Seek and Find 12: Uncertainty

April 17, 2015

Due Date: Wednesday, April 22, 11:59pm Turn-in-Link: S&F 12 on Canvas For this seek and find, you need to find a visualization that deal with data with uncertainty, and presents that uncertainty (along with the data). It may be a traditional uncertainty visualization, or it might be a case where the uncertainty is conveyed in a […]

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Reading and Discussion 21: Uncertainty

April 17, 2015

Initial posting due: Wednesday, April 22nd, 11:59pm (note: this is Wednesday, not Monday, since I was slow at getting the assignment out). Additional postings required later. Turn in Link: Reading 21 on Canvas Uncertainty is a really important topic in Visualization. Really important. It’s really hard. And I don’t have any readings that I am totally […]

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Grading (again)

April 12, 2015

Yes, I am aware that I haven’t given you much information about specific grades for this class. I apologize. It’s a challenge. Earlier posts should have given you a pretty strong sense of how we will grade. But now as we near the end, I can be a little more specific… The exact numbers below […]

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The Week in Vis: Week 12 (April 13-17)

April 9, 2015

Last week, we tried to motivate the challenges of dealing with scale. And we didn’t even get to millions of data elements (never mind more than that). So for this week, we’ll try to learn more about how we handle the challenges of scale in visualization. Reading 20 will give you some of the general […]

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What’s Left

April 9, 2015

Here is a sense of what will be happening for the last 4 weeks of class. I am holding to my promise of no exam and no final project. I had also promised that the readings in the class were heavier in the beginning, so we’ll do a little less in the end. We will […]

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Seek and Find 11: Too Much Stuff

April 9, 2015

Due Date: Wednesday, April 15, 11:59pm Turn-in Link: On Canvas As in the previous seek and find, identifying something interactive is OK (definitely give a link, but please add a picture if you can). In this seek and find, you need to find an example of something that shows a lot of data – using […]

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Reading 20: Too Much Stuff

April 9, 2015

Due Date: Initial Posting due on Monday, April 13, 11:59pm (ahead of class Tuesday, April 14) Readings: Munzner 13&14, Clutter or Aggregation Survey (838 only), optional Splatterplots Discussion: Canvas link For the initial posting, read Chapter 13 of Munzner and Section 15.3 (about Scagnostics – which we have mentioned in class). Read Chapter 14 of […]

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The Week in Vis: Week 11 (April 6-10) – Post-Break Edition

April 6, 2015

Two weeks ago, we started to learn about interaction. Then we had Spring Break (and for Alper and I, the Vis paper deadline). We also had a chance to look at the results of the survey on how to adapt class for the last few weeks. For this week… On Tuesday, there is no lecture, […]

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This Week in Vis: Week 10 (March 23-27)

March 20, 2015

Last week, we talked about multi-variate encodings.  We also submitted our four stories exercise, and had a mini-glyph design exercise where we talked about the consequences of packing information into a small space. This week, we’ll talk about interaction… although we’ve been hitting on particular points in all weeks leading up to this point.  The […]

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Virtual Guest Lectures and Discussion 19

March 20, 2015

Due date: initial posting by end of day Tuesday, April 7th (11:59p), discussion until April 15th. Turn-in link: Virtual Guest Lecture on Canvas As I have mentioned, there will be no in-class lecture on Tuesday, April 7th. Instead: You will watch a video of a talk given by a famous Visualization researcher. Then, you will […]

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