IAT 355 Overview

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Overview
Syllabus
Assignments
Policies
Resources

Logistics
Wed	9:30-12:20	SUR 3240
Open Lab TBD

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	melmeseea@sfu.ca

Resources

Books and Ebooks
Colin Ware [Ware] TEXT	Visual Thinking for Design (2008), Morgan Kaufman. This is available as an ebook in the library.
Tamara Munzner [VAD]	Visualization Analysis and Design. This is 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
R. King	Visual Storytelling with d3 (ebook)
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	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.
Media
Beau Lotto "How We See"	Optical Illusions Show How We See
Data are not neutral	CBC Spark podcast

Visualization Websites
Robert Kosara's blog	http://www.eagereyes.org
An annotated gallery of visualizations	http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/
Stephen Few's blog	www.perceptualedge.com
Data projects at the University of Chicago Data for the Common Good project	http://dssg.uchicago.edu/projects/

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
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
github	github.org
Mike Bostock's d3 examples (with code)	http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock
Tableau Software. You download a copy for use in the class. Tableau's data visualization software is provided through the Tableau for Teaching program.	Instructions are on the Tableau for Students site.