While I’m still working on my reflection of the dataviz course I just taught, there were some useful dataviz-teaching talks at the recent IEEE VIS conference.
Jen Christiansen and Robert Kosara have great summaries of the panel on “Vis, The Next Generation: Teaching Across the Researcher-Practitioner Gap.”
Even better, slides are available for some of the talks: Marti Hearst, Tamara Munzner, and Eytan Adar. Lots of inspiration for the next time I teach.
Finally, here are links to the syllabi or websites of various past dataviz courses. Browsing these helps me think about what to cover and how to teach it.
- Andrew Thomas, CMU 36-721 F’14
- Rebecca Nugent, CMU 36-721 F’10 and 36-315 S’14
- Ben Shneiderman, U of Maryland CMSC 734 S’15
- Hadley Wickham, Rice stat499 F’10 and stat645 S’11
- Tamara Munzner, U of British Columbia CS533C and CS547 (various terms)
- Trevor Branch, U of Washington FISH 554 A W’15
- Jeffrey Heer, U of Washington CSE512 W’14, and Stanford cs448b F’12 and earlier terms
- Pat Hanrahan, Stanford CS448B W’06 and earlier terms
- Eytan Adar, U of Michigan SI649 F’15
- Alexander Lex, Harvard CS171 S’15
- Andrew Gelman, Columbia Statistics G8307 F’15
- Kaiser Fung, NYU DATA1-CE9002 S’14 and workshop Su’15
- Kevin Quealy, Metis workshop S’15
- Alberto Cairo and Scott Murray, Knight Center MOOC F’15
- Scott Murray, U of San Francisco ART 335-01 F’12: Information Visualization
- Marti Hearst, Berkeley i247 (various terms)
- Annette Greiner and Christopher Arnold, Berkeley (in development?)
- Alan Rogers, U of Utah Anth 5485 S’11
- Dan Carr, George Mason STAT 875 S’10 and STAT 663 F’09
- John Stasko, Georgia Tech CS 7450 F’15
- Alex Endert, Georgia Tech CS 7450 F’14
- Sheelagh Carpendale, Calgary CPSC 683 W’15
- Maneesh Agarwala, Berkeley CS 294 F’14
- Katy Borner, Indiana S637 S’13
- Niklas Elmqvist, Maryland INST 728V F’15
- Remco Chang, Tufts COMP 150 F’15
- Miriah Meyer, Utah CS 6964 S’12
- Chris North, Virginia Tech CS 5764 F’09
- Amelia McNamara, UCLA Statistics 98T S’15
- Andrew Heiss, Brigham Young MPA 635 F’18
Update: More syllabi shared through the Isostat mailing list:
- Amelia McNamara, Smith SDS 136 F’17
- Aaron Rendahl, U of Minnesota STAT8801 (various semesters)
- Silas Bergen, Winona State U DSCI 310 F’17
Not quite data visualization, but related:
- Scott Murray, U of San Francisco ART 155-02 F’12: Visual Communication I (graphic design)
- Dan Meyer, Information Design (a hypothetical(?) high school math class)
- Nick Sousanis, U of Calgary Comics as Thinking F’15 (incl. multimodal communication, explanatory comics, and maps & diagrams)
Comment below or tweet @civilstat with any others I’ve missed, and I’ll add them to the list.
(Update: Thanks to John Stasko for links to many I missed, including his own excellent course site & resource page.)