The Week in Vis: Week 9 (March 19-23)

March 16, 2012

Small change in plans: we’ll defer talking about graphs and networks to spend more time on high-dimensional data and related issues. This will also allow you to be more focused on your projects. The reading for this week (Reading 15: two chapters from Munzner) will be discussed over the two lecture days. We might take […]

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Reading 15: Too Much Stuff

March 16, 2012

I am changing the syllabus a bit: to give people more time to think about projects (including me), we’ll postpone discussing graphs and networks and take more of our time with dealing with “too much stuff.” The readings for this week (March 19-23) are Chapters 7 and 8 of Tamara Munzner’s book. (chapter 7) (chapter […]

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Feedback

March 14, 2012

(I refer to Michael the TA as MC to differentiate from MG) After an admittedly long delay, we will finally be providing you with some feedback about how you are doing in class. A note on our expectations is here. You will each receive an email from MC with the following. Subjective Feedback on “Participation” […]

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The Week in Vis: Week 8 (March 12-16)

March 9, 2012

This week, we’ll move on to discuss higher-dimensional visualization. We’ll have a color “seek and find” exercise. And you’ll keep working on your projects. The readings are intentionally light (and the seek and find is hopefully not such a big deal) so that you can really make progress on your projects. Monday (March 12) – […]

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Assignment 5: Color Seek and Find

March 9, 2012

For this assignment, you need to find an example of a visualization on the web. Unlike last time, when you just had to find a visualization that related to class concepts, this time, you need to find one that does something more specific: Find a visualization that uses color to display a “data dimension.” (that […]

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Reading 14: Multi-Variate Displays

March 9, 2012

(due Wednesday, March 14 – enough before class that I can look over the responses) This reading is meant to give you a sense of some of the ways people try to present high-dimensional data. You should (quickly) read this old paper: Wong and Begerton. 30 years of Multidimensional Multivariate Visualization (find it here). 1997 […]

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Reading 13: Bi-Variate Displays

March 9, 2012

To get you thinking about displaying multiple dimensions simultaneously, please read: Colin Ware, “Quantitative Texton Sequences for Legible Bivariate Maps,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1523-1530, Nov./Dec. 2009, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2009.175  (ieee page, colin’s version) For more on bi-variate displays, you can read some of the other suggestions from the […]

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Tableau

March 7, 2012

Tableau has generously made their data visualization software available to our class. Tableau is a very impressive, industrial-strength visualization tool, designed to help people explore large data sets interactively. It is based around some very cool ideas on how to map data to visualizations efficiently (even in massive and complicated databases), and has grown to […]

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The Week in Vis: Week 7 (March 5-9)

March 3, 2012

With projects underway, we will now stop deferring our conversation about color. Both lectures will be a disucssion of color. The color readings were lumped into one big list. Because I posted it late, I do not expect you to have read much before Monday’s lecture, but you need to do the readings and make […]

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Project 1 Plan Updates

March 3, 2012

Phase 2 for Project 1 asks you to update your project proposal with any changes you want to make now that you have (hopefully) actually started working on the project. The plan update should be in the same form as the original proposal (in fact, use your original proposal as a starting point). But: Make […]

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