• Salvatore Rinzivillo (rinzivillo [at] isti [dot] cnr [dot] it)

• Monday, 14:00 - 16:00, Aula N1 Polo Fibonacci
• Friday, 14:00 - 16:00, Aula C1 Polo Fibonacci

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• [new] The lesson planned on April 16, will be moved on April 17th 16-18, room L1
• [new] The lesson planned on April 13, will be anticipated on April 12th 11-13, room O
• There will be class on March 16th
• There will be class on March 9th. We will have an extra lesson on March 13th, from 11 to 13 in Aula L1
• There will be class on March 5th and March 9. We will have an extra lesson on March 6th, from 11 to 13 in Aula N1
• A new edition is starting on Monday 19th February

Students will be admitted to the exam after the registration on the website http://esami.unipi.it. The exam consist of a discussion of the project. It is mandatory to submit a short report (6-10 pages) within the deadline by mail to instructor, specifying the tag “[VA]” in the subject.

For your reference, the project report should discuss at least the following points:

• Description of data and presentation of the pattern or model to communicate
• design choices: colors, interactions, shapes, transformations)
• state-of-art: similar tools or interfaces for the same problem
• detailed description of the visualization with description of interaction
• use case example for an analytical task

• 2017-09-11: Deadline to submit report and repository of the code is 2017-09-07
• 2017-06-19: Deadline to submit report and repository of the code is 2017-06-15
• 2017-07-04: Deadline to submit report and repository of the code is 2017-06-29
• 2017-07-20: Deadline to submit report and repository of the code is 2017-07-17

• VisMaster - Mastering the information age
• Processing: a programming handbook for visual designers and artists. Casey Reas, Ben Fry. MIT Press, 2007
• Design for Information. Isabel Meirelles, Rockport Publisher,2013.
• Interactive Data Visualization for the Web, Scott Murray, O'Reilly Atlas, 2013

• Tools
  • OpenProcessing Classroom
  • Processing.org
  • D3 Javascript Library
  • PiktoChart
  • JS Bin
• Reading Material
  • Data Visualization Resources (on Slideshare)
  • Why Most People's Charts & Graphs Look Like Crap
  • Data + Design (crowdsourced book)
  • Pocket Guide to Writing SVG
• Inspiration
  • http://datavisualization.ch/
  • http://infosthetics.com/
  • http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
  • http://visualoop.com/
  • http://www.openprocessing.org/
  • Set of images of Processing artwork on Flickr
• Processing libraries
  • Extends sketches with toolbar
  • Utilities
  • Mapping library

• Open Data Tuscany Region
• Sport results
• Flickr Images dataset
• http://www.yelp.com/dataset_challenge
• http://socialcomputing.asu.edu/pages/datasets
• http://networkrepository.com/
• http://chriswhong.com/open-data/foil_nyc_taxi/
• http://www.sociopatterns.org/datasets/
• http://konect.uni-koblenz.de/
• Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection

All exercizes and code discussed during each lesson are available as a Git repository at: https://github.com/rinziv/VA2017

All source code of exercises are available at the URL: https://github.com/VA602AA-master

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