Foundations
1. Wed, Jan 20 Introduction
No Readings
2. Mon, Jan 25 Types of Graphs and Visualizations
Readings
- Pages 1-17, Stephen Few's Now You See It, Analytics Press, 2009.
Assignments
- Download and install Tableau (must be registered for the course)
Links
- (FYI, not assigned reading) "A classification of visual representations", Lohse, Biolsi, Walker, Reuter, CACM 1994. pdf
- NYTimes on Climate Change: Cartoon, Photo Illustration, Information Graphic Information Graphic, Information Graphic Information Graphic, Information Graphic, Combo Information Graphic, Interactive Graphic, Video
3. Wed, Jan 27 Data Types and Graph Types
Readings
- Pages 1-4, 29-34 of Chapter 1 of Colin Ware's Information Visualization: Perception for Design, Morgan Kauffman, 2004. (class handout)
Assignments
- Sign up for the class mailing list by sending email to
Majordomo@ischool.berkeley.edu with the following
command in the body of your email message:
subscribe i247
Links
- Cars dataset, adapted from the ASA 1983 dataset. (Version used in class exercise.)
4. Mon, Feb 1 Guest Lecture: Jock Mackinlay: Tableau
Readings
-
Guide to using the Tableau software package:
The Beginner's Guide to Data Visualization.
References
Links
- Example of Tableau being used for relief work in Haiti
Assignment
- Exploratory Data Analysis Due Friday Feb 26, 9pm.
5. Wed, Feb 3 Guest Lecture: Stephen Few: Dashboards
6. Mon, Feb 8 Data Visualization Tools
- Data Graph Demo - Data Graph Website
- Protovis Demo - Protovis Website
- Flex Example - Adobe Flex Website
7. Wed, Feb 10 Design Choices in Building Basic Graphs
Readings
- Three Blind Men and An Elephant, Stephen Few, 2007.
- Chapter 2 from Now You See It.
- Graph Design I.Q. Test, Stephen Few, 2009.
Related Materials
- Mackinlay's Ranking of Visual Encodings: Published Paper
Mon, Feb 15 No class
President's Day Holiday8. Wed, Feb 17 Visual Perception
Readings
- Chapter 3 from Now You See It
9. Mon, Feb 22 Multivariate Analysis
Readings
- Chapter 12 from Now You See It
- Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis, and Visualization of Multidimensional Relational Databases, Stolte, Tang, Hanrahan, IEEE TVCG 8 (1), 2002.
10. Wed, Feb 24Guest Lecture by Stephen Few -- Graphing and Basic Statistics
Readings
- Chapter 4 from Now You See It
11. Mon, Mar 1 Graphical Excellence
Readings
- Chapters 5 and 6 from Now You See It
- Chapter 1 from Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte.
12. Wed, Mar 3 Talk by Ben Shneiderman, Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery. 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall.
13. Mon, Mar 8 How to Critique a Visualization
Assignment 2
- Visualization Critiques Due Wednesday, March 17th, 9pm.
14. Wed, Mar 10 Graphical Integrity
Readings
Interactive Visualization
15. Mon, Mar 15 Interactive Visualization
Readings
- The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations, Shneiderman, Proc. IEEE Conference on Visual Languages, Boulder 1996.
- (optional background) Space-scale diagrams, Furnas & Bederson, CHI 1995.
Wed, Mar 17 Discuss Class Projects
Mon, March 22 and Wed, March 24 No class
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Spring Break Holiday
Mon, Mar 29 Discuss Class Projects
Wed, Mar 31 Discuss Class Projects
Mon, Apr 5 Multidimensional Interactive Visualization
Readings
-
(Read at least one of these)
- Understanding research trends in conferences using PaperLens, Lee et al., CHI'05 extended abstracts. website
- Network Visualization by Semantic Substrates, Shneiderman & Aris, IEEE TVCG 2006.
- Multidimensional Detective, Inselberg, IEEE Infoviz Symposium, 1997.
- Stephen Few on Parallel Coordinates, Business Intelligence Network, Sept 2006.
- The attribute explorer, Tweedie et al. CHI 1994.
Links
Wed, Apr 7 Distortion Techniques
Readings
- A review and taxonomy of distortion-oriented presentation techniques, Y.K. Leung and M.D. Apperley, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1994, pp. 126-160.
Mon, Apr 12 3D in Visualization
Readings
- Evaluating the effectiveness of spatial memory in 2D and 3D physical and virtual environments, Cockburn and McKenzie, CHI 2002.
Wed, Apr 14 Animation
Readings
- Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface Bay-Wei Chang, David Ungar, UIST 1993.
- Animated Exploration of Graphs with Radial Layout, Ping Yee, Danyel Fisher, Rachna Dhamija, and Marti Hearst, in IEEE Infovis Symposium, San Diego, 2001
- (optional) Animation: Does It Facilitate? Barbara Tversky, Julie Morrison, Mireille Betrancourt, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, v57, p247-262. 2002.
Class Projects
Mon, Apr 19
In-Class Mid-Term Presentations
(15 min. each plus 5 min. for questions)1. British Invasion (Michael Porath, Alex Smolen)
2. Thermostats (Becky Hurwitz, Daniel Perry)
3. Energy Viz (Jin Young Baik, Prateek Kakirwar, Janani Vasudev, Gopal Vaswani)
4. Recovery (Ben Cohen, Mike Lissner, Connor Riley)
Wed, Apr 21
In-Class Mid-Term Presentations
(13 min. each plus 3 min. for questions)1. Aging (Karen Braverman)
2. Twitterbugs (Sean Carey, Carol Chen, Yo-Shang Cheng, Anjana Dasu)
3. MeLo (Karen Nomorosa, Nathan Yan, Niranjan Krishnamurthi)
4. KidOoDL (Annette Greiner, Nat Wharton, Mieke Leyssen)
5. Paper Maps (Joyce Tsai)
Mon, Apr 26 Visual Analytics
Wed, Apr 28 Guest Lecture: Aaron Marcus: Information Visualization for Energy Conservation
Mon, May 3 Final Project Presentations
(15 min. each plus 5 min. for questions)1. MeLo (Karen Nomorosa, Nathan Yan, Niranjan Krishnamurthi)
2. Paper Maps (Joyce Tsai)
3. Thermostats (Becky Hurwitz, Daniel Perry)
4. KidOoDL (Annette Greiner, Nat Wharton, Mieke Leyssen)
Wed, May 5 Final Project Presentations
(13 min. each plus 3 min. for questions)1. Twitter Superstars (Sean Carey, Carol Chen, Yo-Shang Cheng, Anjana Dasu)
2. Energy Monitor (Jin Young Baik, Prateek Kakirwar, Janani Vasudev, Gopal Vaswani)
3. Recovery (Ben Cohen, Mike Lissner, Connor Riley)
4. Aging (Karen Braverman)
5. British Invasion (Michael Porath, Alex Smolen)