Course Calendar

Note: Lecture, Homework, & Reading dates & topics are tentative and will be updated as the term progresses.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Jan 15, No Classes	Jan 16, Lecture 1: Introduction		Jan 18, Homework 1: Inspirational Visualization Images due @ 11:59pm	Jan 19, Lecture 2: Choosing the Right Visualization Design Reading due @ 10:00am "Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe: Selecting the Right Graph for Your Message", Stephen Few, 2004
	Jan 23, Lecture 3: Force Directed Graph Drawing Reading due @ 10:00am "Force-Directed Drawing Algorithms", Kobourov, 2013 From the book: Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization		Jan 25, Homework 2: Graph Visualization with GraphViz due @ 11:59pm	Jan 26, Lecture 4: Graph Simplification and Interaction Reading due @ 10:00am "Social Network Clustering and Visualization using Hierarchical Edge Bundles", Jia, Garland, & Hart, Computer Graphics Forum, 2011. "On the Visualization of Social and other Scale-Free Networks", Jia, Hoberock, Garland, and Hart, TVCG 2008 or "Lombardi drawings of graphs", Duncan, Eppstein, Goodrich, Kobourov, Nollenberg, Graph Drawing 2010 "Force-Directed Lombardi-Style Graph Drawing", Chernobelskiy, Cunningham, Goodrich, Kobourov, and Trott, Graph Drawing 2011
Jan 29, Last day to add classes	Jan 30, Lecture 5: Design & Presentation & Chart Junk Reading due @ 10:00am "Useful Junk? The Effects of Visual Embellishment on Comprehension and Memorability of Charts", Bateman et al., CHI 2010.		Feb 1, Homework 3: Intro to (Web Based) Interaction due @ 11:59pm	Feb 2, Lecture 6: Convex Hulls, Voronoi Diagrams, & k-Means Clustering Reading due @ 10:00am "LineUp: Visual Analysis of Multi-Attribute Rankings", Gratzl, Lex, Gehlenborg, Pfister and Streit, IEEE INFOVIS 2013
	Feb 6, Lecture 7: High Dimensional Data Reading due @ 10:00am "Angular Brushing of Extended Parallel Coordinates", Hauser, Ledermann, and Doleisch, InfoVis 2002		Feb 8, Homework 4: Data Collection & Preparation due @ 11:59pm	Feb 9, Lecture 8: Color, part 1 Reading due @ 10:00am "ColorBrewer.org: An Online Tool for Selecting Colour Schemes for Maps", Harrower & Brewer, The Cartographic Journal 2003
	Feb 13, Lecture 9: Color, part 2 Reading due @ 10:00am pick one "Modeling Color Difference for Visualization Design", Szafir, IEEE TVCG / IEEE VIS 2017 or "Hue-Preserving Color Blending", Chuang, Weiskopf, and Mueller, TVCG 2009 or "A Linguistic Approach to Categorical Color Assignment for Data Visualization", Setlur and Stone, IEEE InfoVis 2015		Feb 15, Homework 5: Experimenting with Color due @ 11:59pm	Feb 16, Lecture 10: Streamgraphs, Gestalt Reading due @ 10:00am "Stacked Graphs -- Geometry & Aesthetics", Lee Byron & Martin Wattenberg, IEEE TVCG 2008
Feb 19, No Classes	Feb 20, Monday Schedule			Feb 23, Quiz 1
	Feb 27, Lecture 11: Uncertainty, part 1: Bar Graphs Reading due @ 10:00am pick one "Error Bars Considered Harmful: Exploring Alternate Encodings for Mean and Error", Correll & Gleicher, TVCG 2014 or "Visual Encodings of Temporal Uncertainty: A Comparative User Study", Gschwandtner, Bogl, Federico, & Miksch, IEEE TVCG 2016		Mar 1, Homework 6: StreamGraphs due @ 11:59pm due Monday 5th @11:59pm	Mar 2, Lecture 12: Classes Cancelled by Snow Reading due @ 10:00am "Representing Uncertainty in Graph Edges: An Evaluation of Paired Visual Variables", Guo, Huang, and Laidlaw, IEEE TCVG 2015 or "Visualizing Uncertain Information", Alan M. MacEachren, Cartographic Perspectives, No 13, 1992 or "Automated Observer Siting on Terrain, Showing Intervisibility", W. Randolph Franklin and (optional) "Algorithm and implementation uncertainty in viewshed analysis", Peter Fisher, J. of Geographical Information Science, 1993.
