Schedule

Tuesdays
11am–12:20pm ET
SH 234

Thursdays
11am–12:20pm ET
SH 234

Week 1

Tue, Aug 26	Value of visualization, overview over the class assigned A1: Exploratory Visual Analysis Required Introduction to Vega-Lite Required Information Visualization (Chapter 1) by Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay, and Ben Shneiderman Optional The Value of Visualization by Jarke van Wijk
Thu, Aug 28	Intro to Web Technologies and HTML & CSS

Week 2

Tue, Sep 2	Data and Image Models Required Scales, Axes, and Legends Required The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations by Ben Shneiderman Optional A Tour through the Visualization Zoo by Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, and Vadim Ogievetsky
Thu, Sep 4	JavaScript Required Data Types, Graphical Marks, and Visual Encoding Channels

Week 3

Tue, Sep 9	Sketching Required The Anatomy of Sketching (Chapter 9) by Bill Buxton Required Sketching with Data Opens the Mind’s Eye by Giorgia Lupi Optional The Shape of My Thoughts by Giorgia Lupi
Thu, Sep 11	Web development + Svelte intro Required Data analysis and statistics: An expository overview by Tukey, Wilk Required Good Data Analysis by Patrick Riley Optional Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations

Week 4

Tue, Sep 16	Effective Visual Encodings assigned A2: Sketching due A1: Exploratory Visual Analysis Required Basic Principles of Visualization (Chapter 5) by Alberto Cairo Required Data Transformation
Thu, Sep 18	Svelte Required What Questions to Ask When Creating Charts by Lisa Charlotte Muth

Week 5

Tue, Sep 23	Intro to Developing Web-Based Visualizations with Svelte and D3 due A2: Sketching assigned A3: Interactive Visualization Required D3: Data-Driven Documents by Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky, Jeffrey Heer
Thu, Sep 25	Loading Data & Reactivity Required A friendly guide to choosing a chart type by Lisa Charlotte Muth

Week 6

Tue, Sep 30	Visualization Tools Required Multi-View Composition Optional Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics (video) by Arvind Satyanarayan
Thu, Oct 2	Practical vis (categorical) due A3: Interactive Visualization Required What to consider when choosing colors for data visualization by Lisa Charlotte Muth Required Which color scale to use when visualizing data by Lisa Charlotte Muth

Week 7

Tue, Oct 7	How to ask Questions assigned FP1: Proposal
Thu, Oct 9	Practical vis (quantitative) due A3: Interactive Visualization

Week 8

Tue, Oct 14	Fall Break
Thu, Oct 16	Fall Break

Week 9

Tue, Oct 21	Ethics in Visualization + Accessibility due FP1: Proposal assigned FP2: Minimal Viable Product Required Ethical Dimensions of Visualization Research by Michael Correll Required Sociotechnical Considerations for Accessible Visualization Design by Alan Lundgard, Crystal Lee, Arvind Satyanarayan Optional Introduction (from Data Feminism) by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
Thu, Oct 23	Interactivity + Accessibility Required A Tour through the Interaction Zoo Required Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis by Jeffrey Heer and Ben Shneiderman Required Interaction Observable Notebook

Week 10

Tue, Oct 28	Designing for Perception + Accessibility Required How accessible is my visualization? Evaluating visualization accessibility with Chartability by Frank Elavsky, Cynthia Bennett, Dominik Moritz Required The best stats you’ve ever seen by Hans Rosling
Thu, Oct 30	Work on final projects

Week 11

Tue, Nov 4	Democracy Day
Thu, Nov 6	Introduction to research (no in person lecture, watch talks) Required Show it or tell it? IEEE VIS 2022 Keynote by Marti Hearst Required VIS 2025 best paper award talks (3 talks)

Week 12

Tue, Nov 11	Class Cancelled
Thu, Nov 13	Narrative Visualization due FP2: Minimal Viable Product assigned FP3: Final Deliverables Required Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data by Edward Segel, Jeffrey Heer Optional What to consider when using text in data visualizations by Lisa Charlotte Muth Required Lab 9: Animation & Scrollytelling

Week 13

Tue, Nov 18	Animation Required Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization by George Robertson et al. Optional Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics by Jeffrey Heer, George Robertson
Thu, Nov 20	Human-AI Interaction with Visualization Required Lab 10: Accessibility (rescheduled) Required The Mythos of Model Interpretability by Zachary C. Lipton Required “Why Should I Trust You?”: Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier by Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Anjali Rajendran, Carlos Guestrin

Week 14

Tue, Nov 25	Network Visualization Required Chapter 2: Networks (from Design for Information) by Isabel Meirelles Optional Squarified Treemaps by Mark Bruls, Kees Huizing & Jarke van Wijk Optional Hierarchical Edge Bundles: Visualization of Adjacency Relations in Hierarchical Data by Danny Holten
Thu, Nov 27	Thanksgiving Break

Week 15

Tue, Dec 2

Geographic Visualization Required Cartographic Visualization Required What to consider when creating choropleth maps by Lisa Charlotte Muth Required Lab 8: Geospatial Visualizations

Thu, Dec 4

Scalable Visualization Required Falcon: Balancing Interactive Latency and Resolution Sensitivity for Scalable Linked Visualizations. by Dominik Moritz, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer Required Bin-summarise-smooth: A framework for visualising large data by Hadley Wickham Optional Mosaic: Scalable, Interactive Visualization. by Jeffrey Heer, Dominik Moritz Optional A Structured Review of Data Management Technology for Interactive Visualization and Analysis. by Leilani Battle, Carlos Scheidegger

Week 16

Tue, Dec 9

Final Project Submission due FP3: Final Deliverables