CS 7450
Information Visualization
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All indicated chapter readings are from the Spence textbook. Lecture slides, 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
   Jan. 8 - Introduction    HW1
       Chapter 1
   Jan. 10 - Overview of the Field
       Chapter 2

Week 2
   Jan. 15 - Multivariate Data    HW2
       Chapter 3
   Jan. 17 - Cognitive Tasks
       Chapter 6

Week 3
   Jan. 22 - Multivariate visualization tools   A1
   Jan. 24 - Perception & Graphical Principles
       Chapter 4

Week 4
   Jan. 29 - Visual Design
       Envisioning Info., E. Tufte
   Jan. 31 - Interaction & Dynamic Queries 1
       Chapter 5

Week 5
   Feb. 5 - Interaction & Dynamic Queries 2   Project
   Feb. 7 - Overview & Detail
       Chapter 7

Week 6
   Feb. 12 - Focus & Context
   Feb. 14 - Panning and Zooming   HW3

Week 7
   Feb. 19 - Hierarchies & Trees 1
       Chapter 8
   Feb. 21 - Hierarchies & Trees 2   HW4

Week 8
   Feb. 26 - Graphs
   Feb. 28 - Guest lecture: C. Shaw

Week 9
   Mar. 5 - No class: Spring Break
   Mar. 7 - No class: Spring Break

Week 10
   Mar. 12 - WWW and Internet
   Mar. 14 - Time Series Data

Week 11
   Mar. 19 - Text & Documents 1
       Chapter 10
   Mar. 21 - Text & Documents 2

Week 12
   Mar. 26 - Project Poster Session
   Mar. 28 - Social Visualization

Week 13
   Apr. 2 - Software Visualization
   Apr. 4 - Evaluation   HW5

Week 14
   Apr. 9 - Automating Design
   Apr. 11 - Animation

Week 15
   Apr. 16 - Review
   Apr. 18 - Summary exam

Week 16
   Apr. 23 - No class: CHI Conference
   Apr. 25 - No class: CHI Conference

Week 17
   May 3 - Project presentations