LSC 563 Data Visualization
This course focuses on the ways that humans process and encode visual information, and how an understanding of these processes can be used to create effective visualizations. The course contains readings, hands-on labs, exercises, graded discussion forums, and a final project. A final project requires students to utilize concepts and tools learned in the weekly lectures, labs, exercises, and class discussions. Selected topics of the course include (1) visual perception, and cognition, (2) visual components of graphs, (3) critical and scientific thinking as applied to data visualization, (4) basic exploratory data analysis, and (5) representing qualitative and quantitative relationships using graphs. The course will combine theoretical foundations with the implementation and evaluation of data visualization uses in multiple disciplines.