Stanford Seminar - Developing Design Spaces for Visualization - Tamara Munzner

This seminar presents methods for creating and assessing design spaces for visualization. It uses thematic analysis, taxonomies, and case studies of visualization design, chart combinations, and journalists’ multi-table data wrangling.

Syllabus

Introduction.
Design spaces: Continuing theme.
Design spaces: What are they!.
Design spaces: How to create!.
Design space with three axes.
Combinations: Characterize narrative, perceptual.
Viable combinations.
Assessment & adoption descriptive power.
Domain prevalence design space.
By the numbers.
Design space axis: Chart combinations of heterogeneous data.
Design space axis: Enhancement choices, atop base chart types.
Process overview.
Key finding journalists use many, many tables.
Multi-table data wrangling design space.
Assessment: Cross-check.
Task abstraction: Gap.
Mapping terms.
Summary: Multiple design spaces.
Design spaces: How to assess? Larger context theory types.