Instructor:	Suresh Lodha
Office:	E2-361
Phone	(831) 459-3773
email:	lodha@soe.ucsc.edu
Office Hours:	M 2:30-4:00, Tu 2:00-3:00 and by appointment
Class Time:	MW 12:30-2:15
Place:	Mondays at ISB (Interdisciplinary Sciences Building) 486 Wednesdays at E2-262
Class Number:	64072
Course ID:	019087

Topics and Schedule:

• Week 1: Overview
  
  April 4: Overview of Visualization and Comparisons in Inequality Maps
  April 6: Visit to GIS Lab and Intro by Brian Fulfrost
  


• Week 2: Visualizations
  
  April 9: History of UC Atlas by Ben Crow
  UC Atlas Capabilities Presentations by Students
  April 11: Presentation by Students on Inequality Web Sites
  and other Print Sources


• Week 3: User Interface and Other Features
  
  April 16: User Interface Handout Discussion
  UC Atlas Features on User Interface, Database etc.
  Traffic Statistics Presentations by Anton Kulikov
  April 18: Consolidation of Understanding of Inequality Web Sites
  Preliminary Input/Feedback on Writeup on Features


• Week 4: Integration: Themes and Vision
  
  April 23: Discussion on UC Atlas Inequality Documents
  What is the Vision?
  April 25: Detailed Feedback on Writeup on Features
  Discussion of New Ideas
  Preparation for Google Presentations
  


• Week 5: Google Talk
  
  May 1: UC Atlas Meeting and Google talk Rehearsal
  May 2: Google Tech Talk
  May 4: New Ideas: Carving out a Project for Visualizing Inequality


• Week 6: Final Project Discussion
  
  May 7: Final Project Idea Presentations
  Input and Feedback from Ben
  May 9: Final Project Resources
  What resources (ideas/books/articles/software) do we need?


• Week 7: Carving out a Research Agenda and Final Projects
  
  May 14: What is important to UC Atlas Team: Now and LongTerm
  Input and Feedback from Brian Fulfrost
  on User Interface/Underlying Technology
  May 16: Discussion on User Interface/Underlying Technology
  Planning for final project status: platform, tasks, data, ideas, deliverbales, timeline


• Week 8: Final Project Discussion
  
  May 21: Designing User Interface of UC Atlas
  May 23: No Class


• Week 9: Focus on Final Project
  
  May 28: Memorial Day Holiday
  May 30: No Class ?
  June 1: Final project Discussion/ Meeting with Brian Fulfrost on Underlying Technology


• Week 10: Final Research Agenda and Final Projects
  
  June 4: Final Research Agenda
  Suresh, Ben, Brian
  June 6: Final Project Discussion
  


• Examination Week 11: Final Project Demo
  
  June 13 : 12-1 Final project demo by 160 Students
  June 13: 1-2 Final project demo by 290B Students
  

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Inequality Web Sites and Resources

UC Atlas of Global Inequality
Gapminder
NationMaster
Worldbank
WorldMapper


Eldis
Worldchanging

Atlas of Poverty by World Bank
Where are the Poor by World Resources Institute
World Bank Atlas available electronically through UCSC Library online
InfoGraphics

Penguin: The State of the Women in the World Atlas
(McHenry Reference HQ 1154.S34 ; 2nd floor)
Penguin Atlas of Food; Who eats what, where, and why
(McHenry Reference HD 9000.5 M52 2003; 2nd floor)
Our Planet, Many People: Atlas of our Changing Environment
(Sci Libraray GE 149.)53 Oversize in Ground Floor)

Google Video by Gapminder (1 hour)
TedTalk Video by Gapminder (21 minutes)

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Reference Texts:

• Readings in Information Visualization by Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay and Ben Shneiderman, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999
• Designing the User Interface by Ben Shneiderman, Addison-Wesley, 1998

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Expectations and Evaluation:

Weekly Homeworks (50%)
Class Presence and Participation (20%)
Final Project Demo, Software and Report (30%)

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Prerequisites:

Maturity to read technical papers in the area of information visualization/human-computer interaction is expected.
Writing/Presentation skills
Programming expertise for creating visualizations using any methodology (for example OpenGL/FLTK, MatLab, Web-based Visualziations) or excellent report writing skills
Prior exposure to CMPS160/CMPS161/CMPS 262/CMPS260/CE264/EE264 is a plus but not required.

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Assignments:

• Assignment Week 1
  Choose a web inequality website and present your findings.
  


• Assignment Week 2
  Written description of your findings on inequality website.
  Writeup by Edy Chandra
  Writeup by Jack Feng
  Writeup by Prabath Gunwardane
  Writeup by Mike Patterson
  


• Assignment Week 3
  Written description of a feature of UC Atlas Website.
  Features (different types of visualization, user interface,
  underlying technology, data sources)
  Writeup by Edy Chandra
  Writeup by Jack Feng
  Writeup by Prabath Gunwardane
  Writeup by Mike Patterson
  


• Assignment Week 4
  Talk at Google on UC Atlas on May 2
  


• Assignment Week 5
  Revised Version of Written Decsription of UC Atlas Features
  Writeup by Edy Chandra
  Writeup by Jack Feng
  Writeup by Prabath Gunwardane
  Writeup by Mike Patterson
  


• Assignment Week 6
  Presentation/Discussion of Project Ideas for the Class
  
  Correlation analysis bnd other pattern recognition techniques between indicators
  Visualization of Correlation analysis between indicators
  Inequaliy Visualization on 3D Globe using Google Earth
  Inequality Visualization on 3D Globe using OpenGL
  Consistent Inequality Visualization on 2D Maps on the Web
  


• Assignment Week 7
  Final Project Proposal; Ask for Resources


• Assignment Week 8
  Preliminary Project Demo


• Assignment Week 9-10
  Final Project Demo and Final Project Report

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Maintained by Suresh Lodha