CSC 544 - Data Visualization

Spring 2017

Instructor: Joshua A. Levine
Meets: T/R 9:30-10:45am, 701 Gould-Simpson
Office Hours: M 1:00-2:00pm, R 3:00-4:00pm and by appointment
Office: 754 Gould-Simpson
Course Syllabus
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Course Calendar

Week	Date	Tuesday	Date	Thursday

1	Jan 10	-- No Class --	Jan 12	Introduction
2	Jan 17	OF / Intro to Drawing	Jan 19	Design Principles
3	Jan 24	Perception	Jan 26	Data Abstraction
4	Jan 31	Spatial Data	Feb 02	Visual Encodings
5	Feb 07	Color	Feb 09	Tasks and Interaction
6	Feb 14	Interaction in OF	Feb 16	Views
7	Feb 21	Focus + Context	Feb 23	Filtering and Aggregation
8	Feb 28	Tabular Data	Mar 02	Trees and Graphs
9	Mar 07	Maps and Geospatial	Mar 09	Isosurfaces
10	Mar 14	-- Spring Break --	Mar 16	-- Spring Break --
11	Mar 21	Isosurfaces 2	Mar 23	3D Graphics
12	Mar 28	Volume Rendering	Mar 30	Transfer Function Design
13	Apr 04	Topological Features	Apr 06	Vector Fields
14	Apr 11	Vector Fields 2	Apr 13	Tensor Fields
15	Apr 18	Topo. Features 2	Apr 20	Time-Varying Data
16	Apr 25	Uncertainty	Apr 27	Text and Sets
17	May 02	Final Exam Review

Final Exam: Tues, May 09, 8-10am, 701 Gould-Simpson
Highlighted dates have a programming assignment due by the end of the previous day.
Boxed dates correspond to the drop and withdraw deadlines for this semester.

Lecture 01 - Introduction

Date: January 12, 2017

Required Reading:

Course Syllabus

Optional Reading:

Hans Rosling, TED 2006
A Tour through the Visualization Zoo., Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky. Communications of the ACM, 53(6) pp. 59-67, Jun 2010.
How to Read a Visualization Research Paper: Extracting the Essentials. Robert S. Laramee. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (IEEE CG&A), Vol. 31, No. 3, May/June 2011, pages 78-82.
The Value of Visualization. Jarke van Wijk. Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference, pp. 79-86, 2005.

Lecture 02 - OF / Intro to Drawing

Date: January 17, 2017

Required Reading:

ofBook, including sections "Foreward", "Basics::of Structure", "Basics::Graphics", and "Basics::How openFrameworks works"
99% Details. Podcast from 99% Invisible, Sep 2010.

Optional Reading:

Negative Space. Bang Wong. Nature Methods 8:1, Dec. 2010.
Design of data figures. Bang Wong. Nature Methods 7:665, Sept 2010.

Lecture 03 - Design Principles

Date: January 19, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 1.
Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, 6.10

Optional Reading:

Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2001.
Design Principles for Visual Communication. Maneesh Agrawala, Wilmot Li, Floraine Berthouzoz. Communications of the ACM, 54(4), pp. 60-69, Apr 2011.

Lecture 04 - Perception

Date: January 24, 2017

Required Reading:

Ware, Information Visualization, Chapter 3. Note that this book is free to access on campus (the above link will not work off campus).
Attention and Visual Memory in Visualization and Computer Graphics. Christopher G. Healey, James T. Enns. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 18(7): 1170-1188 (2012)

Optional Reading:

High-Speed Visual Estimation Using Preattentive Processing. Christopher G. Healey, Kellogg S. Booth, and James T. Enns. ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction 3(2), pp. 107-135, 1996.
Gestalt principles (Part 1) Bang Wong. Nature Methods 7, pp. 863, Nov 2010.
Gestalt principles (Part 2) Bang Wong. Nature Methods 7, pp. 941, Dec 2010.

Lecture 05 - Data Abstraction

Date: January 26, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 2.
On the Theory of Scales of Measurement. S. S. Stevens. Science, 103(2684), pp. 677-680, June 1946.

