Schedule

Please be sure to read the assigned reading before class.

Week 1: Introductions
	Fri, Sep 08 What is Visualization (slides) In-Class Activities: table-tents
Week 2: Design & Marks
Tue, Sep 12 Design rules of thumb (slides) In-Class Activities: hurricane-funnels Required Readings: VAD Chapter 1—What is Vis, and Why Do It? VAD Chapter 6—Rules of Thumb	Fri, Sep 15 Marks and channels (slides) In-Class Activities: graphical-perception Required Readings: VAD Chapter 5—Marks and Channels A Tour through the Visualization Zoo by Heer, Bostock, and Ogievetsky (2012) A1—Getting started due
Week 3: Tableau, Data, Tasks, Tables, and Gestalt
Tue, Sep 19 Tableau, data abstraction (slides) In-Class Activities: tableau Required Readings: VAD Chapter 2—What: Data Abstraction VAD Chapter 3—Why: Task Abstraction	Fri, Sep 22 Task abstraction, arrange tables (slides) Required Readings: VAD Chapter 7—Arrange Tables Gestalt Principles (Part 1) by Bang Wong (2010) Gestalt Principles (Part 2) by Bang Wong (2010) A2—Encodings & xenographics due
Week 4: Altair, Color, Pop-out, Illusions
Tue, Sep 26 Altair (slides) In-Class Activities: altair Required Readings: VAD Chapter 10—Map Color and Other Channels	Fri, Sep 29 Color, pop-out, illusions (offset by 1 lecture) (slides) Required Readings: VAD Chapter 11—Manipulate View VAD Chapter 12—Facet into Multiple Views A3—Tableau analysis due
Week 5: Interaction and Animation, Reduce and Embed
Tue, Oct 03 Interaction, Animation (offset by 1 lecture) (slides) In-Class Activities: design-public-transit Required Readings: VAD Chapter 13—Reduce Items and Attributes VAD Chapter 14—Embed: Focus + Context	Fri, Oct 06 Reduce and Embed (offset by 1 lecture) (slides) In-Class Activities: altair-interactive A4—Altair basic charts due
Week 6: Networks and Trees; Spatial, 3D, and SciVis
Tue, Oct 10 Networks and Trees (slides) Required Readings: VAD Chapter 9—Arrange Networks and Trees	Fri, Oct 13 Spatial, 3D, and scientific visualization (slides) Required Readings: VAD Chapter 8—Arrange Spatial Data A5—Altair interactive charts due
Week 7: Midterm
Tue, Oct 17 Midterm Q&A and Study Session	Fri, Oct 20 MIDTERM EXAM
Week 8: IEEE VIS / State-of-the-Art Visualization
Tue, Oct 24 NO CLASS—Activity instead In-Class Activities: ieee-vis	Fri, Oct 27 NO CLASS—Activity instead In-Class Activities: ieee-vis
Week 9: Storytelling, Validation
Tue, Oct 31 Storytelling, how to give a talk (slides) In-Class Activities: matplotlib_seaborn Required Readings: Storytelling: The Next Step for Visualization by Robert Kosara and Jock Mackinlay (2013)	Fri, Nov 03 Validation and evaluation Required Readings: VAD Chapter 4—Analysis: Four Levels for Validation A6—Matplotlib and seaborn due
Week 10: Visualization in Practice
Tue, Nov 07 Guest speaker—Dan Zedek	Fri, Nov 10 Guest speaker—Jane Adams
Week 11: Final Projects and Visualization in Practice
Tue, Nov 14 Final project pitch feedback sessions	Fri, Nov 17 Guest speaker (virtual, see Slack for link)—Kate Kryder P1—Project pitch due
Week 12: Plotly, Final Projects
Tue, Nov 21 plotly (virtual, see Slack for link) In-Class Activities: plotly	Fri, Nov 24 NO CLASS—FALL BREAK
Week 13: Final Projects
Tue, Nov 28 Project Work and Office Hours	Fri, Dec 01 Final project usability testing In-Class Activities: usability-testing
Week 14: Final Projects
Tue, Dec 05 Final Project Presentations P2—Project presentation and deliverable due
Week 15: Finals Week
Mon, Dec 11 NO EXAM in scheduled time 8:00–10:00am