Over the course of the term we will slowly populate this schedule with slides, readings, and activities. These pages are mirrored from the course GitHub repository to a GitHub page using a submodule. For helpful links, refer back to the course home page.
We will engage in a number of different classroom activities throughout the term. Please refer to this legend:
| Asynchronous day: | Synchronous day: | Synchronous day that can be viewed asynchronously: |
| Week 1 | Introduction | |||||
| 8-Feb | Intro Lecture | Slides | Recording | |||
| 10-Feb | Intro Javascript (coerced into a snafu) | Prompt | Notes | Recording | Optional GIT tutorial | |
| HW1 assigned on CMS | ||||||
| 12-Feb | Visual Channels | Slides | Recording | |||
| Quiz for the week is located here | ||||||
| Week 2 | JS + SVG | |||||
| 15-Feb | JS Events & Functions | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| 17-Feb | Intro to SVG | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | Optional web tutorial | |
| HW2 assigned on CMS | ||||||
| 19-Feb | Brief history of analytics | Slides | Recording | |||
| HW1 due by 11:59PM (midnight) EST | ||||||
| Quiz for the week is located on CMS | ||||||
| Week 3 | Intro D3 | |||||
| 22-Feb | Intro to d3 | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| 24-Feb | d3 bar chart (scales in d3) | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| HW3 assigned on CMS | ||||||
| 26-Feb | Color theory + models | Slides | Recording | Extra color info | ||
| HW2 due by 11:59PM (midnight) EST | ||||||
| Quiz for the week is located on CMS | ||||||
| Week 4 | Making a Scatterplot | |||||
| 1-Mar | d3 basic scatterplot (importing data) | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| HW4 assigned on CMS | ||||||
| 3-Mar | d3 fancy scatterplot (labels & hover) | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| Project 1 assigned on CMS | ||||||
| 5-Mar | Visual Perception | Slides | Recording Bonus Content |
Survey | ||
| HW3 due by 11:59PM (midnight) EST | ||||||
| Quiz for the week is located here | ||||||
| Week 5 | Enter, Exit, & Update | |||||
| 8-Mar | d3 joins (old & new style) | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | Survey results video | |
| HW5 assigned on CMS | ||||||
| 10-Mar | No class - Wellness Day | |||||
| 12-Mar | d3 line plots | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2 | Quick file path guide | |
| HW4 due by 11:59PM (midnight) EST | ||||||
| Week 6 | Customizing Charts | |||||
| 15-Mar | d3 interactive bar chart | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3, 4 (optional) | ||
| 17-Mar | d3 lollipop chart | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| 19-Mar | Geographic visualizations | Slides | Survey link | Recording | ||
| HW5 due by 11:59PM (midnight) EST | ||||||
| Week 7 | Choropleth Week | |||||
| 22-Mar | d3 choropleth (hooray geoJSON) | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| 24-Mar | d3 choropleth (adding data) | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2 | ||
| HW6 assigned on CMS | ||||||
| 26-Mar | d3 maps (dots & more) | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| Project 1 due by 11:59PM (midnight) EST | ||||||
| Week 8 | Fancy Layouts | |||||
| 29-Mar | d3 density vis (contour, density) | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| Project 2 assigned on CMS | ||||||
| 31-Mar | d3 emergent layout (bubbleplots) | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 (optional) | ||
| 2-Apr | Network Layouts | Slides | Lecture (Optional Lec) | Mid-sem Survey | ||
| HW6 due by 11:59PM (midnight) EST | ||||||
| Week 9 | Network Diagrams | |||||
| 5-Apr | d3 network layouts | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| 7-Apr | d3 chord diagrams | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3, 4(optional) | ||
| HW7 assigned on CMS | ||||||
| 9-Apr | Multivariate Visualizations | Slides | Recording | |||
| Week 10 | Interactivity | |||||
| 12-Apr | 3D d3 day (a.k.a. 3-don't) | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| 14-Apr | Human-Visualization Interaction | Slides | Recording | |||
| 16-Apr | client/server patterns | Server | Repo dir | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| HW7 due by 11:59PM (midnight) EST | ||||||
| Week 11 | Recreating HomeFinder | |||||
| 19-Apr | d3 homefinder (query manip) | Repo dir | 1, 2, 3 | |||
| 21-Apr | d3 homefinder (dynamic query) | Repo dir | 1, 2, 3 | |||
| 5100 Project assigned on CMS | ||||||
| 23-Apr | No class - Wellness Day | |||||
| Week 12 | Overview & Detail | |||||
| 26-Apr | No class - Wellness Day | |||||
| 28-Apr | d3 pan+zoom | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| HW8 assigned on CMS | ||||||
| 30-Apr | Project 2 Demos + Critique | Instructions | ||||
| Project 2 due by 11:59PM (midnight) EST | ||||||
| Week 13 | Challenge Visualizations | |||||
| 3-May | d3 raster vis | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3 | ||
| 5-May | d3 text vis | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3, 4 (optional) | ||
| 7-May | Animations & storytelling | Slides | Recording | |||
| HW8 due by 11:59PM (midnight) EST | ||||||
| Week 14 | Putting it all together | |||||
| 10-May | d3 color survey (live updates) | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2, 3, 4 (all optional) | ||
| 12-May | d3 animated color vis | Prompt | Notes | 1, 2 (all optional) | ||
| 14-May | Physicalization & Access | Slides | Recording | |||
| Final Exam/Project Submission | ||||||
| For students in INFO/CS 3300 | Option to complete final take-home exam | Due 1PM EDT, May 22nd | ||||
| For students in INFO 5100 | Either complete Project 3 or a final take-home exam | Due 1PM EDT, May 22nd | ||||