Applied Information Visualization (4DV301)

Professor

Time & Place

Compare here! In general, the lectures will take place in the Videum Lecture Hall (Building D), each Monday from 13:15 till 15:00.

Teaching Period

IV (2011-03-21 till 2011-06-05)

Assessment

Assignments and oral examinations. Oral examinations will take place in room B3019 in week 23.

Prerequisites

4DV300 Information Visualization, or similar documented experiences.

Credits

7.5 ECTS

Topic

Information Visualization in Special Domains

This course extends Information Visualization with visualization techniques and systems for special data sets, such as networked data (graphs and networks), time-dependent data, text, document collections, or software (so-called software visualization). Furthermore, we discuss the evaluation of visualizations, information visualization for the masses, as well as applications in bioinformatics, geography, etc.

This course aims at giving an overview of the most important techniques and prerequisites needed to develop effective visualizations of abstract information. After finishing the course, the students should be able to choose and develop the most suitable technique for special data sets and applications domains.

Schedule

Preliminary Schedule:

#	Date	Topic	Slides
1	2011 03 21	Introduction and InfoVis Toolkits
2	2011 03 28	Text & Documents
3	2011 04 04	Graphs, Networks, and Applications
4	2011 04 11	WebVis and BioMedVis
5	2011 04 18	Time-series Visualization
6	2011 05 02	Information Visualization for the Masses
7	2011 05 12	Software Visualization I
8	2011 05 16	Software Visualization II
9	2011 05 23	Visual Analytics
10	2011 05 30	Evaluation and Top 10 InfoVis Challenges

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
Titan Informatics Toolkit (expansion of VTK)
XmdvTool (Tcl/Tk)
Processing
Information is Beautiful

Assignments

Assignments consists of theoretical and practical exercices as well as a short class presentation/demo. They will be supervised by Ilir Jusufi.

The assignments should be done in groups of 1-2 students. Each group must submit their group members (names + dates of birth) via email to Ilir Jusufi with the email subject "Groups 4DV301" by Wednesday, April 6, 2011 (even if it consist of one person only). This is mandatory! Non-registered groups cannot attend the assignments and their members cannot attend the course exam.

Assignment 1 (Deadline: 2011-04-21)
Assignment 2 (Deadline: 2011-05-29)