Schedule
Mondays, Wednesdays
1–2:30pm ET
45-230
Thursdays
3–4pm ET
45-102
Thursdays
4–5pm ET
32-082
Week 1
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| The Value of Visualization & Intro the Housing Crisis
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| Tech Stack Setup |
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| Data & Image Models |
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| Intro to Web Technologies & HTML |
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| Norman, D. A. (1993). Chapter 3: The Power of Representation. In Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine. |
Week 2
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| Visualization for Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) |
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| Election Spending EDA with Tableau |
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| CSS & Design Systems |
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| D’Ignazio, C. and Klein, L. (2020). Chapter 3: On Rational, Scientific, Objective Viewpoints from Mythical, Imaginary, Impossible Standpoints. In Data Feminism. |
Week 3
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| Effective Visual Encoding: Designing for Perception |
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| Expressive Visual Encoding: Space & Annotation |
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| JavaScript |
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| He, H. A., Walny, J., Thoma, S., Carpendale, S., & Willett, W. (2023). Enthusiastic and grounded, avoidant and cautious: Understanding public receptivity to data and visualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. |
Week 4
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| Narrative Visualization |
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| Race, Gender, and the Ethics of Numbers
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| Svelte.js I (Templating & Control Flow) |
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| Lee, C., Yang, T., Inchoco, G., Jones, G.M., & Satyanarayan, A. (2021). Viral Visualizations: How Coronavirus Skeptics Use Orthodox Data Practices to Promote Unorthodox Science Online. ACM CHI 2021. |
Week 5
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| Data Client (MAPC) Visits |
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| Housing History and Policy Priorities in Massachusetts
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| Svelte.js II (Loading Data & Reactivity) |
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| Homes for Profit: Speculation and Investment in Greater Boston |
Week 6
Week 7
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| Interaction Techniques with Svelte + D3 |
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| FP Pitch Presentations
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| Visualizing quantitative data with D3 |
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| Bach, B., Freeman, E., Abdul-Rahman, A., Turkay, C., Khan, S., Fan, Y., Chen, M. (2022). Dashboard Design Patterns. IEEE VIS 2022. |
Week 8
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| Spring Break |
Week 9
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| Maps, Map Projections & Cartographic Design |
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| Intro to GIS, Spatial Analysis, and Census Data |
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| Geospatial visualizations |
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| Connolly, N. D. B., Winling, L., Nelson R. K., and Marciano, R. (2018). Mapping inequality: ‘Big data’ meets social history in the story of redlining. In The Routledge Companion to Spatial History, pp. 502-524. |
Week 10
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| Narrative Design I |
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| Narrative Design II: Chris Couch on thinking like a journalist
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| Animation & Scrollytelling |
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| Setlur, V., Tory, M. (2022). How do you Converse with an Analytical Chatbot? Revisiting Gricean Maxims for Designing Analytical Conversational Behavior ACM CHI 2022. |
Week 11
Week 12
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| Patriots’ Day |
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| TBD |
Week 13
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| Final Project MVP Presentations
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| Color Theory & Design |
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| Final Project MVP Peer Critiques |
Week 14
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| TBD |
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| TBD |
Week 15
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| Final Project Showcase |