2009W MAT259 - Visualizing Information


2009W Instructor TA		MAT259 Visualizing Information(4 units) George Legrady Angus Forbes Lecture: Tuesday 11:001:00, Lab: Thursday 11:001:00 estudio/Arts2220

Course Description		A lecture and lab course to explore the visual organization of information. Lectures, readings and technical demos will focus on a range of conceptual models of data visual mapping as implemented in various disciplines, artistic, statistical and scientific, that are used to represent information visually. All the projects and demos will be using the same dataset collected since 2005 through the Seattle Public Library project to facilitate skill acquisition in visual and information design. Course and Projects will address 3 forms of data visualization: 1) Linear data flow 2) 2D Mapping Multidirectional 3) 3D Spatial Interactive Examples from last year's projects

Koolhaas' Seattle Library Making Visible the Invisible The Data		OMA/LMN Concept Book \| PrinceRamus on TED \| SPL Architecture Project Link \| ICHIM Publication \| Mapping Statistics Interview XML Format Data \| Dewey Classification \| ItemTypes \| Histogram

SECTION ID		MAPPING DATA IN A LINEAR DIRECTION

[wk 1].......Lecture 1.06		Introduction: Data Overview
		Data Visualization: To translate abstract data into visual form Purpose: To give insight about a phenomena Linear Visualization

Lab 1.08		XMLstripper \| SPLDataTools
		Introduction to the Processing environment \| XML Basic

Reading		Review course resources

[wk 2].............Lab 1.13		Interactive Histogram

Lecture 1.15		Visual Communication Basics [PPT]
		Form \| Color \| Balance \| Movement \|

Reading		Information Visualization (Robert Kosara)

[wk 3].......Lecture 1.20		Discipline Specific Perspectives [PPT]
		Historical examples Tufte [2] Scientific Visualization Studio: NASA \| Wolfram's New Kind of Science Library Science: Information retrieval \| data mapping Social Science/Geography: GIS \| CyberSpace \| CyberGeography Information Aesthetics: Infosthetics \| Visual Complexity


1.22		Linear Data Project Presentation Syed Reza Ali Andres Burbano Darren Hardy Pehr Hovey Matt Hubert


Reading		Organic Information Design, Ben Fry

SECTION 2D		MULTIDIRECTIONAL FLOW IN 2D MAPPING SPACE

[wk 4]......Lecture 1.27		Information Design

Lab 1.29		MAST CONFERENCE


[wk 5]......Lecture 2.03		2D Spatial Maps [ppt]

Lab 2.05		Pie Chart \| TreeMap Demo \| HerdingGame


[wk 6]......Lecture 2.10		Individual Lab


Lab 2.12		2D Data Project Presentation Syed Reza Ali Andres Burbano Darren Hardy Pehr Hovey Matt Hubert


SECTION 3D		3D SPATIAL INTERACTIVE

[wk 7].......Lecture 2.17		Time Based Visualization & Narrative
Data in 3D Space Mass Interactive Time Wrap Map Torus 3D Ephemera Fluid Metaphoric		Medrano \| YChuang \| Chaos Form \| Velocity \| Lorenz [1] \| 3D Tetrahedon Space \| Elouini DataForm \| Severe Storm \| Tufte \| Dark Matter \| Flow Time \| Torus Wrap \| DataMapped Lebbeus W \| Hadid \| Lynn \|

lab 2.19		Processing



Reading		TBA

[wk 8].......Lecture 2.24		Translation & Metaphor, Interactive
		To use a set of data for another purpose (light, noise as a way to design a building)

Lab 2.26		TBA



[wk 9].................. 3.03		Independent Meetings

3.05		Work-in-Progress Presentation


[wk 10]............Lab 3.10		Dead Week; Production

Lab 3.12

[wk 11]................. 3.17		Final Projects Syed Reza Ali Andres Burbano Darren Hardy Pehr Hovey Matt Hubert


		Bibliography & Resources

Grading		Completion of 3 projects 25% each Participation and Literature Review 25% The course is designed to accommodate both beginning and advanced students. All students will be expected to perform at the level of their expertise but programming experience is desirable.