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 (2012-11-05 till 2013-01-18)

Assessment

Assignments AND oral examinations. Oral examinations will take place in room B3037 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	2012 11 05	Introduction and Motivation
2	2012 11 12	Perception Theory I
3	2012 11 19	Perception Theory II
4	2012 11 26	Basics in Information Visualization
5	2012 12 03	Interaction I (Dynamic Queries)
6	2012 12 06	Interaction II (Zoom&Pan, Overview&Detail)
7	2012 12 13	Interaction III (Focus&Context)
8	2012 12 17	1D, 2D, 3D, and Multidimensional Data
9	2013 01 07	Hierarchies I (Node-Link Approaches)
10	2013 01 14	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
visualizing.org
A Visual Bibliography of Tree Visualization

Assignments

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

Assignments:

Assignment 1 (Deadline: 2012-11-14)
Assignment 2 (Deadline: 2012-12-15)
Assignment 3 (Deadline: 2013-01-07, Presentation: 2013-01-08, 14:00-17:00, Room: D0043V)

Open Theses

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