CS 3891.01 / 5891.01 - Data Visualization

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This is the course webpage for Data Visualization.

Instructor

Matthew Berger

email: matthew.berger@vanderbilt.edu

Office: Sony building, Rm 4028

Office hours: TR 2:00-3:00

Lectures

MW, 8:40am-9:55am, Featheringill Hall 258

Teaching Assistant

Sangwon Jeong

email: sangwon.jeong@vanderbilt.edu

Office: Sony building, Rm 4018

TA office hours: W 11am-12pm, F 10am-11am

Syllabus

Go here for the syllabus.

Schedule

Week 1 (January 17): Introduction, Data

Wednesday: Introduction, the data in data visualization keynote, pdf, notebook Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 1 – 2, Observable Introduction Recommended Reading: Visualization Zoo, The Value of Visualization, Ways that Vis Misleads

Week 2 (January 24): Visual Encodings

Monday: Encoding data with graphics keynote, pdf Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 5.1 – 5.3, 10.4 Recommended Reading: see SVG resources Wednesday: Constructing visual encodings keynote, pdf, notebook — Assignment 1 posted Required Reading: A Layered Grammar of Graphics

Week 3 (January 31): Authoring Visualizations

Monday: D3: selections and joins notebook Required Reading: how selections work, nested selections, selection.join Wednesday: D3: scales, nested joins, shapes notebook Required Reading: linear scales, band scales, line shape Friday: — Assignment 1 due

Week 4 (February 7): Perception

Monday: Graphical perception, preattentive processing, ensemble coding keynote, pdf — Assignment 2 posted Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 5.4 – 5.6, Graphical Perception, Four types of ensemble coding Recommended Reading: Perception of correlation, Capacity limits of attention Wednesday: Color keynote, pdf, notebook Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 10.1 – 10.3 Recommended Reading: Categorical colormaps, Quantitative colormaps

Week 5 (February 14): Tasks and Design

Monday: Task abstraction keynote, pdf Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 3 Recommended Reading: Dashboard Designs, Considerations for visualizing comparison Wednesday: Design keynote, pdf, notebook Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 4, 6, Five Design Sheet Recommended Reading: Algebraic visualization design, MulteeSum, Design and Redesign Friday: — Assignment 2 due

Week 6 (February 21): Project Introductions, Spatial Arrangements

Monday: Project introductions Wednesday: Single-view spatial arrangements keynote, pdf, Multiple views keynote, pdf Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 7 Recommended Reading: Composition and configuration patterns, Keeping multiple views consistent

Week 7 (February 28): Interaction

Monday: Single-view interaction keynote, pdf, notebook — Assignment 3 posted, undergraduates, graduate students Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 11 Wednesday: Interaction for linked and coordinated views keynote, pdf, notebook Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 12, Linked brushing design space Recommended Reading: Design Space of Composite Visualization, Orientation-Enhanced Parallel Coordinate Plots

Week 8 (March 7): Spring Break

Week 9 (March 14): Visualizing Hierarchies

Monday: Area-based hierarchical visualization keynote, pdf Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 9.5, Treemaps, Squarified Treemaps Recommended Reading: Voronoi Treemaps, Perception of Treemaps Wednesday: Node-link tree layouts keynote, pdf, crammed trees, Knuth trees, tidy trees — Assignment 3 due, undergraduates, graduate students Required Reading: Tidier Tree Drawings, Tulip Friday: — Written Assignment 1 posted

Week 10 (March 21): Visualizing Graphs

Monday: Node-link graph drawing keynote, pdf Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 9.1 – 9.4, Force-directed Graph Layouts, Layered Graph Drawing Recommended Reading: Spectral Graph Drawing Wednesday: Matrix visualizations, graph-hierarchy composites keynote, pdf, notebook Required Reading: Graph drawing by Stress Majorization, Hierarchical Edge Bundling Recommended Reading: Comparing node-link and matrix views Friday: — Written Assignment 1 due

Week 11 (March 28): Geographic Visualization

Monday: Projections, geometric shapes and scales HEB keynote, Geo keynote, HEB pdf, Geo pdf, B-spline notebook, map notebook — Assignment 4 posted Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 8.1 – 8.3 Wednesday: Choropleths, Cartograms, Origin-Destination Flows keynote, pdf, notebook Recommended Reading: Flavors of Cartograms, Evaluating Origin-Destination Flows

Week 12 (April 4): Visualizing High-dimensional Data

Monday: Linear Dimensionality Reduction keynote, pdf, notebook Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 13.4.3 Recommended Reading: InterAxis, Contrastive PCA Wednesday: Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction keynote, pdf — Assignment 4 due Recommended Reading: Isomap, [tSNE]](https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume9/vandermaaten08a/vandermaaten08a.pdf), UMAP Friday: — Programming Assignment 5 posted

Week 13 (April 11): Uncertainty Visualization

Monday: Conveying, comparing, and querying distributions keynote, pdf, notebook Recommended Reading: Graphical Inference, Dot Plots, Quantile Dot Plots, Hypothetical Outcome Plots Wednesday: Encoding uncertainty across visual channels keynote, pdf Recommended Reading: Value-Suppressing Uncertainty Palettes, Surprise Maps

Week 14 (April 18): Visualizing Spatially-referenced Data

Monday: 2D and 3D scalar fields keynote, pdf Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 8.4 Recommended Reading: The Asymptotic Decider Wednesday: Vector field visualization keynote, pdf Required Reading: Munzner Ch. 8.5 – 8.6 Recommended Reading: Image-Guided Streamline Placement, Line Integral Convolution Friday: — Programming Assignment 5 due

Week 15 (April 25): Final Review, Project Presentations

Monday: Final Review, Project Feedback & Discussion keynote, pdf Wednesday: Project Presentations

Week 16 (May 2): Final Exam

Monday: Final Exam: 9am