Information Visualization (4DV300)

Professor

Time & Place

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

Teaching Period

II (2011-10-31 till 2012-01-15)

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

Sucessfully finished courses in Programming and Data Structures (1DV007) as well as in Computer Graphics (1DV300).

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	2011 10 31	Introduction and Motivation
2	2011 11 07	Perception Theory I
3	2011 11 14	Perception Theory II
4	2011 11 21	Basics in Information Visualization
5	2011 11 28	Interaction I (Dynamic Queries)
6	2011 12 02	Interaction II (Zoom&Pan, Overview&Detail)
7	2011 12 05	Focus&Context
8	2011 12 12	1D, 2D, 3D, and Multidimensional Data
9	2011 12 19	Hierarchies I (Node-Link Approaches)
10	2012 01 09	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)
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: 2011-11-20)
Assignment 2 (Deadline: 2011-12-09)
Assignment 3 (Deadline: 2012-01-04, Presentation: 2012-01-05, 14:15-16:00, Room: D0036V)

Open Theses

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