Recommended reading
- D3 book, Chapters 11 and 12
- Mike Bostock’s Let’s make a Map
Week 10 (Oct 24/26)
No Class - IEEE VIS Conference (use the extra time to work on your project milestone!)
Week 11 (Oct 31 / Nov 2)
Visualizing Tabular Data
Week 12 (Nov 7/9)
Text Visualization
Visualizing Networks and Trees
Recommended reading
- VDA Chapter 9, Arrange Networks and Trees
- S. Kieffer, T. Dwyer, K. Marriott, and M. Wybrow, “HOLA: Human-like Orthogonal Network Layout,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 349–358, Jan. 2016.
Assignment 4 - Covid Dashboard (due Friday at 11:59 pm)
Week 13 (Nov 14/16)
Visualizing Networks and Trees
Recommended reading
- VDA Chapter 9, Arrange Networks and Trees
- S. Kieffer, T. Dwyer, K. Marriott, and M. Wybrow, “HOLA: Human-like Orthogonal Network Layout,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 349–358, Jan. 2016.
Visualizing Multivariate Networks
Week 14 (Nov 21/23)
No Class - Thanksgiving Break (use the extra time to work on your final project!)
Week 15 (Nov 28/30)
Set Visualization
Recommended reading
- A. Lex and N. Gehlenborg, “Points of view: Sets and intersections,” Nat Meth, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 779–779, Aug. 2014.
- 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.
Maps
Week 16 (Dec 5/7)
Best Project Presentations, Wrap-Up
Final Exam - (starts Thursday at 2:00 pm)
Week 17 (Dec 12/14)
Assignment 5 (optional, replaces lowest homework score) - Election Predictions (due Monday at 11:59 pm)