kvis

Overview
Syllabus
Assignments
Policies
Resources 

Logistics
Wed 9:30-12:20 SUR 3240
Open Lab
Wed 6:30-7:20 SUR 2740

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

 
TA: Maha El Meseery
email melmesee@sfu.ca
Books and Ebooks
  • Colin Ware [Ware] TEXT
  • Tamara Munzner [VAD]
  • Scott Murray

Reference Books

  • R. King
  • Edward Tufte
  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2001. 2nd edition
  • Alberto Cairo
  • The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization. Available as an ebook in the Library.
  • Dill, J., Earnshaw, R., Kasik, D., Vince, J., Wong, P.C. (Eds.)
  • Expanding the Frontiers of Visual Analytics and Visualization, 2012, Springer-Verlag. Available as an ebook in the library.
  • Ben Fry
  • Stephen Few
  
  • Colin Ware
  • Information Visualization: Perception for Design, 2nd edition, 2006. (ebook available in library)
  • Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay and Ben Shneiderman
  • Daniel Shiffman [Shiffman]
Media
  • Beau Lotto "How We See"
  •  Data are not neutral
Visualization Websites
  • Robert Kosara's blog
  • An annotated gallery of visualizations
  • Stephen Few's blog
  •  Data projects at the University of Chicago Data for the Common Good project
Some data sources
  • Government open data sites (search "open data")
    • may include crime data, traffic data etc
  • open.canada.ca/en/open-data
  • https://data.gov.bc.ca/
  • https://data.gov.bc.ca/
  • data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/
  • data.surrey.ca/
  • Multinational open data (UN,WHO, etc)
  • data.un.org
  • http://www.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/en/
  • Open Data portals (for some of these you need an account, but it's free
    • kaggle
    • data.world
  • Dataportals is a comprehensive list of open data portals in the world.
  • www.kaggle.net
  • https://data.world/
  • dataportals.org
  • Check the new SQL tutorials on data.world
  • Re3data: Global registry of research data repositories, available to SFU
  • re3data.org
  • Abacus data server:  Licensed data for SFU use
  • http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB4/BVAS/resource/10648
Software and Digital Tools
  • d3 list of functions (API)
  • github
  • github.org
  • Mike Bostock's d3 examples (with code)
  • Tableau Software. You download a copy for use in the class. Tableau's data visualization software is provided through the Tableau for Teaching program.