Videos to start learning Autodesk Maya:

http://makecourse-art.weebly.com/organic-modeling-videos-1—tools.html

CW/HW Due Friday:

Redesign and everyday object to make it harder for the user. Start sketching and brainstorming. You will be working in pairs to create that final model that will be 3D printed.

Examples:

Lecture Slides: Design

Part 1: Critique the Following Graph

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/27/bill-gatess-graph-of-the-year/

Answer the following:

• Who is the audience? (expert? non-expert?)
• What questions does this visualization answer?
• What design principles best describe why it is good / bad?
• Why do you like / dislike this visualization?
• Can you suggest any improvements?

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Part 2: Graphic IQ Test:  http://www.perceptualedge.com/files/GraphDesignIQ.html

Part 3: Find 2 Example Visualizations

1. Find 1  Good Graph, and 1 bad graph
2. Be prepared to share your critique on both graphs.

• Who is the audience? (expert? non-expert?)
• What questions does this visualization answer?
• What design principles best describe why it is good / bad?
• Why do you like / dislike this visualization?
• Can you suggest any improvements?

1. https://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud/#
2. http://www.wordle.net/
3. http://tagcrowd.com/

1. Gephi
2. Goolge Fusion
3. D3

1. http://www.stefanieposavec.co.uk/personal/
2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/feb/12/state-of-the-union-reading-level
3. Manga Millions – http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2010/02/1000000-manga-pages-visualization.html
4. Marvel Covers Colors – http://graphics.wsj.com/avengers/
5. https://www.fastcompany.com/3022482/marvels-new-uberframework-graphs-every-character-in-the-universe
6. http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/avengers-assembled-and-visualized-part-1
7. Word Collider – https://vimeo.com/37015401
8. http://neoformix.com/2013/NovelViews.html
9. http://tulpinteractive.com/achristmascarol/
10. http://lotrproject.com/statistics/books/
11. Ben Fry Origin of A species – https://fathom.info/traces/

1. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4126&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=f4928
2. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/06/us/politics/convention-word-counts.html
3. https://public.tableau.com/profile/ben.jones#!/vizhome/ConventionWordComparison/Dashboard1
4. https://blog.dataiku.com/2015/05/19/marvel-social-graph-analysis
5. http://www.bostonglobe.com/2013/01/21/main/4kXqydaTvcSf8WdIt6FlhM/story.html#2013party
6. http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/04/01/175584297/mining-books-to-map-emotions-through-a-century
7. http://vis.stanford.edu/papers/termite
8. http://pmla.site44.com/
9. https://dhs.stanford.edu/algorithmic-literacy/using-word-clouds-for-topic-modeling-results/

Tools:

1. http://taporware.ualberta.ca/~taporware/
2. https://netlytic.org/
3. http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/
4. https://www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/
5. http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antwordprofiler_index.html
6. http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/en/textstat/
7. http://www.concordancesoftware.co.uk/
8. https://github.com/seinecle/Cowo/blob/master/README.md
9. http://wordhoard.northwestern.edu/userman/index.html
10. https://sites.google.com/site/casualconc/
11. http://www.qsrinternational.com/product
12. https://www.tableau.com/
13. http://tapor.ca/home
14. – General tools list – http://dirtdirectory.org/

Gephi,  – star wars example

Fusion, – star wars example

D3 – http://bl.ocks.org/jose187/4733747

https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4062045

Other – http://textexture.com/