The list of lectures (where did the time go? What was on the slides)

by Mike Gleicher on June 8, 2015

(This is a work in progress)

1. Lecture 1 – January 20 – First Day

  • Slides (4 separate pieces – done with markdown – Powerpoint translation failed)
    • DS1 What is Vis
    • DS2 Who is the class for
    • DS3 What we will teach
    • DS4 How we will teach
    • Other examples not in slides (bar charts from psych paper, excel with grades)
  • Slide high points
    • definitions of visualizations
    • skiing pictures
    • physical visualizations
    • PhD comics
    • Tour bus metaphor
  • Examples
    • from the notetaking paper (remake the visualization without barcharts)

2. Lecture 2 – January 22 – beginning the conversation

  • Slides (lots of separate pieces)
    • Lecture 2 (main part) – as markdown
    • Lecture 2 (quotes from discussion) – as markdown
    • Lecture 2 (hits an misses from my work) – as PPT

3. Lecture 3 –  Jan 27 – Perspectives on Vis

  • Slides (as PPT)
  • Outline of slides
    • art and images
    • dividing up the field
    • sensing –> stories of the boy
    • Tufte
    • Tufte’s crusade
      • Bad problems
    • Anti-Tufte
    • striking visual examples
    • critique

4. Lecture 4 – Jan 29 – Why Vis?

  • Slides as PPT (called “new” for some reason)
  • Outline
    • organizational stuff
    • critique practice
    • asking why

5. Lecture 5 – Feb 3 – Abstraction

  • Slides in 2 parts
    • main lecture
    • advertizement for design school
  • Outline
    • Review of Tufte
    • Learning from John Snow
    • Sampling issues
    • Perception and Cognition overview
    • Abstraction
      • data abstraction
      • fields&tables, keys and values
      • data type algebra
    • Design school in a day preview / assignment explanation

6. Lecture 6 – Feb 5 – Think Different

  • 2 versions of slides (in class and regular)
    • in class doesn’t include stuff at end: warp path views, destination maps
  • Outline
    • Apple Ads
    • Data type abstractions –> encodings
      • basic encodings examples (as the type calculus)
    • visual variables
    • time series averaging example
    • gallery of standard and non-standard designs
    • designing for a task
    • lost art of giving directions
    • route maps

7. Lecture 7 – Feb 10 – Evaluation

  • Two sets of slides
    • the evaluation slides
    • the paris apartment slides (includes routemaps)
  • Outline
    • schools of thought
    • nested model
    • hooke’s microscope
    • empirical validity
    • tufte’s principles
    • critique as a tactic
    • (then the maps slides as critique problems)
    • Paris Apartment Problem (not sure we got to it?)

8. Lecture 8 – Feb 12

  • Slides: Design Challenge
  • Slides: Design
  • Slides: RouteMaps (routemaps, warp maps, map tasks)
  • Graphic Design Principles
    • CRAP
  • Route Maps + Paris Apartment

9. Lecture 9 – Feb 17 – Perception

  • Slides: Perception
  • Typography *fake bold vs. real bold
  • Light / sensing / eyes / optics
  • Fovea
  • Capacity limits
  • Bottlenecks / Attention limits/ Search Assymetries
  • low level vision and illusions
  • Popout
  • Gestault principles

10. Lecture 10 – Feb 19 – Paris Apartment Problem

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