Schedule
Mondays, Wednesdays
1–2:30pm ET
45-230
Thursdays
3–4pm ET
45-230
Thursdays
4–5pm ET
45-230
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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| Case Studies in 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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| Designing for Perception |
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| (In)Effective Visual Encoding
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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
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| Intro to Developing Web-Based Visualization |
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| A Tour through the Interaction Zoo I |
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| Visualizing categorical data with D3 |
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| Pattillo, M. (2013). Housing: Commodity Versus Right. Annual Review of Sociology 39: 509-31. |
Week 7
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| A Tour through the Interaction Zoo II |
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| FP Pitch Presentations
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| Visualizing quantitative data with D3 |
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| Lee-Robbins E, Adar E (2022). Affective learning objectives for communicative visualizations. IEEE TVCG 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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| Color |
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| Animation
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| Animation & Scrollytelling |
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| Sarikaya, A., Correll, M., Bartram, L.R., Tory, M.K., & Fisher, D. (2019). What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dashboards? IEEE TVCG. |
Week 11
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| Accessibility I |
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| Accessibility II |
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| Accessibility |
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| Chundury, P., Patnaik, B., Reyazuddin, Y., Tang, C., Lazar, J., & Elmqvist, N. (2021). Towards Understanding Sensory Substitution for Accessible Visualization: An Interview Study. IEEE TVCG |
Week 12
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| President’s Day |
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| Error & Uncertainty (Guest Lecture) |
Week 13
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| Final Project MVP Presentations
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| TBD (Guest Lecture) |
Week 14
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| TBD (Guest Lecture) |
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| TBD (Guest Lecture) |
Week 15
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| Final Project Showcase |