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
- ColorBrewer - Color palette selection tool
- WebAIM Contrast Checker - Accessibility testing
- D3 Color Schemes - Implementation reference
Exercises
- Pre-attentive processing demonstrations
- Cleveland & McGill encoding comparisons
- ColorBrewer palette creation
- 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