Week 4 Reading and Lecture

Please Read: Chapter 6 “Rules of Thumb”

• Please pay special attention to 6.7 "Overview First, Zoom and Filter, Details on Demand", which is based on the seminal paper The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations by Ben Shneiderman

Please Read/Skim: All articles in Data Sketches

• Open each of these pages and skim through them quickly, paying special attention to the sketches and the process.
• http://www.datasketch.es/july/
• http://www.datasketch.es/august/
• http://www.datasketch.es/september/
• http://www.datasketch.es/october/
• http://www.datasketch.es/november/
• http://www.datasketch.es/december/
• http://www.datasketch.es/january/

Please Watch: Tamara Munzner Keynote from 32:05 to 45:26(13 min)

Please Watch: Data Sketch|es: A Visualization A Month - Shirley Wu and Nadieh Bremer (30 min)

• This awesome talk touches upon the process of building interactive visualizations, based on a flow from data to sketches to code.
• Please watch this before doing your project proposal sketch.