Logistics
Tue 2:30 - 4:00 SUR 5100
Thu 2:30 - 4:00 SUR 5100
 
Lyn Bartram
email lyn@sfu.ca
MSN lyn@cs.sfu.ca
voice
office (bad) 778 782 7439
lab (better) 778 782 8009
mobile (best) 604 908 9954

Syllabus

Assignments and Grading

Policies

Resources

Course Wiki

Links and Stuff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resources

Textbook
  • Colin Ware
 Information Visualization: Perception for Design 2nd edition (in bookstore), 2006
Reference Books
  • 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
Visual Thinking for Design (2008)
  • Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay and Ben Shneiderman
 Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
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
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Software and Digital Tools
  • IBM Interactive repository for visualization techniques and data sets. Try it out!
 http://www.many-eyes.com/
  • Tableau Software. You can download a copy for use in the class. Email me for a license key

www.tableausoftware.com

 

 

 

 

 

Example Projects from Previous Years
  • Ji-Dong Yim, 2008
 Musician Map
  • Minoo Erfani Joorabchi and Hasti Seifi (2009)
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