Welcome to CS765 Data Visualization! If you’ve found this page, you’re on the right track.
There are a lot of small pieces to class, which lead to a lot of things on the website. Once things get to steady state, it isn’t so hard, but the first week can be confusing.
Your first thing to do is to understand what this class is so you can make sure that you are in the right place. Some things I recommend:
- Read through the “What is the course and why” posting. This will give you a sense of what this class will be.
- Read through the “What is Vis and How Do You Do It” posting – this will be a reading for the first week, but you may want to read through it to get a sense of where I am coming from.
- Look at the Schedule as this will give you a concise list of the topics we will cover. You can also look at the Readings page that puts the entire semester’s worth of readings on one page (warning: it’s intimidating as a single page).
- Look at the “Parts of Class” page – this will give you a sense of what we will do in class.
- You can always look at Last Year’s Course Web. It looks a lot like this year’s.
Most importantly: come to class the first day (Wednesday, September 4, 11am, Room 312 Wendt Commons).
Some things you need to know:
- Class will generally meet twice a week (on Monday and Wednesday after the first week). 11am in 312 Wendt Commons.
- Bring “art supplies” to class (colored pens or pencils).
- Check the course Web https://pages.graphics.cs.wisc.edu/765-f19 for info.
- You don’t need to buy books, but you might want to (see the Books page).
- There is a class policies page that is probably more detailed than it needs to be.
- A lot of the regular weekly structures may not be set up for the first week.