Project Presentations Today we are joined by Agnes Chang, Alec Barrett, and Ellie Frymire Each student will have 5 minutes for their presentation followed by ≈10 minutes of feedback from our guest critics. Assignment Next Tuesday will be our final class meeting and your best chance to incorporate the feedback…
Presentation Suzanna on Kate Crawford Kiril on Hans Rosling Projects Deliver first drafts of final project keynotes (10 minutes apiece) Assignment Incorporate the feedback you received to both your project and your presentation. Edit the presentation down so that it clocks in at five minutes. NB: Our next class will…
Presentation Isabel on Ray Dalio Projects Meet in small groups to look over your progress Assignment Prepare an approximately 10 minute long slide presentation describing your project, its subject matter, and what you’ve made/discovered.…
Presentation Jed on Google Arts & Culture Projects Meet in small groups to look over your progress Assignment Design and realize a third graphic using real data Incorporate feedback into your existing pair of visualizations Begin implementing the interactive features you decided upon for your site. Now is also a…
Discussion of Kate Crawford’s Anatomy of an AI System Individual meetings to look over your wireframes and discuss the substance of your project plans Assignment Design and realize a second graphic using real data Continue refining your webpage design, moving from wireframe-with-placeholders to something more considered (with thoughtfully selected…
Presentation Mio on Forensic Architecture Expert interviews post-mortem Making Your Case Having reflected on the research you did over break and what you learned from your domain-expert interview, try to condense your overall argument into a single (long) web page Use one or more sheets of 8½×11" paper…
Anatomy of an AI System by Kate Crawford The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources Read her essay and choose one additional article from the Footnotes section to also read before class and be able to report on. Use the tag “R4” when…
Presentation Clare on Mark Lombardi Quantitative Analysis: Round 2 Critique of your final posters and ideas for next steps Assignment Conduct your interview Create a transcript (consider uploading your recording to Youtube and copy/pasting its automatic transcription from the "…" menu) Place the transcript in a file called…
Presentation Caitlyn on Tahir Hemphill Interview subjects Share your short-list of domain experts and choose one or two to send an initial email to Quantitative Analysis: Round 1 Present results of your exploratory visualizations and the research questions you arrived at Work in pairs to choose which of the ‘stock’…
Presentation Ryan on the Washington Post graphics team Qualitative → Quantitative Qualitative Analysis: Round 2 Critique of final posters and process review Quantitative Analysis: Intro Discussion of everyone’s favorite example visualizations of quantitative data Assignment Quantitative Analysis: Round 1 Before ‘designing’ anything, we will be using exploratory visualizations of real,…
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Presentation Grace on James Bridle Reading Discussion of Manovich’s Anti-Sublime Ideal Qualitative Analysis: Round 1 Silent feedback: Walk around the room for ≈20 minutes and leave at least 1 ‘formal’ and 1 ‘conceptual’ sticky note on each classmate’s group of posters Brief critique of posters and identification of…
Reading Materials Introductory Guides The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python – A great quick-start that focuses on setting up your dev environment and offers a series of task-based tutorials Dive Into Python 3 – The original ’getting started with Python’ book The Official Tutorial – Terse but quite complete Reference Materials The Standard…
Research Projects You will each be responsible for researching a designer or artist and presenting your findings Please choose a research subject from this list and sign up for a time slot in this spreadsheet. Presentations: Topics & Precedents You will have 10 minutes apiece to bring us up to…
The Anti-Sublime Ideal in New Media by Lev Manovich [Visualizations] carry the promise of rendering phenomena that are beyond the scale of human senses into something that is within our reach, something visible and tangible ... This promise makes data mapping into the exact opposite of the Romantic art concerned with…
Each student will select a data visualization-related person or group to thoroughly research and report on for the rest of the class. You will become an expert in this subject and explore some of the main ideas and concepts behind the research topic you've selected.Some questions to think about:…
The Craft of Research by Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb, et al. Read chapters 7–10 from Part III: Making an Argument. Use the tag “R2” when you post your assessment of the text’s message and the questions it raises.…
Community Agreement We’ll collectively edit this document to establish some ground rules for what we expect from one another during class meetings this semester Reading discussion Chapters 3–6 of The Craft of Research Exercise: Create a Topic Map Using the printed out copy of your Literature Review as…
7 Numbers in 7 Days Critique of posters Exercise: Literature Review Start by visiting pages on Wikipedia that are relevant to your topic. Skim each article looking for primary sources relating to your subject. Then scroll down to the bottom of the page and look over the References section and…
The Craft of Research by Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb, et al. Read chapters 3–6 from Part II: Asking Questions, Finding Answers. Use the tag “R1” when you post your assessment of the text’s message and the questions it raises.…
7 Numbers in 7 DaysFor the next 7 days you will create one poster a day. Each day, find a single number from a different subject area that interests you. For each, create a visual representation of that number using one of the seven retinal variables defined by Jacques Bertin…
Introductions and show & tell brief presentations of previous work Basic plan for the semester readings research presenations static prototyping & exploration weekly technical workshops on Thursdays interview & introduction-writing final (potentially interactive) project Housekeeping Collect contact info Create an account on the course website Gain r/w access to…
The university provides many resources to help students achieve academic and artistic excellence. These resources include: The University (and associated) Libraries The University Learning Center University Disabilities Service In keeping with the university’s policy of providing equal access for students with disabilities, any student with a disability who needs…
The Major Studio courses are an opportunity for students to reflect upon the knowledge they have gained in their introductory classes and apply it to the design of a single data visualization project. The course will give students the detailed knowledge that comes from working on a project in depth…