(This is a work in progress)
1. Lecture 1 – January 20 – First Day
- Slides (4 separate pieces – done with markdown – Powerpoint translation failed)
- DS1 What is Vis
- DS2 Who is the class for
- DS3 What we will teach
- DS4 How we will teach
- Other examples not in slides (bar charts from psych paper, excel with grades)
- Slide high points
- definitions of visualizations
- skiing pictures
- physical visualizations
- PhD comics
- Tour bus metaphor
- Examples
- from the notetaking paper (remake the visualization without barcharts)
2. Lecture 2 – January 22 – beginning the conversation
- Slides (lots of separate pieces)
- Lecture 2 (main part) – as markdown
- Lecture 2 (quotes from discussion) – as markdown
- Lecture 2 (hits an misses from my work) – as PPT
3. Lecture 3 – Jan 27 – Perspectives on Vis
- Slides (as PPT)
- Outline of slides
- art and images
- dividing up the field
- sensing –> stories of the boy
- Tufte
- Tufte’s crusade
- Bad problems
- Anti-Tufte
- striking visual examples
- critique
4. Lecture 4 – Jan 29 – Why Vis?
- Slides as PPT (called “new” for some reason)
- Outline
- organizational stuff
- critique practice
- asking why
5. Lecture 5 – Feb 3 – Abstraction
- Slides in 2 parts
- main lecture
- advertizement for design school
- Outline
- Review of Tufte
- Learning from John Snow
- Sampling issues
- Perception and Cognition overview
- Abstraction
- data abstraction
- fields&tables, keys and values
- data type algebra
- Design school in a day preview / assignment explanation
6. Lecture 6 – Feb 5 – Think Different
- 2 versions of slides (in class and regular)
- in class doesn’t include stuff at end: warp path views, destination maps
- Outline
- Apple Ads
- Data type abstractions –> encodings
- basic encodings examples (as the type calculus)
- visual variables
- time series averaging example
- gallery of standard and non-standard designs
- designing for a task
- lost art of giving directions
- route maps
7. Lecture 7 – Feb 10 – Evaluation
- Two sets of slides
- the evaluation slides
- the paris apartment slides (includes routemaps)
- Outline
- schools of thought
- nested model
- hooke’s microscope
- empirical validity
- tufte’s principles
- critique as a tactic
- (then the maps slides as critique problems)
- Paris Apartment Problem (not sure we got to it?)
8. Lecture 8 – Feb 12
- Slides: Design Challenge
- Slides: Design
- Slides: RouteMaps (routemaps, warp maps, map tasks)
- Graphic Design Principles
- CRAP
- Route Maps + Paris Apartment
9. Lecture 9 – Feb 17 – Perception
- Slides: Perception
- Typography *fake bold vs. real bold
- Light / sensing / eyes / optics
- Fovea
- Capacity limits
- Bottlenecks / Attention limits/ Search Assymetries
- low level vision and illusions
- Popout
- Gestault principles
10. Lecture 10 – Feb 19 – Paris Apartment Problem
