Information Visualization (4DV300)

Professor

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren

Time & Place

Compare here! In general, the lectures will take place in the Videum Lecture Hall (D1136) in Building D.

Teaching Period

II (2013-11-04 till 2014-01-17)

Assessment

Assignments AND oral examinations. Oral examinations will take place in room B2037 in week 3.

Prerequisites

90 credits in Computer Science including a course in Programming and Data Structures (1DV007) and a course in Computer Graphics (1DV300) or equivalent.

Credits

7.5 ECTS

Topic

Basics in Information Visualization

Information Visualization (InfoVis) covers the development of tools for better understanding and analyses of abstract information using the human visual system. Abstract information can normally not be transferred into the physical world. This course gives you an overview of the most important techniques of this research area as well as applications. Covered topics are among others: interaction techniques, visulization techniques (e.g., level of detail, navigation, focus and context, focussing, 2D/2.5D/3D, ...), or visualization of hierarchical data.

The course Applied Information Visualization extends this course with visualization techniques and systems for special data sets.

Schedule

Preliminary Schedule:

#	Date	Topic	Slides
1	2013 11 04	Introduction and Motivation
2	2013 11 11	Perception Theory I
3	2013 11 18	Perception Theory II
4	2013 11 25	Basics in Information Visualization
5	2013 12 02	Interaction I (Dynamic Queries)
6	2013 12 09	Interaction II (Zoom&Pan, Overview&Detail)
7	2013 12 11	Interaction III (Focus&Context)
8	2013 12 16	1D, 2D, 3D, and Multidimensional Data
9	2014 01 08	Hierarchies I (Node-Link Approaches)
10	2014 01 13	Hierarchies II (Space-Filling Approaches)

Materials

Learning Environment:

Moodle

Interestings URLs:

Prefuse Visualization Toolkit (Java)
Protovis-Java (Java)
InfoVis Toolkit (Java)
Improvise (Java)
Protovis (JavaScript)
JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit (JavaScript)
Flare - Data Visualization for the Web (ActionScript)
XmdvTool (Tcl/Tk)
Information is Beautiful
Google's Big Picture Group
visualizing.org
A Visual Bibliography of Tree Visualizations
A Visual Bibliography of Time Visualizations

Assignments

Assignments consists of theoretical and practical exercices. They will be supervised by Björn Zimmer.

Assignments:

Assignment 1 (Deadline: 2013-11-19)
Assignment 2 (Deadline: 2013-12-03)
Assignment 3 (Deadline: 2014-01-07, Presentation: 2014-01-08, 14:00-16:00, Room: B3033V)

Open Theses

We permanently offer interesting topics for Bachelor's and Master's Theses that are related to Information Visualization and Software Visualization.