ECS163 Schedule and Readings

Week 1: January 4

Readings
1/04: Course overview ; Homework 1 assigned
1/06: Introduction to Visualization
1/08: Discussion: Project 1 Data Overview. Intro to D3
 Visualization Analysis and Design, by Tamara Munzner, Chapter 1: What's Vis, and Why Do It?

Week 2: January 11
1/08: Homework 1 due 11:55 pm
1/11: Introduction to Visualization (continued)
1/11: Data Types and Visual Encodings
1/11: Project 1 assigned
1/13: Visual Encoding Effectiveness
1/15: Discussion: Intro to D3 Part 2
 Visualization Analysis and Design, by Tamara Munzner, Chapter 2: What: Data Abstraction

Week 3: January 18
1/18: Holiday
1/20: Homework 1 in-class presentations.
1/20: Project 1 Milestone due 11:55pm
1/22: Homework 1 in-class presentations.
 Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 5: Marks and Channels, and Chapter 6: Rules of Thumb
Designing Data Visualizations (2011), by Noah Ilinsky and Julia Steele, Chapter 4: Choose Appropriate Visual Encodings

Week 4: January 25
1/25: Space I
1/27: Space II
1/28: Project 1 due 11:55 pm
1/29: Project 2 Data Overview. Intro to Processing. Project 2 assigned
 Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 7: Arrange Tables, and Chapter 8: Arrange Spatial Data

Week 5: February 1
2/01: Color I
2/03: Color II
2/05: Discussion: Intro to Processing (continued)
 Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 10: Map Color and Other Channels
Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface, Bret Victor
Designing Interfaces, Jenifer Tidwell

Week 6: February 8

2/08: Select Project 1 presentations
2/10: User Interfaces
2/10: Project 2 Milestone due 11:55pm
2/12: No Discussion

Week 7: February 15
2/15: Holiday
2/17: Graph and Network Visualization
2/19: Project 2 due 11:55 pm
2/19: No Discussion
 Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 9: Arrange Networks and Trees

Week 8: February 22
2/22: Perception
2/24: Project 2 in-class presentations
2/26: No Discussion
2/27: Final project proposals due 11:55 pm
 Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 11: Manipulate View

Week 9: February 29
2/29: Final project proposal in-class presentations
3/02: Final project proposal in-class presentations
3/04: No Discussion
 Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 12: Facet into Multiple Views

Week 10: March 7
3/07: User Studies
3/09: Midterm exam
3/11: No Discussion
3/13: Final Project due 11:55 pm
 Thoughts on User Studies: Why, How, and When (2003), by Kosara et al.
An explorative analysis of user evaluation studies in information visualisation (2006), by Ellis and Dix

Week 11: March 14
3/14: Lab Tour (1105 Kemper)
3/15: Final Project demos 3:30-5:30pm (1105 Kemper Hall)

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