Notes:
| Week | Date | Topic | Assigned Reading | Assignment |
| 1 | Sep 1 | Administrivia What is InfoVis? | Syllabus Sep 1 Readings | HW1 (Sep 8) Data Exploration and Analysis HW1b (Sep 8) Graph Design IQ Test |
| 2 | Sep 8 | Table and Graph Design Visual Perception | Sep 8 Readings | HW 1, HW 1b due HW2 (Sep 15) Table and Graph Design |
| 3 | Sep 15 | Cognitive Issues and User Tasks Multivariate Visual Representations (slides 1-37) Tableau webinar (11:30am-12:15pm) | Sep 15 Readings | HW 2 due Semester Project assigned |
| 4 | Sep 22 | Multivariate Visual Representations (slides 38-87) Overview + Detail and Focus + Context (slides 1-76) | Sep 22 Readings | HW3 assigned (Oct 6) Multivariate Data Analysis with Tableau |
| 5 | Sep 29 | Overview + Detail and Focus + Context (slides 77-86) Interaction | Sep 29 Readings | Milestone 1 (topics/teams) due |
| 6 | Oct 6 | Storytelling | Oct 6 Readings | HW 3 due (by 11:59pm) HW4 assigned (Oct 13) Visualization with Many Eyes |
| 7 | Oct 13 | Systems and Toolkits | Oct 13 Readings | HW 4 due HW5 assigned (Nov 3) Re-create Existing Vis |
| 8 | Oct 20 | Design Principles: Tufte and Few (slides 1-53) Mid-Term Exam | Oct 20 Readings | |
| 9 | Oct 27 | Design Principles: Tufte and Few (slides 54-91) VisWeek 2011 mini-recap | ||
| 10 | Nov 3 | Hierarchies and Trees | Nov 3 Readings | Milestone 2 (progress report) due |
| 11 | Nov 10 | Graphs and Networks | Nov 10 Readings | HW 5 due (by 11:59pm) HW6 assigned (Nov 17) Exploring Network Visualization |
| 12 | Nov 17 | Text and Documents | Nov 17 Readings | HW 6 due HW7 assigned (Dec 1) Tag Cloud vs. Wordle |
| Nov 24 | No Class - Thanksgiving Break | |||
| 13 | Dec 1 | Time Series WWW | Dec 1 Readings | HW 7 due |
| 14 | Dec 8 | Big Data Evaluation Review | Dec 8 Readings | Final Report due - Fri, Dec 9 by 11:59pm |
| Tues, Dec 13 8:30-11:30 am | Final Project Presentations |