Instructor
Dr. Cheryl Zhenyu Qian
Office: PAO 3167
Email: qianz at purdue dot edu
A&D 690 Wiki Space |
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TEXTBOOKS
Ward, M., Grinstein, G., and D. Keim, (2010), Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications. Natick, Mass: A K Peters.
Tufte, E. (1983), The visual display of quantitative information, Cheshire, CO: Graphics Press.
MORE RESOUCES
Few, S. (2009), Now you see it: simple visualization techniques for quantitative analysis, Oakland, CA: Analytics Press.
Spence, R. (2007), Information visualization: design for interaction, Harlow, England: Addison Wesley.
Ware, C. (2004), Information visualization: perception for design, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufman.
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| I -
Introduction to Information Visualization |
| WEEK 1 Aug 25 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
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Lecture: Introduction
- Why visualization helps?
- Definition
- Tasks
- Spatial vs. abstract data
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Discuss the course assignments and your course expectation
Finish this week's required reading
Get familiar with wiki space
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1. Create your own wiki page and post name, email, photo
of yourself, and a paragraph of self-introduction.
2. Finish the first two weeks' required reading |
Ward Chapter 1
J.-D. Fekete, J. van Wijk, J. Stasko, C. North, "The Value of Information Visualization", in Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives, (Editors: A. Kerren, J. Stasko, J.-D. Fekete, C. North), Springer, 2008, pp. 1-18.
B. Shneiderman, "The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations." Proc. 1996 IEEE Visual Languages, Sept. 1996, pp. 336-343.
J. van Wijk, "Views on Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 4, Jul-Aug 2006, pp. 421-433. |
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| II -
Design Principles and Tools |
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WEEK 2 Sept 1 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
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Lecture: Perception and Cognition for Visualization
- Scales of Measurement
- Visual attention
- Texture coding
- Gestalt laws
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Introduce the term project
Work on Exercise 1
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Exercise 1: Data exploration and analysis |
Ward Chapter 3
C. Healey, "Perception in Visualization," NC State
D. Norman, "Visual Representations", Chapter 3 in Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
W. S. Cleveland and R. McGill, "Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation and the Application to the Development of Graphical Models", J. Am. Stat. Assoc., Vol.79, No.387, pp. 531-554, 1984.
Related websites:
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| WEEK 3 Sept 8 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
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Lecture: Design Principles
- Stephen Few's principles
- Edward Tufte's principles
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Present your Exercise 1 with wiki page
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Exercise 2: Table and graph design |
Tufte, Envisioning Information
Few 2009, Now You See It, chapters 5-12 |
Exercise 1 (5%) |
| WEEK 4 Sept 15 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
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Cheryl goes to IDSA conference, meet her individually to discuss your semester project topic |
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Tufte, The visual display of quantitative information, Chapter 1-3
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| WEEK 5 Sept 22 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
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Lecture: InfoVis Tools
- Introduction of some commercial InfoVis systems
- Evaluation methods and procedure
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Present your Exercise 2 with wiki page |
Exercise 3: Visualizing data with Many Eyes |
Ward Chapter 14
M. Spenke and C. Beilken, "InfoZoom - Analysing Formula One racing results with an interactive data mining and visualization tool," Proceedings of 2nd Intl. Conf. on Data Mining, July 2000.
Software:
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Exercise 2 (5%) |
| WEEK 6 Sept 29 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
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Lecture: Color and Associations
- Human eye and colors
- Quantity of light and colors
- Applications
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Present your Exercise 3 with wiki page |
Exercise 4: Explore network visualization
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M. Stone, "Choosing Colors for Data Visualization", 2006.
Related websites:
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Exercise 3 (5%) |
| WEEK 7
Oct 6 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
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Lecture: Visualization Interaction
- Definition of interaction
- Types & Links
- Challenges
- Techniques
- Infographics
Prof. Sigman introduces the new course |
Brainstorm and discuss the exhibition themes
Work on your term project prototypes |
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Ward Chapter 10 & 11
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Exercise 4 (5%)
Decide the theme of exhibition |
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Types of Information Visualization |
| WEEK 8 Oct 13 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
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Lecture: Quantitative Data Display I
- Tree structure
- Node-link
- Geographic Visualization
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Work on your term project prototypes |
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Ward Chapter 8
Tufte The visual display of quantitative information Chapter 4 ~ 6
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| WEEK 9 Oct 20 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
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Present, discuss and critique your term project prototypes |
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Ward Chapter 8
Tufte The visual display of quantitative information, Chapter 7 ~ 9
B. Johnson and B. Shneiderman, "Tree-maps: A Space Filling Approach to the Visualization of Hierarchical Information Structures", Proc. of Vis '91, Oct. 1991, pp. 284-291. |
Both prototypes of visualizations (10%) |
| WEEK 10 Oct 27 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
| ID team arrange the lazercutter workshop |
Work on the poster based visualization |
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| WEEK 11
Nov 3 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
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Lecture: Quantitative Data Display II
- Graph structure
- Graph Layout
- Glyph Visualization
- "Infinite Zooming" - Gigapixel Visualization
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Work on the poster based visualization |
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Ward Chapter 9
F. Viegas, M. Wattenberg, "Tag Clouds and the Case for Vernacular Visualization", interactions, Vol. 15, No. 4, Jul-Aug 2008, pp. 49-52.
D.A. Keim and D. Oelke, "Literature Fingerprinting: A New Method for Visual Literary Analysis", Proc. of IEEE VAST '07, Oct. 2007, pp. 115-122. |
Term project poster based visualization (15%) |
| WEEK 12
Nov 10 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
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Lecture: Text Visualization
- From searching to sense making
- Challenges
- Examples of text clouds
- Metrics
- Heuristic evaluation
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Work on the physical based visualization |
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F. Viegas, S. Golder, and J. Donath, "Visualizing Email Content: Portraying Relationships from Conversational Histories", Proceedings of CHI 2006, Montreal, Canada, April 2006, pp. 979-988.
M. Wattenberg and J. Kriss, "Designing for Social Data Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Vol. 12, No. 4, Jul.-Aug. 2006, pp. 549-557.
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| WEEK 13
Nov 17 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
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Lecture: Social + Narrative Visualization
- Causal InfoVis definition and examples
- Telling stories with data: narrative visualization
- Some Visual Analytic examples
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Work on the physical based visualization |
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J. Heer and G. Robertson. "Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2007, pp. 1240-1247.
Z. Pousman, J. T. Stasko and M. Mateas, "Casual Information Visualization: Depictions of Data in Everyday Life", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 6, November/December 2007, pp. 1145-1152.
T. Skog, et al, "Between Aesthetics and Utility: Designing Ambient Information Visualizations", Proc. of InfoVis '03, pp. 233-240.
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Term project physical based visualization (15%)
Nov. 19th, gallery installation |
| WEEK 14
Nov 24 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
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Thanksgiving Vacation |
No Class! |
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| IV - Bringing It Together: the Final Design Report
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| WEEK 15 Dec 1 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
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Gallery show and reception. You should run an evaluation study |
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| WEEK 16
Dec 8 |
Two-hour Class Activity |
Assignment |
Reading(s) |
Due |
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Final Project submission |
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Heuristic evaluation report (10%) |
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