Week 7 (Mon, Oct 16-Fri, Oct 20) – Evaluation
- Mon, Oct 16 : Class: Evaluation Lecture
- Wed, Oct 18 : Class (ICE): ScatterCompare
- Fri, Oct 20 : Optional Class: DC2 Kickoff
- Reading: Week 7 – Evaluation
- Discussion 7: Evaluation (first post due 10/17)
- Seek and Find 7: Critique (due 10/20)
- Design Challenge : DC1 – Final (due 10/22)
Last week, we talked about implementation. And hopefully you made progress on Design Challenge 1.
This week, we’ll talk about evaluation. In Monday’s lecture, we’ll talk about many different kinds of evaluation. In class on Wednesday, we’ll do an In-Class Exercise that will help prepare for Design Challenge 2 (yes, it’s coming – immediately after DC1!).
On Friday, there will be an optional class where I will go over the ideas of DC2 – kindof a preview (so I can tune the assignment if necessary). I’ll also use this as a time to answer any extra DC1 questions.
Learning Goals (for this week)
- Appreciate the different approaches to visualization evaluation.
- Understand the nested model and its implications for how to choose evaluation strategies
- Appreciate “rules of thumb” based evaluation, both its benefits and limitations
- Practice critique
- (probably not time to get to it) Be exposed to empirical evaluation and understand its challenges
