The Week in Vis 13 (Mon, Nov 23-Fri, Nov 27): Evaluation

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It’s (American) Thanksgiving week. In terms of class, this means no lecture on Friday, and, in general, a reduced week. We’ll only have one required posting. Seek and Find 13 is cancelled.

But the topic is a big one: Evaluation. How do we know that our visualization is good? Normally, I put this at the beginning of class, so we can use the ideas as we go through things. Evaluation shouldn’t be an afterthought: it should be core to our thinking about visualization.

We’ll have a lecture Wednesday. And Readings 13: Evaluation - which is a relatively big reading. These are particularly worthwhile - important stuff. The readings in the last weeks are light.

In these weeks, we will have “exercises” (due on Mondays). The Graph Exercise (due Monday, November 23) is about last week’s material. The Eval Exercise is due the following week - it’s a short thing to help you think about Munzner’s nested model (which is a big deal)!

Of course, DC3: The Tree of Stuff is going on. While the initial deadlines don’t ask you to do much (other than confirm you are working on it), the actual deadlines are coming up fast.

Readings 13: Evaluation