Optional Reading:

Polaris: a system for query, analysis, and visualization of multidimensional databases. Chris Stolte, Diane Tang, Pat Hanrahan. Commun. ACM 51(11): 75-84 (2008).

Lecture 06 - Spatial Data

Date: January 31, 2017

Required Reading:

Telea, Data Visualization: Principles and Practice, Chapter 3.1-3.5, 3.9

Optional Reading:

Telea, Data Visualization: Principles and Practice, Chapter 3.6-3.8

Lecture 07 - Visual Encodings

Date: February 02, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 5
Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, 6.3-6.6, 6.9
Automating the Design of Graphical Presentations of Relational Information.Jock Mackinlay. ACM TOG 5(2), 1986.

Optional Reading:

Animation: Can It Facilitate? Barbara Tversky, Julie Morrison, Mireille Betrancourt. International Journal of Human Computer Studies 57:4, pp 247-262, 2002.

Lecture 08 - Color

Date: February 07, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 10.1-10.3
Color Use Guidelines for Mapping and Visualization. Cynthia A. Brewer. Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Graphics, American Statistical Association, Alexandria VA. pp. 55-60. 1999.
See also: Colorbrewer: Color Advice for Maps
Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful. D. Borland and R. Taylor. Computer Graphics and Applications, 27(2), pp. 14-17, 2007.

Optional Reading:

Ware, Information Visualization, Chapter 4.
Colors, Radiolab, S10, E13

Lecture 09 - Tasks and Interaction

Date: February 09, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 3
Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 6.8

Optional Reading:

Low-level components of analytic activity in information visualization. Robert Amar, James Eagan, and John Stasko. Proc. InfoVis 05, pp. 111-117.
A Design Space of Visualization Tasks. Hans-Jorg Schulz, Thomas Nocke, Magnus Heitzler, and Heidrun Schumann. IEEE TVCG, 19(12): 2376-2385, 2013.

Lecture 10 - Interaction in OF

Date: February 14, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 11
OF Events How-To
OF events
OF Events Examples

Optional Reading:

Smooth and Efficient Zooming and Panning. Jack J. van Wijk and Wim A.A. Nuij, Proc. InfoVis 2003, p. 15-22
Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics. Jeffrey Heer and George G. Robertson. IEEE TVCG (Proc. InfoVis 2007) 13(6): 1240-1247, 2007.

Lecture 11 - Views

Date: February 16, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 12
Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 6.7

Optional Reading:

Interactive Coordinated Multiple-View Visualization of Biomechanical Motion Data. Daniel F. Keefe, Marcus Ewert, William Ribarsky, Remco Chang. IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. Vis 2009), 15(6):1383-1390, 2009.
The visual design and control of the trellis display. R. Becker, W. Cleveland, M. Shyu. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 5(2), 1996.

Lecture 12 - Focus + Context

Date: February 21, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 14
A review of overview+detail, zooming, and focus+context interfaces. Andy Cockburn, Amy Karlson, and Benjamin B. Bederson. ACM Computing Surveys 41(1), 2008.

Optional Reading:

SpaceTree: Supporting Exploration in Large Node Link Tree, Design Evolution and Empirical Evaluation Catherine Plaisant. Jesse Grosjean, and Ben B. Bederson. Proc. InfoVis 2002.
Toolglass and magic lenses: the see-through interface. Eric A. Bier, Maureen C. Stone, Ken Pier, William Buxton, and Tony D. DeRose, Proc. SIGGRAPH, pp. 73-76, 1993.

Lecture 13 - Filtering and Aggregation

Date: February 23, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 13
DimStiller: Workflows for dimensional analysis and reduction. Stephen Ingram, Tamara Munzner, Veronika Irvine, Melanie Tory, Steven Bergner, and Torsten Möller. IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Software and Technologies (VAST) 2010, p 3-10.

Optional Reading:

Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations. Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, and Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE TVCG (Proc InfoVis 2007) 13(6):1129-1136.
Continuous Scatterplots. Sven Bachthaler, Daniel Weiskopf. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 14(6):1428-1435, 2008.

