Schedule

The readings should be read in time for discussion on the date they are listed. Handout readings for the first week of class will be available outside 615 Soda Hall starting Jan 10.

Papers and articles available on the web will not be handed out in class. Pointers to the online versions of papers are included by the reference. You are expected to download and print these papers yourselves. One reason for doing this is that many visualization papers contain pictures that do not reproduce well when copied. Note that some of the papers come from digital libraries that are accessible online only from machines on the UCB network.

Jan 17 The Purpose of Visualization: Readings; Chapter 1: Graphical Excellence, In The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte.; Chapter 1: Information Visualization, In Readings in Information Visualization. Card, et al. (handout)
Decision to launch the Challenger, In Visual Explanations. Tufte. (handout)
Jan 19 Data and Image Models:       Readings
         The eyes have it, Schneiderman. (html)
         The structure of the information visualization design space. Card & Mackinlay. (ieee)
         Chapter 2: Graphical Integrity, In The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte.
         Chapter 3: Sources of Graphical Integrity, In The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte.; Optional Readings
On the theory of scales of measurement. Stevens. (jstor)


Jan 24 Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten (Guest lecture by Stephen Few): Readings; Chapter 8: Table Design, In Show Me the Numbers. Few (handout);          Chapter 4: Data-Ink and Graphical Redesign, In The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte.
         Chapter 5: Chartjunk, In The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte.
         Chapter 6: Data-Ink Maximization and Graphical Design, In The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte

Jan 26 Introduction to Tableau and Spotfire:       Readings
         Polaris (extended paper), Stolte, Tang and Hanrahan (pdf)
         Dynamic queries, starfield displays, and the path to Spotfire. Schneiderman (html)
         Chapter 8: Data Density and Small Multiples, In The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte.; Chapter 2: Macro/Micro Readings, In Envisioning Information. Tufte.; Chapter 4: Small Multiples, In Envisioning Information. Tufte.


Jan 31 Perception: Readings
Perception in visualization. Healey. (html);          Graphical perception. Cleveland & McGill. (jstor)
         Toward a perceptual science of multidimensional data visualization: Bertin and beyond. Green. (handout)
         Chapter 3: Layering and Separation, In Envisioning Information. Tufte.; Optional Readings; Gestalt and composition. In Course #13, SIGGRAPH 2002. Durand. (1-up pdf) (6-up pdf)
The psychophysics of sensory function. Stevens. (pdf)

Feb 2 Interaction:       Readings
         Perception in visualization. Healey. (html)
         Visual information seeking: Tight coupling of dynamic query filters with starfield displays, Ahlberg & Shneiderman. (html)