Scientific Visualization across Disciplines: A Critical Introduction

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LEC #	Topics	KEY DATES
1	Introduction
2	Studying Visualizations: Issues and Methods
3	Social Interaction Interfaces: Seeing the Internet Guest Lecturer: Fernanda Viegas, Scott Golder (Sociable Media Group, MIT Media Lab)	Problem set 1 due
4	Incorporating Body Images (Medicine)	Problem set 2 due
5	Diagrams and Logic (Physics and Flowcharts)	Problem set 3 due Project 1 due (7 days after lecture 5)
6	Moving Biology Images	Problem set 4 due Project 2 due (3 days after lecture 6)
7	Seeing Structures: Molecular Modeling Guest Lecturer: Prof. Catherine Drennan (MIT Chemistry Dept.)	Problem set 5 due
8	Arguing about World Data: GIS and Climate Change	Problem set 6 due
9	Deep Sea Seeing Guest Lecturer: Brendan Foley (MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society)	Problem set 7 due Project 3 outline due (7 days after lecture 9)
10	Judging Images: Courts and Photography	Problem set 8 due
11	Ingesting Images: Symptoms and Subjectivity	Problem set 9 due Project 3 due (6 days after lecture 11)
12	Presentations	Problem set 10 due