Lecture 14 - Tabular Data

Date: February 28, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 7
Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 15.3-15.5

Optional Reading:

Multi-Scale Banking to 45 Degrees. Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. Proc. InfoVis 2006, published as IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 12(5), Sep/Oct 2006, pages 701-708.
LineUp: Visual Analysis of Multi-Attribute Rankings. Samuel Gratzl, Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg, Hanspeter Pfister and Marc Streit. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis), 2013.
Stacked Graphs - Geometry & Aesthetics. Lee Byron, Martin Wattenberg. Proceedings of InfoVis 2008.
Hierarchical Parallel Coordinates for Exploration of Large Datasets. Ying-Huey Fua, Matthew O. Ward, and Elke A. Rundensteiner. IEEE Visualization 1999.
How to Read a Visualization Research Paper: Extracting the Essentials. Robert S. Laramee. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 31(3): 78-82 (2011)
How to read a paper. S. Keshav. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 37(3) July 2007.
Thoughts on Reading Research Papers - Jeff Offutt (cs.gmu.edu)
How to Read an Engineering Research Paper - William G. Griswold (cseweb.ucsd.edu)

Lecture 15 - Trees and Graphs

Date: March 02, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 9
Treevis.net: A Tree Visualization Reference. Hans-Jorg Schulz, IEEE CG&A, 31(6), pp. 11-15, Nov.-Dec. 2011.
See also: A Visual Bibliography of Tree Visualization. InfoVis 2010 Best Poster.
Hierarchical Edge Bundles: Visualization of Adjacency Relations in Hierarchical Data. Danny Holten, Proc InfoVis 06, published as IEEE TVCG 12(5), p 741-748, 2006.

Optional Reading:

Cushion Treemaps: visualization of hierarchical information. Jack J. van Wijk and Huub van de Wetering, Proc InfoVis 1999, pp 73-78.
Topological Fisheye Views for Visualizing Large Graphs. Emden Gansner, Yehuda Koren and Stephen North, IEEE TVCG 11(4), p 457-468, 2005.
Visual Analysis of Large Graphs: State-of-the-Art and Future Research Challenges. Tatiana von Landesberger, Arjan Kuijper, Tobias Schreck, Jörn Kohlhammer, Jarke J. van Wijk, Jean-Daniel Fekete, and Dieter W. Fellner. Computer Graphics Forum 30:6 (2011), 1719-1749.

Lecture 16 - Maps and Geospatial

Date: March 07, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 8.1-8.3
Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections. Jarke J. van Wijk, The Cartographic Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp.32-42, February 2008. See also Additional Media.

Optional Reading:

The Evolution of Thematic Cartography/A Research Methodology and Historical Review. Alan M. MacEachren. The Canadian Cartographer 16:1 (1979), 17-33.
WORLDMAPPER: the world as you've never seen it before. Danny Dorling, Anna Barford and Mark Newman, IEEE TVCG 12(5), 2006.
Rendering Effective Route Maps: Improving Usability Through Generalization. Maneesh Agrawala and Chris Stolte, SIGGRAPH 2001.

Lecture 17 - Isosurfaces

Date: March 09, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 8.4.1
Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface Construction Algorithm. William E. Lorensen and Harvey E. Cline, Computer Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 87), 21 (4), pp. 163-169 (July 1987, Anaheim, California).

Optional Reading:

The Asymptotic Decider: Resolving the Ambiguity in Marching Cubes. Gregory M. Nielson, Bernd Hamann. IEEE Visualization 1991: 83-93
On the Fractal Dimension of Isosurfaces. Marc Khoury, Rephael Wenger. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 16(6): 1198-1205 (2010)
A Near Optimal Isosurface Extraction Algorithm Using the Span Space. Yarden Livnat, Han-Wei Shen, Christopher R. Johnson. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 2(1): 73-84 (1996)
Topology Verification for Isosurface Extraction. Tiago Etiene, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Carlos Eduardo Scheidegger, Julien Tierny, Thomas J. Peters, Valerio Pascucci, Robert M. Kirby, Cláudio T. Silva. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 18(6): 952-965 (2012)

Lecture 18 - Isosurfaces 2

Date: March 21, 2017

Required Reading:

