Due: Monday, February 13th before class
Remember, the design school readings are also happening this week. (link to assignment)
Please read:
Late addition: While Munzner Chapter 2 is pretty thorough, it skips a key concept: level of measurement for quantitative scales. You might have learned this in a stats class, but please understand the difference between “scale types” (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio). Here are some web pages that will quickly give you the concept (this is based on a quick google search):
- Research methods knowledge-base
- Usable Stats (really simple, but gets the main ideas)
The third reading (less to read than to look at) is something that just has a bunch of visualization types (for the assignment, you will be asked to think about how different visualization types connect to different data and tasks).
Some things to look at:
- A tour through the Visualization Zoo. By Heer, Bostock, and Ogievetsky. There are various versions around. But, the one in ACM Queue online (here) is good enough.
- You should also look through the D3 examples page which has hundreds of examples of things – some standard, some not-so-standard.
- The visualization taxonomy developed for the MassVis project groups many standard designs.
- The periodic table of visualization methods and the Data Visualization Catalogue also have lots of examples of different types of visualizations.
The idea for these is just to look through to see lots of different “standard” designs.