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Course Schedule:

Date
Topic
Suppl. Reading
Labs Handouts
01/23 Intro     intro
01/25 Intro continued     see above
01/30 Basic tasks Ward: chapter 1 lab 1 basicTasks
02/01 Basic tasks continued     see above
02/06 Intro to D3 see recorded tutorial on Brightspace, D3 files   D3intro
02/08 Data preparation Ward: chapter 2   dataPrep
02/13 Visual bias see links on last slide   bias
02/15 Data reduction and similarity metrics Aggarwal 2.4.3.1, 2.4.1, 6.3.1   dataDimRed
02/20 Dimension reduction see above   see above
02/22 Perception and cognition Ward: chapter 3 lab 2a percept
02/26 Visual design and aesthetics Ward: chapter 4, Munzner: chapter 5   design
02/28 High-D visualization (part 1) Ward: chapter 8   highdvis
03/05 High-D visualization (part 2) see above lab2b see above
03/07 High-D visualization (part 2) see above   see above
03/12 no class (Spring Break)      
03/14 no class (Spring Break)      
03/19 High-D visualization (part 2) and Midterm 1 review see above   see above
03/21 Midterm I      
03/26 Cluster analysis - numerical data Aggarwal 6.4-5   cluster
03/28 Cluster analysis - categorical data     see above
04/02 Midterm returned      
04/04 Interaction Ward: chapter 11 project inter
04/09 Visual analytics Ward: chapter 6   VA
04/11 Maps Ward: chapter 6   maps
04/16 Visualization of hierachies Ward: chapter 9   hierarch
04/18 Visualization of time-varying and time-series data Ward: chapter 7   time
04/23 Visual analytics system design and evaluation     VAdes
04/25 Tufte's teachings, memorable visualizations, and embellishments     tufte
04/30 Infographics design     infogfx
05/02 Midterm II      
05/09 8:30 pm: Final Project presentations