Reading for this week
- Bernice E. Rogowitz , Lloyd A. Treinish , Steve Bryson, How not to lie with visualization, Computers in Physics, v.10 n.3, p.268-273, May/June 1996.
- Chapter 2 - Graphical Integrity chapter from Tufte’s book
- Chapter 5 - Fundamental Variations of Graphs - Show me the numbers book
- 14 Ways to Say Nothing with Scientific Visualization, A. Globus, E. Raible.
Assignments
- Upload a text file to Many Eyes and experiment with a couple of in-built visualizations. Post them to your blog
- Post two good visualizations from the field of sports on your blog. Discuss why they are effective.
- Download and install Tableau on your computer. Click here to go to Tableau Software's website for the download.
- Finish the required reading for next class
- Optional assignment: Download and visualize the 'Haiti Earthquake aid pledged by country" data in Many Eyes. Download the data from the link provided below and then upload it to Many Eyes and then pick the 'World Map' visualization of the data. Data is available in HTML format and Excel (XLS) format