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Week 0 (Jan 09 - 11)

09-Jan Wed

Topic: Overview of Visualization | Intro to Tools
Assigned: Assignment 0 - Course Survey
Assigned: Assignment 1 - Hello World: GitHub and d3

10-Jan Thu

Due: Assignment 0 – 11:59pm

Week 1 (Jan 14 - 18)

Reading:
VAD Chapters 1-2

Suggested Reading:
Design is a Search Problem
Dear Data (the background and entries themselves)

14-Jan Mon

Topic: Data Representation
Assigned: Assignment 2 - Data Visualization, 10 ways

16-Jan Wed

Topic: Lab on d3 patterns

18-Jan Fri

Due: Assignment 1 – 11:59pm

Week 2 (Jan 21 - 25)

Reading:
VAD Chapters 3-4
Sketching designs using the Five Design-Sheet methodology
Design activity framework for visualization design

21-Jan Mon

Martin Luther King Jr. Day (No Classes)

23-Jan Wed

Topic: Visualization Design

Week 3 (Jan 28 - Feb 1)

Reading:
VAD Chapters 5
A nested process model for visualization design and validation

28-Jan Mon

Topic: Task Abstraction

30-Jan Wed

Topic: A2 Workday

01-Feb Fri

Due: Assignment 2 – 11:59pm

Week 4 (Feb 4 - 8)

Reading: Chapters 6, 10
Colorgorical: Creating discriminable and preferable color palettes for information visualization

04-Feb Mon

Topic: Color

06-Feb Wed

Topic: Color 2 / Lab

Week 5 (Feb 12 - 16)

Reading: VAD Chapters 5, 10 (yes, again– quiz will focus on visual channels portions)
Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception: Using Mechanical Turk to Assess Visualization Design

11-Feb Mon

Topic: Visual Channels

14-Feb Wed

Topic: Visual Channels 2 / Lab

Week 6 (Feb 18 - 22)

Reading: VAD Chapters 7, 8

18-Feb Mon

Topic: Visualizing Tabular Data

20-Feb Wed

Topic: Visualizing Tabular Data 2 / Lab

Week 7 (Feb 25 - Mar 1)

25-Feb Mon

Topic: Discussion / Visualizing Spatial Data

27-Feb Wed

Topic: Quiz (Tabular and Spatial Data) + A3 Workday

01-Mar Fri

Due: Assignment 3 – 11:59pm

Spring Break (Mar 4 - 8)

Week 8 (Mar 11 - 15)

11-Mar Mon

Reading: VAD Chapters 9, 11
NodeTrix: a hybrid visualization of social networks

Topic: Visualizing Trees / Networks

13-Mar Wed

Topic: Lab: Network vis

Week 9 (Mar 18 - 22)

18-Mar Mon

Reading: VAD Chapters 12, 13
Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Role of Interaction in Information Visualization Topic: Interaction

20-Mar Wed

Topic: Lab: Interaction

Week 10 (Mar 25 - 29)

Reading: Empirical Studies in Information Visualization: Seven Scenarios

25-Mar Mon

Topic: Evaluation

27-Mar Wed

Topic: Lab day

28-Mar Thu

Due: Project Ideas via Google Forms

Week 11 (Apr 1 - 5)

01-Apr Mon

Topic: A4 Workday

03-Apr Wed

Topic: TBA

05-Apr Fri

Due: Assignment 4 – 11:59pm

Week 12 (Apr 8 - 12)

Topic: Adv Topics 1

11-Apr Thu

Due: Prospectus

Week 13 (Apr 15 - 19)

Topic: Adv Topics 2

Week 14 (Apr 22 - 26)

Topic: Adv Topics 3 / Final Project Prep

Week 15 (Apr 29 - 30)

Topic: Final Project

Due: Final Project & Annotated Bib