Slides
Lab Files
Here are the SVG examples I showed in class.
Topics Covered
- What is Information Visualization?
- Purpose of visualization
- History
Required Readings
- Visualization Indexed. The last chapter of the textbook Beautiful Visualizations. Also to be found on Safaribooks online, accessible through the library proxy.
Optional Readings
- Chapter 1 of Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think by Card, Mackinlay, and Shneiderman
This one is an excellent read and touches upon many of the topics we will talk about this semester.