Seek and Find 7: Name that Encoding! (and redesign it)

February 26, 2015

Due Date: Wednesday March 4, 11:59pm Turn-in link: Seek and Find 7 on Canvas By now you know the drill for a seek-and-find assignment. Except that we’ll try to change it for this week. You still can find something new – but you are also welcome to use some visualization from a prior seek and […]

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The Week in Vis: Week 6 (Feb 23-27)

February 20, 2015

This past week, we talked about perception – except that we avoided talking about color. Then we did a design exercise (in which, many aspects of encoding came out – despite the fact we didn’t get to the “lecture” on encodings). And again, color kept coming up. So, for this week, we won’t put it […]

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Update to 838-Only Assignment

February 18, 2015

There is an update to the 838 only assignment that is due Friday (2/20). Update (2/18): in retrospect, this assignment was a bit much. You didn’t get a full 2 weeks, and the overlap with previous readings may not be as helpful as I thought. So, I am reducing the assignment. The recommendation is now […]

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Reading and Discussion 12&13: Encodings and Layout

February 15, 2015

Reading and initial posting due: Monday, March 2, 11:59pm Turn-in link: Reading 12 on Canvas Color is only one of the visual variables. Now we can consider the rest. Except that two of them (the two spatial dimensions, X and Y) are a huge topic unto themselves. The starting point for this discussion is Munzner […]

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Seek and Find 6: Something Colorful

February 15, 2015

Due date: Wednesday, February 25th (before class on Feb 26th) Turn-in link: Seek and Find 6 on Canvas For this seek and find, your task is to find a visualization where color is used well. In addition to your image, provide a critique of how color is used. What is color being used for in the […]

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Reading 11: Color 2

February 15, 2015

Reading (and initial posting) due: Wednesday, February 25, 11:59pm Turn-in link: Continue the discussion from Reading 10 on Canvas Last time, you hopefully got it that there’s a lot of technical stuff behind color. This time, we’ll look more at how designers can look at color. The required reading is the last two things from […]

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Reading and Discussion 10: Color 1

February 15, 2015

Reading and initial Discussion post due: Monday, Feb 23, 11:59pm Turn-in link: Reading 10 on Canvas Color is one of those topics that turns out to be more complex than you think it should be. There are all sorts of different directions to come at it: the physics, the optics, the perceptual science, the design […]

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The Week in Vis: Week 5 (Feb 16-20)

February 12, 2015

Last week, we talked about evaluation. And then we used this as a framework to think about design in the specific (visual issues in graphic design) and at a high-level (overall strategy) to warm up for the Design Challenge. Next week, we’ll talk about perception in class, and you’ll start to work on the Design […]

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Design Challenge 1: Airline Route Maps

February 11, 2015

Schedule: In class 2/12 – Introduction to the Design Challenge Initial Analysis (Weds 2/18 ahead of Thurs Lecture): Tasks and Critique of the Standard Design (discussion) Individual Designs (Weds 2/25 ahead of Thurs Lecture) – Turn-in link on Canvas Critiques (Weds 3/4 ahead of Thurs Lecture) – See clarification post for rubric and turn-in link. […]

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Seek and Find 5: Perception at Work

February 11, 2015

Due Date: Wednesday, February 18th, 11:59p (before Thursday) Turn-in link: Seek-and-Find 5 on Canvas In this seek and find, your goal is to find an image (doesn’t even have to be a visualization – photographs and advertisements are great sources of this!) where some perceptual principle is being exploited. Think of some principle you learned about […]

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