This is a tentative schedule and subject to change.
| Date | Lecture Description | Readings | Assignments | Additional Materials |
| 01/8 | Class Mechanics; Introduction I (motivation and applications) | --- | Get username and password for copyrighted readings |
The Top Five Problems that Motivated My Work (Hibbard) (pdf) Do You See What I Mean? (Duke) (pdf) |
| 01/10 | Introduction II (fundamentals; interdisciplinarity) | The Computer Scientist as a Toolmaker
II (Brooks) (pdf)
Does the Difference between Information and Scientific Visualization Really Matter? (Rhyne) (pdf) |
Personal background in |
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| 01/15 | Human Vision and Color | Envisioning information: Color and information (Tufte) (ppt) | Color Blindness Demos
Cynthia Brewer's Color Use Guide Large Datasets at a Glance: Combining Textures and Colors in Scientific Visualization (Healey) (pdf) |
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| 01/17 | Tufte's Principles of Design | Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward Tufte's Principles (UW) (html) | Color Warmup out | UI Hall of Shame |
| 01/22 | Data Mapping | Space-Filling Software Visualization (Baker) (pdf) [Wan-Yin] Multidimensional Detective (Inselberg) (pdf) [Matthias] |
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| 01/24 | Guest Lecture (software
visualization): Manos Renieris (Google) |
TBA | ||
| 01/29 | Hierarchy and Network Visualization | Treemaps: A Space-Filling Approach to
the Visualization of Hierarchical Information Structures (Johnson)
(pdf) [Jong Do]
Visualizing Network Data (Becker) (pdf) [Matt] |
Treemaps history | |
| 01/31 | Guest Lecture (bioinformatics): James Faeder (CMU/Pitt Comp.Bio.) |
TBA | Color Warmup in |
An Insight-based Methodology for Evaluating Bioinformatics Visualizations (Saraiya) (pdf) |
| 02/05 | Vector Fields and Volumes | Image-Guided Streamline Placement (Turk) (pdf) [Lucie] Marching Cubes (Lorensen) (pdf) [Sung-Min] |
Java 2D Warmup out |
Streamtubes and Streamsurfaces for Visualizing Diffusion Tensor MRI Volume Images (Zhang) (pdf) |
| 02/07 | Guest Lecture (medical images): Scott Tashman (UPMC Orthopaedics) |
TBA | ||
| 02/12 | Interaction: Overview + Detail | LifeLines: Using Visualization to Enhance Navigation and Analysis of Patient Records (Plaisant) (pdf, html) [Yinglin] Browsing Hierarchical Data with Multi-Level Dynamic Queries (Kumar) (pdf) [Alina] |
Java 2D Warmup in |
LifeLines project |
| 02/14 | Guest Lecture (molecular chemistry): Geoff Hutchison (Pitt Chemistry) |
TBA | Data representation in chemistry | |
| 02/19 | Interaction: Dynamic Queries |
Visual Information Seeking: Tight coupling of dynamic query filters with starfield displays (Ahlberg) (pdf) [Tonya] Balancing Systematic and Flexible Exploration of Social Networks (Perer) (html, pdf) [Josh] |
Read the cs3610 request for project proposals |
Spotfire |
| 02/21 | Guest Lecture (design): Natalie Ebenreuter (CMU Design) |
TBA | OpenGL Warmup in (due Fri) Read the cs3610 request for project proposals |
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| 02/26 | Final Project Ideas | Top Scientific Visualization Research Problems (Johnson) (pdf) Top 10 Unsolved Information Visualization Problems (Chen) (pdf) |
Tentative Idea & Team in | Illuminating the Path |
| 02/28 | Final Project Proposals | --- | Proposal in | |
| 03/04 | no class -- conference | --- | Go through proposal comments | |
| 03/06 | no class -- conference | --- | Meet with your team and get organized | |
| SPRING BREAK | ||||
| 03/18 | Uncertainty Visualization | A Next Step: Visualizing Errors and
Uncertainty (Johnson) (pdf)
[Yinglin]
Multidimensional Visual Representations for Underwater Environmental Uncertainty (Schmidt) (pdf) [Yinglin] |
Be prepared to give a 2-minute verbal progress report on your final project! | Glyphs for Visualizing Uncertainty in Environmental Vector Fields (Wittenbrink) (pdf) Point-Based Probabilistic Surfaces to Show Surface Uncertainty (Grigoryan) (pdf) Visualizing Uncertainty in Geo-spatial Datasets (Pang) (pdf) |
| 03/20 | Sanford Leuba | TBA | ||
| 03/25 | Visualization of Search Results | Visualization of Search Results: A Comparative Evaluation of Text, 2D, and 3D Interfaces (Sebrechts) (pdf) [Wan-Yin] Visualizing digital library search results with categorical and hierarchical axes (Shneiderman) (pdf) [Jong-Do] |
Paper review forms in | |
| 03/27 | Evaluation and User Studies |
User Studies: Why, How, and When (Kosara) (pdf)
[Lucie] Quantitative Comparative Evaluation of 2D Vector Field Visualization Methods (Laidlaw) (pdf) [additional material for Lucie; no need to fill in paper review form] The Value of Visualization (van Wijk) (pdf) [Tonya]On the Death of Visualization (Lorensen) (pdf) [additional material for Tonya; no need to fill in paper review form] |
Paper review forms in | |
| 04/01 | Sorting Out Clutter | Rendering Effective Route Maps: Improving Usability Through Generalization (Agrawala) (pdf) [Matthias] TreeJuxtaposer: Scalable Tree Comparison using Focus+Context with Guaranteed Visibility (Munzner) (pdf) [Josh] |
Paper review forms in | LineDrive |
| 04/03 | Final Project Previews | --- | Project preview in | |
| 04/08 | Interaction: Focus + Context |
The FishEye View: A New Look at Structured Files (Furnas) (pdf) [Sung-Min] A Review and Taxonomy of Distortion-Oriented Presentation Techniques (Leung) (pdf) [Alina] |
Paper review forms in | |
| 04/10 | Final project checkpoint | |||
| 04/22-04/26 | Demo Day | --- | Final project in | |
| 04/25 | --- | How to make a great poster How to create a poster that graphically communicates your message |
Project report in | |