As described in the syllabus, we will be doing student led presentations and discussions of various different visualization techniques. In order to accommodate the size of the class, we will do this in pairs as we are doing the assignments. However, since this is a bit different, you will be able to pick your own partners. Email me as soon as possible with your partner and which of the topics you want to tackle.
You will have about ten minutes to present your visualization. You should tell us what it is designed to visualization, describe its encoding, and provide us with some kind of demo or video of the technique in action. For static visualizations you can just show examples. You will then lead a brief evaluation of the technique. I am hoping for short discussions, though we will start with your evaluation.
| Criteria | Score |
|---|---|
| Thorough description with demo/examples | 15 |
| HTML page | 20 |
| Evaluation | 10 |
| D3 implementation | up to 15 bonus points |
The points awarded will be a reflection of the complexity of the work that you did (e.g., downloading one of Mike Bostock’s examples will not be worth anything, while a fully custom implementation of your visualization would be worth 10). Note that the techniques are not all equally straightforward to implement so think a bit about that when choosing which one to tackle. If you don’t want to take on the challenge of implementation, try to pick a technique that doesn’t lend itself to straightforward implementation.
The second part of your presentation will be a webpage that can be linked to this site as a reference for the technique you researched. The page should be an HTML file containing a short description of the technique and a list of all of the references you used. The references should include the URLs of every page you visited looking for descriptions or examples, links to demonstrations, etc (including the one I gave you). Each one should be labeled with what can be found at the page. This could be at the level of “Wikipedia entry for X”, or “Video example of Y”, or you could be more descriptive. Link in any presentation materials (PDFs of slides, examples you generated, etc) that you use when presenting to the class. If you create an implementation, embed it on the page or link to it.
I will link the page you create to this one, so make this something that someone could conceptually use to learn about the technique. Make it pretty and usable.
Here is the list of visualization techniques to be presented. These are negotiable if you have some other fascinating technique. However, you must clear it with me. I have tried to find one source that is a jumping off point. However, I encourage you to dig deeper and find other sources of information beyond the paper or two linked below (yes, many of these also have Wikipedia pages…).
Dust and Magnet (dcromwell@middlebury.edu and amarkun@middlebury.edu) Presentation
RadViz (Ellen and Ben B.) Presentation
Parallel Sets (Marisa and Joey) Presentation
Mosaic plots (ajung@middlebury.edu, edupleich@middlebury.edu) Presentation
Radar Chart (Carter and Hanna N.) Presentation
Star coordinates (Amanuel and Gilbert) Presentation
Table lens (wernst@middlebury.edu and phuffman@middlebury.edu) Presentation
Chernoff Faces (Birgitta and Joy) Presentation
Dense pixel displays (fgagnon@middlebury.edu and jisrael@middlebury.edu) Presentation
Pixel bar charts (Alex and Matthew) Presentation
Sunburst (Tim and Michael) Presentation
Icicle plots (jpedowitz@middlebury.edu and jyang@middlebury.edu) Presentation
Biofabric (Geoffrey and Ryan) Presentation
Pivot graph (Emily and Kent) Presentation
Theme river(Hannah B. and Anna) Presentation
Tilebars (bweaver@middlebury.edu and amaia@middlebury.edu) Presentation
Sparkclouds (Jamie and Aayam) Presentation
Your webpage is due 24 hours after your presentation. Put all of the materials into a directory called username1_username2_presentation, and then zip it and submit it on Moodle.