| Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| | Jan 14, Lecture 1:
Introduction: Choosing the Right Visualization
Reading due @ ASAP
"Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe: Selecting the Right Graph for Your Message", Stephen Few, 2004 | | Jan 16, Homework 1:
Inspirational Visualization Images
due @ 11:59pm
| Jan 17, Lecture 2:
Chart Junk vs. Memorable Visualization
Reading due @ 10:00am
"Useful Junk? The Effects of Visual Embellishment on Comprehension and Memorability of Charts", Bateman et al., CHI 2010. |
Jan 20,
No Classes | Jan 21, Lecture 3:
Graph Visualization
Reading due @ 10:00am
pick one
"Improved force-directed layouts", Gansner and North, Graph Drawing, 1999.
or
"A Technique for Drawing Directed Graphs", Gansner, Koutsofios, North, & Vo, IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, 1993. | | Jan 23, Homework 2:
Time-Based Datasets & Chart Junk
due @ 11:59pm
| Jan 24, Lecture 4:
Graph Simplification & Interaction
Reading due @ 10:00am
pick one
"Social Network Clustering and Visualization using Hierarchical Edge Bundles",
Jia, Garland, & Hart, Computer Graphics Forum, 2011.
or
"Force-Directed Lombardi-Style Graph Drawing", Chernobelskiy, Cunningham, Goodrich, Kobourov, and Trott, Graph Drawing 2011 Last day to add classes |
| | Jan 28, Lecture 5:
Interaction I: Parallel Coordinates
Reading due @ 10:00am
"Angular Brushing of Extended Parallel Coordinates",
Hauser, Ledermann, and Doleisch, InfoVis 2002 | | Jan 30, Homework 3:
Graph Visualization
due @ 11:59pm
| Jan 31, Lecture 6:
Interaction II, Convex Hulls, & Voronoi Diagrams
Reading due @ 10:00am
"LineUp: Visual Analysis of Multi-Attribute Rankings",
Gratzl, Lex, Gehlenborg, Pfister and Streit, IEEE INFOVIS
2013 |
| | Feb 4, Lecture 7:
Color, part 1
Reading due @ 10:00am
pick one
"ColorBrewer.org: An Online Tool for Selecting Colour Schemes for Maps",
Harrower & Brewer, The Cartographic Journal 2003
or
"Optimizing Color Assignment for Perception of Class Separability in Multiclass Scatterplots", Wang, Chen, Ge, Bao, Sedlmair, Fu, Deussen, and Chen, IEEE InfoVis 2018 | | Feb 6, Homework 4:
Make Something Interactive
due @ 11:59pm
| Feb 7, Lecture 8:
Color, part 2
Reading due @ 10:00am
pick one
"Modeling Color Difference for Visualization Design", Szafir, IEEE TVCG / IEEE VIS 2017
or
"Hue-Preserving Color Blending",
Chuang, Weiskopf, and Mueller, TVCG 2009
Optional additional reading:
"A Linguistic Approach to Categorical Color Assignment for Data Visualization",
Setlur and Stone, IEEE InfoVis 2015 |
| | Feb 11, Lecture 9:
Streamgraphs, Gestalt
Reading due @ 10:00am
For discussion:
"Stacked Graphs -- Geometry & Aesthetics",
Lee Byron & Martin Wattenberg, IEEE TVCG 2008
Also read:
"How to Read a Paper", Keshav, SIGCOMM 2007
and:
"How NOT to review a paper: The tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer", Cormode, SIGMOD 2008 | | Feb 13, Homework 5:
Experimenting with Color
due @ 11:59pm
| Feb 14, Lecture 10:
Uncertainty: Bar Graphs
Reading due @ 10:00am
pick one
"Error Bars Considered Harmful: Exploring Alternate Encodings for Mean and Error",
Correll & Gleicher, TVCG 2014
or
"Visual Encodings of Temporal Uncertainty: A Comparative User Study",
Gschwandtner, Bogl, Federico, & Miksch, IEEE TVCG 2016 |
Feb 17,
No Classes | Feb 18,
Monday Schedule | | Feb 20, Homework 6:
Stream Graphs
due @ 11:59pm
| Feb 21, Lecture 11:
Uncertainty: Node-Edge Graphs & Maps
Reading due @ 10:00am
pick one
"Representing Uncertainty in Graph Edges: An Evaluation of Paired Visual Variables", Guo, Huang, and Laidlaw, IEEE TCVG 2015
or
"Visualizing Uncertain Information", Alan M. MacEachren, Cartographic Perspectives, No 13, 1992 |
| | Feb 25, Lecture 12:
Ethics & Privacy
Reading due @ 10:00am
pick one
"Adaptive Privacy-Preserving Visualization Using Parallel Coordinates",
Dasgupta & Kosara, TVCG 2011
or
"Agile Ethics for Massified Research and Visualization",
Neuhaus & Webmoor, Information, Communication & Society 2012
(alternate link) Also Read:
Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics
and
Visual.ly's Code of Ethics for Data Visualization Professionals | | | Feb 28,
Quiz 1
practice problems
|
| | Mar 3, Lecture 13:
Handing Massive or Incomplete Information
Reading due @ 10:00am
pick one
"LabelMe: Online Image Annotation and Applications" Torralba, Russell, and Yuen, IEEE 2010
or
"QSplat: A Multiresolution Point Rendering System for Large Meshes", Rusinkiewicz & Levoy, 2000 | | Mar 5, Homework 7:
Final Project Ideas
due @ 11:59pm
due Saturday March 7th @ 11:59pm and
Monday March 16th 23rd @ 11:59pm | Mar 6, Lecture 14:
Streamlines
Reading due @ 10:00am
pick one
"Farthest Point Seeding for Efficient Placement of Streamlines",
Mebarki, Alliez, & Devillers,
IEEE Visualization, 2005.
