This week we’ll continue learning about the building blocks of visualization and start applying them to design. We’ll make use of what you’ve read about in the first week: we’ll practice critique to learn from visualizations, and we’ll start putting encodings, layouts and transformations together to make visualizations. This week, we’ll also have our first design warmup which will give you a chance to redesign some visualizations.

This week we’ll finally be on a regular schedule… Monday and Wednesday classes, a first week of a three week module (with usually 1st week of module stuff, …). Topic-wise, we’ll begin a module on building blocks: the basic elements that we use to build and analyze visualizations.

This is the first of our weekly posts to remind you about what is going on in class this week.