VisML Week 3 Lab Recap - CS-GY 9223 Fall 2025

VisML Week 3 Lab Recap - CS-GY 9223 Fall 2025

Perception and Color in Practice

Lab Topics Covered

  • Perceptual principles and pre-attentive processing
  • Cleveland & McGill’s graphical perception rankings
  • Color theory and creating effective color palettes
  • Accessibility testing and color vision deficiency considerations

Slides

The slides for this week’s lab can be found here.

Key Resources from Lab

Exercises

  1. Pre-attentive processing demonstrations
  2. Cleveland & McGill encoding comparisons
  3. ColorBrewer palette creation
  4. Visualization improvement challenge with accessibility testing

Miscellaneous Notes

  • Assignment information will be posted to course communication channels.
  • TA office hours are TBD and will be announced via Discord.
  • Next week: Model Assessment and Performance Metrics visualization