CPSC 533C: Information Visualization, Fall 2011-2012

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Instructor: Tamara Munzner
First Class: Wed Sep 7
Time/Location: Monday/Wednesday, 3:30-5:00, DMP 101
Office hours: Wed 5-6 or by appointment. X661 ICICS/CS Bldg (X Wing)


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

Short Weekly Syllabus

  Week  

  Date  

  Class  

  Date  

  Class  

  1         9/7 Intro  
2   9/12 Design Studies     9/14 Visualization Design  
3   9/19 Data Principles     9/21 Visual Encoding Principles  
4   9/26 Interaction Principles     9/28 Single View Methods  
5   10/3 Multiple View Methods     10/5 Item Reduction Methods  
6   10/10 Holiday - No Class     10/12 Attribute Reduction Methods
7   10/17 Tabular Data     10/19 Toolkits  
  10/19 Project Meetings Due     10/21 Present Choices Due  
8   10/24 No Class   10/26 No Class
  10/28 Project Proposals Due  
9   10/31 Graphs and Trees     11/2 Evaluation  
10   11/7 Research Process/Papers     11/9 [Cartog|TimeSeries|Eval]  
11   11/14 Project Updates 1     11/16 Project Updates 2  
12   11/21 Project Updates 3     11/23 [Masses|Docs|Collab]  
13   11/28 [Graphs|Interact|Social]     11/30 [Bioinf|Nav|Flow]  
  12/12 Final Presentations 2-5pm     12/14 Final Papers Due noon  


Detailed Syllabus

Required Reading:

Visualization Analysis and Design (pre-publication draft), Tamara Munzner (AK Peters, to appear 2014) is the course textbook. Chapters of this pre-publication draft will be posted on this page one week before readings are due, and are collected at the link above. Note: these book chapters are an early draft and are far from finished. Do not quote. Many things will change!

All additional readings are research papers available online, links posted below.

For digital library access from off-campus, use EZproxy with your CWL login through the UBC library.
EZproxy direct links: IEEE DL, Springer DL, ACM DL, JSTOR

Optional Reading:


Lecture 1: Introduction Wed Sep 7

Readings

Further Reading

Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 2: Design Studies Mon Sep 12

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Further Readings

Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 3: Visualization Design Wed Sep 14

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Videos Further Readings

Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 4: Data Principles Mon Sep 19

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Further Readings

Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 5: Visual Encoding Principles Wed Sep 21

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Demos

Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 6: Interaction Principles Mon Sep 26

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Videos Further Readings

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Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 7: Single View Methods Wed Sep 30

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Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 8: Multiple View Methods Mon Oct 3

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Further Readings Further Demos Further Videos

Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 9: Item Reduction Methods Wed Oct 5

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Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 10: Attribute Reduction Methods Wed Oct 12

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Further Readings Further Demos: Further Videos:

Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 11: Tabular Data Mon Oct 17

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Further Readings Further Demos

Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 12: Toolkits Wed Oct 19

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Videos: Further Readings: Further Demos: Further Web Sites:

Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 13: Graph/Tree Data Mon Oct 31

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Videos Further Readings

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Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 14: Evaluation Wed Nov 2

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Further Readings Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 15: Research Process/Papers Mon Nov 7

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Further Readings Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Presentations 1 Wed Nov 9


Project Updates 1 Mon Nov 14 slides due to me 11am


Project Updates 2 Wed Nov 16 slides due to me 11am


Project Updates 3 Mon Nov 21 slides due to me 11am
Presentations 2 Wed Nov 23


Presentations 3 Mon Nov 28


Presentations 4 Wed Nov 30 Evaluations: Official Faculty of Science eval link


Final Project Presentations Mon Dec 12 2-5 (ICICS/CS Room X836)


Final Papers Due Wed Dec 14 noon


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