This past week, we spoke about why visualization might work, and saw some examples of what happens when it does or doesn’t. We also discussed critique (although we didn’t get to practice as much as I was hoping).
This coming week will focus on evaluating visualizations, and the “Design School” will commence.
- Reading 4 – about evaluation is due Monday, Feb 6th. However, i realize this is a big reading, and you might not get through all of it by Monday (even though it was assigned earlier in the week). But please get through at least some of it by Monday, and most/all by Wednesday. There is also some reading you’ll need to do for the Design School.
- Assignment 4 – is a discussion about evaluation. Your initial posting is due Feb 6th.
- Seek and Find 4 – is actually part of the design school, but it’s due as usual on Friday (Feb 10).
So, for this week:
- Monday (Feb 6) – Reading 4, and Assignment 4 are “due” (some of the reading, and the initial posting). In class, we’ll talk about evaluation (in more of a lecture format).
- Wednesday (Feb 8) – In class we’ll continue the discussion on evaluation, and we’ll do some more critiquing in class.
- Friday (Feb 10) – No (required) class. Alper, Chih-Ching, and I will meet in the class room. Join us if you like, but it’s optional. We’ll be there to talk about Vis stuff (as you can probably tell, I always like to talk about Visualization). If no one brings anything to talk about, we’ll experiment with some open source tools from Thursday’s Faculty Candidate talk (that I am not sure if they are prime time enough to use in class – but that’s what we’ll figure out). (if you come, you might want to bring a laptop so you can play along yourself).
- Friday (Feb 10) – the Seek and Find is due (and in order to do it, you need to do the design school reading).
The course schedule is now filled in up until Spring break, although I haven’t linked everything up yet.All the readings and assignments will be posted soon.