Week 1 Agenda

Class Info

• Date: Monday 8/29
• Meeting Info: Room P1114
• For logging into COMD classroom Lab computers, see instructions (account setup can happen from home): https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/comd-advisement/2023/08/24/student-computer-login-instructions-for-classroom-computers-and-other-systems/ Troubleshooting for students is in the Student Welcome Center on the Atrium 1st Floor.

Topic

• Introductions – Welcome!
• Please join the OpenLab and become a member of this site
• >> Review Course Syllabus
• >> Review Grading Policy Overview of the main projects for the semester (we will begin to discuss Project 1 during our next meeting: 9/11/23)
• >> Week 1 Lecture : Exploration to Information Design

Activities and Lab Time

• >>The Data Visualisation Catalogue Take a peak at the Data Visualisation Catalogue, a project developed by Severino Ribecca to create a (non-code-based) library of different information visualisation types. The website serves as a learning and inspiration resource for those working with data visualisation.
• Introduction to Illustrator and its graph tools based on a simple class survey: Complete >> SimpleClassSurvey-DataExcelSheet for instructions see >> Survey Legend here.
• Read my introduction to you and respond with yours >> Discussion: Introductions

Homework

Read/Watch

• Meirelles, Isabel. Design for Information : An Introduction to the Histories, Theories, and Best Practices Behind Effective Information Visualizations, Quarto Publishing Group USA, 2013. Introduction
• Read: “W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)” The Public Domain Review, Source: Library of Congress.
• Watch Silas Munro, “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America”(Vimeo 1 Hour):

Complete

1. Finish reading my introduction to you and respond with yours >> Discussion: Introductions
2. Browse through the links posted here: >> Lesson/Inspiration
3. Add your name and fill out the >> SimpleClassSurvey-DataExcelSheet for instructions see >> Survey Legend here.
4. Bring color pencils (or color pens) to our next class 9/11/23.