Wednesday
1/8

Assignment: A0.

Course Welcome, Introduction.

Monday
1/13

Reading: Tufte excerpt
Reading: Ware excerpt
Assignment: A1 parts 1 and 2 only

Review A0 Good/Bad examples.
Introduction.

Wednesday
1/15

Assignment: A1 parts 3 and 4.

Introduction.
Review Personal Story Visualizations (from your A1).

Monday
1/20

NO CLASS

MLK Holiday

Wednesday
1/23

Assignment: A2 part 1 only.

Framework.

Monday
1/27

Reading: Eyes Have It
Reading: Visualization Taxonomy
Assignment: A2 part 2 only.

Data Models and Representations
Framework Field Guide
DataTypes Identification Sheet.

Wednesday
1/29

Assignment: A3.

Perception and Visual Cognition.

Monday
2/3

Reading: Cleveland Graphical Perception
Reading: Healy Perception in Visualization Examples (no reading reaction required for Healy)

Color Use and Color Scales.
Perception and Visual Cognition.

Wednesday
2/5

Assignment: A4.

Perception and Visual Cognition.

Monday
2/10

Reading: Jeff Han TED talk MultiTouch Display 2006
Reading: Hiep Truong Portable large table top displays
Reading: Display for the Mobile Web

Displays.

Wednesday
2/12

Assignment: A5.

Displays.

Monday
2/17

Reading: RENCI Project Visualizations ( NCSU and Duke). Read and explore the RENCI visualization projects listed on these two pages... For your reading reaction, choose two visualizations and write reviews of them.

FIELD TRIP: Visit RENCI. and see halfdome, wall and 3D display environments. Tour starts promptly at 11am in the RENCI building (also named Manning, but on Manning street near Dean Dome). I will leave from the Manning Hall lobby at 10:45 sharp for those who want to walk together from SILS over to RENCI.

Wednesday
2/19

Charts and TablesAssignment: A6.

Reviews of your MidTerm Project Plans
Charts and Tables

Monday
2/24

Reading: Stephen's Few's Communicating Numbers. Reading Responses:
1) In Chart page on Work Wiki, critique a chart of your choice, based on the Few Reading;
2) Take Quiz on reading

Wednesday
2/25

Assignment: A7.

Multivariable Visualization Techniques.

Monday
3/3

Reading: Polaris
Reading: IBM Attribute Explorer. Note you may need to save out and use VLC media player or similar to view

Multivariable Visualization Techniques.

Wednesday
3/5

Reading: Geobrowsing: Creative Thinking and knowledge discovery using geographic visualization, Peuquet

Maps & GIS.

Monday
3/10

SPRING BREAK

Wednesday
3/12

SPRING BREAK

Monday
3/17

MidTerm Project Presentations

Wednesday
3/19

MidTerm Project Presentations

Monday
3/24

Assignment: A9.

Maps & GIS.

Wednesday
3/26

Assignment: A10.

Interaction.

Monday
3/31

Reading: Animation: Can it facilitate?, Tversky
Reading: Visual programming Watch the visualization portions of the first 35 minutes of the video. Dr H says best video of our readings!

Interaction.

Wednesday
4/2

Assignment: A11.

Graphs, Networks, Trees.

Monday
4/7

Reading: Graph Visualization and Navigation in Information Visualization:a Survey, Hermann

Wednesday
4/9

Assignment: A12.

Visual Analytics. Use Tableau for developing visual analytic interfaces.

Monday
4/14

Reading: Perceptual Evaluation of Visualization Techniques and Systems, Ware
Reading: Shneiderman: Evaluating Novel Visualization Technques (Treemaps, ConeTrees, Hyperbolic Trees)

Visual Analytics. Use Tableau for developing visual analytic interfaces.

Wednesday
4/16

Assignment: A13.

Evaluation. Design Practice (Treemaps vs Cone Trees vs Hyperbolic Browsers).

Monday
4/21

Reading: The Challenge of Information Visualization Evaluation, Plaisant
Reading: An Empirical Comparison of Three Commercial Information Visualization Systems, Kobsa

Evaluation. Evaluation Practice.

Wednesday
4/23

Initial Final Project Presentations, Class Wrap-Up, Class Evaluations

Friday
5/2 10am-12p, 1-4pm

Remaining Final Project Presentations