Improving the Robustness and Accuracy of the Marching Cubes Algorithm for Isosurfacing. Adriano Lopes, Ken Brodlie. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 9(1): 16-29 (2003).
Instructors Note: this one of the "corrected" Marching cubes, even if it's not the most recent, and builds on earlier results [Natarajan '94, Chernyaev '95]

Optional Reading:

Human Factors in Visualization Research. Melanie Tory, Torsten Möller. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 10(1): 72-84, 2004.
Topology, Accuracy, and Quality of Isosurface Meshes Using Dynamic Particles. Miriah D. Meyer, Robert M. Kirby, Ross T. Whitaker. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 13(6): 1704-1711 (2007)
Data structures for soft objects. Geoff Wyvill, Craig McPheeters, Brian Wyvill. The Visual Computer 2(4): 227-234 (1986).

Lecture 19 - 3D Graphics

Date: March 23, 2017

Required Reading:

Optional Reading:

Illumination for Computer Generated Pictures. Bui Tuong Phong. Commun. ACM 18(6): 311-317 (1975)
Compositing digital images. Thomas Porter and Tom Duff. SIGGRAPH 18(3): 253-259, 1984.

Lecture 20 - Volume Rendering

Date: March 28, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 8.4.2
Display of Surfaces from Volume Data. Marc Levoy, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 8(3), 29-37, 1988.
You may also want to read the errata.

Optional Reading:

A rendering algorithm for visualizing 3D scalar fields. Paolo Sabella. SIGGRAPH 1988: 51-58.
Volume rendering. Robert A. Drebin, Loren C. Carpenter, Pat Hanrahan. SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Vol. 22, No. 4, August, 1988, pages 51-58.
Footprint Evaluation for Volume Rendering. Lee Westover. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 367-376, 1990.
Real-Time Volume Graphics. Klaus Engel, Markus Hadwiger, Joe Kniss, Aaron Lefohn, Christof Rezk-Salama and Daniel Weiskopf. In ACM Siggraph 2004, Course 28, 2004.
While I recommend the book, you can Focus on Chapters 1, 3 and Sections III and VII in the coursenotes their SIGGRAPH 2004 course, as well as
the slides from newer coursenotes from EG 2006, specifically parts 1,3,5-7.

Lecture 21 - Transfer Function Design

Date: March 30, 2017

Required Reading:

Multidimensional Transfer Functions for Interactive Volume Rendering. Joe Kniss, Gordon L. Kindlmann, Charles D. Hansen IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 8(3): 270-285 (2002).
The original paper was Best Paper, Vis 2001: Interactive Volume Rendering Using Multi-Dimensional Transfer Functions and Direct Manipulation Widgets. Joe Kniss, Gordon L. Kindlmann, Charles D. Hansen. IEEE Visualization, pp. 255-262, 2001.
The Transfer Function Bake-Off. Hanspeter Pfister, William E. Lorensen, Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Gordon L. Kindlmann, William J. Schroeder, Lisa Sobierajski Avila, Ken Martin, Raghu Machiraju, Jinho Lee. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 21(3): 16-22 (2001).

Optional Reading:

Curvature-Based Transfer Functions for Direct Volume Rendering: Methods and Applications. Gordon L. Kindlmann, Ross T. Whitaker, Tolga Tasdizen, Torsten Möller. IEEE Visualization, pp. 513-520, 2003.
Local Histograms for Design of Transfer Functions in Direct Volume Rendering. Claes Lundström, Patric Ljung, Anders Ynnerman. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 12(6): 1570-1579 2006.
Volume Illustration: Nonphotorealistic Rendering of Volume Models. Penny Rheingans, David S. Ebert. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 7(3): 253-264 (2001)

Lecture 22 - Topological Features

Date: April 04, 2017

Required Reading:

The contour spectrum. Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Valerio Pascucci, Daniel Schikore. IEEE Visualization 1997: 167-174

Optional Reading:

A Topological Hierarchy for Functions on Triangulated Surfaces. Peer-Timo Bremer, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Bernd Hamann, Valerio Pascucci. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 10(4): 385-396 (2004).
Direct Feature Visualization Using Morse-Smale Complexes. Attila Gyulassy, Natallia Kotava, Mark Kim, Charles D. Hansen, Hans Hagen, Valerio Pascucci. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 18(9): 1549-1562 (2012)
Loop surgery for volumetric meshes: Reeb graphs reduced to contour trees. Julien Tierny, Attila Gyulassy, Eddie Simon, Valerio Pascucci. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 15(6): 1177-1184 (2009)

Lecture 23 - Vector Fields

Date: April 06, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 8.5
Streak Lines as Tangent Curves of a Derived Vector Field. Tino Weinkauf, Holger Theisel. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 16(6): 1225-1234 (2010).

