INFO4310 Schedule

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.
You can find procedures for presenting a paper on Ed Discussion in this document.
Those who are not presenting must post a response to all reading threads on Ed Discussion for before midnight on Tuesday. See more here.
As you may be unfamiliar with reading and working with academic papers, here are some different perspectives on how to read them.

We will engage in a number of different classroom activities throughout the term. Please refer to this legend:

Lecture: Discussion: Design activity: Critique:

Week 1 Introduction
22-Jan Course Introduction Intro Survey Slides
25.Jan d3 quick refresh Prompt Notes Recording
Week 2 Getting started
27-Jan Server setup Prompt Repo Recording
 HW1 assigned on CMS
29-Jan Introductory Framing File:
Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Chapters 1 & 2
(no discussion posts)
Link 1, 2
31-Jan Critique some visualizations Instructions
Week 3 Interactions
3-Feb d3 Interactions Prompt Notes Recording
(Bonus)
5-Feb Visualization interactions File:
Heer, J. & Schneiderman, B. Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis. 2012. Link
Yi JS, ah Kang Y, Stasko J, Jacko JA. Toward a deeper understanding of the role of interaction in information visualization. 2007. Link
6-Feb HW1 due at 11:59pm EST
7-Feb HW1 critique Instructions All project links
Week 4 Direct Manipulation & Linked Views (Multivariate)
10-Feb SPLOM + Responsiveness
 HW2 assigned on CMS
12-Feb Founding Papers File:
Ahlberg C, Shneiderman B. Visual information seeking using the filmfinder. 1994. Link
Spence R, Tweedie L. The Attribute Explorer: information synthesis via exploration. 1998. Link
14-Feb Film Finder v2
Week 5 Overview + Detail (Navigation)
17-Feb No Class (Feb. Break)
19-Feb Navigating visualizations File:
Shneiderman Ben. The eyes have it: A task by data type taxonomy for information visualizations. 1996. Link
Bederson BB, Hollan JD. Pad++ a zooming graphical interface for exploring alternate interface physics. 1994. Link
21-Feb HW2 critique
HW2 due at 11:59pm EST
Week 6 Focus + Context (Networks)
25.Feb O+D in a plot
26-Feb Distorsion & DOI File:
Lamping J, Rao R, Pirolli P. A focus+context technique based on hyperbolic geometry for visualizing large hierarchies. 1995. Link
van Ham F, Perer A. “Search, Show Context, Expand on Demand”: Supporting Large Graph Exploration with Degree-of-Interest. 2009. Link
 HW3 assigned on CMS
28-Feb Geo+Network Activity
Week 7 Perception & Cognition
3-Mar F+C using DOI functions
5-Mar P&C overview File:
Ware, Colin. Information Visualization: Perception for Design. Chapter 5 Link
7-Mar HW3 critique
HW3 due at 11:59pm EST
Week 8 Color
10-Mar Color survey deployment
 HW4 assigned on CMS
12-Mar Color studies File:
Heer, J. & Stone. Color Naming Models for Color Selection, Image Editing and Palette Design. 2012. Link
Liu Y, Heer J. Somewhere over the rainbow: An empirical assessment of quantitative colormaps. 2018. Link
14-Mar Visualizing color survey data
Week 9 Multi-touch & Mobile
17-Mar Event & gesture reading
19-Mar NUIs File:
Lee B, Isenberg P, Riche NH, Carpendale S. Beyond mouse and keyboard: Expanding design considerations for information visualization interactions. 2012. Link
Rzeszotarski JM, Kittur A. Kinetica: naturalistic multi-touch data visualization. 2014. Link
21-Mar Post-WIMP Film Finder
Week 10 Animation
25.MarHW4 critique
 HW4 due at 11:59pm EDT
26-Mar Principles of animation File:
Lasseter J. Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation. 1987. Link
Robertson G, Fernandez R, Fisher D, Lee B, Stasko J. Effectiveness of animation in trend visualization. 2008. Link
 Project assigned on CMS
28-Mar Custom animation transitions
Week 10.5 Spring break
Week 11 Tortured by Text
7-Apr Visualizing text
9-Apr Text is challenging File:
Choudhury et al. Once Upon A Time In Visualization: Understanding the Use of Textual Narratives for Causality. 2021 Link
Chang et al. RecipeScape: An Interactive Tool for Analyzing Cooking Instructions at Scale. 2018. Link
11-Apr Milestone feedback/critique
Project milestone due at 11:59pm EST
Week 12 Expertise & Personalization
14-Apr "Who critiques the critiquer" Activity
16-Apr Novices File:
Lee S, Kim SH, Hung YH, Lam H, Kang YA, Yi JS. How do people make sense of unfamiliar visualizations?: A grounded model of novice's information visualization sensemaking. 2015. Link
Lee et al. Shared Surfaces and Spaces: Collaborative Data Visualisation in a Co-located Immersive Environment. 2021 Link
18-Apr Social sharing & collaboration (slides)
Week 13 Visualizations and ML
21-Apr Sonification
23-Apr ML Visualization Systems File:
Shen et al. Towards Natural Language Interfaces for Data Visualization: A Survey. 2023. Link
Kang, H. B., Wu, T., Chang, J. C., & Kittur, A. Synergi: A Mixed-Initiative System for Scholarly Synthesis and Sensemaking. 2023 Link
25-Apr Milestone feedback/critique
Project milestone due at 11:59pm EST
Week 14 Accessible Visualizations
28-Apr Playing with ML and Vis
30-Apr Accessibility Projects File:
Sharif, A., Chintalapati, S. S., Wobbrock, J. O., & Reinecke, K. Understanding Screen-Reader Users' Experiences with Online Data Visualizations. 2021. Link
Jung et al. Communicating Visualizations without Visuals: Investigation of Visualization Alternative Text for People with Visual Impairments. 2021. Link
2-May Project demos and critique
Week 15 Demonstrations
5-May Project demos and critique
Final Project Submission
TBD Due @ TBD (see Registrar)