"Weltbilder": course info

The course info and reference projects from my Infovis course at HfK Bremen, 2013

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1. MORITZ STEFANER TRUTH & BEAUTY OPERATOR WELTBILDER Weltbilder HfK Bremen MA Digital Media WS 2012–13
2. Course description Information visualization allows us to experience and explore complex states of affairs in a sensual way. In this course, we will be concerned with the practice of data and information visualization: from data acquisition and manipulation over visual encoding to interaction patterns. From a design point of view, we will especially examine the cultural role of measuring and “picturing” the world: How do we create world views from data— and what is the designer’s role in this context?
3. Requirements Regular attendance (don’t miss more than 2 dates) A presentation on a paper or person List will be made available A data visualization project Alone or in teams of up to three -- We meet in class on 8 full days in Feb and March 2013.
4. “World views” Map a phenomenon as a whole “The world of…” Question visual conventions and the prejudices and implicit assumptions that come with them Map how people think about the world Make something that changes how people think about the world
5. Reference projects
6. Eric Fisher: Locals and Tourists http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/
7. Eric Fisher: Shortest-path routing through geotag density http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157628993413851/
8. http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/color/men-women-color-names-
9. Ben Fry: All Streets http://fathom.info/allstreets/
10. Santiago Ortiz: Lostalgic http://intuitionanalytics.com/other/lostalgic/
11. Jon B. Sparks: Histomap
12. Facebook map mashup
13. xkcd: Tic Tac Toe
15. London Surnames http://names.mappinglondon.co.uk
16. Map of the internet http://opte.org
17. http://well-formed-data.net/archives/642/the-vizosphere
19. Mapping Stereotypes
20. Hobo-Dyer Equal Area Projection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo–Dyer_projection
22. Nicholas Felton: Annual Reports
23. Buckminster Fuller: Dymaxion map
24. The Shape of Song Martin Wattenberg, 2001
29. Penguin Science Fiction Covers