Optional Reading:

Flow Visualization. Stephen Kline (National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films). 35 min running time.
Check out the Film Notes as well.
Imaged Based Streamline Generation and Rendering. Liya Li and Han-Wei Shen. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol 13, No. 3, pages 630-640, 2007.
Image-guided streamline placement. G. Turk and D. Banks. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 453-460, 1996.
See also, Creating evenly-spaced streamlines of arbitrary density. B. Jobard and W. Lefer. In Visualization in Scientific Computing, pages 43-56, 1997.

Lecture 24 - Vector Fields 2

Date: April 11, 2017

Required Reading:

Comparing 2D Vector Field Visualization Methods: A User Study. David H. Laidlaw, Robert M. Kirby, Cullen D. Jackson, J. Scott Davidson, Timothy S. Miller, Marco da Silva, William H. Warren, Michael J. Tarr. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 11(1): 59-70 (2005).

Optional Reading:

Imaging vector fields using line integral convolution. B. Cabral and C. Leedom. in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH, pages 263-270, 1993.
Image based flow visualization. J. van Wijk. in Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 745-754, 2002.

Lecture 25 - Tensor Fields

Date: April 13, 2017

Required Reading:

Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, Chapter 8.6
Diffusion Tensor Visualization with Glyph Packing, Gordon Kindlmann C. F. Westin, TVCG, vol.12, no.5, pp.1329-1336, Sept.-Oct. 2006.

Optional Reading:

Strategies for Direct Volume Rendering of Diffusion Tensor Fields, Gordon Kindlmann, David Weinstein, David Hart, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 6(2):124-138, April-June 2000.
Anisotropic Noise Samples for Tensor Field Visualization. Feng, L., Hotz, I., Hamann, B., Joy, K.I. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2008, Vol. 14, pp. 342-354.
Asymmetric Tensor Analysis for Flow Visualization. Eugene Zhang, Harry Yeh, Zhongzang Lin, Robert S. Laramee. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 15(1): 106-122 (2009)
HyperLIC. Xiaoqiang Zheng and Alex Pang. IEEE Visualization 2003.

Lecture 26 - Topo. Features 2

Date: April 18, 2017

Required Reading:

Surface Representations of Two- and Three-Dimensional Fluid Flow Topology. James Helman, Lambertus Hesselink. IEEE Visualization 1990: 6-13.

Optional Reading:

Visualization of Intricate Flow Structures for Vortex Breakdown Analysis. Xavier Tricoche, Christoph Garth, Gordon L. Kindlmann, Eduard Deines, Gerik Scheuermann, Markus Rütten, Charles D. Hansen. IEEE Visualization 2004: 187-194.
The topology of symmetric, second-order tensor fields. Thierry Delmarcelle and Lambertus Hesselink. Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '94, Pages 140-147, VIS 1994.
Saddle Connectors - An Approach to Visualizing the Topological Skeleton of Complex 3D Vector Fields. Holger Theisel, Tino Weinkauf, Hans-Christian Hege, Hans-Peter Seidel. IEEE Visualization 2003: 225-232.
Efficient Morse Decompositions of Vector Fields. Guoning Chen, Konstantin Mischaikow, Robert S. Laramee, Eugene Zhang. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 14(4): 848-862 (2008)

Lecture 27 - Time-Varying Data

Date: April 20, 2017

Required Reading:

Time and Streak Surfaces for Flow Visualization in Large Time-Varying Data Sets. Harinarayan Krishnan, Christoph Garth, Kenneth I. Joy. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 15(6): 1267-1274 (2009)

Optional Reading:

