Information Visualization II (DA4104)

Professor

Dr. Andreas Kerren, Associate Professor

Time & Place

Compare here! In general, the lectures will take place in room DA0073B (Curie), each Tuesday from 13:15 till 15:00.

Teaching Period

IV (2009-03-31 till 2009-06-02)

Assessment

Assignments and oral examinations. Oral examinations will take place in room B3019 at 11/6.

Prerequisites

DA4094 Information Visualization I, or similar documented experiences.

Credits

7.5 ECTS

Topic

Information Visualization in Special Domains

This course extends Information Visualization I with visualization techniques and systems for special data sets, such as networked data, time-dependent data, text, document collections, or software (so-called software visualization). Furthermore, we discuss the evaluation of visualizations, information visualization for the masses, as well as applications in bioinformatics, geography, etc.

This course aims at giving an overview of the most important techniques and prerequisites needed to develop effective visualizations of abstract information. After finishing the course, the students should be able to choose and develop the most suitable technique for special data sets and applications domains.

Schedule

Preliminary Schedule:

#	Date	Topic	Slides
1	2009 03 31	Introduction and Motivation
2	2009 04 07	Text & Documents
3	2009 04 14	Graphs, Networks, and Applications
4	2009 04 23	WebVis and BioMedVis
5	2009 04 28	Time-series Visualization
6	2009 05 04	Information Visualization for the Masses
7	2009 05 12	Software Visualization I
8	2009 05 19	Software Visualization II
9	2009 05 26	The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) I [Guest Lecture by Volker Ahlers]
10	2009 05 27	The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) II [Guest Lecture by Volker Ahlers]
11	2009 06 02	Evaluation and Top 10 InfoVis Challenges

Materials

No further materials so far.

Assignments

Assignments consists of theoretical and practical exercices as well as a short class presentation/demo. They will be supervised by Ilir Jusufi.

Assignment 1

Assingments should be done in groups of 2 students. Your task is to implement a prototype information visualization tool. Your prototype should be able to visualize a specific dataset and provide some sort of interaction.
You should present your working prototypes in a class room (10 minutes).

Presentation date and time: Tue Jun 9 2009, 14:00
Presentation place: B3033

Group	Students	Task
1	B. Vogel, L. Jusufi	Visualization of spatial and temporal sensory data
2	Y. Dingjie, B. Tao	Visualization of the evolution of dependencies in software hierarchies