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27-Jan-2021: Don’t consider the calendar final while this message is here. Topics and assignment due dates will change in the first week or two.
Week 0 (Jan 25 - 29)
28-Jan Thu
Topic: Overview of Visualization | Intro to Tools
Assigned: Assignment 0 - Course Survey
Assigned: Assignment 1 - Hello World: GitHub and d3
Week 1 (Feb 01 - 05)
Reading:
VAD Chapters 1-2
Suggested Reading:
Design is a Search Problem
Dear Data (the background and entries themselves)
01-Feb Mon
Topic: Data Representation
Assigned: Assignment 2 - Data Visualization, 7 ways
Due: Assignment 0 – 11:59pm
04-Feb Thu
Topic: Lab/Workday on d3 patterns
05-Feb Fri
Due: Assignment 1 – 11:59pm
Week 2 (Feb 08 - 12)
Reading:
VAD Chapters 3-4
Sketching designs using the Five Design-Sheet methodology
Design activity framework for visualization design
08-Feb Mon
Topic: Visualization Design
11-Feb Thu
Topic: Lab/Workday on Visualization Design
Week 3 (Feb 15 - 19)
Reading:
VAD Chapters 5
A nested process model for visualization design and validation
15-Feb Mon
Topic: Visualization Design 2
18-Feb Thu
Topic: A2 Workday
Week 4 (Feb 22 - 26)
Reading: Chapters 6, 10
Colorgorical: Creating discriminable and preferable color palettes for information visualization
22-Feb Mon
Topic: Color Assigned: Assignment 3 – Replicating a Classic Experiment
Video Part 1
Video Part 2
Slides
25-Feb Thu
Topic: Color Lab (Redesign)
26-Feb Fri
Due: Assignment 2 – 11:59pm
Week 5 (Mar 01 - 05)
Reading: VAD Chapters 5, 10
Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception: Using Mechanical Turk to Assess Visualization Design
01-Mar Mon
Topic: Visual Channels
04-Mar Thu
Topic: Visual Channels 2 / Lab
Week 6 (Mar 08 - 12)
Reading: VAD Chapters 7
08-Mar Mon
Topic: Visualizing Tabular Data
11-Mar Thu
Topic: Visualizing Tabular Data 2 / Lab
Video
Slides
R code for 95% CIs
Video for R Code (from another class)
Week 7 (Mar 15 - 19)
Reading: VAD Chapters 8
15-Mar Mon
Topic: (Moved)
Assigned: Assignment 4 – Multiple Views Visualization
18-Mar Thu
Topic: A3 Workday
19-Mar Fri
Due: Assignment 3 – 11:59pm
Week 8 (Mar 22 - 26)
Reading: VAD Chapter 9
NodeTrix: a hybrid visualization of social networks
22-Mar Mon
NO CLASS! Spring break
24-Mar Wed (Fake Monday)
Topic: Visualizing Spatial Data
Assigned: Final Project
25-Mar Thu
Topic: Visualizing Networks
Week 9 (Mar 29 - Apr 2)
Reading: VAD Chapter 9
29-Mar Mon
Topic: Visualizing Hierarchies / Trees
01-Apr Thu
Topic: Networks Lab / Maps Lab
Week 10 (Apr 05 - 09)
Reading: VAD Chapters 11, 12
Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Role of Interaction in Information Visualization
05-Apr Mon
Topic: Interaction
Due: Final Project Idea Survey
08-Apr Thu
Topic: Interaction Lab
Week 11 (Apr 12 - 16)
Reading: VAD Chapter 15
Reading:
Empirical Studies in Information Visualization: Seven Scenarios
12-Apr Mon
Topic: Evaluation
15-Apr Thu
Topic: Evaluation 2
16-Apr Fri
Due: Final Project Team Prospectus
Week 12 (Apr 19 - 23)
19-Apr Mon
NO CLASS! Patriot’s Day Holiday
22-Apr Thu
Topic: A4 Workday
23-Apr Fri
Due: Assignment 4 – 11:59pm
Week 13 (Apr 26 - 30)
26-Apr Mon
Topic: Adv Topics 1
29-Apr Thu
Topic: Final Project Checkin
Week 14 (May 03 - 07)
03-May Mon
Topic: Adv Topics 2
06-May Thu
Topic: Final Project Checkin
Week 15 (May 10 - 14)
10-May Mon
Topic: Final Project
Due: Final Project & Annotated Bib