Fall 2009
Tuesday/Thursday 2:10–3:30. Ross 025
Heike Hofmann, hofmann@iastate.edu.
Office hours by arrangement. Snedecor 2413
Charlie Kostelnick, chkostel@iastate.edu.
Office hours TBD. Ross 201
Dianne Cook, dicook@iastate.edu.
Office hour TBD. Snedecor 2415
Course syllabus describing objectives, software used, topics and assessment.
| Date | Lecture and Resources | Dates and Deadlines | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25 | Introductions, What is this course about? | ||
| Great Examples | |||
| Aug 27 | Historical and famous examples (1) | ||
| Sep 1 | Historical and famous examples (2) | ||
| Sep 3 | Contemporary Examples | ||
| Audience & Purpose | |||
| Sep 8 | Communication purpose, evaluating graphics | Homework I, due Sep 17. | |
| Sep 10 | Critical Assessment of Selected Charts - Group Work | Midterm, 20 min at start of class. | |
| Graphical Conventions | |||
| Sep 15 | Types of quantitative information, Basic Data Plots | ||
| Sep 17 | Visual Conventions | Homework II, due Sep 29. | |
| Human Cognition | |||
| Sep 22 | Graphical Elements: points, lines, color | ||
| Sep 24 | Graphical Perception & Misperception | ||
| Testing Human Cognition | |||
| Sep 29 | Designing Experiments (1) | ||
| Oct 1 | JMP and Illustrator - in the lab in 37 Ross | Homework III, due Oct 8/Oct 15 | |
| Oct 6 | Designing Experiments (2) | ||
| Interactive Graphics | |||
| Oct 8 | Interactive Graphics - in the lab in 37 Ross | ||
| Oct 13 | Interacting with graphics (2) | ||
| Ethics | |||
| Oct 15 | Lab Session: Health Care, data file | Health Care Project | |
| Oct 20 | Ethics, Privacy, public data (2) | ||
| Tables, Maps & Text | |||
| Oct 22 | Ethics, Homework Discussion | ||
| Oct 27 | Presenting Tables | ||
| Oct 29 | Introduction to Processing | Final Project, due dates: Nov 5/Nov 17/Dec 3 | |
| Nov 3 | Some more Processing | ||
| Nov 5 | Processing Lab | ||
| Nov 10 | Geographic Visualizations | ||
| Nov 17 | Text Visualization | ||
| Miscellaneous Topics | |||
| Nov 19 | Lab | ||
| Thanksgiving | |||
| Nov 24/26 | Thanksgiving Week | ||
| Dec 1/3 | Miscellaneous | ||
| Project Presentations | |||
| Dec 8/10 | Project Discussions | ||
| Dec 15/17 | Project Presentations | ||