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Module Overview

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Module Overview

The module takes place over 5 weeks, including a reading week (3), from Tuesday to Friday, 9.30 – 17.00, November 02 – December 01 2017. Class sessions include lectures, discussions, mentoring, in-class exercises, project assignments and independent study blocks. Project assignments are conducted in 5 groups of 3 students.

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• D3- A JavaScript library for data-driven DOM manipulation, interaction and animation. Includes utilities for visualization techniques and SVG generation.
• Vega- A declarative language for representing visualizations. Vega will parse a visualization specification to produce a JavaScript-based visualization, using either HTML Canvas or SVG rendering. Vega is particularly useful for creating programs that produce visualizations as output.
• Vega-Lite- A high-level visualization grammar that compiles concise specifications to full Vega specifications.
• Processing or p5.js- A popular Java-like graphics and interaction language and IDE. Processing has a strong user community with many examples. p5.js is a sister project for JavaScript.
• Leaflet– a popular open-source mapping library

Visualization Tools

• Tableau for Students- get a free Tableau license as a student
• Tableau Public- a free version of Tableau which publishes to the web
• Voyager and Polestar– web-based data exploration tools from UW's Interactive Data Lab
• RAWGraphs - easily prototype or even build multivariate & more advanced data visualizations in the browser.
• Lyra- an interactive visualization design environment
• ggplot2- a graphics language for R
• GGobi- classic system for visualizations of multivariate data

Visualization Programming Environments

• Bl.ocks: Code examples, hosting, and reviews
• Bl.ocks Explorer: Explore and discover bl.ocks based on D3 API calls
• Block Builder: Environment to create, edit, and fork D3 examples

Network Analysis Tools

• Gephi- an interactive graph analysis application
• NodeXL- a graph analysis plug-in for Excel
• GUESS- a combined visual/scripting interface for graph analysis
• Pajek- another popular network analysis tool
• NetworkX- graph analysis library for Python
• SNAP- graph analysis library for C++

Color Tools

• http://colorbrewer2.org/
• http://zzolo.org/colortools
• http://hclwizard.org:64230/hclwizard
• http://contrast-finder.tanaguru.com
• https://toolness.github.io/accessible-color-matrix
• http://www.hsluv.org
• http://colllor.com
• https://github.com/gka/chroma.js/ - JavaScript library for all kinds of color manipulations

Calendar

TG: Timo Grossenbacher, BW: Benjamin Wiederkehr, JG: Joël Gähwiler

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