Lecture “Notes”

February 7, 2012

These notes are notes I make for myself in order to prepare the lecture. No guarantee if / that they have any value to anyone other than me.

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Lecture 05: Think Differently

February 7, 2012

Goal Reinforce 2 lessons, add a third Visualization for a purpose the more you know about the purpose, the better you can to achieve it not knowing is a purpose Purpose makes it safe to throw stuff away: less purpose, throw less away special purpose may be OK – since you can have multiple views […]

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Announcements (in General, and the Design Challenge)

February 7, 2012

Some announcements: I realize there is a problem that you have 2 places to look for course information (Piazza and the web page). For now, I have no good answer, but I will try to put pointers from one onto the other. We will not have an optional Friday session this week, while I try […]

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Lecture 04: Why Visualization?

February 6, 2012

The Readings: Ware Chapter 9 (the end) Tufte (Snow and Challenger) Value of InfoVis Casual InfoVis Why InfoVis? Ware: because we are designed for it (perception and cognition) Tufte: because it can work if it’s done “correctly” (but doesn’t work if it doesn’t) Fekete et. al: because it’s our job Casual InfoVis: because it gives […]

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Reading 5: Evaluation

February 5, 2012

(due before Monday, February 13) Now that we know what a visualization is, and why we’re doing it, we can ask the question: how do we know if it’s any good? There are of course lots of different answers, and the answer depends on what perspective you’re coming from. These readings will try to get […]

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The Week in Vis: Week 3 (Feb 6–10)

February 4, 2012

This week, we’ll do some more “perspective” readings, start to think about how to come up with designs, and then start trying to do some designs. Monday, February 6th – Reading 3: Why Visualization? – some perspectives on why we’re doing this (rather than some other way of dealing with data/communication), that will hopefully give […]

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Assignment 3: A First Design Challenge

February 1, 2012

(phase 1 deadline Feb 10 Feb 12 – although, there is a big reading assignment due Monday) The objective of this assignment is to get you to try to figure out ways to present some data. I am intentionally doing this before you’ve learned too many tricks: we’ll come back to this problem once you’ve […]

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Reading 4: Think Differently

February 1, 2012

(due before Wednesday, Feburary 8th) This is a classic paper – but I want you to read it to inspire you to “think differently.” This paper is a great example of how you can take a problem with an “obvious” answer, and come up with something different. When reading it, consider how their solution to […]

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Reading 3: Why Visualization?

February 1, 2012

This is another one of those “let’s see from multiple perspectives” kind of readings set. This reading is due before Monday, February 6th. Again, I’d like you to read 3/4 things to give you 3 different perspectives on the matter. Chapter 9 of Visual Thinking (the textbook) by Colin Ware. Yes, we’re reading the last […]

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The Week in Vis: Week 2 (Jan 30-Feb 3)

January 29, 2012

This week we’ll have a bit of an overview of the whole class to get a sense of where we’re going and the various perspectives we’ll look at the topics through. Hopefully, the set of people will stabilize. We’ll stick with the initial class mechanics before trying to improve them (I appreciate the suggestions people […]

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