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| Course: | INFO633 - Information Visualization |
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| On Campus Offering: | None |
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| Online Offering: | None |
| | Faculty: | Chen, Chaomei
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| Extended Course Description: | Catalog Course Description:
Introduces concepts and principles of information visualization from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Emphasizes the development of critical thinking and problem solving abilities in the context of information visualization. Provides exposure to current information visualization tools.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites:
No specific prerequisite
Curriculum Role:
This is an elective course. It provides an integrated and application-oriented introduction involving a number of other topical areas in the curriculum such as human-computer interaction, data mining, and information science.
Course Rationale:
This course aims to help students develop critical thinking and analytical skills for visual thinking and problem solving.
Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, a student will be able to:
• Find and interpret the current literature in information visualization
• Understand the foundation of information visualization
• Identify current theoretical and practical challenges in information visualization
• Understand strengths and weaknesses of key techniques in information visualization
• Evaluate the significance of specific contributions to information visualization
• Identify viable solutions to information visualization problems
Course Content:
Principal topics and the approximate number of weeks devoted to each are:
• Introduction (1)
• Taxonomies (1)
• Identifying and modeling information structures (1)
• Visualizing multi-dimensional data (1)
• Interacting with information visualizations (1)
• Tree visualization (1)
• Graph drawing and network visualization (1)
• Perception and cognition (1)
• Views and filters (1)
• Knowledge domain visualization (1)
Presentation:
Note: Presentation method may vary somewhat from section to section.
Lectures, in-class software demonstrations, and group discussions.
Assessment:
Note: Assessment method may vary somewhat from section to section.
Evaluation is based on assignments, group projects, and in-class presentations.
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