Building New Languages

Exploration of how to make new visual representations through the use of visual encoding mappings as well as two new patterns for fitting in more variables... movements and levels. Finally, a look at data formats and a discussion of advice for geospatial visualization.

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Exercise

Please draw some representation of your last 5 years and what you hope your next 5 years will look like. You can use whatever tools and materials you like other than code. For inspiration see Dear Data.

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Reading

Please watch 15 Views on a Node-Link Graph by Tamara Munzner.

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Works cited

This is the works cited from the lecture. Note that additional sources may be used in exercises and other supporting documentation.

B. Adhikari, "Marey's train schedule," University of Missouri Saint Louis, 2021. Available: https://badriadhikari.github.io/data-viz-workshop-2021/minards/
N. Felton, "2012 Annual Report," Feltron, 2013. Available: https://feltron.com/FAR12.html.
J. Cheng, "Analyzing Minard's Visualization Of Napoleon's 1812 March," ThoughtBot, 2014. Available: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/analyzing-minards-visualization-of-napoleons-1812-march
A. Wu, L. Gamio, R. Gebeloff, E. Shao, and M. Bender, "Key to Trump’s Win: Heavy Losses for Harris Across the Map," New York Times Company, 2024. Available: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/19/us/politics/voter-turnout-election-trump-harris.html
Fathom Information Design, "Connected China," Thomson Reuters. Available: https://fathom.info/china/
D. Ling, "Introduction to Statistics Using LibreOffice.org Calc, Apache OpenOffice.org Calc, and Gnumeric," Comfsm, Available: http://www.comfsm.fm/~dleeling/statistics/text5.html
Fathom Information Design, "No Ceilings", The Clinton Foundation and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Available: https://noceilings.org/
A. Pottinger, "Podcast Anthropology," Gleap, 2025. Available: http://podcastanthropology.com/
B. Fry, "Audience & Context," Eyeo, 2015. Available: https://vimeo.com/133608686?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=8053320
Geojson.io, "Geojson.io," Mapbox. Available: https://geojson.io/
A. Pottinger, L. Connor, B. Guzder-Williams, M. Weltman-Fahs, N. Gondek, and T. Bowles, "Climate-driven doubling of U.S. maize loss probability: Interactive simulation with neural network Monte Carlo," JDSSV, 2025. doi: 10.52933/jdssv.v5i3.134
A. Pottinger, "SF AirBnB Analysis," Towards Data Science, Available: https://gleap.org/content/airbnb
A. Pottinger, "California Crop Shift Simulation," University of California, 2024. Available: "https://crop-shift-sampottinger3-2860.replit.app/
A. Pottinger, "Food Sim SF," Gleap, 2024. Available: https://foodsimsf.com/
S. Kamvar and J. Harris, "We Feel Fine and Searching the Emotional Web," Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining, 2011. Available: https://www.wefeelfine.org/wefeelfine.pdf
A. Pottinger, "TED Visualization," Gleap, 2012. Available: https://gleap.org/content/ted_visualization