Week 2: Visual Encoding

Lecture Slides

Readings

• Design and Redesign in Data Visualization. Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas. 2015.
• Scales, Axes, and Legends Notebook
• Multi-View Composition Notebook

Recommended Readings

• Chapter 3: The Power of Representation, in Things That Make Us Smart. Don Norman.
• Chapters 2, 4 in Interactive Data Visualization for the Web, 2nd Edition. Scott Murray.
• Chapter 3 in Interactive Data Visualization for the Web, 2nd Edition. Scott Murray. Either read or skim depending on your comfort level with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Exercises

• Deceptive Visualization

Assignment

• Deceptive Visualization