Visualization 2015 CS 638/838 — Hugo Recreation of the Web from Spring 2015 Visualization Class

The Week in Vis: Week 14 (or -2) (April 27-May 1)

April 24, 2015

Hard to believe we’re so close to the end. This week has the best punny title: D3 and 3D. They have nothing to do with each other, except they are transpositions of the names, and they are topics I wanted to talk about in class, but, of course, there isn’t enough time to do them […]

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Reading 23: Videos

April 22, 2015

Reading/Initial Posting due: Monday, May 4th Wednesday, May 6th Canvas Link: Reading 23 on Canvas OK, I had promised 1 reading a week, and last week we had 2. So this week, it’s not really a reading. (or, the reading is optional). And since you’re hopefully still thinking about last week’s discussions, we can delay starting […]

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838-Assignment: Vis in your field

April 22, 2015

Initial posting due: Monday May 4, additional discussion through the end of class Turn-in: 838-Only Assignment on Canvas Many of you 838 students (especially ones who are not CS students) are engaged in some field of research – probably one where visualization is either used, or needed. For this discussion, I’d like people to think […]

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Seek and Find 13: 3D

April 21, 2015

Due Date: Wednesday, April 29th Turn in link: Seek and Find 13 on Canvas In this seek and find, you need to find a visualization that shows something in 3D. Preferably something where the author has put some effort into designing it so that 3D works in the 2D image (but if 3D is failing to […]

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Reading 22B: D3 (not 3D)

April 20, 2015

Reading Due: I would like you to do some of the reading before class on April 30, but I understand that there is another reading (and the design challenge) already due then. So, have your initial posting on or before Friday May 1st. Canvas Discussion: Reading 22B on Canvas There is my explanation of why we’re […]

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Reading 22A: 3D (not D3)

April 19, 2015

Reading Due: Monday, April 27, 11:59pm (for class discussion April 28) Canvas Discussion: Reading 22A on Canvas We’ve been avoiding 3D for most of class. We can’t do it forever. While using 3D for visualization has its problems, sometimes its important (if we’re trying to show 3D phenomena), and sometimes it can be useful. The required […]

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Grading

April 19, 2015

I had promised to give people information on grading. We have a pretty good guess on how we will give final grades, so I tried to write it down. If you’re curious, it’s here. If you want to know where you stand, ask Alper (who has the spreadsheet). He can’t figure out your grade, but […]

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Design Challenge 3 Posted!

April 19, 2015

Design Challenge 3 has been posted here. I didn’t want to put the long posting into the news feed.

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Design Challenge 3

April 18, 2015

Due Dates: Initial Analysis (critique, task analysis): Wednesday, April 29th — Turn-in on Canvas Re-Designs: due Wednesday, May 6 Friday, May 8 — Turn-in on Canvas Description For our last design challenge, I wanted to give you a real problem. A problem that I care about. A problem I need help with… The challenge is: […]

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The Week in Vis: Week 13 (April 20-24)

April 17, 2015

Last week, we talked about strategies for dealing with lots of objects and lots of dimensions. I waved my hands about dimensionality reduction and PCA, and maybe you got some of the intuitions behind it (if you hadn’t seen it before). I also (briefly) showed off some of the work we’ve done related to the […]

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