Reading Assignment 4: Data and Task Abstraction

January 23, 2015

Due Date: before Tuesday, February 3rd (reading and initial posting) Turn-in link: Discussion on Canvas Hopefully, you’ve realized that being able to talk about tasks and data is important to being able to talk about visualization. Talking about data is generally easy, talking about task is harder. To get us started in this, we’ll see what […]

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838-Only Assignment: Vis Research

January 23, 2015

Due date:  before Tuesday, February 3 (for the initial posting; 11:59pm 2/2) Note: because the posting for this assignment was not well advertised, we will give everyone a no-cost extension until Friday 2/6 for their initial posting. Turn-in link: ‘Vis Research‘ on Canvas Note: this is assignment is required for CS838 students. If you’re a 638 student […]

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The week in Vis: Week 2 (January 26-30)

January 22, 2015

This is the first “what to expect next week” posting… Hopefully, everyone’s enrollment issues have been solved, and all of the course mechanics issues have been addressed (you can access Canvas, get readings from the reader, find stuff on the web page, …) This first week, we saw some perspectives of what visualization is, and […]

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Seminar of Interest: CS Distinguished Lecture Ben Bederson

January 22, 2015

Next Thursday, there is a talk that is of interest if you’re interested in Visualization. Ben Bederson is a senior, well know, HCI researcher who has done a lot of visualization work in the past. I don’t know if he’ll talk about Vis or not. 2014-2015 CS Distinguished Lecture Series Ben Bederson, University of Maryland, […]

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Reading Assignment 3: Why Visualization?

January 22, 2015

Due Date: 11:59pm, Wednesday, January 28th Turn-in link: ‘Reading 3’ on Canvas This reading is due before Thursday, January 29th so we can look at your initial postings before class. Before Thursday means Wednesday (or earlier). This is a fairly large reading assignment, so you might want to start early (in general, the early weeks […]

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Seek and Find Assignment 2: Why Vis This?

January 22, 2015

Assignment due: Wednesday (that means before Thursday), January 28th (for your initial submission) Turn-in link: ‘Seek and Find 2’ on Canvas This is a seek and find assignment. You need to find a visualization and bring it back to us (that is, put it on Canvas). Please be sure to see the general seek and […]

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Reading Assignment 2: Perspectives on Visualization

January 19, 2015

Due date: 11:59pm, Monday, January 26th. Turn-in link: ‘Reading 2’ discussion on Canvas. The reading assignment is due before Tuesday, January 27th, so we can look at your responses to the written part before class. Note that “before Tuesday” means sometime Monday – 1am Tuesday is not before Tuesday. Different people have different ideas as to what […]

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This is the NEWS page

January 18, 2015

This is the new page for CS638/838 Data Visualization. It will be a stream of postings that are news about the class. If you’re in the class, this is probably the first thing you want to look at. You might be looking for… A Feed of Basic Information about the class, particularly its summary as […]

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Reading Assignment 1: Getting Started

January 17, 2015

Discussion link: on Canvas This assignment is due before class on Thursday, January 22, although there is leniency. Since there’s only 1 day to do this, this is a kind of light reading assignment. A big part of it is to make sure that the class infrastructure works OK – that you can access the […]

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Seek and Find Assignment 1: Bring me a Visualization!

January 17, 2015

Assignment due: 8am, Thursday, January 22nd. Turn-in link: ‘Seek and Find 1’ on Canvas This is a seek and find assignment. You need to find a visualization and bring it back to us (that is, put it on canvas). Please be sure to see the general seek and find assignment instructions. For this assignment you […]

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