Reading 21: Design

April 27, 2012

On Monday, April 30, we’ll talk about some of the basic elements of visual design. To prepare for this, please read: Some excerpts from The Non-Designer’s Design Book, by Robin Williams (here) Some excepts from Design Basics Index, by Jim Krause (here) And, (optionally) look through this excerpt from a typography book that explores design […]

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The Week in Vis: Week 13 (April 23-27)

April 20, 2012

Next week, we’ll go over two topics that I like to talk about (and people said they want to hear about). They are both topics for which preparing yourself for the discussion will be useful. Also, next week is really a chance to get your project on track. before Monday – Your project 2 revised […]

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Project 1 Feedback, Project 2 Revised Proposals

April 20, 2012

I have initial feedback for all of the project 1. It isn’t totally “graded” but there is at least some commentary that may help you in planning project 2. (my not-so-good excuse for the delay is that I wanted to focus on giving feedback for P2) I will warn people that on the first pass, […]

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Reading 20: Presentations

April 18, 2012

In a graduate class, I often try to spend some time on the skills a student should build. One of the biggest is how to give a presentation. This is closely connected to visualization. There are a few caveats here: The goals and standard for presentation really vary across venue/discipline. What we value in computer […]

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The Week in Vis: Week 12 (April 16-20)

April 14, 2012

This week we’ll get project 2 fully underway, and look at graphs (network information – not graphs as in bar graphs). We will get you feedback on your Project 2 proposal on or before Monday the 16th. We will get you initial feedback on your Project 1 midweek. Both of these will hopefully be helpful […]

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Assignment 7: Graphs Seek and Critique

April 14, 2012

(due Wednesday, April 18th) These were called seek and find, but I changed the same a little bit to make it catchier and more about the real goal. For this assignment, you need to find an example of a visualization on the web. You need to find an example that shows relational (graph) information, but […]

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P1 Demos

April 13, 2012

For people who did implementation projects for P1, we might want to schedule a demo next week to see it. We are sending people emails. There are 4 different types of email: We need to see your demo We can get enough of a sense from what you sent us, so a demo is optional […]

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Reading 19: Animation

April 12, 2012

Due Monday, April 23rd The goal here is to try to understand how animation might help with visualization. However, to get there, I’d like people to learn about the art of animation, to appreciate how it should be done “right.” So yes, we’re going to watch (and read about) cartoons. You need to read one […]

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Reading 18: Graphs, Networks, Trees

April 11, 2012

(this reading was supposed to be due on Monday, April 16th, but since it was announced late, we’ll consider things posted before Wednesday, April 18th as on time) To be clear here, we mean graph in the Computer Science sense (e.g. networks or relations between nodes) rather than the basic math (e.g. bar graph) This […]

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What topics should we cover?

April 11, 2012

There are more topics than weeks left. So I decided to take a little poll on Piazza (to try out its poll features) to see what people are most interested in learning about. Pick as many topics as interest you, and/or feel free to write-in any topic I didn’t list that you’d like to cover. […]

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