The Reader as Player
Go deep into interactivity with affordances, kinesthetic projection, and common patterns in data visualization. This is setting up our final ingredient for data visualizations that you need for the final!
Lesson Table of Contents
Video
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Links
Written materials
Exercise
We will start our interactive experience. There are different video games for you to choose from within the course manual. See "experience" section. After you have selected your choice, lookup the game specific instructions. You can space out your game play over the next few lectures. There will be an additional question asked of all games later in lesson 20 when it would be good to be done.
Note that the Zulip community is not available to this MOOC. Please consider sharing your exercise via social media such as Bluesky with the tag #OpenDataVizSciCourse.
Reading
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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.
- M. Hoekstra, “MacPaint,” Geek Technique, 2007. Available: https://www.geektechnique.org/blog/786/mac-paint.html
- J. Portnow, "Kinect Disconnect - How NOT to do Motion Control," Extra Credits, 2012. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijcezUy3ZzY
- A. Pottinger, "Podcast Anthropology," Gleap, 2015. Available: https://gleap.org/static/special/podcast_viz/index.html
- A. Pottinger, "Ted Viz 2," Gleap, 2013. Available: https://gleap.org/content/ted_visualization_2
- A. Pottinger, "Montreal Policy Simulator," University of California, 2025. Available: https://mlf-policy-explorer.org/
- A. Pottinger, R. Geyer, N. Biyani, C. Martinez, N. Nathan, M. Morse, M. de Bruyn, C. Boettiger, E. Baker, K. Koy, and D. McCauley, "Global Plastics AI Policy Tool," University of California, 2024. Available: https://global-plastics-tool.org/
- A. Pottinger, R. Geyer, N. Biyani, C. Martinez, N. Nathan, M, Morse, C. Liu, S. Hu, M. de Bruyn, C. Boettiger, E. Baker, and D. McCauley, "Pathways to reduce global plastic waste mismanagement and greenhouse gas emissions by 2050," Science, 2024. doi: 10.1126/science.adr3837
- A. Pottinger, "FoodSim: San Francisco." 2023. Available: https://foodsimsf.com/
- J. Portnow, "Affordances - How Design Teaches Us Without Words," Extra Credits, 2014. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCSXEKHL6fc
- 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