The Week in Vis: Week 06 (Oct 10-14)

This week, we’ll explicitly talk about scale: what do we do when the data gets big. This problem is pervasive: we’ve been dealing with it all along, and will continue to deal with it with everything else we talk about. This week, we’ll try to get some vocabulary to talk about the problems and their solutions.

We’ll also be wrapping up the Aid Data Design Exercise. This week you’ll provide feedback to your classmates (and receive feedback), so you can improve your final designs.

• The Week in Vis: Week 06 (Oct 10-14)
• Class: ICE: Scale Problems (Mon, Oct 10)
• Class: Lecture: Scale (Wed, Oct 12)
• Readings 06: Scale
• Online Discussion 06 (due Tue, Oct 11)
• Design Exercise 4: Critiques and Experiments (Tue, Oct 11)
• Seek and Find 06 (due Fri, Oct 14)
• End of Week Survey 06 (due Fri, Oct 14)
• Design Exercise 5: Aid Data Handin (Tue, Oct 18)

For this week, we will not talk about “too many dimensions” (which is part of scale) - we’ll save that challenge for next week.

And don’t forget… there is a special Departmental Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, 10/12: Professor Pat Hanrahan from Stanford University. His Turing Award does not cite his Vis work, but he has done a lot of Visualization over his career. (he was a founder of Tableau, and the ideas for it came from work in his group).