SIMS 247: Information Visualization and Presentation

Lectures

Lecture topics and assignments.

This schedule is subject to change. Readings are meant to be read in advance of the lecture for which they are shown. Unless otherwise noted, readings refer to chapters in Robert Spence, Information Visualization by Robert Spence, ACM Press, 2000.

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Week 1:

Tues Aug 29
Lecture: Course Introduction and Overview (MAH)
Readings: IV preface
Assignment: Find an interesting viz

Thurs Aug 31
Lecture: Introduction cont., Tufte
Readings: IV Ch. 1, Ch 2.6-2.9, Tufte excerpt
Optional Readings: Some commentary on Tufte

Week 2:

Tues Sep 05
Lecture: Continue lecture of Aug 31
Readings: IV Ch. 2.1-2.5, Norman chapter
Assignment: Interesting viz due

Thurs Sep 07
Lecture: Affordances, interface guidelines
Readings: IV Ch. 2.1-2.5, Norman chapter
Assignment: Designing for Affordances

Week 3:

Tues Sep 12
Lecture: Viz data types and representations
Readings: IV Ch. 4
Kosslyn, S. M. (1989) Understanding Charts and Graphs. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 3. 1989, pp. 185-226.
Optional Supplemental Reading:
Crick's commentary on Lohse et al.'s paper on classifying visual representations
High-Speed Visual Estimation Using Preattentive Processing by Christopher G. Healey, Kellogg S. Booth, and James T. Enns (1996). In ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction 3, 2, pp. 107-135.

Thurs Sep 14
Lecture: Interaction
Readings: IV Ch. 3
Graham J. Wills, Visual Exploration Of Large Structured Data Sets In New Techniques and Trends in Statistics, 237-246. IOS Press, 1995.
Optional Supplemental Video: How to Display Data Badly, lecture by Howard Wainer
Assignments: Visualization Critique assigned

Week 4:

Tues Sep 19
Guest Lecture: Matt Ward, WPI
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Readings: IV Ch. 5

Thurs Sep 21
Guest Lecture: Al Inselberg, SDSC and Tel Aviv University, Israel
Readings: Multidimensional Detective , Al Inselberg, Information Visualization, 1997. Proceedings., IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, 1997
Assignments: Visual exploration assigned

Week 5:

Tues Sep 26
Lecture: Multidimensional interaction: TableLens and Attribute Explorer
Readings: IV Ch. 5
Readings: Externalising Abstract Mathematical Models, Tweedie, Spence, et al., Proceedings of CHI 1996.
Assignments: Visualization Critique due

Thurs Sep 28
Guest Lecture: Anna Wichansky, Oracle Corp, on Information Visualization for Database Software.

Week 6:

Tues Oct 03
Guest Lectures: Warren Sack on Visualizing Conversations, and Rachna Dhamija on Visualizing for Security UIs

Thurs Oct 05
Lecture: Text and Text Collections
Readings: IV Ch. 10
Readings: Chapter 10 of Modern Information Retrieval

Week 7:

Tues Oct 10
Class Discussion: Project Ideas
Assignments: Results of Visual Exploration Assignment

Thurs Oct 12
Ben Shneiderman lecture Wed at 4pm and also another lecture Thursday during class

Week 8:

Tues Oct 17
Lecture: Project proposals discussion
Lecture: Visualization for Information Access

Thurs Oct 19
Guest Lecture: Ronny Kohavi, Blue Martini
Assignments: Initial Project Proposal Due

Week 9:

Tues Oct 24
Lecture: Discuss Carlis & Konstan paper
Lecture: Distortion-based views
Readings: IV Ch. 7
Readings: Carlis, J. V., and Konstan, J.K., Interactive Visualization of serial periodic data. In Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST 98) November 1-4, 1998, San Francisco, CA.
Assignments: Project Proposal Revision

Thurs Oct 26
Lecture: Interactive Visualization of Large Graphs and Networks
Guest Lecture: Tamara Munzner, Stanford

Week 10:

Tues Oct 31
Student Presentations
Assignments: Project Proposal Revision Due

Thurs Nov 02
Student Presentations

Week 11:

Tues Nov 07
Lecture: No class meeting (UIST conference)

Thurs Nov 09
Guest Lecture: Mei Chuah, Andersen Consulting

Week 12:

Tues Nov 14
Guest Lecture: Ken Fishkin, Softbook
Magic Lenses   Invisible interfaces
Readings: IV Ch 7.5-7.8

Thurs Nov 16
Guest Lecture: Bay-Wei Chang, Google
Visualization and Animation

Week 13:

Tues Nov 21
Guest Lecture: Dan Glaser, UCB
Visualization in Architectural Daylighting Design

Thurs Nov 23 -- Thanksgiving, no class.

Week 14:

Tues Nov 28
Guest Lecture: Allison Woodruff and Ruth Rosenholtz, Xerox PARC
Human Vision and Information Visualization

Thurs Nov 30
Class Presentations:

1. Kim N. and Valerie
2. Danyel, Ping, and Rachna
3. Marco Hille
4. Ray Gilstrap

Week 15:

Tues Dec 05
Class Presentations:

1. Deborah and Allen
2. Wayne and Thoreau
3. Sam, Megan, and Francis
4. Phil and Jason

1. Michal and Barbara
2. Joanna and Gabe
3. Jennifer, Sacha, and Kim G.
4. Monica, Robert, and Justin