	Mar 6, Lecture 13: Uncertainty, part 2: Node-Edge Graphs & Terrain Reading due @ 10:00am Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics and Visual.ly's Code of Ethics for Data Visualization Professionals		Mar 8, Homework 7: Final Project Ideas due @ 11:59pm	Mar 9, Lecture 14: Ethics & Privacy Reading due @ 10:00am pick one "Adaptive Privacy-Preserving Visualization Using Parallel Coordinates", Dasgupta & Kosara, TVCG 2011 or "Agile Ethics for Massified Research and Visualization", Neuhaus & Webmoor, Information, Communication & Society 2012 (alternate link) Last day to drop classes
Mar 12-16, Spring Break
	Mar 20, Lecture 15: Handing Massing or Incomplete Information Reading due @ 10:00am pick one "LabelMe: Online Image Annotation and Applications" Torralba, Russell, and Yuen, IEEE 2010 or "QSplat: A Multiresolution Point Rendering System for Large Meshes", Rusinkiewicz & Levoy, 2000 or "Synthetic Aperture Confocal Imaging", Levoy, Chen, Vaish, Horowitz, McDowall, and Bolas, 2004		Mar 22, Homework 8: Final Project Proposal due @ 11:59pm due Friday 23rd @11:59pm	Mar 23, Lecture 16: Spatial Data Structures and Streamlines Reading due @ 10:00am pick one "Farthest Point Seeding for Efficient Placement of Streamlines", Mebarki, Alliez, & Devillers, IEEE Visualization, 2005. or "Image Based Flow Visualization", Jarke J. van Wij, SIGGRAPH 2002
	Mar 27, Lecture 17: Volume Visualization Reading due @ 10:00am pick one "Intuitive Exploration of Volumetric Data Using Dynamic Galleries", Jonsson, Falk, & Ynnerman, IEEE Visualization 2015 or "Interactive Dynamic Volume Illumination with Refraction and Caustics", Magnus & Bruckner, IEEE TVCG 2017		Mar 29, Homework 9: Volume Visualization due @ 11:59pm	Mar 30, Lecture 18: Assembly & Cutaway Illustration & Interaction Reading due @ 10:00am pick one "Designing Effective Step-by-step Assembly Instructions", Agrawala, Phan, Heiser, Haymaker, Klingner, Hanrahan, & Tversky, SIGGRAPH 2003 or "Interactive Cutaway Illustrations of Complex 3D Models", Li, Ritter, Agrawala, Curless, & Salesin, SIGGRAPH 2007
	Apr 3, Lecture 19: Displays Reading due @ 10:00am pick one "Interactive Visualization on Large and Small Displays: The interrelation of Display Size, Information Space, and Scale",Jakobsen and Hornbaek, IEEE Visualization 2013 or "Active Reading of Visualizations", Walny, Huron, Perin, Wun, Pusch, and Carpendale, IEEE InfoVis 2017 or "Immersive Collaborative Analysis of Network Connectivity: CAVE-style or Head-Mounted Display?",Cordeil, Dwyer, Klein, Laha, Marriott, Thomas, IEEE InfoVis 2016	Apr 4, No Classes	Apr 5, Homework 10: Final Project Progress #1: (probably) Data Collection due @ 11:59pm	Apr 6, Lecture 20: Large Scale & In Situ Visualization Reading due @ 10:00am pick one "An Image-based Approach to Extreme Scale In Situ Visualization and Analysis", Ahrens, Patchett, Jourdain, Rogers, O'Leary, & Petersen, Supercomputing 2014 (video) or "Globe Browsing: Contextualized Spatio-Temporal Planetary Surface Visualization", Bladin, Axelsson, Broberg, Emmart, Ljung, Bock, & Ynnerman, IEEE SciVis 2017
	Apr 10, Lecture 21: Visual Debugging Reading due @ 10:00am pick one "DimpVis: Exploring Time-varying Information Visualizations by Direct Manipulation", Kondo & Collins, IEEE Visualization 2014. or "Visualization, Selection, and Analysis of Traffic Flows", Scheepens, Hurter, van de Wetering, van Wijk, IEEE InfoVis 2015 (alternate link)		Apr 12, Homework 11: Final Project Progress #2: Visualization for Debugging due @ 11:59pm	Apr 13, In class, one-on-one demos: Give & receive feedback on your Final Project Optional Makeup / Extra Credit Reading due @ 11:59pm
	Apr 17, Lecture 23: Miscellaneous Reading due @ 10:00am pick one "Guidelines for Effective Usage of Text Highlighting Techniques", Strobelt, Oelke, Kwon, Schreck, Pfister, IEEE InfoVis 2015 (alternate link) or "Scatterplots: Tasks, Data, and Designs", Sarikaya & Gleicher, InfoVis 2017 or "What Makes a Visualization Memorable?", Borkin, Vo, Bylinskii, Isola, Sunkavalli, Oliva, & Pfister, INFOVIS 2013. or		Apr 19, Homework 12: Final Project Progress #3: Design of a Formal User Study due @ 11:59pm	Apr 20, Quiz 2
	Apr 24, Final Project Presentations	Apr 25, Pass/No Credit Deadline	Apr 26, Homework 13: Final Project Report due @ 11:59pm	Apr 27, Final Project Presentations
	May 1, Final Project Presentations	May 2, Last Day of Classes
May 7-11, Final Exams