This is a living schedule and subject to change
Date | Topic | Reading | Notes | Assignment |
---|---|---|---|---|
02/15 | Introduction to information visualization | Few 1+2 | Introduction | Attendance form |
02/17 | Data | Data | Attendance form, HW1 | |
02/19 | Exploring data with Tableau | HW2 | ||
02/22 | Perception | Few 3 | Perception | |
02/24 | Perception for Visualization | Perception for vis I | ||
02/26 | Winter Carnival [no class] | HW3 | ||
02/29 | Perception for Visualization II | Perception for vis II | ||
03/02 | Introduction to D3 | Murray 3-6 | simple bar chart | |
03/04 | Introduction to D3 II | Murray 3-6 | bar chart 1, bar chart 2, bar chart 3 | Partner Questionnaire |
03/07 | Introduction to D3 III | Murray 6-8 | bar chart 4, bar chart 5, bar chart 6, bar chart 7 | HW4 |
03/09 | Evaluating Visualizations | Evaluation | ||
03/11 | Evaluating Visualizations II | |||
03/14 | Interactive D3 | Murray 10 | Configurable scatterplot | HW5 |
03/16 | Evaluation wrap-up, Interactions and navigation | Few 4 | Interaction | |
03/18 | More Interactions and Overview | Few 4 | Overviews | |
03/21 | More Interactive D3 | Transitions, Tooltips | ||
03/23 | Brushing in D3, Navigation | Brushes, Navigation | HW6 [solution] | |
03/25 | Multivariate analysis | Few 5,10 | Multivariate | |
03/28-04/01 | Spring Break | |||
04/04 | Multivariate analysis II | Few 12 | Multivariate part 2 | |
04/06 | Yet More D3 | Pies | ||
04/08 | Student presentations | Histogram | ||
04/11 | Student presentations | HW7 | ||
04/13 | Student presentations | |||
04/15 | Spring symposium [no class] | |||
04/18 | Hierarchies | Hierarchies and Graphs | ||
04/20 | More Hierarchies | HW8 | ||
04/22 | More D3 Layouts | Treemap, Forces, Force-directed layout | ||
04/25 | Student presentations | |||
04/27 | D3 force layout, Geographic projection | |||
04/29 | Geospatial visualization | Few 13 | Geospatial Vis | |
05/02 | Geospatial D3 | simple svg map, GeoJSON map, dot map, dot map with zooming, TopoJSON | ||
05/04 | In class assignment | Exercise | ||
05/06 | Servers and backends | server example | ||
05/09 | Text | Text Vis | ||
05/11 | Student presentations | |||
05/13 | In class assignment | Exercise | ||
05/16 | Visual analytics | |||
05/17-05/18 | Reading day | |||
05/19-05/24 | Exam Period | Final Project |
This is a collection to links that you will find useful for the class.
Some data sets to explore. Don’t feel limited to these. If you have an interest, there is a good chance someone else has a passion for the same thing and has collected statistics for it. So pull up your favorite search engine and go looking.
Cool visualizations, interesting articles, and general visualization stuff that is cool or interesting.