Description: Lecture, two hours; discussion, 90 minutes. Access to and analysis of information through visualization has become increasingly prevalent as digital tools have made creation of such visualizations easier and more popular. Many software tools for such visualizations come from statistical packages; others come from GIS or spatial mapping, while others are more diagrammatic in design. Basic organization of graphical user interfaces depends on visualization of function, structure of and assumptions about user experience, and other graphical features that embody models of information in daily use. What are ways in which organization of visualization presents arguments about knowledge? What historical and critical tools can be brought into useful dialog with contemporary visualizations? Letter grading.

Units: 4.0