IAT 814 Fall 2014
	Introduction to Visual Analytics

 

Overview
Syllabus
Assignments
Policies
Resources

Logistics
Mon	9:00 -10:20	SUR 2995
Wed	4:00 - 5:20	SUR 2980
Open Lab

 

Instructor: Lyn Bartram SUR 2759 (office) SUR 3760 (lab)
email	lyn@sfu.ca
voice
office (bad)	778 782 7439
lab (better)	778 782 8009
mobile (best)	604 908 9954

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resources

Books and Ebooks
Robert Spence [Spence]	Information Visualization: Design for Interaction (2nd Edition). Prentice Hall, ISBN-13: 978-0132065504 You can buy this from the SFU Bookstore, Chapters/Indigo or Amazon Books.
Colin Ware [Ware] TEXT	Visual Thinking for Design (2008), Morgan Kaufman. This is also available as an ebook in the library.
Scott Murray	d3: Interactive Data Visualization for the Web. This is available as an ebook in the library. it has an excellent companion website.
Reference Books
Ben Fry	Visualizing Data (ebook available from Google)
Stephen Few	Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten (2004)
	Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data (2006)
	Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis (2008)
Colin Ware	Information Visualization: Perception for Design, 2nd edition, 2006. (ebook available in library)
Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay and Ben Shneiderman	Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
Daniel Shiffman [Shiffman]	Learning Processing : a beginner's guide to programming images, animation, and interaction. This is available as an ebook in the library and snippets of it can be found in the Processing website tutorials.
Videos
Beau Lotto "How We See"	Optical Illusions Show How We See

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IAT 814

Knowledge Visualization and Communication

Fall 2014

©Lyn Bartram