2015 Readings

Reading Assignment 1: Getting Started

• Munzner Preface
• Few Data Visualization for Human Perception
• Course Web Page

Reading Assignment 2: Perspectives on Visualization

• Munzner chapter 1
• Tufte “Graphical Excellence”
• Tufte bio
• Classifications of visualizations (CH1 of Illinsky and Steele)
• Blog posts

Reading Assignment 3: Why Visualization?

• Ware Chapter 9
• Chapter 2 of Visual Explanations (Tufte, Historical)
• First 17 pages of “Using Visualization to Think”
• Optional: Casual Vis

Reading Assignment 4: Data and Task Abstraction

• Munzner 2
• Munzner 3

Reading Assignment 5: Think Differently!

• Agarwalla and Stolte Route Maps
• (optional) Weird maps
• (optional) Destination maps
• Tour through the zoo
• D3 examples page

Reading Assignment 6: Evaluation: How do we know it’s any good?

• Munzner 4 (optional paper)
• Tufte “Fundamental Principles”
• Bateman chart junk (future: replace with Borkin)
• North Insight

Reading 7: Design School in a Day

• Williams
• 2012 had more

Reading 8: Perception 101

• Ware 1 and 2
• Healy and Enns (really Healy web survey)
• (Optional) Franconeri survey
• (Optional) Our survey
• ??? Cleveland and MgGill

Reading 9: Encodings (1)

• Munzner 5 (see 10 below)

838-Only Assignment 2: Original Sources

• Munzner Typology
• Design space of tasks
• Eyes have it
• Amar and Stasko
• Borkin as Anti-Tufte

Reading and Discussion 10: Color 1
Reading 11: Color 2

• Maureen class
• Ware 4
• Munzner 10 (more than color – could go with encoding)
• (optional) Psych Textbook or Cartography Textbook
• (optional) Color as 3 numbers
• (optional) Poynton FAQ
• Brewer (experimenting required)
• Rainbow considered harmful
• Expert choices (Stone)
• (optional) Ware color sequences
• (optional) Borkin arteries (required later)
• Tufte EI 5
• 3 part smashing tutorial on color

Reading and Discussion 12&13: Encodings and Layout

• Cleveland and McGill short
• Cleveland and McGill long
• Heer and Bostock Crowsourcing
• Munzner 7 Arrange
• Munzer 8 Arrange spatial
• Ware 3 (structuring space)
• Tufte EI 3 (layering and separation)

Readings 14&15, Discussion 14: Graphs and Networks

• Munzner 9
• Treevis.net
• Herman and Melancon
• von Landesberger
• Munzner video
• Hierarchical edge bundles
• Dwyer constraint-based layout
• Purchase – aesthetics of graphs
• Ware- measuring graph aesthetics

Reading 16&17, Discussion 17: Bi-Variate, Multi-Variate

• Ware textons
• Trumbo bi-variate color
• Miller attribute blocks
• Color Weaving
• Pixel-oriented techniques
• 30 years of multi-variate
• high dimensional survey from 2001
• Scatterdice video
• Parallel coords
• (optional) flexible axes

Readings 18&19, Discussion 18: Interaction

• Heer and Schneiderman
• Munzner 11 and 12

Reading 20: Too Much Stuff

• Ellis and Dix
• Elmqvist and Fekete (hierarchy survey)
• Splatterplots

Reading and Discussion 21: Uncertainty

• Boukhelifa, N., & Duke, D. J. (2009). Uncertainty visualization: why might it fail?
• (optional) . Ken Brodlie, Osorio, R. A., & Lopes, A. (2012). Expanding the Frontiers of Visual Analytics and Visualization
• Visual Semiotics & Uncertainty Visualization
• Sketchy Rendering for Information Visualization.
• Error Bars Considered Harmful: Exploring Alternate Encodings for Mean and Error.
• alludes to implicit uncertainty paper
• Cumming, G., & Finch, S. (n.d.). Inference by eye:

Reading 22A: 3D (not D3)

• Ware 5
• Todd visual perceiption of shape
• handbook of illustration
• gooch npr
• cipriano stylized molecules
• (optional) light collages
• (optional) suggestive contours (and notes)

Reading 22B: D3 (not 3D)

• D3 paper
• D3 web
• (optional) protovis paper

Reading 23: Videos

• volume rendering chapter
• animated transitions
• (need to have the steve response)
• rosling video
• animated transitions video