This past week, we talked about evaluation. Although, in class, we spent more time on a specific kind of evaluation (design critique). We’ll come back to talking about experiments (if not this week then next).
For this week (Monday February 13 – Friday February 17th), we’ll be doing two things: our “Design School” and discussing abstraction. Be aware that there are Design School assignments for Tuesday (bring things to class on Wednesday, February 15th). You should know about everything for the week since it’s all on the schedule, and you should be used to the weekly rhythm (readings and discussion starts on Monday, seek and find on Friday).
- Monday, February 13 – We’ll have a lecture/class on Abstraction. We’ll do some in-class exercises to understand what are the abstractions in some visualizations. This will work a lot better if you’ve read the Munzner chapters, and then at least looked at some visualizations as examples to think about the abstractions in them.
- Wednesday, February 15 – We’ll have a lecture / in-class critique exercise about visual design (our “Design School in a Day”).
- Friday, February 17 – No required class. I will have office hours.
The assignments for this week:
- Reading 5 – the main part is due before class on Monday 2/13
- Discussion 5 – everyone has to play “name that encoding” for 2-3 visualizations. Have your first one by Monday 2/13. And remember, you need to make at least comments on other people’s postings!
- Design School Part 3 (Redesign) – you must upload your work (before and after, 2 seperate PDFs) to Canvas on Tuesday 2/14.
- Design School in-class critiques – you must bring your work (printed out on paper) to class on Wednesday 2/15.
- Seek and Find 5 – is related to the design school. The content is a little different than other seek and finds.