Topology tracking for the visualization of time-dependent two-dimensional flows. Xavier Tricoche, Thomas Wischgoll, Gerik Scheuermann, Hans Hagen. Computers & Graphics 26(2): 249-257 (2002)
Path Line Oriented Topology for Periodic 2D Time-Dependent Vector Fields. Kuangyu Shi, Holger Theisel, Tino Weinkauf, Helwig Hauser, Hans-Christian Hege, Hans-Peter Seidel. EuroVis 2006: 139-146
LCS Tutorial - Shawn Shadden (shaddenlab.berkeley.edu)
Efficient Computation and Visualization of Coherent Structures in Fluid Flow Applications. Christoph Garth, Florian Gerhardt, Xavier Tricoche, Hans Hagen. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 13(6): 1464-1471 (2007)
Time-Dependent 2-D Vector Field Topology: An Approach Inspired by Lagrangian Coherent Structures. Filip Sadlo, Daniel Weiskopf. Comput. Graph. Forum 29(1): 88-100 (2010)

Lecture 28 - Uncertainty

Date: April 25, 2017

Required Reading:

Visualization of Uncertainty without a Mean. Kristin Potter, Samuel Gerber, Erik W. Anderson. IEEE CG&A. 33(1), pp.75-79, 2013.

Optional Reading:

Noodles: A Tool for Visualization of Numerical Weather Model Ensemble Uncertainty. Jibonananda Sanyal, Song Zhang, Jamie Dyer, Andrew Mercer, Philip Amburn, and Robert J. Moorhead. IEEE TVCG 16(6), 2010.
Result-Driven Exploration of Simulation Parameter Spaces for Visual Effects Design. Stefan Bruckner, Torsten Möller IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 16(6):1467-1475, October 2010.
Vismon: Facilitating Analysis of Trade-Offs, Uncertainty, and Sensitivity In Fisheries Management Decision Making. Maryam Booshehrian, Torsten Möller, Randall M. Peterman, and Tamara Munzner. Computer Graphics Forum, 31(3):1235-1244, 2012.
Statistically Quantitative Volume Visualization. Joe Michael Kniss, Robert L. Van Uitert Jr., Abraham Stephens, Guo-Shi Li, Tolga Tasdizen, Charles D. Hansen. IEEE Visualization, pp. 287-294, 2005.
Contour Boxplots: A Method for Characterizing Uncertainty in Feature Sets from Simulation Ensembles. Ross T. Whitaker, Mahsa Mirzargar, Robert M. Kirby. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 19(12): 2713-2722 (2013)

Lecture 29 - Text and Sets

Date: April 27, 2017

Required Reading:

Jigsaw: Supporting Investigative Analysis through Interactive Visualization. John T. Stasko, Carsten Görg, Zhicheng Liu. Information Visualization 7(2): 118-132 (2008).
See also, Additional Media.
Bubble Sets: Revealing Set Relations with Isocontours over Existing Visualizations. Christopher Collins, Gerald Penn, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 15(6): 1009-1016 (2009)

Optional Reading:

Arc Diagrams: Visualizing Structure in Strings. Martin Wattenberg. IEEE Information Visualization Symposium, 2002.
DocuBurst: Visualizing Document Content using Language Structure. Christopher Collins, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, Gerald Penn. Comput. Graph. Forum 28(3): 1039-1046 (2009)
UpSet: Visualization of Intersecting Sets. Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg, Hendrik Strobelt, Romain Vuillemot, Hanspeter Pfister. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 20(12): 1983-1992 (2014)
Design Study of LineSets, a Novel Set Visualization Technique. Basak Alper, Nathalie Henry Riche, Gonzalo Ramos, Mary Czerwinski. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 17(12): 2259-2267 (2011)
KelpFusion: A Hybrid Set Visualization Technique. Wouter Meulemans, Nathalie Henry Riche, Bettina Speckmann, Basak Alper, Tim Dwyer. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 19(11): 1846-1858 (2013)

Lecture 30 - Final Exam Review

Date: May 02, 2017

Required Reading:

None

Optional Reading:

