Applied Information Visualization (4DV301)

Professor

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren

Time & Place

Compare here! In general, the lectures will take place in N1052 (Building N), each Monday from 13:15 till 15:00.

Teaching Period

IV (2012-03-19 till 2012-06-03)

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	2012 03 19	Introduction and InfoVis Toolkits
2	2012 03 26	Text & Documents
3	2012 04 02	Graphs, Networks, and Applications
4	2012 04 16	WebVis and BioMedVis
5	2012 04 23	Time-series Visualization
6	2012 05 02	Information Visualization for the Masses
7	2012 05 07	Software Visualization I
8	2012 05 14	Software Visualization II
9	2012 05 21	Visual Analytics
10	2012 05 28	Evaluation and Top 10 InfoVis Challenges

Materials

Interestings URLs:

Prefuse Visualization Toolkit (Java)
Flare - Data Visualization for the Web (ActionScript)
Protovis (JavaScript)
Protovis-Java (Java)
D3 (JavaScript)
JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit (JavaScript)
Many Eyes
InfoVis Toolkit (Java)
Titan Informatics Toolkit (expansion of VTK)
XmdvTool (Tcl/Tk)
Processing
Improvise (Java)
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.

Assignment 1 (Deadline: 2012-04-02)
Assignment 2 (Deadline: 2012-04-19)
Assignment 3 - Check Blackboard for more details (Deadline: 2012-05-18)