Prof. Bederson CMSC 838B - Schedule
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Note: All reading assignments will be discussed on the day that they are listed below. 
Unless otherwise specified, all readings are from the readings text by Card, Mackinlay, Shneiderman

I thank John Stasko at Georgia Tech, Chris North at Virginia Tech, and Marti Hearst at Berkeley who generously allowed me to build these course notes based on theirs.

(Week 1)
Jan 31

Introduction [pdf]

Olive - Visualization Links
MapBlast - LineDrive directions
Star Tree - Hyperbolic Browser
SmartMoney - Map of the Market
Peets - Coffee & Tea Treemaps
Treemaps - Hierarchy Browser

(Week 9)
Apr 4

=> Project Checkpoint #1

=> Read: Networks, p. 187-189
=> Read: Fairchild, p. 190-206
=> Read: Eick, p. 207-214
=> Read: Becker, p. 215-230

(Week 2)
Feb 7

Class Cancelled - Snow

=> Read: Introduction, p. 1-34
=> Read: Physical Data, p. 37-38
=> Read: DeFanti, p. 39-56
=> Read: 1D, 2D, 3D, p. 56-61
=> Read: Bertin, p. 62-65
=> Read: Mackinlay, p. 66-82

=> HW #1 Due

(Week 10)
Apr 11

NOTE - Class UnCancelled - meet as usual

=> Read: Interaction, p. 231-234
=> Read: Dyn. Queries, p. 235
=> Read: Shneiderman, p. 236-243
=> Read: Eick, p. 251-252
=> Read: Fishkin, p. 253-260
=> Read: Overview+Det., p. 285-286
=> Read: Plaisant, p. 287-294

And discuss interesting CHI stuff

(Week 3)
Feb 14

Visual Perception [pdf]

Table Lens - Spreadsheet
MultiDim - Applet
XMDV - Multi-dim tool
VisDB - Multi-dim tool

=> Read: Multiple Dim., p. 93-95
=> Read: Feiner, p. 96-106
=> Read: Inselberg, p. 107-114
=> Read: Mihalisin, p. 115-125
=> Read: Keim, p. 126-139

=> HW #2 Due

(Week 11)
Apr 18

=> Project Checkpoint #2

=> Read: Focus+Context, p. 307-310
=> Read: Fisheye Views, p. 311
=> Read: Furnas, p. 312-330
=> Read: Heer (handout, CHI 2003)
=> Read: Rao, p. 343-349

(Week 4)
Feb 21

Multidimensional Data [pdf]

Spotfire - Multi-dim tool

=> Read: Trees, p. 149-151
=> Read: Johnson, p. 152-159
=> Read: Baker, p. 160-182
=> Read: Jin, p. 183-186
=> Read: Bederson, HCIL-2001-18

=> HW #3 Due

(Week 12)
Apr 25

=> Read: Doc Vis, p. 409-410
=> Read: Text in 1D, p. 411-412
=> Read: Eick, p. 419-430
=> Read: Text in 2D, p. 431
=> Read: Lin, p. 432-440
=> Read: Text in 3D+Time, p. 451
=> Read: Rennison, p. 452-462
=> Read: Hearst - TileBars, site

=> Read: Hearst - Flamenco, site

(Week 5)
Feb 28

Trees I [pdf]

Treemap 4 - HCIL
SpaceTree - HCIL

=> Read: Robertson, Cone Tree
=> Read: Lamping, p. 382-408
=> Read: Furnas, Multitrees

=> Read: Stasko, Sunburst
=> Read: Plaisant, HCIL-2002-05

=> Read: Card, DOI Tree (handout)

=> Initial Project Descriptions Due

(Week 13)
May 2

=> Read: Workspaces, p. 513-514
=> Read: Robertson, p. 515-529
=> Read: Bederson, p. 530-543
=> Read: Card, p. 544-550
=> Read: North, p. 570-578
     NLM Site, applet

=> Read: Robertson - Task Gallery,
     video, site

(Week 6)
Mar 7

Trees II

(Week 14)
May 9

Final Project Presentations

=> Final Projects Due

(Week 7)
Mar 14

Implementation I

Piccolo - Structured graphics toolkit

=> Read: Bederson, HCIL-2003-01
=> Read: Piccolo Patterns

   

(Week 8)
Mar 21

Implementation II

=> Midterm Exam

   
Mar 24-28 Spring Break