Given the conflict of schedule with other course, please vote for your preferred alternative slots for our Monday and Thursday lessons at the link shared in the telegram channel.
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Students will be admitted to the exam after the registration on the website http://esami.unipi.it. The exam consists of a discussion of the project. It is mandatory to submit a short report (6-10 pages) within the deadline by mail to the instructor, specifying the tag “[VA]” in the subject.
Planned dates:
The final project should have the following requirements:
The student may choose one of the following project proposals. She/he can also propose an additional topic. In this case, a project proposal should be submitted for approval, containing a description of the data, a sketch of the possible visualization, and the motivation for the project.
All exercises and code discussed during each lesson are available as a Git repository at: https://github.com/va602aa-master
A collection of Observable Notebooks are available at https://observablehq.com/collection/@rinziv/va602aa
Recordings of lessons on Microsoft Teams are accessible within the channel of the course.
| Day | Topic | Learning material | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 2026/02/16 | Intro: Visual Analytics Process; | Slides ; VisMaster Book (Chapter 2) |
| 02 | 2026/02/18 | Vision and Cognition; | Slides |
| 03 | 2026/02/23 | Visual Variables; | Slides |
| – | 2026/02/26 | No lesson | |
| 04 | 2026/03/02 | Visual Variables in Altair-Viz | Slides |
| 05 | 2026/03/05 | Project assignment - Classroom project | Slides GitHub repo |
| – | 2026/03/09 | No lesson | |
| 06 | 2026/03/12 | Scale Functions | Slides, Notebook |
| 07 | 2026/03/16 | Colors and Color Spaces | Slides |
| – | 2026/03/19 | No lesson | |
| – | 2026/03/23 | No lesson |