Information Visualization (4DV300)

Professor

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren

Time & Place

Compare here! In general, the lectures will take place in room B3033, each Tuesday from 10:15 till 12:00.

Teaching Period

III (2010-01-19 till 2010-03-16)

Assessment

Assignments and oral examinations. Oral examinations will take place in room B3019 in week 13.

Prerequisites

DA2042 Computer Graphics
DA1031 Programming and Data Structures
or similar documented experiences

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, ...), graph drawing (networks), 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 01 19	Introduction and Motivation
2	2010 01 26	Perception Theory I
3	2010 02 02	Perception Theory II
4	2010 02 09	Basics in Information Visualization
5	2010 02 16	Interaction I (Dynamic Queries)
6	2010 02 23	Interaction II (Zoom&Pan, Overview&Detail)
7	2010 03 02	Focus&Context
8	2010 03 09	1D, 2D, 3D, and Multidimensional Data
9	2010 03 16	Hierarchies (Node-Link Approaches)

Materials

Interestings URLs:

Prefuse Visualization Toolkit (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)
Informatiion is Beautiful

Assignments

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

Assignments:

Assignment 1 (Deadline: 2010-02-10)
Assignment 2 (Deadline: 2010-03-04):
Assignment 3 (Deadline: 2010-03-23)

Assignment 2

Each student should choose a research paper from the list below. Assignments consist of a brief presentation of the paper you have choosen to read. You should present the overall idea of the paper briefly, but your main focus of the presentation should be on interaction techniques presented on the paper.
Each presentation should take around 15 minutes + 3-5 minutes of discussion.

Please choose a list of three papers in descending order you are interested in to present and email this list to Ilir Jusufi. We will distribute the papers with the help of your lists and using the "first come, first serve"-principle.

Papers:

#	Title	Autors	Reference	Choosen	Link
1	Constructing Overview + Detail Dendrogram-Matrix Views	Jin Chen, Alan M. MacEachren, and Donna J. Peuquet	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VOL. 15, NO. 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009	Open	cache
2	Balloon Focus: a Seamless Multi-Focus+Context Method for Treemaps	Ying Tu and Han-Wei Shen	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VOL. 14, NO. 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2008	Ramon Haluf	cache
3	Browsing Zoomable Treemaps: Structure-Aware Multi-Scale Navigation Techniques	Renaud Blanch and Éric Lecolinet	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VOL. 13, NO. 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007	Edu Rodríguez	cache
4	Exploration of Networks Using Overview+Detail with Constraint-based Cooperative Layout	Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, Falk Schreiber, Peter J. Stuckey, Michael Woodward and Michael Wybrow	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VOL. 14, NO. 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2008	Open	cache
5	Interactive Tree Comparison for Co-located Collaborative Information Visualization	Petra Isenberg and Sheelagh Carpendale	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VOL. 13, NO. 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007	Billa Rajinikar	cache
6	Interactive Visual Analysis of the NSF Funding Information	Shixia Liu, Nan Cao, Hao Lv	IEEE Pacific Visualisation Symposium 2008 4 - 7 March, Kyoto, Japan	Christian Weyermann	cache
7	Treecube+3D-ViSOM: Combinational Visualization Tool for Browsing 3D Multimedia Data	Seiji Okajima and Yoshihiro Okada	11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV'07)	Benjamin Panzer	cache
8	Bubble Sets: Revealing Set Relations with Isocontours over Existing Visualizations	Christopher Collins, Gerald Penn, and Sheelagh Carpendale	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VOL. 15, NO. 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009	Pablo	cache
N	Self-choosen papers and ideas!	International Conferences and Journals

Presentation Dates for Assignments:

Presentation of the selected paper: 2010-03-05 (14:15) room B3033.

Open Theses

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