A synthetic overview of the contents we’ll face in the first course of the Visual Explorations program (www.visualexplorations.org):
Week #1 | BASICS | May 07-11, 2012
* history and foundations
* why we do visualize?
* the grammar of data and information visualization
* the raw materials: data, Open Data, Linked Open Data
* the processes: gathering, organization, pre-production
* back to Excel: preparing the visualization process
Week #2 | TOOLBOX | 14-18 maggio 2012
* semi-automatic production of semi-finished visualization artifacts;
* experimenting with visualization tools (Tableau, Google motion charts, treemaps, Raw …);
– R (applied statistics);
– Viz in Illustrator;
– Scriptographer + js;
– Cytoscape.
* towards a communicative final product.
Week #3 | WORKSHOP | May 21-25, 2012
* from (your) dataset to the production and publication of a communicative visualization;
* visualization and narration: applying storytelling to data.
Week #4 | DIGITAL NATIVES (DATA) | May 28 – June 01, 2012
* from structured data to social media and digital foot prints: mining and refining user generated (digital) contents;
* dynamic and interactive visualization;
* from paper to mobile and handheld devices.
