Applied Information Visualization (4DV301)

Professor

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren

Time & Place

Compare here! In general, the lectures will take place in B3033 (Building B), each Monday from 13:15 till 15:00.

Teaching Period

IV (2015-03-23 till 2015-06-07)

Assessment

Assignments and oral examinations. Oral examinations will take place in room B3037 in week 23.

Prerequisites

90 credits in Computer Science incl. a course in Computer Graphics (1DV300) and 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	2015 03 23	Introduction and InfoVis Toolkits
2	2015 03 30	Text & Documents
3	2015 04 13	Graphs, Networks, and Applications
4	2015 04 20	WebVis and BioVis
5	2015 04 27	Time-series Visualization
6	2015 05 04	Software Visualization
7	2015 05 07	Visualizations for End-users & Collaboration
8	2015 05 18	Visual Analytics
9	2015 05 25	Evaluation and Top 10 InfoVis Challenges

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 as well as a short class presentation/demo. They will be supervised by Björn Zimmer.