This Week in Vis: Week 8 (March 9-13)

March 5, 2015

Writing things that way makes me realize that we’re more than halfway through the semester. Wow. Last week, we hopefully tied together a lot of the pieces on encoding and layout. We also did some design practice, and an introduction to Tableau. This week, we’ll consider a different kind of data: graphs. Not graphs as […]

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Introduction to Tableau

March 4, 2015

Hopefully this will be a quick introduction to help you get used to how to use Tableau.  The application is very handy for quickly visualizing trends in data, connecting to a variety of data sources, and mapping cities/regions and their associated data. If you’d like to discuss your use of Tableau, ask for help or […]

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Keeping track of what’s going on…

March 3, 2015

I realize that there is a lot to keep track of with this class. There are assignments, discussions, and other things happening all the time. And, to make matters worse, we have two web systems: Canvas and the course Web. (and there’s a google calendar as well). None of these are very well organized. We’re […]

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Readings 14&15, Discussion 14: Graphs and Networks

March 3, 2015

Reading and initial posting due: Monday, March 9th, 11:59p Additional readings and posting/commenting due: Wednesday March 11th, 11:59p Turn-in link: Reading 14 & 15 on Canvas So far, we’ve been talking about encoding information about individual objects. Now we’ll talk about encoding information about the relationships between them. The word “graph” here is graph in […]

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Seek and Find 8: Graphs

March 3, 2015

Due Date: Due Wednesday, March 11, 11:59pm Turn-in Link: Seek and Find 8 on Canvas For this seek and find you need to find something that is graph data (in the CS sense of graph – connectivity or similarity information, not “graph” as in “line graph”). This assignment might make more sense after you’ve done […]

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More on Graphic Design

March 2, 2015

If you’re interested in learning more about graphic design (beyond those first principles from Robin Williams)… Smashing Magazine has a great series on design principles. The 5th (and I think final part) (Links to an external site.) just appeared – it has links to the first 4 parts. It covers different stuff than the Williams […]

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Data Assignment 1: 1 Data Set, 4 Stories

February 28, 2015

Due Dates: Rough drafts, Thursday, March 12, 11:00am Designs handed in: Wednesday, March 18, 11:59pm — Turn-in link Critiques: Wednesday, March 25, 11:59pm — more details and turn-in link Objectives: To make some visualizations with real data, and to explore how to tell different “stories” by choosing different encodings of the data. This is a […]

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The Week in Vis: Week 7 (March 2-6)

February 27, 2015

This past week we talked about color. We read about color. We saw color. Students sent me even more pictures of color effects. It was a colorful week. I think we all learned that we have a lot to learn about color! So now, it’s time to talk about other visual channels, and encodings in […]

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838 Only Assignment 3: Modern Graphical Perception

February 27, 2015

Due Date: Friday, March 6 – with a free extension Turn-in link: Modern Graphical Perception on Canvas Note: I want to make this be due on Friday, to keep the class pattern uniform. However, we won’t count your initial posting as late providing you make it by Wednesday, March 11th. But be warned, there is […]

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Critique Rubric for Design Challenge 1

February 26, 2015

Turn-in link: Critique via Google Form (do this three times!) Due date: Wednesday, March 4th, 11:59pm This is a clarification post for the critique part of the first Design Challenge. For the critique portion of the challenge, we would like you to to evaluate the designs of at least three of your peers.  Designs will […]

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