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Week 0 (Jan 09 - 11)

09-Jan Wed

Topic: Overview of Visualization | Intro to Tools
Assigned: Assignment 0 - Course Survey
Assigned: Assignment 1 - Hello World: GitHub and d3

10-Jan Thu

Topic: Data Representation
Due: Assignment 0 – 11:59pm

Week 1 (Jan 14 - 18)

Reading:
VAD Chapters 1-4

Suggested Reading:
Design is a Search Problem
Dear Data (the background and entries themselves)

14-Jan Mon

Topic: Visualization Design
Assigned: Assignment 2 - Data Visualization, 10 ways

15-Jan Tue

Due: Assignment 1 – 11:59pm

17-Jan Thu

Topic: Task Abstraction

Week 2 (Jan 21 - 25)

Reading:
VAD Chapters 10

21-Jan Mon

Topic: Martin Luther King Jr. Day (No Classes)

24-Jan Thu

Topic: TBA
Assigned: Final Project

Week 3 (Jan 28 - Feb 1)

Reading:
VAD Chapters 5, 6

28-Jan Mon

Topic: Color
Assigned: Assignment 3 - Replicating a Classic Experiment

29-Jan Tue

Due: Assignment 2 – 11:59pm

31-Jan Thu

Topic: Visual Channels

Week 4 (Feb 4 - 8)

Reading:
VAD Chapters 7, 8

04-Feb Mon

Topic: Visualizing Tabular Data

07-Feb Thu

Topic: Visualizing Spatial Data

Week 5 (Feb 12 - 16)

Reading:
VAD Chapters 9, 11

11-Feb Mon

Topic: Visualizing Networks
Assigned: Assignment 4 - Maps And Views

12-Feb Tue

Due: Assignment 3 – 11:59pm

13-Feb Wed

Due: Project Proposal – 11:59pm

15-Feb Thu

Topic: Visualizing Trees / Hierarchies

Week 6 (Feb 18 - 22)

Reading: VAD Chapters 12, 13

18-Feb Mon

Topic: Interaction and Advanced Visualization Schemes

21-Feb Thu

No class! Reading day

Week 7 (Feb 25 - Mar 1)

25-Feb Mon
Topic: A4 / Project Workday

26-Feb Tue
Due: Assignment 4 – 11:59pm

28-Feb Thu
Due: Final Project – 11:59pm