CS 7450
Information Visualization
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Week 1
   Aug. 24 - Introduction
   Aug. 26 - Overview of the Field

Week 2
   Aug. 31 - Graphical principles
   Sep. 2 - Multivariate data

Week 3
   Sep. 7 - Interaction
   Sep. 9 - Graphs and Networks

Week 4
   Sep. 14 - Hierarchies and Trees
   Sep. 16 - Overview and Detail 1

Week 5
   Sep. 21 - Overview and Detail 2
   Sep. 23 - Focus + Context

Week 6
   Sep. 28 - Evaluation of Visualizations
   Sep. 30 - Interactive Analysis and Retrieval

Week 7
   Oct. 5 - Text 1
   Oct. 7 - Text 2

Week 8
   Oct. 12 - Text 3
   Oct. 14 - Mid-term projects

Week 9
   Oct. 19 - Fall Break, No Class
   Oct. 21 - Visualization Tools

Week 10
   Oct. 26 - Information Visualization Conference (No class)
   Oct. 28 - Cool stuff from the InfoVis Conference

Week 11
   Nov. 2 - Visualizing the Internet and WWW 1
   Nov. 2 - Visualizing the Internet and WWW 2

Week 12
   Nov. 9 - Animation
   Nov. 11 - Automating Design

Week 13
   Nov. 16 - Distortion Techniques
   Nov. 18 - Financial Data and Data Mining

Week 14
   Nov. 23 - Social Visualization
   Nov. 25 - Thanksgiving holiday, No class

Week 15
   Nov. 30 - Audio (Guest lecture: B. Mynatt)
   Dec. 2 - Software Visualization

Week 16
   Dec. 7 - Final project presentations
   Dec. 9 - Final project presentations


Detailed Syllabus

Articles listed as (CMS page#) indicate an article taken from the Card, Mackinlay and Shniederman text. Detailed bibliography of readings.

Introduction

Overview of the Field
Text chapter 1 (CMS 1-34)

Graphical principles
Bertin (CMS 62)
Healey '96

Multivariate data
Inselberg (CNS 107)
Mihalisin et al (CMS 115)
Keim (CMS 126)

Interaction
Shneiderman (CMS 236)
Ahlberg & Shneiderman (CMS 244)
Eick (CMS 251)
Fishkin & Stone (CMS 253)
Videos: Film Finder, See Through Tools
Software: Home Finder, Spotfire

Graphs and Networks
Fairchild et al (CMS 190)
Eick & Wills (CMS 207)
Becker et al (CMS 215)
Wills '97

Hierarchies and Trees
Johnson & Shneiderman (CMS 152)
Jin & Banks (CMS 183)
Baker & Eick (CMS 160)
Furnas '94
Videos: Treemap
Software: Treemap, Sunburst

Overview and Detail 1
Plaisant et al '95
Kuman et al (CMS 295)
Bederson & Hollan (CMS 530)
Software: Jazz

Overview and Detail 2
Plaisant et al (CMS 287)
Rao & Card (CMS 343)
Jerding & Stasko '98
Videos: LifeLines, Table Lens, Information Mural
Software: LifeLines

Focus + Context
Furnas (CMS 312)
Sarkar & Brown '94
Spence & Apperly (CMS 333)
Videos: Fisheye graphs

Evaluation of Visualizations
Schaffer et al '93
Stasko et al '99

Interactive Analysis and Retrieval
Chuah et al (CMS 263)
Tweedie et al (CMS 276)
Spoerri (CMS 140)
Videos: SDM, Influence Explorer

Text 1
Olsen et al '93
Salton et al (CMS 413)
Eick et al (CMS 419)
Videos: SeeSoft

Text 2
Lin (CMS 432)
Hearst '95
Plaisant et al '99
Hill & Hollan '92
Videos: Tilebar
Software: Excentric labels

Text 3
Rennison (CMS 452)
Robertson & Mackinlay (CMS 562)
Wise et al (CMS 442)
Videos: Themescape, Document Lens

Visualization Tools
Wills '95
Wills '96

Visualizing the Internet & WWW 1
Andrews (CMS 493)
Robertson et al '98
Videos: Data Mountain

Visualizing the Internet & WWW 2
Card et al (CMS 544)
Chi et al '98
Videos: Web Book

Animation
Robertson et al (CMS 515)
Chang & Ungar '93
Videos: Information Visualizer

Automating Design
Mackinlay (CMS 66)
Goldstein et al '94
Videos: Sage, Visage

Distortion Techniques
Leung & Apperly (CMS 350)
Carpendale et al (CMS 368)
Lamping & Rao (CMS 382)
Munzner '98
Videos: Hyp browser, 3-D hyp browser, Surfaces
Software: Hyperbolic browser

Financial Data and Data Mining
Wright (CMS 83)
Wattenberg '99

Social Visualization
Donath '95
Xiong & Donath '99

Audio
Gaver
Blattner

Program Visualization
Reiss '98
Kimelman et al '98
Shimomura and Isoda '91

Algorithm Animation
Brown '88
Stasko '90
Baecker '98
Videos: Sorting Out Sorting
Software: Tango, Polka


Detailed bibliography of readings.