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SIMS 247: Information Visualization and Presentation Syllabus (Subject to Change), Spring 98

Overview Syllabus Assignments Lectures Administrivia Books & Software Related Courses Online InfoViz Resources
	Jan 20 Introduction Jan 22, 27, 29 Display of Quantitative Information: Basic Principles Feb 3, 5 Interactive Brushing and Linking Feb 10, 12, 17, 19 Viewing Large Information Spaces Feb 24 Evaluating Visualizations with User Studies Feb 27 Psycho-perceptual Properties March 3 The Role of Color March 5 Pan and Zoom on Databases March 10 Design Principles March 12 General Pan and Zoom March 17 Animation March 19 Interactive 3D March 24, 26 Spring Break March 31, April 2 Text and Text Collections April 7 Design for Interactivity April 9 Discuss Final Project Ideas April 14 Automated Graph Design April 16 Application Area: Data Mining April 21 (CHI) Visual Search April 23 (CHI) No Class Meeting April 28 Late-Breaking Viz Techniques from CHI 98 April 30 Pad Projects; Course Recap May 5, May 7 Final Project Presentations Introduction Jan 20 Readings: Selections from Tufte 97 (handout) Tufte 83, Ch. 1 (Graphical Excellence) Topics: What is visualization? Uses of visualization The role of computers Case studies What we are not covering Display of Quantitative Information: Basic Principles Jan 22, Jan 27, Jan 29 Readings: Kosslyn, Ch. 1-3, 6 (or Cleveland Ch. 1-2) Tufte 83, Ch. 4 (Data-Ink and Graphical Redesign), Ch. 6 (Data-Ink Maximization and Graphical Design), Ch. 7 (Multifunctioning Graphical Elements), Ch. 2 (Graphical Integrity) Topics: Goals of graphing data (comparison, evaluation, etc) How graphs can reveal the data (Graphical Excellence) Basics of graphing data graph format data types (discrete, continuous, temporal) line graphs bar charts scatter plots parallel coordinates Tufte's Data-Ink minimization heuristic Multifunctioning graphical elements Graphical Integrity (or how to avoid lying with visual displays) Interactive Brushing and Linking Feb 3, Feb 5 Assignment 1 Due Feb 5 Readings: Ahlberg & Shneiderman '93 Tweedie et. al Sections 1-3 of Roth et al. Inselberg 87 Cleveland 94 excerpt (optional) Videotapes: IVEE Attribute Explorer VISAGE Topics: Brushing and linking in traditional graphics Highlighting Systems for brushing and linking EDV VISAGE (linking of various kinds) Attribute Explorer (linking histograms) Magic Lenses Viewing Large Information Spaces Feb 10, Feb 12, Feb 17, Feb 19 Assignment 2 Due Feb 19 Readings: Sarkar & Brown 94 Leung & Apperley 94 Cruz & Tamassia Hendley et al. 95 Lamping et al. 95 Wills 97 Andrews 95 Eades & Feng 96 Robertson et al. 93 Gershon et al. 95 (optional) Furnas & Zacks 94 (optional) Amir 93 (optional) Chi et al. 97 Anupam et al. 97 Bier et al. 93 Fishkin and Stone 95 Rao & Card 94 Videotapes: A Taxonomy of See-through Tools Exploring Large Tables with the Table Lens Topics: Visualization Spreadsheets Magic Lenses Focus + Context Distortions Fisheye Scale Space Diagrams Hyperbolic Tables TableLens Perspective Wall Hierarchies Examples of traditional hierarchies ConeTrees TreeMaps Graphs/Networks Planarization Types of connectivity Layout strategies FishEye graphs Nodes and Springs Evaluating Visualizations with User Studies Feb 24 Readings: Shneiderman, Ch. 4 McGrath 94 Byrne 93 Lohse et al. 94 (optional) Topics: How to conduct user studies Examples Problems, pitfalls Psycho-perceptual Properties Feb 27 Readings: Senay & Ignatius 96 Healey Kaufman 74 Coren and Girgus 74 Topics: Pre-attentive processing Grouping Selection Gestalt properties Basics of Color The Role of Color March 3 Guest Speaker: Maureen Stone, Xerox PARC (February 24) Readings: Wright & Lickorish 88 Topics: Imparting information Design to impart information Transferring from screen to paper Pan and Zoom on Databases March 5 Guest speaker: Allison Woodruff, UCB Readings: Bederson et al.,1996 Videotapes: Topics: Pan and Zoom Visualization of Database Information General Design Principles March 10 Guest Speaker: Delle Maxwell, SGI Readings: Mullet & Sano, Excerpts from Ch. 4, 6 Videotapes: Topics: Design for Informativeness and Accuracy Organization and Visual Structure Grouping Symmetry Alignment Common Errors General Pan and Zoom March 12 Readings: Bederson et al.,1996 Bederson et al.,1998 Meyer 97 Pad++ Manual Videotapes: Pad++ Topics: Pan and zoom Semantic zoom Pad++ Animation March 17 Guest Speaker: Bay-wei Chang, Xerox PARC (March 17) Readings: Robertson et al. 93 Mackinlay et al. 90 (optional) Videotapes: Topics: 2D + Animation Cartoon Animation Techniques in User Interfaces Interactive 3D March 19 Guest Speaker: Tamara Munzner, Stanford University Readings: Munzner & Burchard 95 Munzner et al. 96 Feiner & Beshers 90 Videotapes: Topics: Affordances of 3D Layout strategies 2D vs. 3D Text and Text Collections March 31, April 2 Readings: Hearst 95 Eick 94 Olsen et al. 93 Rennison 94 Lin 92 Wise et al. 95 Spoerri 93 Videotapes: TileBars SeeSoft Topics: displaying retrieval results showing contents of large text collections Design of Interactive Interfaces April 7 Guest Speaker: Robert Reimann, Cooper Interaction Design Readings: Schriver Ch. 6 Discuss Final Project Ideas April 9 Automated Graph Design April 14 Guest Speaker: Michael Schiff, UCB Readings: Mackinlay 90 Topics: MacKinlay's layout program Schiff's layout system Application Area: Data Mining April 16 Guest Speaker: Ronny Kohavi, SGI Readings: Wright 95 Topics: SGI's MineSet Data Mining System Visual Search/Use of Texture April 21 (CHI) Guest speaker: Ruth Rosenholtz, Xerox PARC Readings: Schriver Ch. 5 Topics: Visual search Texture No Class April 23 (CHI) No class meeting due to CHI conference Late-Breaking Viz Techniques from CHI 98 April 28 Readings: Schriver Ch. 7 Pad Projects; Course Recap April 30 Readings: Schriver Ch. 7 Final Project Presentations May 5, May 7
	SIMS 247:   Information Visualization and Presentation Last Modified April 30, 1998