Information Visualization (4DV300)

Professor

Time & Place

Compare here! In general, the lectures will take place in the multimedia room of the library or in the Videum Lecture Hall in Building D.

Teaching Period

II (2010-11-08 till 2011-01-16)

Assessment

Assignments and oral examinations. Oral examinations will take place for the most students in room B3037 in week 3. ERASMUS exchange students will have their oral exam in week 2.

Prerequisites

Programming and Data Structures and a course in Computer Graphics.

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	2010 11 09	Introduction and Motivation
2	2010 11 15	Perception Theory I
3	2010 11 17	Perception Theory II
4	2010 12 01	Basics in Information Visualization
5	2010 12 02	Interaction I (Dynamic Queries)
6	2010 12 08	Interaction II (Zoom&Pan, Overview&Detail)
7	2010 12 15	Focus&Context
8	2010 12 20	1D, 2D, 3D, and Multidimensional Data
9	2011 01 10	Hierarchies I (Node-Link Approaches)
10	2011 01 12	Hierarchies II (Space-Filling Approaches)

Materials

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)
Many Eyes Wikified (Wiki-Based Dashboards)
Titan Informatics Toolkit (expansion of VTK)
XmdvTool (Tcl/Tk)
Information is Beautiful

Assignments

Assignments consists of theoretical and practical exercices. They will be supervised by Ilir Jusufi.

Assignments:

Assignment 1 (Deadline: 2010-11-30)
Assignment 2 (Deadline: 2010-12-16)
Assignment 3 (Deadline: 2011-01-07)

Open Theses

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