CPSC 533C: Information Visualization, Fall 2009-2010

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Instructor: Tamara Munzner

First Class: Wed Sep 9

Time/Location: Monday/Wednesday, 12:30-2:00pm, DMP 201

Office hours: Wed 2-3 or by appointment. X661 ICICS/CS Bldg


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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  

  Class  

  Date  

  Class  

  1         9/9 Intro  
2   9/14 Design Studies     9/16 Fundamentals  
3   9/21 Perception/Memory     9/23 Color  
4   9/28 Statistical Graphics     9/30 Multiples/Interaction  
5   10/5 Space/Layers/Order     10/7 Navigation/Zooming  
6   10/12 Holiday - No Class     10/14 No Class  
7   10/19 Focus+Context     10/21 High Dimensionality  
  10/23 Project Meetings Due     10/23 Present Choices Due  
8   10/26 Graphs/Trees     10/28 User Studies  
  10/30 Project Proposals Due  
9   11/2 [Masses|Tables|TimeSeries|Glyphs]     11/4 Text (Andrews)  
10   11/9 SciVis (Bruckner)     11/11 Holiday - No Class  
11   11/16 Project Updates 1     11/18 Project Updates 2  
12   11/23 [F+C|Text|Carto]     11/25 [Anim|Social|Percep|Software]  
13   11/30 [Networks|Hier|Nav|Volumes]     12/2 Research Process and Papers  
  12/14 Final Presentations     12/16 Final Papers Due  


Detailed Syllabus

Textbooks:
Most of the course readings are original papers, but there are also two texts. Both books on reserve in ICICS/CS reading room.
Order online, not available at UBC bookstore!

Note: for digital library access from off-campus, set up your proxy server through the UBC library. For IEEE digital library items. You might need to connect to IEEE through the library interface before following the links below.


Lecture 1: Introduction Wed Sep 9

Readings

Further Readings

Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 2: Design Studies Mon Sep 14

Readings

Further Readings Videos

Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 3: Fundamentals Wed Sep 16

Readings

Further Readings

Slides: PDF 1up 16up


Lecture 4: Perception/Memory Mon Sep 21

Readings

Further Readings Demos Videos

Slides: PDF 1up, 16up


Lecture 5: Color Wed Sep 23

Readings

Further Readings

Demos:

Slides: PDF 1up, 16up


Lecture 6: Statistical Graphics Mon Sep 28

Readings

Further Readings Videos: Animated Transitions

Slides: PDF 1up, 16up


Lecture 7: Multiples/Interaction Wed Sep 30

Readings

Further Readings Demos: Excentric Labels

Videos

Slides: PDF 1up, 16up


Lecture 8: Space/Layering Mon Oct 5

Readings

Further Readings

Videos

Demos Slides: PDF 1up, 16up


Lecture 9: Navigation/Zooming Wed Oct 7

Readings

Further Readings

Videos:

Slides: PDF 1up, 16up


Lecture 10: Focus+Context Mon Oct 19

Readings

Further Readings Videos: Demos: 2D Hyperbolic Tree, SpaceTree, Fisheye Menus

Slides: PDF 1up, 16up


Lecture 11: High Dimensionality Wed Oct 21

Readings

Further Readings

Slides: PDF 1up, 16up


Lecture 12: Graphs/Trees Mon Oct 26

Readings

Further Readings

Videos

Slides: PDF 1up 16up.
subset of Dwyer's IPSep-Cola talk slides, PPT, PDF 1up, 16up


Lecture 13: Evaluation Wed Oct 24

Readings

Further Readings Slides: PDF 1up, 16up


Presentations 1 Mon Nov 2


Lecture 14: Text Wed Nov 4. Guest Lecturer: Keith Andrews, Graz University of Technology

Slides: PDF Information Visualization Course Notes, Andrews, Chapter 7: Visualising Text and Object Collections (Feature Spaces)


Lecture 15: Scientific Visualization Mon Nov 9. Guest Lecturer: Stefan Bruckner, SFU

Further Readings

Slides: PDF 1up, 6up


Project Updates 1 Mon Nov 16 slides due to me 10am


Project Updates 2 Wed Nov 18 slides due to me 10am


Presentations 2 Mon Nov 23


Presentations 3 Wed Nov 25


Presentations 4 Mon Nov 30


Research Process and Paper Writing Wed Dec 2

Readings

Slides: PDF 1up 16up

Custom evaluation form


Final Project Presentations Mon Dec 14 2-5 Location: X836


Final Papers Due Wed Dec 16 2pm


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