INLS 541 Spring
2020 Schedule
Instructor: Dr. Hemminger
Reading Responses
Class Work #1,
Class Work #2,
Class Work #3,
Class Work #4
This planned schedule lists the topics we'll cover with links to the presention materials, and readings and assignments due dates. Their are no required textbooks for this course, as part of my effort to educate using freely available materials. I do recommend several books (see list in Course Resources Books page. All readings are available electronically, and linked from this page. Readings should be read before the class they are listed for. Assignments are due two hours before the start of class.
Table of Contents
Course Welcome and Introduction
Wednesday |
Assignment: A0. |
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Monday |
Reading: Tufte excerpt |
Review A0 Good/Bad examples. |
Wednesday |
Assignment: A2. |
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Monday | NO CLASS |
MLK Holiday |
Data Representation and Mapping
Wednesday |
Assignment: A8. |
Review A2. Review A8 Personal Story Visualizations. |
Monday |
Reading: Eyes
Have It |
Framework |
Visual Perception and Cognition
Wednesday |
Assignment: A3. |
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Monday |
Reading: Cleveland
Graphical Perception |
Color Use and Color Scales. |
Wednesday |
Assignment: A4. |
Monday |
Reading: Jeff
Han TED talk MultiTouch Display 2006 |
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Wednesday |
Assignment: A5. |
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Monday |
Assignment: A6. |
Reviews of your
MidTerm Project Plans |
Wednesday |
Be sure you have setup your Tableau account, and create and save Tableau Visualizations on your laptop. |
Tableau Workshop |
Monday |
Reading: Stephen's
Few's Communicating Numbers.
Reading Responses: |
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Multivariable Visualization Techniques
Wednesday |
Assignment: A7. |
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Monday |
Reading: Stolte-Polaris Skip
sections 4.1, 6 and 7 |
Wednesday |
Reading: Geobrowsing: Creative Thinking and knowledge discovery using geographic visualization, Peuquet |
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Monday |
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Wednesday |
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Monday |
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MidTerm Project Presentations Part 1 |
Wednesday |
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MidTerm Project Presentations Part 2 |
Monday |
Midterms DUE. |
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Wednesday |
Assignment: A9. |
Monday |
Assignment: A10. |
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Wednesday |
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. |
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Monday |
Assignment: A11. |
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Wednesday |
Reading: Graph Visualization and
Navigation in Information Visualization:a Survey,
Hermann |
Design a "best" social network graph
interface.
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Monday |
Assignment: A12. |
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Wednesday |
Reading: The
Challenge of Information Visualization Evaluation,
Plaisant |
Review Final Project Descriptions. |
Monday |
Assignment: A13. |
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Wednesday |
Reading: Shneiderman:
Evaluating Novel Visualization Technques (Treemaps,
ConeTrees, Hyperbolic Trees. Only pages 87-94 and the
conclusion section on last page. Skim the rest if you
want to understand how they used bibliometrics to determine
usage of the three tools. |
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Monday |
8am - 12 noon Zoom
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Wednesday |
12 noon - 4:00pm Zoom
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Remaining Final Project PresentationsFinal --
--projects due 12 noon 4/29/2020 |
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