Lectures 7 and 8: Color Vision

We will now start to learn about principles to guide data visualization design. Today, we will learn about the basics of color vision, and in the next lecture, we will learn how to use some of this knowledge to design good visualizations.

The next two lectures will be based on slides: 1, and 2.

Quiz

We’ll also go over some D3 drills to make sure you remember d3 basics.

Reading Material

Maureen Stone, Representing Colors as Three Numbers
Borland and Russell, Rainbow Colormap (Still) Considered Harmful
Borkin et al., Evaluation or Artery Visualizations for Heart Disease Diagnosis, Infovis 2011.

Optional:

Kindlmann et al., Face-based Luminance Matching, SciVis 2002.
Liu and Heer, Somewhere Over the Rainbow: An Empirical Assessment of Quantitative Colormaps, CHI 2018.

Q&A

Where do we go for JavaScript + Chrome resources?
- Devtools tutorial
- MDN for more Javascript documentation.