(alternate link)
or
"Image Based Flow Visualization",
Jarke J. van Wij,
SIGGRAPH 2002 Last day to drop classes |
Mar 9-13,
Spring Break |
Mar 16-20,
Transition to Online Instruction -- Break Extended |
| | Mar 24, Lecture 15:
Volume Visualization
Reading due @ 10:00am
pick one
"Intuitive Exploration of Volumetric Data Using Dynamic Galleries", Jonsson, Falk, & Ynnerman, IEEE Visualization 2015
or
"Interactive Dynamic Volume Illumination with Refraction and Caustics", Magnus & Bruckner, IEEE TVCG 2017
or
"Anisotropic Ambient Volume Shading", Ament & Dachsbacher, IEEE Visualization 2015 | Mar 25,
GM Week, No Classes | Mar 26, Homework 8:
Volume Visualization
due @ 11:59pm
deadline flexible...
by Apr 2nd @ 11:59pm | Mar 27, Lecture 16:
Illustration & Interaction
Reading due @ 12:01am (~midnight)
pick one
"Designing Effective Step-by-step Assembly Instructions",
Agrawala, Phan, Heiser, Haymaker, Klingner, Hanrahan, & Tversky, SIGGRAPH 2003
or
"Interactive Cutaway Illustrations of Complex 3D Models",
Li, Ritter, Agrawala, Curless, & Salesin, SIGGRAPH 2007 |
| | Mar 31, Lecture 17:
Display Technologies
Reading due @ 12:01am (~midnight)
pick one
"Interactive Visualization on Large and Small Displays: The interrelation of Display Size, Information Space, and Scale",Jakobsen and Hornbaek, IEEE Visualization 2013
or
"Immersive Collaborative Analysis of Network Connectivity: CAVE-style or Head-Mounted Display?",Cordeil, Dwyer, Klein, Laha, Marriott, Thomas, IEEE InfoVis 2016
or
"Walking > Walking-in-Place > Flying, in Virtual Environments", Usoh, Arthur, Whitton, Bastos, Steed, Slater, & Brooks, SIGGRAPH 1999 | | Apr 2, Homework 9:
Final Project Proposal
due @ 11:59pm
| Apr 3, Lecture 18:
Visualization for Debugging
Reading due @ 12:01am (~midnight)
pick one
"Active Reading of Visualizations", Walny, Huron, Perin, Wun, Pusch, and Carpendale, IEEE InfoVis 2017
or
"DimpVis: Exploring Time-varying Information Visualizations by Direct Manipulation",
Kondo & Collins, IEEE Visualization 2014. |
| | Apr 7, Lecture 19:
Large Scale & In Situ Visualization
Reading due @ 12:01am (~midnight)
pick one
"An Image-based Approach to Extreme Scale In Situ Visualization and Analysis",
Ahrens, Patchett, Jourdain, Rogers, O'Leary, & Petersen, Supercomputing 2014
(video)
or
"Visualization, Selection, and Analysis of Traffic Flows", Scheepens, Hurter, van de Wetering, van Wijk, IEEE InfoVis 2015
or
"Learning Patterns of Activity Using Real-Time Tracking", Stauffer & Grimson, IEEE PAMI 2000 | | Apr 9, Homework 10:
Final Project Progress #1
due @ 11:59pm
| Apr 10, Lecture 20:
More Scatterplots & Uncertainty
Reading due @ 12:01am (~midnight)
pick one
"Scatterplots: Tasks, Data, and Designs", Sarikaya & Gleicher, InfoVis 2017
or
"Winglets: Visualizing Association with Uncertainty in Multi-class Scatterplots", Lu, Wang, Lanir, Fish, Yue, Cohen-Or, and Huang, IEEE InfoVis 2019
or
"Why Authors Don't Visualize Uncertainty", Hullman, IEEE VIS 2019 |
| | Apr 14, Lecture 21:
Miscellaneous
Reading due @ 12:01am (~midnight)
pick one
"Guidelines for Effective Usage of Text Highlighting Techniques", Strobelt, Oelke, Kwon, Schreck, Pfister, IEEE InfoVis 2015
or
"What Makes a Visualization Memorable?", Borkin, Vo, Bylinskii, Isola, Sunkavalli, Oliva, & Pfister, INFOVIS 2013.
or
"Deadeye: A Novel Preattentive Visualization Technique Based on Dichoptic Presentation", Krekhov & Kruger, IEEE TVCG 2019. | | Apr 16, Homework 11:
Final Project Progress #2:
due @ 11:59pm
| Apr 17,
Quiz 2 |
| | Apr 21,
Final Project Presentations | | | Apr 24,
Final Project Presentations |
| | Apr 28,
Final Project Presentations | Apr 29,
Last Day of Classes | Apr 30, Homework 12:
Final Project Report
due @ 11:59pm
No late days allowed on Final Project Report | |
May 4-8,
Final Exams
No Final Exam for CSCI 4550/6550 Interactive Visualization |