Please note, all dates subject to change

Office Hours

Paul Rosen: Tu/Th, 3:20-4pm, WEB 4887

Teaching Assistants

Rifat Ara Proma Sefat Rahman
Time Tu/Fri 1:00-1:30pm Time Mon/Fri 3:00-3:30pm
Location Zoom Location Zoom (Passcode: 011941)

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Week 1 (Aug 19/21)

Introduction - What is visualization and why is it important?

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HTML - HTML Basics (elements, attributes..)

CSS - CSS styling and selectors

Homework 0 - Getting started! (no due date)

Week 2 (Aug 26/28)

Perception & Cognition

Recommended reading

Group Activity - Greatest Infographic Ever (due Tuesday at 5:00 pm)

Color

Recommended reading

  • VAD, Chapters 10.2-10.3, Color Theory and Colormaps

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Project - Announce Your Project (due Friday at 5:00 pm)

Week 3 (Sep 2/4)

Color

Recommended reading

  • VAD, Chapters 10.2-10.3, Color Theory and Colormaps

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Git - Project Management with Git

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SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) – shapes, curves, and styling

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Homework 1 - Critique and Redesign (due Sunday at 11:59 pm)

Week 4 (Sep 9/11)

Data Abstraction

Recommended reading

Group Activity - Coffee Shop Menu Abstraction (due Tuesday at 5:00 pm)

JavaScript Basics - An Introduction to JavaScript

Recommended reading

DOM Manipulation, D3 Intro - Manipulating the DOM with the standard API, D3 Selections, Data Binding, Scales

Project - Project Proposal (due Sunday at 11:59 pm)

Week 5 (Sep 16/18)

Project - Project Review w/ Staff (as a group!) (scheduled w/ staff)

DOM Manipulation, D3 Intro - Manipulating the DOM with the standard API, D3 Selections, Data Binding, Scales

Visual Encoding: Marks and Channels

Recommended reading

Group Activity - Name That Channel! (due Thursday at 5:00 pm)

Week 6 (Sep 23/25)

Project - Project Review w/ Staff (as a group!) (scheduled w/ staff)

Visual Encoding: Marks and Channels

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D3 - D3 Selections and Data Binding Recap, Scales, Axis, Grouping

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Design Guidelines

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Homework 2 - Drawing in JavaScript and D3 (due Sunday at 11:59 pm)

Week 7 (Sep 30/Oct 2)

Midterm Exam - (starts Wednesday at 2:00 pm)

Design Guidelines

Recommended reading

Group Activity - Determine the Task (due Thursday at 5:00 pm)

Week 8 (Oct 7/9)

No Class - Fall Break!

Week 9 (Oct 14/16)

Design Guidelines

Recommended reading

Tasks and Interaction

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D3 Layouts - Pie charts, tree maps, node-link diagrams, matrices, etc.

D3 Maps - GeoJSON, TopoJSON, Choropleth Maps, Proportional Symbol Maps, Google Maps

Recommended reading

Visualization Critique

Recommended reading

  • VAD, Chapter 6.10, Function First, Form Next

Homework 3 - Drawing Basic Charts (due Sunday at 11:59 pm)

Week 10 (Oct 21/23)

Visualization Critique

Recommended reading

  • VAD, Chapter 6.10, Function First, Form Next

Tasks, Design, and Evaluation

Recommended reading

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.

Project - Milestone (due Sunday at 11:59 pm)

Week 11 (Oct 28/30)

Filtering & Aggregation

Recommended reading

  • VDA Ch. 13 Reduce Items and Attributes

Homework 4 - Covid Dashboard (due Sunday at 11:59 pm)

Week 12 (Nov 4/6)

Week 13 (Nov 11/13)

Group Activity - Design Sprint (due Tuesday at 5:00 pm)

Week 14 (Nov 18/20)

Project - Project Screencast Submission (due Sunday at 11:59 pm)

Week 15 (Nov 25/27)

No Class - Thanksgiving Break (use the extra time to work on your final project!)

Week 16 (Dec 2/4)

Best Project Presentations, Wrap-Up

Project - Final Project Submission (due Friday at 5:00 pm)

Project - Group Member Feedback (due Friday at 5:00 pm)

Week 17 (Dec 10)

Final Exam - (starts Tuesday at 1:00 pm)