CS448B: Visualization

Announcements

Instructor

Pat Hanrahan

Gates Computer Science Building, Rm 370-3B

Office hours: 11am-12noon Thu

Email: hanrahan at cs.stanford.edu

Meeting

Gates Room 392, Tue-Thu from 2:30-3:45pm

Text

Envisioning Information, E. Tufte. Cheshire Press, 1990.

We suggest you order it online. Please do so soon, since readings will be assigned in the first week of class.

There will also be weekly readings.

Schedule

Jan 6 The Purpose of Visualization

Readings

Information visualization, Card, Mackinlay, Schneiderman (handout)

Spatial schemas in depictions, Tversky (handout)

Decision to launch the Challenger, Tufte (handout)

Jan 8 Data and Image Models

Readings

The eyes have it, Schneiderman (html)

Bertin and beyond, Green (html)

The structure of the information visualization design space, Card, Mackinlay (pdf)

Jan 13 Discussion of examples of good and bad visualizations

Jan 15 Perception and Cognition

Readings

Small Multiples, In Envisioning Information

Layering, In Envisioning Information

Graphical perception, Spence and Lawandowsky (handout)

Integral vs. separable dimensions, Palmer (handout)

Graphical perception, Cleveland and McGill (html).

Demonstrations

Healey's preattentive vision applet

Rensink's change blindness applet

The Game of Set

Jan 20 Design Problem I

Diffusion tensor MRI, Dave Akers, Rachel Mackenzie

Ancestral trees, Jeff Klingner, Merrie Ringel

Jan 22 Space (On Being in the Right Space)

Escaping flatland, In Envisioning Information

Narratives of space and time, In Envisioning Information

Map Projections in PDF

Postmortem of an example, Bertin (handout)

A tour of Trellis graphics, R. Becker et al. (ps)

Table lens, Rao and Card, (acm)

Jan 27 Design Problem II

C++ classes and methods, Mike Cammarano, Daniel Horn

Network intrusion detection, Amir Lopatin, John Gerth

Jan 29 Color

Color and information, In Envisioning Information

Abstracting reality, MacEachren (handout)

Area Colors, Imhof (handout), Virtual Library

PRAVDA, Bergman, Treinish, Rogowitz

Color guidelines, Brewer

CIELUV and CIELAB Applets, P. Rhodes

Feb 3 Design Problem III

Gene arrays, Johann Won, Jessy Kang

Flows of people and commodities, Ron Yeh, Doantam Phan

Feb 5 Interaction

Dynamic queries, Ahlberg, C. and Shneiderman, B., (html)

Dynamic queries, starfield displays, and the path to Spotfire, html.

Demonstrations and videos

ggobi

Excentric labels

Homefinder

Cellphones

Fry's zipcodes

Attribute explorer and cone tree video

Table lens

Feb 10 Design Problem IV

User event logs (VIBE), Kjell Reutersward, Stace Peterson

Social networks, Mike Choy, Jed Crosby

Light fields, Bill Chen, Chris Hong

Feb 12 Trees and Graphs

Rheingold-Tilford (handout)

Kamada-Kawai (handout)

DOI-tree (html)

dot paper, Gansner et al. (pdf)

Feb 17 Self Illustrating Phenomena

Feb 19 Temporal Photography

Feb 24 Conveying Shape: Line Drawings

Dooley, Cohen, Line illustration (handout)

Hayes, Ross, Lines of sight (handout)

DeCarlo, et al, Suggestive contours (html)

Feb 26 Conveying Shape: Shading and Texturing

Gooch and Gooch, Communicating shape

Ramachandran, 2-D or not 2-D--that is the question (handout)

Interrante, Texture

Akers et al. Conveying shape with image-based relighting

Mar 2 Animation

Principles, Lasseter, (acm)

Animation: Can it facilitate?, B. Tversky et al., (handout)

Slithy, (html)

Mar 4 Graphical Integrity

Graphical integrity, Tufte, (handout)

Every map shows this, but not that, Wood, (handout)

Assignment 1 (Due Jan 13)
Assignment 2 (Due Jan 27)

Requirements

The course will meet twice a week. The first weekly meeting will consist of a lecture on the above topics. The 2nd weekly meeting will be a group design exercise with the goal to create a visual tool for solving a particular problem in a domain of interest.

In addition to participating in the discussions, students are expected to do a project and write up their results as a conference paper submission.