CPSC 533C: Information Visualization, Spring 2003-2004

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Instructor: Tamara Munzner

Time/Location: Monday/Wednesday, 2-3:30pm, FSC 1002

Office hour: Mondays 3:45-4:45pm (or by appointment), FSC 2618


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Syllabus tentative, final changes will be made by the previous class. Readings should be done before the lecture.

Short Weekly Syllabus

  Week  

  Date  

  Topic  

  Topic  

  1     Jan 12,14     Intro     Visualizations Critique  
2   Jan 19,21     Design Studies     Frameworks/Models  
3   Jan 26,28     Perception     Color  
4   Feb 2,4     Space/Order     Depth/Occlusion  
5   Feb 9,11     High Dimensionality     Interaction  
  Feb 16,18     [Term Break]      
6   Feb 23,25     Navigation/Zooming     Focus+Context  
  Mar 1     Project Proposals Due  
7   Mar 1,3     Graphs/Trees     Scalability, Evaluation  
8   Mar 8,10     [Interact, Social Networks]     [Graphs, Time-Series, High Dim]  
9   Mar 15,17     [Project Updates]     [Project Updates]  
10   Mar 22,24     [Nav/Zoom, Focus+Context, Docs]     [Animation, Brush/Link, Carto]  
11   Mar 29,31     [Software, Software, Glyphs]     [Networks, Focus+Context, Perception] [Hierarchies]  
12   Apr 5,7     [Evaluation, Perception, DB]     Guest Lecture: SciVis  
  Apr 21     [Final Presentations]  


Detailed Syllabus

Textbooks:


Lecture 1 Introduction Jan 12

Slides HTML, PDF 6up


Lecture 2 Visualizations Critique Jan 14

Readings

Slides HTML



Lecture 3: Design Studies Jan 19

Readings

Slides HTML, PDF 6up
Videos Constellation: A Visualization Tool For Linguistic Queries from MindNet, Vis/InfoVis 1999 Video Proceedings



Lecture 4: Frameworks/Models Jan 21

Readings

Further Information The Grammar of Graphics, Leland Wilkinson, Springer 1999

Slides HTML, PDF 6up



Lecture 5: Perception Jan 26

Readings

Slides HTML, PDF 6up

Demos

Videos saccades


Lecture 6: Color Jan 28

Readings

Further Information A Field Guide To Digital Color, Maureen Stone, AK Peters 2003. Or, Stone's SIGGRAPH 2001 Color course notes

Slides HTML, PDF 6up

Demos

  • http://www.cs.brown.edu/exploratories/freeSoftware/catalogs/color_theory.html



    Lecture 7: Space/Order Feb 2

    Readings

    Further Information The Elements of Graphing Data, William S. Cleveland, Hobart Press 1994.

    Slides HTML, PDF 6up

    Videos

  • Feature Detection in Linked Derived Spaces, Chris Henze (NASA Ames). Vis98 Video Proceedings



    Lecture 8: Depth/Occlusion Feb 4

    Readings

    Slides HTML, PDF 6up

    Videos EdgeLens, Vis/InfoVis 2003 Electronic Proceedings DVD


    Lecture 9: High Dimensionality Feb 9

    Readings

    Slides HTML, PDF 6up


    Lecture 10: Interaction Feb 11

    Readings

    Slides PPT, PDF 1up, 6up

    Demos

    Videos


    Lecture 11: Navigation/Zooming Feb 23

    Readings

    Slides HTML, PDF 6up

    Videos

    Demos Speed-Dependent Automatic Zooming applet


    Lecture 12: Focus+Context Feb 25

    Readings

    Slides part 1: HTML, PDF 6up
    part 2: PPT, PDF 6up, PDF 1up


    Lecture 13: Graphs/Trees Mar 1

    Readings

    Slides HTML, PDF 6up


    Lecture 14: Evaluation, Scalability Mar 3

    Readings

    Videos

    Slides HTML, PDF 6up



    Presentations 1 Mon Mar 8



    Presentations 2 Wed Mar 10



    Updates 1 Mon Mar 15



    Updates 2 Wed Mar 17



    Presentations 3 Mon Mar 22



    Presentations 4 Wed Mar 24



    Presentations 5 Mon Mar 29



    Presentations 6 Wed Mar 31



    Presentations 7 Mon Apr 5



    Presentations 8 Wed Apr 7



    Week 14: Final Presentations Wed Apr 21 1-4pm FSC 1002


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