Attention and Visual Memory in Visualization and Computer Graphics. Christopher G. Healey, James T. Enns. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 18(7): 1170-1188 (2012)
On the Theory of Scales of Measurement. S. S. Stevens. Science, 103(2684), pp. 677-680, June 1946.
Automating the Design of Graphical Presentations of Relational Information. Jock Mackinlay. ACM TOG 5(2), 1986.
A Multi-Level Typology of Abstract Visualization Tasks. Matthew Brehmer and Tamara Munzner. IEEE TVCG, 19(12): 2376-2385, 2013.
Representing Colors as Three Numbers. Maureen C. Stone. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 25(4): 78-85 (2005)
A review of overview+detail, zooming, and focus+context interfaces. Andy Cockburn, Amy Karlson, and Benjamin B. Bederson. ACM Computing Surveys 41(1), 2008.
Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations. Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, and Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE TVCG (Proc InfoVis 2007) 13(6):1129-1136.
Hierarchical Parallel Coordinates for Exploration of Large Datasets. Ying-Huey Fua, Matthew O. Ward, and Elke A. Rundensteiner. IEEE Visualization 1999.
Visual Analysis of Large Graphs: State-of-the-Art and Future Research Challenges. Tatiana von Landesberger, Arjan Kuijper, Tobias Schreck, Jörn Kohlhammer, Jarke J. van Wijk, Jean-Daniel Fekete, and Dieter W. Fellner. Computer Graphics Forum 30:6 (2011), 1719-1749.
Jigsaw: Supporting Investigative Analysis through Interactive Visualization. John T. Stasko, Carsten Görg, Zhicheng Liu. Information Visualization 7(2): 118-132 (2008).
See also, Additional Media
Bubble Sets: Revealing Set Relations with Isocontours over Existing Visualizations. Christopher Collins, Gerald Penn, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 15(6): 1009-1016 (2009)
KelpFusion: A Hybrid Set Visualization Technique. Wouter Meulemans, Nathalie Henry Riche, Bettina Speckmann, Basak Alper, Tim Dwyer. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 19(11): 1846-1858 (2013)
Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface Construction Algorithm. William E. Lorensen and Harvey E. Cline, Computer Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 87), 21 (4), pp. 163-169 (July 1987, Anaheim, California).
Human Factors in Visualization Research. Melanie Tory, Torsten Möller. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 10(1): 72-84, 2004.
Display of Surfaces from Volume Data. Marc Levoy, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 8(3), 29-37, 1988.
You may also want to read the errata.
Multidimensional Transfer Functions for Interactive Volume Rendering. Joe Kniss, Gordon L. Kindlmann, Charles D. Hansen IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 8(3): 270-285 (2002).
The original paper was Best Paper, Vis 2001: Interactive Volume Rendering Using Multi-Dimensional Transfer Functions and Direct Manipulation Widgets. Joe Kniss, Gordon L. Kindlmann, Charles D. Hansen. IEEE Visualization, pp. 255-262, 2001.
The Transfer Function Bake-Off. Hanspeter Pfister, William E. Lorensen, Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Gordon L. Kindlmann, William J. Schroeder, Lisa Sobierajski Avila, Ken Martin, Raghu Machiraju, Jinho Lee. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 21(3): 16-22 (2001).
The contour spectrum. Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Valerio Pascucci, Daniel Schikore. IEEE Visualization 1997: 167-174.
Streak Lines as Tangent Curves of a Derived Vector Field. Tino Weinkauf, Holger Theisel. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 16(6): 1225-1234 (2010).
Comparing 2D Vector Field Visualization Methods: A User Study. David H. Laidlaw, Robert M. Kirby, Cullen D. Jackson, J. Scott Davidson, Timothy S. Miller, Marco da Silva, William H. Warren, Michael J. Tarr. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 11(1): 59-70 (2005).
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Assignment 00 - Logistics
Assigned: Jan 12
Due: Jan 16 11:59:59 PM

Assignment 01 - OFVis
Assigned: Jan 17
Due: Jan 30 11:59:59 PM

Assignment 02 - ParaView
Assigned: Jan 31
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Assignment 03 - SPLOMs
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Assignment 04 - PCs
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Assignment 05 - Isosurfaces
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Assignment 06 - TFs
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Assignment 07 - FlowVis
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