Note: during Week 4, we had one class meeting during which we worked through a handout and in-class exercises related to aggregation. If you need a copy of the handout, let me know. Needless to say, you are still responsible for Chapter 2 of Tufte (the cholera epidemic and the Challenger disaster) and Mulvany's chapter on book indexing. These should be reflected somewhere in your papers for Assignment 1 or 2, and will also appear on the first GICCA.

Your reading from Tufte for this week is Chapter 3, "Explaining Magic: Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design."

There are sort of two major themes in this chapter:

• Making accurate visual representations in flatland of what are, in 3-D space, illusory activities.
• Fooling, injuring, and otherwise endangering people with disinformation in both flatland and 3-D space.

Now let's look at some issues of bad information design:

Information design and its influence on content:

http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint

Information design and its influence on appetite:

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/

http://www.chipotle.com/

Information design and its influence on horrible physical pain:

http://www.soundvibrations.com/

Information design and its influence on art:

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/workspheres/index.html

Okay, good, moving right along ...

Let's go back and check out:

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~mkazmer/4701_s04_surrogates.html

(Tufte on surrogates from Chapter 1)

and ...

Tufte's stuff on the space shuttle:

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~mkazmer/4701_f03_w3_aggregates2.html

And if we have a minute, think briefly about book indexes.