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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