Week 1 Deadlines and Waiting Lists

Things always get off to a rough start – so we’ve shifted the deadlines for week 1 a bit…

Please try to do everything as soon as possible, but we will accept the first week’s work (online discussion, seek and find, quiz) until the end of the 2nd week. This should give everyone a chance to get enrolled, worked out issues in submitting things to Canvas, etc.

You can see the first week’s assignments in the first Week in Vis posting.

The first “Quiz” isn’t available yet – I will announce when it is.

If you are not yet enrolled: (if you are enrolled, do things on Canvas!)

1. Make sure you are on the waiting list (and coming to class)
2. Since you don’t have access to Canvas, I’ve placed the first readings (for the first 2 weeks) into a box folder: https://uwmadison.box.com/s/wzyrqt9zav0yyvugxewhxg2uqvkszkg4
3. While you can’t post your Online Discussion or Seek and Find until you get Canvas, you may want to think about the prompts.
   1. Online Discussion: “From the readings (including the class web – be sure you’ve read the “How to Visualize” posting), you should have gotten a few different definitions of what visualization is – including mine. You’ll also get a sense of what is in the textbook (Munzner’s preface has a summary) and the plan for the class. And hopefully you have a sense of my “4 step process” for visualization and the “4 components of visualization.” For your posting, talk about how these things (definitions of visualization, topics from the book and class, …) fit with your interests. What are you interested in visualization? How does this align with what other people think visualization is and how the class will teach it?
   2. Seek and Find: “We want you to be a little more aware of the visualizations that you encounter in your life. We also want to work out the mechanics of handing in assignments, specifically seek and finds. Check over the Seek and Find ground rules and make sure you are able to post images to canvas (see Posting Images To Canvas).For week 1, you can pick any data visualization – but pick one that you encountered recently. Either something from your day to day life, your research, your hobbies, …In your description, tell us where you encountered it, why you think its a data visualization, and why you were interested in it. Don’t worry about judging it for now.”

I do not know if we will be able to enroll everyone from the waiting list. But, I intend to figure it out in class on Friday when we get a good sense of who is really intending to come to the class.