Week 3 - (Geo)Visualization

Slides

• html
• pdf

To do before class

• Nathan Yau’s video on visualization.
• Spend the rest of the prep hour browsing through his excellet blog, Flowing Data.

Related readings

• This class was partially based on (Rey, 2015).
• The slides are also based on (Tufte, 1983), which is not only a classic resource for all things visualization, but a beautiful book.
• Nathan Yau’s book “Visualize this” is a good introductory overview.
• Interesting chronology of milestones in visualization (pdf).

References

1. Rey, S. (2015). Geovisualization. In GPH471: Geographic Information Analysis. Lecture slides from course taught at Arizona State University.
2. Tufte, E. R. (1983). The visual display of quantitative information. Graphics press Cheshire, CT.