Category: Agendas (Page 5 of 5)

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.

Class Info

• Date: Monday 9/11
• Meeting Info: Room P114

Topic

Graphs and Charts
Quantitative vs Qualitative information
Displaying visually measured quantities
Information vs Data

• Lecture Data Collection Intro: NYC Environment and Health Data Portal: https://a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPublic/HeatHub/hvi.html
• Introduction to Project 1:
  • >>Project 1 Overview
  • >>Assignment 1 – Project 1 – Topic Proposal
  • >>Assignment 2 Presentations

Activities and Lab Time

• Drawing inspiration from >>Stefanie Posavec and Georgia Lupi’s Dear Data Project we will brainstorm possibilities for designing and visualizing information using the simple class survey: >> See Files in Dropbox Folder Complete >> SimpleClassSurvey-DataExcelSheet for instructions see >> Survey Legend here. Colors: pens and pencils needed!
• >>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.
• Thank you for your introductions. I enjoyed learning a touch about your interests. It’s great that we have such varied perspectives in our class this semester: >>Discussion: Introductions

Homework

1. Finish information design in-class exercise >>Assignment 0 – Design Exercise Colors: pens and pencils needed!
2. Review Introduction to >>Project 1 Overview (above) and work on:
   • >>Assignment 1- Project 1 – Topic Proposal: Due Week 3: 9/18
     Please make a folder with your name and save your word doc or PDF into the >>Project 1: Topic Proposal Dropbox folder
3. Sign up for one presentation (send me an email): >>Assignment 2 Presentations
4. Browse research tips posted here: >>Lesson/Research
5. Read: >>Andrews, Raymond J. “Florence Nightingale is a Design Hero” Medium, July 7, 2019 . (Medium)
6. Watch: About Dear Data (see 2 videos below)
7. Watch Alberto Cairo’s video posted here. He is the author of the recommended book for this class: Functional Art, An introduction to information graphics and visualization (Voices That Matter) by Alberto Cairo