Mon Jan 25: Introduction [slides]
What is visualization? Course overview.

• Baby Name Wizard
• Many Eyes
• NYT Peek Into Netflix Queues
• NYT How Different Groups Spend Their Day
• Hans Rosling, TED 2006
• Hans Rosling, TED 2007

Wed Jan 27: Design Principles [slides]
Graphical Integrity. Lie Factor. Data-Ink Ratio. Chartjunk. Context. Small Multiples. Space & Time. Layering.

• (Optional) Tamara Munzner. Chapter 27, p 675-707, of Fundamentals of Graphics, Third Edition, by Peter Shirley et al. AK Peters, 2009. [PDF]
• Super Bowl Visualization, NY Times
• Genealogy of Pop and Rock Music
• Faces of the Dead, NY Times

Mon Feb 1: Process & Validation [slides]
Visualization Process. Validation Models.

• Reading: A Nested Model for Visualization Design and Validation. Tamara Munzner. IEEE TVCG 15(6) (Proc. InfoVis 2009) [PDF]
• How Social Media is Changing the 2010 Grammys
• Genealogical Graphs
• MatrixExplorer
• Flow Map Layout
• LiveRAC

Wed Feb 3: Data & Image Models [slides]
Data Types. Data Scraping. Image Models.

• Reading: Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis and Visualization of Multi-dimensional Relational Databases (extended paper) Chris Stolte, Diane Tang and Pat Hanrahan, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 2002. [PDF]
• Polaris
• Tableau
• MTV VMA Twitter Visualization
• Data Mining Slides by Samir Paul

Mon Feb 8: Perception Looking vs. Seeing. The Eye. The Retina. Visual Cortex. Things that Pop. [slides]

• Reading: Ware Chapters 1 & 2
• (Optional) Popout demo / Perception in Visualization by Christopher Healey
• Super Bowl Twitter visualization, NY Times
• Code-Swarm
• MentionMap
• Postmodern News

Wed Feb 10: Patterns Contours. Textures. Gestalt Principles. [slides]

• Reading: Ware Chapter 3
• Image Based Flow Vis
• Wolfram Demonstrations
• Digg Labs
• Blogging Patterns [PDF]

Mon Feb 15: No Class
President's Day

Wed Feb 17: Color Color Processing. Color Spaces. Color Design. [slides]

• Reading: Ware Chapter 4
• Reading: Brewer, C. A. 1999. Color Use Guidelines for Data Representation, Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Graphics, American Statistical Association, Alexandria VA. pp. 55-60. [link]
• The von Bezold Spreading Effect (aka The Paint Chip Problem)
• Color Brewer
• Perception and Color Rules [PDF]

Mon Feb 22: Cognition Image Gist. Scene Understanding. Long-term Memory. [slides]

• Reading: Ware Chapter 6
• Interactive Perception Course by Tutis Vilis
• Web site of Aude Oliva, MIT

Wed Feb 25: Interaction Overview & Detail. Zooming. Focus & Context. Dynamic Queries. Brushing & Linking. Animation. Off-The-Desktop Interaction. [slides]

• Reading: A review of overview+detail, zooming, and focus+context interfaces. Andy Cockburn, Amy Karlson, and Benjamin B. Bederson. ACM Computing Surveys 41(1), 2008. [PDF]

Mon Mar 1: SDR Lab Tour (Chia Shen)

• Reading: Ware Chapters 8 & 9

Wed Mar 3: Tableau Guest Lecture (Jock Mackinlay, Tableau Software) Introduction to Tableau.

Mon Mar 8: Statistical Graphs Aspect Ratio. Multiscale Banking to 45 Degrees. Scales. Nominal Comparisons. Percentage and Proportion Data. Scatter Plots. Box & Whisker Plots. [slides]

• Reading: Multi-Scale Banking to 45 Degrees Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. Proc. InfoVis 2006, published as IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 12(5), Sep/Oct 2006, pages 701-708. [PDF]
• The Eyballing Game
• New York Times interactive salary comparison
• JPL Climate Time Machine

Wed Mar 10: Maps Google Maps. Map Projections. Cartograms. Choropleth Maps. Proportional Symbol Maps. Flow Maps. Real-Time Maps. Thematic Maps. [slides]

• Reading: Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections. Jarke J. van Wijk. The Cartographic Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp.32-42, February 2008. [PDF]
• Map Projection Reference
• Map Projections
• My (Google) Maps
• Map Mashups at Programmable Web
• Google Maps Mania
• Good Article on Map APIs
• Modest Map API
• Open Street Map
• Cartogram software by Mark Newman
• World Mapper
• Strange Maps
• Video about the London Underground Map

Mon Mar 22: Trees & Networks Definitions. Visualizing Trees. Visualizing Networks.

• Reading: Graph Visualisation in Information Visualisation: a Survey Ivan Herman, Guy Melancon, M. Scott Marshall. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 6(1), pp. 24-44, 2000. [PDF]

Wed Mar 24: High Dimensionality Dimensionality Reduction. PCA.

• Reading: Glimmer: Multilevel MDS on the GPU. Stephen Ingram, Tamara Munzner and Marc Olano. IEEE TVCG, 15(2):249-261, Mar/Apr 2009. [Project Page]
• A tutorial on Principal Components Analysis, Lindsay I Smith [PDF]
• MusicBox demo

Mon Apr 5: Visualization and the Arts (Ben Fry, Seed Visualization)

Wed Apr 7: Communicating with Visualizations (Bang Wong, Broad Institute)

Mon Apr 12: Visualization in Biology (Miriah Meyer, Harvard and Janet Iwasa, HMS)

Wed Apr 14: Scientific Visualization (Miriah Meyer, Harvard)

Mon Apr 19: Social Visualization (Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, IBM)

Wed Apr 21: Wrap Up & Outlook Final Lecture.

Mon Apr 26: Project Presentations I

Wed Apr 28: Project Presentations II