Presentations Andrew on Amanda Cox Aaditi on Oliver Byrne Christian on William Playfair Final Project Individual meetings & in-class work Assignment Final Project Last crit before final presentations…
Presentations Dan on Mike Bostock Mikaela on Jennifer Daniel Adrian on Tufte’s Visual Display of Quantitative Information Mio on Visual Explanations Final Project Look over sketches in small groups Discussion of Drucker’s I’ing V. colon-colon V’ing I. Assignment Final Project Initial prototype due Presentations from Andrew…
Graphesis by Johanna Drucker Read the second chapter: Interpreting Visualization :: Visualizing Interpretation. Also consult the relevant 'plates' in the Windows section. Use the tag “R4” for your post.…
Exercise 3: Final critique Assignment Reading #4 from Graphesis Post your response with the tag ‘R4’ before the start of class Presentations by Dan & Mikaela and Adrian & Mio…
Presentations Candice on Jer Thorp/O.C.R. Batool on Tufte’s Envisioning Information Anh on Catalogtree D'hanna on Tufte’s Envisioning Information Final Project Show & tell/discussion of potential topics Exercise 3 Individual meetings & in-class working session Assignment Exercise 3 Finish up your project for next week’…
Exercise 3 Look over initial sketches and evaluate next steps Assignment Exercise 3 Explore the direction selected in class and prototype the different component views that will make up your final visualization Read up on the various ways to add interactivity to your p5 sketch in the Beyond the canvas…
Final Project Writing a Project Proposal The goal of the final project is to bring the conceptual dimension of the class together with the visualization techniques we’ve learned. You will develop and implement a final project following a complete, iterative design process. The first step in this is the…
Exercise 3: Mapping Space and Frames of Reference In this exercise you will be concerned with the space on the screen as much as the marks you place on it. This will be true both because you'll be creating a traditional, cartographic map (for which space & position have obvious…
Presentations by Simone and Caitlyn & Christian Reading #3 from Graphesis Assignment Exercise 3: Mapping Space…
Exercise 2: Final projects Group critique of your work Assignment Reading #3 from Graphesis Post your response and additional research with the tag ‘R3’ before the start of class Presentations by Mikaela & Simone and Caitlyn & Christian…
Graphesis by Johanna Drucker Read the frontmatter and first chapter: Image, Interpretation, and Interface. Also consult the relevant 'plates' in the Windows section. Pick one of the works cited in the chapter to investigate and collect some imagery and/or context to be included in your write-up. Take your pick…
Exercise 2 Small group meetings and in-class work session Assignment Choose one of your three directions to develop and create a completed version of it Using either the external data source you collected or a dataset collected by one of your classmates incorporate at least one additional variable into your…
Presentations Felix on Otto Neurath Janice on Stamen D’hana on Tufte’s Envisioning Information Daniel on Charles Joseph Minard Reading #2 on the use of color for quantitative & qualitative values Assignment Exercise 2 Add sketches to process subdirectory and describe each of your three concepts (as well as…
Exercise 2: Mapping Quantities, Categories, and Summarized Data For this second exercise, we'll be examining a simple time-series dataset: the history of nuclear testing by the eight (declared) nuclear nations. In the first phase of this project we will consider only the total number of test explosions across three dimensions:…
Exercise 1: Final projects Group critique of your work Assignment Reading #2 on the Subtleties of Color Post your response with the tag ‘R2’ before the start of class Presentations by Felix & Janice and D'hana & Daniel…
Subtleties of Colorby Robert SimmonThe use of color to display data is a solved problem, right? Just pick a palette from a drop-down menu (probably either a grayscale ramp or a rainbow), set start and end points, press “apply,” and you’re done. Although we all know it’s not…
Presentations Zui on Ben Fry/Fathom Brad on Tufte’s Beautiful Information Suzanna on W.E.B. Du Bois Karen on Otto Neurath Reading #1 on the various types of ‘badness’ in data visualization Exercise 1: critique and offer directions for further development Assignment Incorporate the class’s feedback on…
Conclude our Catalog & Classify discussion A quick primer on Retinal Variables Begin Excercise #1: Right Twice a Day First step: log into your GitHub account and leave a comment in this thread to get read/write access to the course repository. Next: Go to the top-level of the repo…
Exercise 1: Mapping Time Preliminaries Gather all the necessary software and files to get started: The Sublime Text 3 editor The GitHub Desktop GUI client Clone a copy of https://github.com/samizdatco/dvia-2018 The P5.js site has an extensive Reference section with a full listing of the drawing…
Profiles in Badnessfrom Kieran Healy, Carl Bergstrom, & Jevin WestRead Healy's introductory chapter from Data Visualization for Social Science:Look at Data: What Makes Bad Figures BadRead Bergstrom & West's Calling Bullshit essays:Misleading axes on graphsThe Principle of Proportional InkUse the tag “R1” when you post your assessment of…
Assessment of student skills, levels, and interests What do you want to learn in this class? What sorts of data/information graphics work have you done previously? Any coding experience? Stats? Introduction to course goals and expectations Intro talk Select Presentation topics Exercise: Catalog & Classify Create and publish a…
Required Reading Drucker, Johanna. Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.Recommended Reading Tufte, Edward. Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1990.Bringhurst, Robert. The Elements of Typographic Style (v4). Hartley & Marks, 2002.A Layered Grammar of Graphics, Hadley Wickham, Journal of Computational and…
This is a collective research project providing examples and discussion of the basic building blocks of visual data representation.…
Each student will select a data visualization person, topic, theme, technology, etc. to thoroughly research and report on for the rest of the class. You will become an expert in this subject and explore some of the main ideas and concepts behind the research topic you've selected.Some questions to…
The university provides many resources to help students achieve academic and artistic excellence. These resources include:The University (and associated) LibrariesThe University Learning CenterUniversity Disabilities ServiceIn keeping with the university’s policy of providing equal access for students with disabilities, any student with a disability who needs academic accommodations is…
This is a seminal course on information design and aesthetics. Students will study the fundamentals of design and the grammar of graphics while investigating hierarchies, patterns, and relationships in data structures. Students will examine the role of scale, proportion, color, form, structure, motion, and composition in data visualization. The intent…