Notes:
| next class | tentative | no class | quiz/demo |
| 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, | ||
| 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 |