Advanced Data Visualization

This is the course website for CS544, Advanced Data Visualization.

Instructor: Carlos Scheidegger
class email: cscheid+fal17cs544@cs.arizona.edu Please use this email for urgent class-related questions and comments. For content discussions, please use Piazza.
Lectures: Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:30PM-4:45PM
Office Hours: Mondays, 10-11AM, GS 734. Otherwise by appointment only.

Previous versions of the course

	Date	Materials	Assignments	Reading
Intro	08/21	Introduction	A1
Mechanics	08/23	HTML/CSS/SVG Basics
	08/28	JavaScript and the DOM
	08/30	JavaScript and the DOM, d3 basics	A2
	09/04	Labor day
	09/06	d3 in detail	A3
Principles	09/11	Scales of measurement, invariants, perception		1, 2
	09/13	Color	A4	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
	09/18	Color - Design consequences
	09/20	Other Visual Channels	A5
	09/25	Other Visual Channels, Algebraic Visualization Design)
	09/27	Algebraic Visualization Design
	10/02	(NO OFFICE HOURS THIS DAY) Animation and Interaction
	10/04	VIS 2017, class canceled
Techniques	10/09	Scalability in Linked Views and Visual Querying I
	10/11	Scalability in Linked Views and Visual Querying II
	10/16	Scatterplots, line plots, small multiples	A6
	10/18	Histograms, KDE, Choropleths, Heatmaps
	10/23		MIDTERM
	10/25	Spatial data, 2D isocontours
	10/30	2D Isocontours, 3D Isocontours
	11/01	2D Vector Fields, streamlines		A7, LAST DAY TO DROP
	11/06	2D Vector Fields, computing streamlines
	11/08	3D Scalar Fields: volume rendering
	11/13	Class canceled
	11/15	Tree Drawing
	11/20	Undirected Graphs	A8
	11/22	Dimensionality reduction
	11/27	The Human Side of Data (Vis)