Infoviz Final Projects
Final Project Reports and Demonstrations 2015
This ... Is
... Jeopardy!
Juan Shishido, Joshua
Appleman, Anubhav Gupta, Anand Rajagopal
report
Menu Journeys
Brian Carlo, Carlos Lasa, Audrey Leung, Stephanie Snipes
report
Wikipedia Wheel
Samudra Bhuyan
report
In-demand Jobs and Skills in the Bay Area
Tiffany Barkley
report
Linking Events to Crime in SF
Bill Chambers and John Semerdjian
report
Eight Days A Week
Meredith Hitchcock, Jordan
Shedlock, and Ellen Van Wyk
report
Making a Living in California
Emily Paul, Shomik Sarkar, and
Pavel Vanegas
report
The Tuition Inquisition
Alec Hubel, David Eicke, and
Yu Susuki
report
Broadband GINI
Hasnain Nazar and Bryan Morgan
report
Linked Living
Noriko Misra (with Kiki Liu
and Derek Kuo)
report
Quantified Self: Community and Context
Andrew Lambert, Ricky Holtz,
Ashwini Sriram
report
About i247
The goal of information visualization is the unveiling of the underlying structure of large or abstract data sets using visual representations that utilize the powerful processing capabilities of the human visual perceptual system.
In this course, students learn how to COMMUNICATE information visually, EXPLORE and ANALYZE data visually, and ASSESS visual representations in a principled manner. They also develop an understanding of PRINCIPLES (cognitive and design) underlying visualization, and STANDARD representations and when to use them. Finally, students get exposure to history, research, and debates in the field.
Other i247 Classes
Other recent years: Spring 2016 and Spring 2014
Tools and Techniques
Learning in this course is accomplished via Practice, Principles, Peer Learning, and Programming.
Software tools learned in Spring 2015 were Highcharts (for creating well-motivated, aesthetically pleasing standard charts), Illustrator (for designing Infographics), Tableau (for Exploratory Data Analysis), and d3 (for creating novel, interactive visualizations).
Books used: Few, Stephen: Now You See It, Analytics Press, 2009, and Cairo, Alberto: The Functional Art, New Riders, 2013.