Data Visualisation and Information Graphics: Course material

This is a collection of material for the data visualization course held by Moritz Stefaner in the Cognitive Science program at the University of Osnabrück, fall 2013. Thanks to Felix Weber for the help with compiling this document.

Evaluation form

Course material


General

History

Interactive data vis today

Design

Good demonstration of data-ink ratio

Visual variables and visual encoding

Visual variables

Visual variable accuracy

Area

Colors

Workflow

Diagram types and techniques

General overviews

Unusual diagram types

Text visualization

Hierarchies

Time

Networks

Maps

Storytelling

Interaction

Data art and unusual forms of representation

Tools

More material

Blogs

Scientific conferences and journals

Design conferences

Online platforms

Books

Podcasts


Projects

(For practical projects, you can work in teams up to 3 people)

Pick one:

Fixing the rail fare chart

Data: Google docs

Network visualization

of a facebook community (from an anonymized sample, see dropbox, or by getting your own one by using the netvizz facebook app)

a project of your own

Paper presentation

10 minute (5 slides) presentation of a scientific paper on data visualization