This is a combined syllabus and materials page. All dates in the future are part of the syllabus. Details may change, but the overall temporal order will remain the same.

• January 9
  • Introduction and Overview
• January 16
  • Visualization Overview, InfoVis I
  • Reading: Chapter I from Visualizing Data by Ben Fry
  • Websites: The Secret Lives of Numbers, Healthcare '08, zipdecode
  • Assignment: Find Visualization Examples (deadline: Jan 23, electronically)
•  January 23
  • InfoVis II, Lying with Visualization
  • Video: Hans Rosling Talk at TED 2006
  • Websites: They Rule, The Budget Graph, gapminder
  • Assignment: Find Visualization Stories (deadline: Jan 30, electronically)
• January 30 
  • InfoVis III, Structured Data
  • Assignment: Drawing Exercise I (deadline: Feb 6, on paper)
• February 6
  • Maps, Representation
  • Videos from eatpes.com, Shift Happens
• February 13
  • Trees, Focus+Context
  • Assignment: Find Issue and Data (deadline: Feb 20, on paper)
• February 20
  • Photography
    
• February 27
  • Mid-Term Exam
• March 5
  • Spring Break
• March 12
  • Perception
• March 19
  • Presentations of Designs and Critique
  • Assignment: Second Iteration of Poster (deadline: April 2, electronically)
• March 26
  •  Cognition, Design
• April 2
  • Second Round of Critiquing
  • Assignment: Final Poster, Presentation Slides (deadline: April 16, electronically)
• April 9
  • Aesthetics 
• April 16
  • Third Round of Critiquing
• April 23
  • Final Presentations
• May 7
  • Final Exam