The Week in Vis 14 (Mon, Nov 30-Fri, Dec 4): Sci Vis and Uncertainty

in Weeks in Vis

As the semester comes to a close, I find myself with so many things left to do and discuss with the class, but so little time.

We’ll cram two big topics into one week:

  1. Standard Scientific Data Types - Scientific Visualization is a different field than the “information visualization” we’ve been studying. But I want you to at least have the basics.

  2. Uncertainty - this is a “hot topic” right now, and very important in a lot of visualization work (or should be important).

But… since its the end of the semester, and you should be working on DC3, and we’re all a bit burned out from the COVID semester… we’ll have light reading, and we’ll skip online discussion and have a design exercise instead.

Instead of the “usual” online discussion - we’ll have the Dear Data Design Exercise (was Online Discussion 14). There will be no Tuesday required posting, just one required posting for Friday. It’s something that has been a fun in-class exercise over the years, and gives you a chance to reflect on all the design aspects you’ve learned over the semester.

There are DC3: The Tree of Stuff phases due. At this point, we’re mainly checking to make sure that people are making progress.

Other than that, it will be a pretty usual week… Seek and Find, Survey, Lectures, you know the pattern. Now that you’ve gotten used to it, we’ve gotten to the end - this is the last full week.

If you’re wondering what happened to 3D… It was the “loser” in the poll we had a few weeks ago. It was the topic that most people thought we could skip.

Readings 14: Uncertainty and Scientific Visualization