Colours: red labs, blue class activities/discussions, green lectures
Readings are listed below the table.
Schedule and readings will be edited, updated throughout the term as necessary
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1 Sept 6 |
Imagine Day Tuesday 6th, No Classes |
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2 Sept 13 |
Course Overview and Expectations | Review Cartographic Theory of Design maps, web maps and infographics |
A1 Map Critique 5% Processing for week 2: hello.processing.org watch video Processingdownload onto your laptops |
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3 Sept 20 |
Programming Art: Introduction to Processing | Discussion A1 7 students, 5 min each |
A1 due come to class with Processing on laptops A2 Programming Art 10% |
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4 Sept 27 |
Process Models of Cartographic Communication Data Visualization Pipeline |
Infographics: from Tufte to Cairo |
A2 due A3: infographic-refugee-data 20% |
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5 Oct 4 |
Visual System, Visual Cognition, Eye Movement Studies and Cartographic Design | Infographics: Charts and Plots |
Download R and R Studio | |
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6 Oct 11 |
Introduction to R tutorial From Flat Files to Interactive Maps: Visualizing Vancouver’s 311 Complaint Calls Part 1: Acquire, Parse; Part 2: Filter, Mine Joey/Andras R parse filter mine tutorial |
Discussion A3 7 students, 5 min each |
A3 Due
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7 Oct 18 |
From Flat Files to Interactive Maps: Visualizing Vancouver’s Complaint 311 Calls Part 3: Represent, Refine, Interactive Joey/Andras R Leaflet mapping tutorial |
A4 Interactive web map in R assignment 15% file: crime_csv_all_years Joey’s Hexagon Grid url Joey’s Haxagon grid files to download hexagonfiles |
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8 Oct 25 |
Discussion Final Projects David Gill UBC SEEDS program |
Map Use and Map Design: from static to interactive | ||
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9 Nov 1 |
Discussion A4 6 students, 5 min each |
Deconstruction |
A4 due assignment-5 5% |
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10 Nov 8 |
Web Mapping lecture and CartoDB Tutorial additional info: carto_doc 3.1.1 Vancouver Complaints Data |
Discussion A5 7 students, 5 min each |
A5 Due | |
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11 Nov 15 |
A Sampler of Mapping:
1. First Nations 2. Art and Maps 3. Mapping History 4. Teaching Mapping to Children |
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12 Nov 22 |
Guest Lecture: Geovisualization at HELP J Alexander and E Walton |
Research in Cartography | ||
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13 Nov 29 |
Final Project Presentations and PIZZA! 12-5:30, |
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| Dec 14 | 1:00 main office | Final Project Due | Final Project Due 12:30 Main Office in Geography |
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