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10-Jan-2022: 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 1 (Jan 10 - 14)
Reading:
VAD Chapters 1-2
Suggested Reading:
Design is a Search Problem
Dear Data (the background and entries themselves)
12-Jan Wed (Monday Schedule)
Topic: Overview of Visualization | Intro to Tools
Assigned: Assignment 0 - Course Survey
Assigned: Assignment 1 - Hello World: GitHub and d3
13-Jan Thur
Due: Assignment 0 – 11:59pm
Topic: Lab/Workday on d3 patterns
Week 2 (Jan 17 - 21)
Reading:
VAD Chapters 3-4
Sketching designs using the Five Design-Sheet methodology
Design activity framework for visualization design
17-Jan Mon
NO CLASS! Martin Luther King Day
20-Jan Thur
Topic: Data Representation
Assigned: Assignment 2 - Data Visualization, 7 ways
21-Jan Fri
Due: Assignment 1 – 11:59pm
Week 3 (Jan 24 - 28)
Reading:
VAD Chapters 5
A nested process model for visualization design and validation
24-Jan Mon
Topic: Visualization Design
Video
Slides
Slides (McKenna’s Design Activities)
27-Jan Thur
Topic: Lab/Workday on R and D3
Video
Code R+ggplot2
Code d3
Code Observable
Week 4 (Jan 31 - Feb 4)
31-Jan Mon
Topic: Visualization Design 2
3-Feb Thur
Topic: A2 Workday
Week 4 (Feb 7 - 11)
Reading: Chapters 6, 10
Colorgorical: Creating discriminable and preferable color palettes for information visualization
7-Feb Mon
Topic: Color
10-Feb Thur
Topic: Color Lab (Redesign) Assigned: Assignment 3 – Replicating a Classic Experiment
11-Feb Fri
Due: Assignment 2 – 11:59pm
Week 5 (Feb 14 - 17)
Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception: Using Mechanical Turk to Assess Visualization Design
14-Feb Mon
Topic: Visual Channels
17-Feb Thur
Topic: Visual Channels 2 / Lab
Week 6 (Feb 21 - 25)
Reading: VAD Chapters 7
21-Feb Mon
Topic: Visualizing Tabular Data
Week 7 (Feb 28 - Mar 4)
Reading: VAD Chapters 8
28-Feb Mon
Topic: Visualizing Tabular Data 2 / Lab
Assigned: Assignment 4 – Multiple Views Visualization
03-Mar Thur
Topic: A3 Workday
04-Mar Fri
Due: Assignment 3 – 11:59pm
Week 8 (Mar 7 - 11)
NO CLASS! Spring break
Week 9 (Mar 14 - 18)
Reading: VAD Chapter 9
NodeTrix: a hybrid visualization of social networks
14-Mar Mon
Topic: Visualizing Spatial Data
Assigned: Final Project
17-Mar Thur
Week 10 (Mar 21 - 25)
21-Mar Mon
Topic: Visualizing Networks
22-Mar Tue
Due: Final Project Idea Survey
24-Mar Mon
Topic: Networks Lab / Maps Lab
Video
Code
Week 11 (Mar 28 - Apr 1)
Reading: VAD Chapters 11, 12
Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Role of Interaction in Information Visualization
28-Mar Mon
Topic: Visualizing Hierarchies / Trees
31-Mar Thur
Topic: Interaction
Week 12 (Apr 4 - 8)
Reading: VAD Chapter 15
Reading:
Empirical Studies in Information Visualization: Seven Scenarios
4-Apr Mon
Topic: Evaluation
Due: Final Project Team Prospectus
7-Apr Thur
Topic: Evaluation 2
Week 13 (Apr 11 - 15)
11-Apr Mon
Topic: Adv Topics 1
14-Apr Thu
Topic: Final Project Checkin
Week 14 (Apr 18 - 22)
18-Apr Mon
NO CLASS! Patriot’s Day Holiday
21-Apr Thur
Topic: A4 Workday
23-Apr Fri
Due: Assignment 4 – 11:59pm
Week 15 (Apr 25 - 29)
25-Apr Mon
Topic: Adv Topics 2
28-Apr Thur
Topic: Final Project Checkin
Week 15 (May 2 - 6)
2-May Mon
Topic: Final Project
Due: Final Project & Annotated Bib