This is the first “what to expect next week” posting…
Hopefully, everyone’s enrollment issues have been solved, and all of the course mechanics issues have been addressed (you can access Canvas, get readings from the reader, find stuff on the web page, …)
This first week, we saw some perspectives of what visualization is, and a high level concept of how we go about making good ones.
This week, we’ll get some other perspectives of what visualization is, with a focus on considering why we should do it (and why it is worth doing well). This week is a bit “reading heavy,” but the goal is to get these basic concepts down so we can move on to start applying them.
For Tuesday Jan 27th, (the reading must be done by the night before), Reading 2 will gives us a few different ideas of what Visualization is, and the kinds of visualization. The “why” is implicit in this.
For Thursday, Jan 29th, (the reading must be done the night before), Reading 3 will give some different perspectives on the “why” of visualization (which implicitly gets at the what).
For this week’s “seek and find” assignment we’ll look for examples that show the “why” of visualization. This is due on Wednesday the 28th.
In class, we’ll talk more about these different what and why, but we’ll also start to spend time on trying to critique some examples to see how these ideas appear in practice.
This week will have a lot of reading, so start early!
