| Week
| Date
| Topic
| Reading for this class meeting
| Assignment / Due
|
| 1
| Aug 28
| First Day Admin
Intro to InfoVis
(slides 1-46)
| Syllabus
VT Ch 1, VD Ch 1
| HW1
|
|
| Aug 30
| Intro to InfoVis
(slides 46-52)
Systems and Toolkits
|
VT Ch 3
| HW2
|
| 2
| Sep 4
| Tool Tutorials
| Bar Chart examples
| HW1 due
|
|
| Sep 6
| Design Principles and Graph Types
(slides 1-78)
| Few, Effectively Communicating Numbers
Heer et al., A Tour Through the Visualization Zoo
Pie Chart example in Protovis,
Stacked Bar Chart example in Protovis
|
|
| 3
| Sep 11
| Design Principles and Graph Types
(slides 79-102)
Data
(slides 1-24)
|
VT Ch 2
Web Scraping example
| HW2 due
HW3
|
|
| Sep 13
| Data
slides (25-40)
Perception
(slides 1-38)
|
Healey and Enns, 2011
|
|
| 4
| Sep 18
| Perception
(slides 38-71)
|
|
|
|
| Sep 20
| Cognition and User Tasks
| Shneiderman, 1996
|
|
| 5
| Sep 25
| Overview+Detail and Focus+Context
| Cockburn et al., 2008
| Semester Project
|
|
| Sep 27
| Interaction
| Yi et al., 2007
|
|
| 6
| Oct 2
| No Class - Weigle at GHC
|
| HW 3 due
|
|
| Oct 4
| No Class - Weigle at GHC
|
|
|
| 7
| Oct 9
| No Class - Fall Break
|
|
|
|
| Oct 11
| Time Series
| Aigner et al., 2008
R Time Series example
| Project groups/description due
|
| 8
| Oct 16
| Quiz 1
Graphs and Networks
(slides 1-69)
| Perer and Shneiderman, 2006
| HW4
|
|
| Oct 18
| Graphs and Networks
(slides 70-127)
|
|
|
| 9
| Oct 23
| Multivariate Data
(slides 1-73)
| Inselberg, 1997
|
|
|
| Oct 25
| VisWeek Report (Lulwah)
Multivariate Data
(slides 74-101)
| Visual Uncertainty notes
| HW4 due
HW5
|
| 10
| Oct 30
| No Class - Hurricane Sandy
|
|
|
|
| Nov 1
| Quiz 2
Hierarchies and Trees (node-link)
(slides 1-70)
| Node-Link notes
| Project progress report due
|
| 11
| Nov 6
| Hierarchies and Trees (space-filling)
(slides 71-112)
| Johnson and Shneiderman, 1991
Space-Filling notes
|
|
|
| Nov 8
| No Class - Weigle at BioCom2
|
|
|
| 12
| Nov 13
| Text and Documents
(slides 1-55)
| Text and Documents notes
|
|
|
| Nov 15
| Quiz 3
Text and Documents
(slides 55-124)
| Keim and Oelke, VAST 2007
|
|
| 13
| Nov 20
| Storytelling and Data Journalism
| Segel and Heer, InfoVis 2010 (TVCG)
Storytelling notes
| HW5 due
|
|
| Nov 22
| No Class - Thanksgiving Break
|
|
|
| 14
| Nov 27
| Evaluation
| Plaisant, AVI 2004
|
|
|
| Nov 29
| WWW
Maps
| Adar et al., UIST 2008
Maps notes
|
|
| 15
| Dec 4
| Big Data
Course Wrap-Up
|
Seldmair et al., InfoVis 2012
|
|
|
| Dec 6
| No Class - Project Work Day
|
| Project reports due Dec 7
|
|
| Sat, Dec 8
3:45-6:45pm
| Final Project Presentations and Demos
|
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