Information Visualization (4DV300)

Professor

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren

Time & Place

Compare here! In general, the lectures will take place in room B3033 in Building B.

Teaching Period

II (2014-11-03 till 2015-01-16)

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) 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	2014 11 03	Introduction and Motivation
2	2014 11 24	Perception Theory I
3	2014 11 26	Perception Theory II	↑
4	2014 12 01	Basics in Information Visualization
5	2014 12 03	Interaction I (Dynamic Queries)
6	2014 12 08	Interaction II (Zoom&Pan, Overview&Detail)	↑
7	2014 12 10	Interaction III (Focus&Context)	↑
8	2014 12 15	1D, 2D, 3D, and Multidimensional Data
9	2014 12 17	Hierarchies

Materials

Learning Environment:

Moodle

Visualization Tools and Libraries:

Prefuse Visualization Toolkit (Java)
Flare - Data Visualization for the Web (ActionScript)
Protovis (JavaScript)
Protovis-Java (Java)
D3 (JavaScript)
JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit (JavaScript)
Many Eyes (Online, Collaborative)
Visualize Free (Online, Dashboards)
InfoVis Toolkit (Java)
XmdvTool (Qt)
Processing (Environment for Graphics Programming)
Improvise (Java)

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Assignments

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

Assignments:

Open Theses

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