Readings 14: Uncertainty and Scientific Visualization

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For uncertainty, I’m not sure what to give you, there are too many choices.

For scientific visualization, it is impossible for me to think of how to give you a brief summary of an entire field in a few readings or a lecture. So we won’t read much.

So, overall, a light reading week. You can use the time to work on DC3: The Tree of Stuff

  1. Jessica Hullman How to get better at Embracing Unknowns, Scientific American, Volume 29, Special Issue. (pdf) (official paywalled).

    A nice brief survey.

    If you want more, you could watch this talk at OpenVis. Although, these slides would have been even better.

  2. Arrange Spatial Data (Chapter 8 from Munzner’s Visualization Analysis & Design) (Munzner-08-ArrangeSpatial.pdf 1.0mb)

    As close as we’ll get to reading about scientific visualization.

  3. Rules of Thumb (Chapter 6 from Munzner’s Visualization Analysis & Design) (Munzner-06-RulesOfThumb.pdf 0.5mb)

    We skipped this chapter, so I’ll add it as a reading for completeness.

I have plenty of “optional” readings… on uncertainty, on scientific visualization, on 3D, etc. If you want more things to read, let me know.