(Readings due on date of indicated class. Schedule subject to change.)


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Foundations

1. Wed, Jan 23 Introduction

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2. Mon, Jan 28 Types of Graphs and Visualizations

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2. Wed, Jan 30 Data Types and Graph Types

  (public version of lecture)

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3. Mon, Feb 4 Design Choices in Building Basic Graphs

  (public version of lecture)

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3. Wed, Feb 6 Multidimensional Graphing

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4. Mon, Feb 11 Guest Lecture: Prof. Agrawala on Line Drive and Effective Assembly Instructions

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4. Wed, Feb 13 Graphing and Basic Statistics

(public version of lecture)

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5. Mon, Feb 18 No class

President's Day Holiday

5. Wed, Feb 20 Perceptual Properties

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6. Mon, Feb 25 Graphical Excellence

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6. Wed, Feb 27 How to Critique Visual Designs

public version of lecture

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7. Mon, Mar 3 Graphical Integrity

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Interactive Visualization

7. Wed, March 5 Interactive Visualization

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8. Mon, March 10 Multidimensional Interactive Visualization; Flash Intro 1

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8. Wed, March 12 Discuss Class Projects; Flash Intro 2

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Code Samples

9. Monday, March 17 Guest Lecture: Stephen Few on Time Series Analysis

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9. Wed, March 19 Animation

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Code

Monday, March 24 and Wed March 26 No class

10. Monday, March 31 Guest Lecture: Jeff Heer on Programming Flare plus Social Visualization

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10. Wed, April 2 Visualizating Networks

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11. Mon, April 7 Visualization for Search

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11. Wed, April 9 Visualization for Text Analysis, plus Tag Clouds

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12. Mon, April 14 Distortion Techniques

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13. Wed, April 163D in Visualization

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Class Projects

13. Mon, April 21 Mid-Project Reviews

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13. Wed, April 23 Mid-Project Reviews

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14. Mon, April 28 Recent Research from CHI 2008

14. Wed, April 30 Course Recap; Interesting Viz's

Music Viz Links

Other Interesting Links

15. Mon, May 5 Final Project Presentations

15. Wed, May 7 Final Project Presentations

Reminder: Final project writeup due Sat May 10 at 9am

16. Mon, May 12 Project Poster Session