Course Calendar

Jan 9, Lecture 1:
Introduction

Reading Due ASAP:

• "Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe: Selecting the Right Graph for Your Message", Stephen Few, 2004

Jan 12, Lecture 2:
Chart Junk vs. Memorable Visualization

Reading Due @ 10:00am:

• "Useful Junk? The Effects of Visual Embellishment on Comprehension and Memorability of Charts", Bateman et al., CHI 2010.

Jan 16, Lecture 3:
Graph Visualization

Reading Due @ 10:00am (pick one):

• "Improved force-directed layouts", Gansner and North, Graph Drawing, 1999.
or

• "A Technique for Drawing Directed Graphs", Gansner, Koutsofios, North, & Vo, IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, 1993.

Jan 19, Lecture 4:
Graph Simplification & Interaction

Reading Due @ 10:00am (pick one):

• "Social Network Clustering and Visualization using Hierarchical Edge Bundles", Jia, Garland, & Hart, Computer Graphics Forum, 2011.
or

• "Force-Directed Lombardi-Style Graph Drawing", Chernobelskiy, Cunningham, Goodrich, Kobourov, and Trott, Graph Drawing 2011

Jan 23, Lecture 5:
Parallel Coordinates & High Dimensional Data

Reading Due @ 10:00am (pick one):

• "Angular Brushing of Extended Parallel Coordinates", Hauser, Ledermann, and Doleisch, InfoVis 2002
or

• "LineUp: Visual Analysis of Multi-Attribute Rankings", Gratzl, Lex, Gehlenborg, Pfister and Streit, IEEE INFOVIS 2013

Jan 26, Lecture 6:
Interaction & Design Storyboarding

Reading Due @ 10:00am (pick one):

• "D3: Data-Driven Documents", Bostock, Ogievetsky, and Heer, IEEE TVCG 2011
or

• "Interaction Techniques for Selecting and Manipulating Subgraphs in Network Visualizations", McGuffin & Jurisica, IEEE TVCG 2009

Jan 30, Lecture 7:
Human Perception & Color Spaces

Reading Due @ 10:00am (pick one):

• "ColorBrewer.org: An Online Tool for Selecting Colour Schemes for Maps", Harrower & Brewer, The Cartographic Journal 2003
or

• "Optimizing Color Assignment for Perception of Class Separability in Multiclass Scatterplots", Wang, Chen, Ge, Bao, Sedlmair, Fu, Deussen, and Chen, IEEE InfoVis 2018

Feb 2, Lecture 8:
More Color and How to Read, Write, & Review a Paper

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 6, Lecture 9:
Streamgraphs, Gestalt Psychnology, & Line Arrangements

Reading Due @ 10:00am (pick one):

• "Stacked Graphs -- Geometry & Aesthetics", Lee Byron & Martin Wattenberg, IEEE TVCG 2008
or

• "Baby Names, Visualization, and Social Data Analysis", Martin Wattenberg, IEEE InfoVis 2005

also read:

• "How to Read a Paper", Keshav, SIGCOMM 2007
and:

• "How NOT to review a paper: The tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer", Cormode, SIGMOD 2008

Feb 9, Lecture 10:
Uncertainty in 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

Feb 13, Lecture 11:
Uncertainty in Graphs and Terrain

Reading Due @ 10:00am (pick one):

• "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

Feb 23, Lecture 12:
Ethics & Privacy

Reading Due @ 10:00am (pick one):

• "Ethical Dimensions of Visualization Research", Correll, ACM CHI 2019
or:
• How Deceptive are Deceptive Visualizations?, Pandey, Rall, Satterthwaite, Nov, & Bertini, ACM CHI 2015
or:
• "Guess Me If You Can: A Visual Uncertainty Model for Transparent Evaluation of Disclosure Risks in Privacy-Preserving Data Visualization", Dasgupta, Kosara, & Chen, IEEE VizSec 2019

Feb 27, Lecture 13:
Handing Massive 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:
• "Dual Photography", Sen, Chen, Garg, Marschner, Horowitz, Levoy, & Lensch, SIGGRAPH 2005

Mar 1, Lecture 14:
Streamlines & Intro to Volume Visualization

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
or:
• "Strategy for Seeding 3D Streamlines", Ye, Kao, & Pang, IEEE Visualization 2005

Last day to drop courses

Mar 15, Lecture 15:
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
or:
• "Anisotropic Ambient Volume Shading", Ament & Dachsbacher, IEEE Visualization 2015

Mar 19, Lecture 16:
Illustration, Animation, & 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

Mar 22, Lecture 17:
Display Technologies

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:
• "Immersive Collaborative Analysis of Network Connectivity: CAVE-style or Head-Mounted Display?",Cordeil, Dwyer, Klein, Laha, Marriott, Thomas, IEEE InfoVis 2016
or:
• "Walking > Walking-in-Place > Flying, in Virtual Environments", Usoh, Arthur, Whitton, Bastos, Steed, Slater, & Brooks, SIGGRAPH 1999

Mar 26, Lecture 18:
Visualization for Debugging

Reading Due @ 10:00am (pick one):

• "Active Reading of Visualizations", Walny, Huron, Perin, Wun, Pusch, and Carpendale, IEEE InfoVis 2017
or:
• "DimpVis: Exploring Time-varying Information Visualizations by Direct Manipulation", Kondo & Collins, IEEE Visualization 2014.

Mar 29, Lecture 19:
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
or:
• "Visualization, Selection, and Analysis of Traffic Flows", Scheepens, Hurter, van de Wetering, van Wijk, IEEE InfoVis 2015
or:
• "Learning Patterns of Activity Using Real-Time Tracking", Stauffer & Grimson, IEEE PAMI 2000

Apr 2, Lecture 20:
Additional Topics

Reading Due @ 10:00am (pick one):

• "Why Authors Don't Visualize Uncertainty", Hullman, IEEE VIS 2019
or:
• "Beyond Generating Code: Evaluating GPT on a Data Visualization Course", Chen, Zhang, Wang, Troidl, Warchol, Beyer, Gehlenborg, & Pfister, IEEE EduVis 2023

Apr 5, Lecture 21:
Additional Topics

Reading Due @ 10:00am (pick one):

• "When Red Means Good, Bad, or Canada: Exploring People' Reasoning for Choosing Color Palettes", Ahmad, Huynh, & Chevalier, IEEE Visualization 2021
or:
• "Exploring D3 Implementation Challenges on Stack Overflow", Battle, Feng, & Webber, IEEE Visualization 2022
or:
• "Guidelines for Effective Usage of Text Highlighting Techniques", Strobelt, Oelke, Kwon, Schreck, Pfister, IEEE InfoVis 2015
or:
• "What Makes a Visualization Memorable?", Borkin, Vo, Bylinskii, Isola, Sunkavalli, Oliva, & Pfister, INFOVIS 2013.

Apr 12, Lecture 22:
Final Project Peer Demo & Feedback Day

Pass/No Credit deadline