Maureen Stone’s course on color for vis
http://www.stonesc.com/Vis06/
The “expert color choices” – should be a required reading
the course notes are amazing at showing what color can do, can’t do, the perceptual issues, ….
Ideas for 2012
Milestones in viz http://datavis.ca/milestones/ A Periodic Table of viz: http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
Pencil & Paper designs
Thought Provoking Papers category
Hullman papers (retoric, difficulties), chartjunk, whiteboards
HIVE (Dykes)
Visual Salience
Wiki/Web support
Set inclusion design w/pencil sketching
Aspect ration paper (to emphasize how important basic concepts are)
Lighting comparison paper (to get DVR cues across)
Scagnostics
Survey of Hi-D techniques (SPLOM, Projections, Embeddings, Parallel Coords)
Visual Inference
Ballot Maps as a good case study
Maureen blog tutorials
tufte color chapter in envisioning information (maureen)
synthesis lectures
Hanspeter: 5 step process
Haspeter: process in class, learn materials from reading
critiques
GOMS models (or some other thing)
Process: design notebooks (mariah)
Great getting started reading:
Data Visualization for Human Perception by Stephen Few
Counterpoint to Tufte
The “Chartjunk” paper at CHI
Be sure to read the Cleveland an McGill Graphical perception paper (short version for 638, long version for 838). And maybe a more modern follow up
infographics design post: some makes me mad, other is good – makes you realize what these people are about
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/14/the-dos-and-donts-of-infographic-design/
A Visualization class will be offered again in the Spring of 2012. Check here for the official announcement (or maybe even the course web)