Advanced Course Information Visualization
Summer term 2008
Dr.-Ing. Carsten Görg
News
- 07-07-2008: Additional Information for the project presentation and project report submission available
- 07-07-2008: Final exam: Wednesday, July 9, 12:15 – 13:45, HS 001, E1 3
- 07-07-2008: Project Report submission deadline extended by one week (now: July 23)
- 07-05-2008: Additional material on webpage
- 06-23-2008: Assignment 5 is posted. The handout can be picked up in Sascha Parduhn's office (E1.3, R. 414)
- 06-10-2008: example poster
- 06-04-2008: poster printing information
- 05-28-2008: Poster Session postponed to June 18 -- hand in your poster by June 16, 8 am
- 05-23-2008: Schedule for presentations online
- 05-14-2008: Send in your topic choice for the presensation by Thursday May 15
- 05-13-2008: Deadline for initial project submission extended by Friday May 16
- 04-29-2008: Book “Information Visualization” by Robert Spence available in library
- 04-28-2008: HISPOS registration open until 05-16-2008
- 04-15-2008: Information Visualization Forum is online
Important Dates
- Initial project description due: 05-14-2008
- Poster Session: 06-18-2008
- Final Exam: 07-09-2008
- Project Presentation: 07-16-2008
- Project Report submission: 07-23-2008
Lecture Notes
- 04-14-2008: Introduction
- 04-16-2008: Social Visualization
- 04-21-2008: Visual Perception
- 04-23-2008: Cognitive Issues
- 04-28-2008: Tufte’s Design Principles
- 04-30-2008: Multivariate Data & Representations
- 05-05-2008: Multivariate Representations: Parallel Coordinates & more
- 05-07-2008: no class
- 05-14-2008: InfoVis Toolkits
- 05-19-2008: High-Dimensional Data Representations & InfoVis Systems
- 05-21-2008: Overview & Detail
- 05-26-2008: Interaction
- 05-28-2008: Time Series Data
- 06-02-2008: Focus & Context
- 06-04-2008: Panning & Zooming
- 06-09-2008: Hierarchies & Trees
- 06-11-2008: Graphs & Networks
- 06-16-2008: WWW & Internet
- 06-18-2008: Poster session in Rotunda
- 06-23-2008: Text & Documents
- 06-25-2008: no class
- 06-30-2008: Software Visualization
- 07-02-2008: Animation & Image-based InfoVis
- 07-07-2008: Visual Analytics
- 07-09-2008: Final Exam
- 07-14-2008: Ambient InfoVis & Evaluation
- 07-16-2008: Project Presentations
Assignments
- Find an interesting visualization (5 Points) -- due 04-23-2008
- Visualizing Multivariate Data (10 Points) -- due 04-30-2008
- Pick a topic for your short presentation -- due 05-14-2008
- Submit initial project description -- due 05-16-2008
- Visualizing Time-Oriented Data (10 Points) -- due 05-21-2008
- Drawing a Graph (5 Points) -- due 06-09-2008
- Understanding Analytics (5 Points) -- due 07-02-2008
Projects
- AniVis: animal population visualizer
- Atimo: Analysis of Timed Motion-sensor Data
- Olympic Dataset Visualization
- PIT: Privacy Invasion Tool
- Relationship Graph
- SVN Visual
- Forest Fires Visualization
- cineXplore
Additional Material
Introduction
- Map of the Market
- NY Timeformations
- Philip Glass Music
- Music Plasma
- Video: Remind me Royskopp
- Video: Areva commercial
Social Visualization
- NameVoyager of the Baby Name Wizard
- Video: Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks
Visual Perception
- Perception in Visualization, C. Healey, NC State
- Color Brewer
- Heatmap from NASDAQ
- Change Blindness Examples from Visual Cognition Lab
- Optical illusions
Cognitive Issues
- Paper: Low Level Components of Analytic Activity in Information Visualization, R. Amar, J. Eagan, and J. Stasko, Proc. of IEEE InfoVis '05, Oct. 2005, pp. 111-117.
- Paper: The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations, B. Shneiderman, Proc. 1996 IEEE Visual Languages, Sept. 1996, pp. 336-343.
Tufte’s Design Principles
Multivariate Data & Representations
Multivariate Representations: Parallel Coordinates & more
- Video: Angular brushing
- Video: Parallel Sets
- Tool: Xmdv
InfoVis Systems
- Video: Table Lens
- Video: EZChooser
- Video: SeeIt
- Video: InfoZoom
Interaction
- Video: Attribute Explorer
- Interactive histogram from Alan Dix
- US History dynamic browser
- Interactive house finder
- Cellphone chooser with dynamic queries
- Diamond finder with dynamic queries
Time Series Data
- Video: Lifelines
- Tool+Video: TimeSearcher
- History flow from IBM
Focus & Context
- Fisheye menus
- Ten by Ten
- Video: Cone Tree
- Video: Perspective Wall
Panning & Zooming
Hierarchies & Trees
Graphs & Networks
- Visual Complexity Graph Visualizations
- Video: Focus Change Animation
- Video: Dynamic Visualization of Graphs with Extended Labels
- Video: NodeTrix
- Video: Semantic Substrates
WWW & Internet
Text & Documents
- Video: PaperLens
Software Visualization
- Video: Sorting out Sorting
- Video: Tarantula
General Information
- Type: advanced course (9 credit points)
- Place: HS 001, E1 3
- Time: Monday, Wednesday 12-14
Summary of weight for course assignments
- Homework assignments (inlcuding one paper presentation in class): 30%
- Semester project: 40%
- Final exam: 30%
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