Schedule

Lecture 1: Introduction

Recommended reading

• A Tour through the Visualization Zoo. Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky. Communications of the ACM, 53(6), pp. 59-67, Jun 2010.
• The Value of Visualization.Jarke van Wijk. Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference, pp. 79-86, 2005.

Lecture 2: Version Control and HTML.

Mandatory reading

• D3 Book, Chapters 1-3
• VDA Book, Chapter 1

Recommended reading

• Think like a git
• Understanding git conceptually
• Fun and insightful talk on git by Linus Torvalds
• A successful git branching model
• MDN HTML Elements reference
• MDN CSS Reference
• MDN selectors webpage
• Overview of the Chrome developer tools
• MDN SVG tutorial

Lecture 3: JavaScript Basics

Mandatory reading

• D3 Book, Chapter 3, go over JavaScript parts.

Recommended reading

• MDN JavaScript Guide
• Book: JavaScript - the Good Parts. Get this book for <20$ if you’re interested in learning more about JavaScript.
• Code Academy Javascript Tutorial

Lecture 4: JavaScript II, Intro D3

Mandatory reading

• D3 book, Chapters 4, 5 and 6

Recommended reading

• MDN Document Object documentation
• D3 API

Lecture 5: Advanced D3 I

Mandatory reading

• D3 book, Chapters 7, 8, 9 and 10

Recommended reading

• How selections work
• Jerome Cukier’s tutorial on scales
• Let’s make a bar chart

Lecture 6: Advanced D3 II

Mandatory reading

• D3 book, Chapters 11 and 12

Recommended reading

• Mike Bostock’s Let’s make a Map

Lecture 7: Perception, Cognition, Color

Mandatory reading

• Visual Thinking for Design, Chapters 1 & 2, 4, Visual Queries & What We Can Easily See. Colin Ware.
• VAD, Chapters 10.2-10.3, Color Theory and Colormaps

Recommended reading

• Perception in Visualization, Christopher G. Healey
• Gestalt principles (part 1). Bang Wong. Nature Methods 7, pp. 863, Nov 2010.
• Gestalt principles (part 2). Bang Wong. Nature Methods 7, pp. 941, Dec 2010.

Lecture 8: Data Abstraction, Data Types.

Mandatory reading

• VAD, Chapter 2, Data Abstraction

Recommended reading

• On the Theory of Scales of Measurement. S. S. Stevens. Science, 103(2684), pp. 677-680, June 1946.

Lecture 9: The Visualization Alphabet: Marks and Channels.

Mandatory reading

• VAD, Chapter 5, Marks and Channels
• VAD, Chapters 6.3-6.6, and 6.9, Rules of Thumb
• VAD, Chapter 10.4, Mapping Other Channels

Recommended reading

• Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation and the Application to the Development of Graphical Models. William S. Cleveland, Robert McGill, J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 79:387, pp. 531-554, 1984.
• The Structure of the Information Visualization Design Space. Stuart Card and Jock Mackinlay. Proceedings of InfoVis, 1997.

Lecture 10: Design Guidelines; Visualization Tasks

Mandatory reading

• VAD, Chapter 6.10, Function First, Form Next
• VAD, Chapter 3, Why: Task Abstraction

Recommended reading

• Design Principles for Visual Communication. Maneesh Agrawala, Wilmot Li, Floraine Berthouzoz. Communications of the ACM, 54(4), pp. 60-69, Apr 2011.
• Design of data figures. Bang Wong. Nature Methods 7, pp. 665, Sept 2010.
• Low-Level Components of Analytic Activity in Information Visualization. Robert Amar, James Eagan, and John Stasko. Proceedings of InfoVis, 2005.
• A Multi-Level Typology of Abstract Visualization Tasks. Matthew Brehmer and Tamara Munzner. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 19(12), p. 2376–2385, 2013.
• A Design Space of Visualization Tasks. Hans-Jorg Schulz, Thomas Nocke, Magnus Heitzler, and Heidrun Schumann. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 19(12), p. 2376–2385, 2013.

Lecture 11: Interaction

Mandatory reading

• VAD, Chapter 11, Manipulate View
• VAD, Chapter 6.8, Responsiveness Is Required

Lecture 12: Views; Focus and Context

Mandatory reading

• VDA Chapter 12, Facet into Multiple Views
• VDA Chapter 14, Embed: Focus + Context

Lecture 13: Grids

Mandatory reading

• Real Time Volume Rendering, Ch. 1-3, Klaus Engel, Markus Hadwiger, Joe M. Kniss, Christof Rezk-Salama
• Data Structures in the Visualization Toolkit, Stefan Bruckner

Lecture 14: Exam-Foundations

Lecture 15: Exam Review, Views Part II

Mandatory reading

• VDA Chapter 12, Facet into Multiple Views
• VDA Chapter 14, Embed: Focus + Context

Lecture 16: Volumes

Mandatory reading

• Marching cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm, WE Lorensen, HE Cline, ACM SIGGRAPH, 1987.
• State-of-the-Art in GPU-Based Large-Scale Volume Visualization, J. Beyer, M. Hadwiger, H. Pfister, Computer Graphics Forum, 2015.

Recommended reading

• High-quality pre-integrated volume rendering using hardware-accelerated pixel shading, K Engel, M. Kraus, T Ertl, Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS workshop on Graphics hardware, 2001.
• Multidimensional transfer functions for interactive volume rendering, J Kniss, G Kindlmann, CD Hansen, IEEE TVCG, 2002.
• Real-Time Ray-Casting and Advanced Shading of Discrete Isosurfaces, M Hadwiger, C Sigg, H Scarsach, K Buhler, M Gross. Eurographics 2005.
• Volume rendering, R. Drebin, L. Carpenter, and P. Hanrahan. ACM Siggraph Computer Graphics. Vol. 22. No. 4. ACM, 1988.

Lecture 17: Project Peer Feedback in Groups

Lecture 18: Molecular Visualization & Animation

Lecture 19: Filtering & Aggregation

Mandatory reading

• VDA Ch. 13 Reduce Items and Attributes

Lecture 20: Visualizing Tabular Data

Mandatory reading

• VDA Chapter 7, Tables

Lecture 21: Isosurfaces

Lecture 22: Flow Visualization, Vectors & Tensors

Project Feedback with Instructors

Lecture 23: Visualizing Graphs and Trees (Two parts)

Lecture 24: Visualizing Graphs and Trees (Two parts)

Lecture 25: Maps

Lecture 26: Best Project Presentations, Wrap-Up

Lecture 27: Exam-Techniques