4.032 / 4.033

Design Studio:
Information and Visualization Projects

This is the home page of MIT 4.032 / 4.033 Design Studio: Information and Visualization Projects, a course in the MIT Design Minor program

Instructors
Glen Cummings
Irene de la Torre - Arenas

Teacher Assistant
Paloma Francisca Goncales Rojas

Course Syllabus

Week 1 - Assignment 1: Clocks

Lectures

• Lecture Slides
• Lecture Slides - Programming part
• Instructions of Project 1
• Assignment due on Feb 14, Midnight

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Week 2

Lectures

Readings for next Week

• Design for Information, Isabel Meirelles Chapter 3, 4 and 5
• Manovich, Lev, and Lev Manovich. 2010. “What Is Visualization?” paj: The Journal of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture 2 (1). Accessed January 31
• Moere, Andrew Vande, and Helen Purchase. 2011. “On the Role of Design in Information Visualization.” Information Visualization 10 (4): 356–71. doi:10.1177/1473871611415996. Accessed January 31

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Week 3 - Assignment 2: Weather App

Lectures

• Lecture Slides - Programming part
• Instructions of Project 2
• First part of the assignment due on March 2. Bring two finished mock ups. Focus on the design (type, color, icons, ux, etc.)
• Assignment due on March 8, 13:00

D3 Tutorials

• Code
• Video

Readings for next Week

• Kosara, Robert. Data: Continuous vs. Categorical. Accessed February 22
• Gould, Jay. The Median Isn't the Message. Accessed February 22
• Haverbeke, Marijn. The Document Object Model. In Eloquent Javascript. Accessed February 22
• Haverbeke, Marijn. Values, Types and Operators; Program Structure; Functions. In Eloquent Javascript. Accessed February 22
• Cukier, Jerome. Manipulating data like a boss. Accessed February 22

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Week 6 - Assignment 3: Census Visualization (Static)

Lectures

• Lecture slides
• Instructions of Project 3
• First part of the assignment due on March 23rd. Analyze the data, sketch multiple ideas. Think about what each one is going to do and how. Synthesize everything in a Elevator Pitch presentation (1 minute)
• Assignment due on April 4, 13:00

D3 Tutorials

• Pie Chart (P5.js)
• Scatter Plot (P5.js)

Readings for next Week

• Kosara, Robert, and Jock MacKinlay. 2013. Storytelling: The Next Step for Visualization. Computer 46 (5): 44–50. doi:10.1109/MC.2013.36. Accessed February 22
• The dataViz Catalogue
• Statistical Graphics and Information Visualization
• Visualizing outliers
• The demographics of others
• Mapping segregation

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Week 9 - Final Project

Lectures

• Instructions of Project 4
• First part of the assignment due on April 20. Analyze the data, sketch multiple ideas. Think about what each one is going to do and how. Synthesize everything in a Elevator Pitch presentation (1 minute)
• Final review on May 11th. Upload a first version of the project on May 10th at 13:00.
• Assignment due on May 17th, 23:59