Data Visualization

Spring 2014

Professor Robert M. Haralick

Classroom 5382

Office Hours: Monday 4PM-5PM Room 4319

Main Text

Wong, Dona, Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics, Norton, W. W. And Company, Inc., (2013 )
Chun-houh Chen, Wolgang Hardle, Antony Unwin (Ed.), Handbook Of Data Visualization, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2008.

Text Resources

Few, Stephen, Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten, Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2004
Fung, Kaiser, Numbersense: How To Use Big Data To Your Advantage, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2013
Meirelles, Isabel, Design for Information: An Introduction to the Histories, Theories, and Best Practices Behind Effective Information Visualizations , Rockport Publishers, 2013
Schneiderman, Ben, Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (5th Edition), Prentice Hall, 2009
Tufte, E. R., Envisioning Information, Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1990
Tufte, E.R., The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Edition, Graphics Press; 2001

Schedule of Lectures

February 2	Dona Wong
February 9	Robert Haralick
February 16	No Class - But class will be held on Wednesday February 18
February 23	Michael Grossberg
March 2	Enrico Bertini
March 9	Lev Manovich
March 16	Sharon Hsaio
March 23	Robert Haralick
March 30	Michael Grossberg
April 6	SPRING BREAK
April 13	Kristen Sosulski
April 20	Kaiser Fung
April 27	Amanda Cox
May 4	Student Presentations
May 11	Student Presentations

Professor Grossberg's collection of scholarly archival papers

Professor Haralick's Lecture Slides

Professor Grossberg's Lecture Slides

Color Papers

CIE Colorimetry
CIELab Color Space, Gernot Hoffmann
Color Appearance and Color Difference Specification, David Brainard
The Dark Side of CIELAB, Sharma, Rodriguez-Pardo
Simple Analytic Approximations to the CIE XYZ Color Matching Functions, Wyman, Sloan, Shirley
Cone Photoreceptor Sensitivies and Unique Hue Chromatic Responses, Pridmore
The Spectral Sensitivies of the Middle- and Long-Wavelength-Sensitive Cones Derived From Measurements in Observers of Known Genotype, Stockman, Sharpe
Color Perception, Alan Robertson
How To Display Data Badly, Howard Wainer
Understanding Color Models: A Review, Ibraheem, Hasan, Khan, Mishra
The CIE and xyY Color Spaces, Douglas Kerr
The Munsell Color System: A scientific compromise from the world of art, Sally Cochrane

Grading

Project 90%
Class Participation 10%