Class Survey

February 10, 2015

As I’ve mentioned, I’d like to do a small survey to get a sense of what people’s backgrounds are. We really want the information for planning. Doing the survey is required: we will check off that you did it. The results aren’t “graded” – but if you don’t take the survey, we will keep track. […]

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Grading

February 8, 2015

I was asked again, so let me clarify more. With the “smaller assignments” (reading discussions, design exercises, seek and finds, …) we’ve been having so far: You cannot get an A on an individual assignment. Getting an A is about consistently doing well in all parts. So far, we’ve been grading things nocheck/check/check plus (1,3,4). […]

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838-Only Assignment 2: Original Sources

February 8, 2015

Due Date: Friday, February 20th, 11:59p 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 4 papers (you pick which 1 of the […]

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The Week in Vis: Week 4 (February 9-13)

February 5, 2015

This past week, we talked about task and data abstractions, and saw how they get combined as ways to think about visualizations. There were lots of forward pointers to what we are going to do about the tasks and data we have, but hopefully, we’re starting to see how the basic pieces of machinery (encodings, […]

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Slides

February 4, 2015

I have put my lecture slides on Canvas in a discussion (it’s in a discussion in case people want to discuss). I hope these are useful. Because someone asked… The font is Bariol. It is not free – but is very cheap (pay with a tweet for the basic form, pay what you want for […]

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Canvas Profiles

February 4, 2015

I was just talking to a student at office hours who made a very good observation: it’s easier to have a discussion with people if you know who they are. If everyone would take a few minutes to make their Canvas profile complete, everyone will be able to get to know everyone a little better. […]

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Reading 9: Encodings (1)

February 3, 2015

Due date: Wednesday, February 18 (ahead of Thursday’s lecture) Turn-in link: (none) I said that we’d have lighter reading loads for Thursdays, so I thought it’s time to deliver. The reading for today is Chapter 5 of Munzner: Marks and Channels. There is no discussion for this chapter (the discussion due on Feb 18th will relate […]

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Reading 8: Perception 101

February 3, 2015

Due Date: Monday, February 16, 11:59pm (Readings and initial posting), February 23 (discussion) Turn-in link: Reading 8 on Canvas Perception could be a whole course onto itself – or several. Our goal is to get some relevant bits so help us understand how people see in order to make images that communicate better. There is so much […]

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Reading 7: Design School in a Day

February 3, 2015

See the Design School in a Day posting. This is a placeholder so that the Readings Page looks nice. The reading is: Chapters 2-6 of The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams.

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Tableau

February 3, 2015

If you don’t know what Tableau (the Data Analysis software) – don’t worry. We’ll talk about it at some point, and using it is totally optional. If you do know what Tableau is, I have great news. They’ve donated it for use in the class, so you can try it out! There’s a posting on […]

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