CS 7450
Information Visualization
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All indicated chapter readings are from the Spence textbook. Full references for articles, videos shown, software demonstrated and related articles can be found on the detailed references page. Also available is a more general, alphabetical bibliography.

Week 1
   Aug. 22 - Introduction
       Chapter 1
   Aug. 24 - Overview of the Field
       Chapter 2

Week 2
   Aug. 29 - Multivariate Data
       Chapter 3
   Aug. 31 - Graphical Principles
       Chapter 4

Week 3
   Sep. 5 - Visual Design
       Envisioning Info., E. Tufte
   Sep. 7 - Interaction & Dynamic Queries 1
       Chapter 5

Week 4
   Sep. 12 - Guest speaker: Bill Ribarsky
   Sep. 14 - No class

Week 5
   Sep. 19 - Interaction & Dynamic Queries 2
   Sep. 21 - Overview and Detail
       Chapter 7

Week 6
   Sep. 26 - Focus + Context
   Sep. 28 - Panning and Zooming

Week 7
   Oct. 3 - Graphs
       Chapter 8
   Oct. 5 - Trees 1

Week 8
   Oct. 10 - No class: InfoVis Conference
   Oct. 12 - Report from InfoVis Conference

Week 9
   Oct. 17 - Trees 2
   Oct. 19 - Web, Internet

Week 10
   Oct. 24 - No class: Fall Break
   Oct. 26 - Jazz assignment discussion

Week 11
   Oct. 31 - Text and Documents 1
       Chapter 10
   Nov. 2 - Text and Documents 2

Week 12
   Nov. 7 - Automating Visualization Design
   Nov. 9 - Evaluation

Week 13
   Nov. 14 - Software Visualization
   Nov. 16 - Social Visualization

Week 14
   Nov. 21 - Models and Autonomous Processes
   Nov. 23 - No class: Thanksgiving holiday

Week 15
   Nov. 28 - Cognitive Issues
   Nov. 30 - Guest lecture - George Robertson

Week 16
   Dec. 5 - Animation
   Dec. 7 - Review