Information Visualisation

706.057 Information Visualisation 3VU SS 2008

Lecturer: Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Keith Andrews
Course Home Page: http://courses.iicm.tugraz.at/ivis/
My Home Page: http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/keith
Email: kandrews@iicm.edu
Office Hour: Mon. 11:00-12:00
Room D.2.16, IICM, Inffeldg. 16c, 1st floor.
Lectures:

Weds. 14:15 - 16:45
Seminar Room IICM, IDEG134, D.1.10, Inffeldg. 16c, ground floor

Schedule: The course schedule in more detail.

Slots for the oral exam.
Description:
  1. Introduction
  2. History of Information Visualisation
  3. Visualising Linear Structures
  4. Visualising Hierarchies
  5. Visualising Networks and Graphs
  6. Visualising Multidimensional Metadata
  7. Visualising Text and Object Collections
  8. Visualising Query Spaces
Aims and Objectives of Course: First we will look at current work and results in the area of information visualisation. Then students will resarch and present one particular aspect of information visualisation. Finally, students will design their own visualisation for a particular kind of information or application.
Teaching method: A mixture of lecture, seminar, and practical, with lots of group discussion.
Lecture Notes: http://courses.iicm.tugraz.at/ivis/ivis.pdf   [67 pages PDF]

The lecture notes are not in their final form and will be updated.

[If you teach InfoVis and would like a zip file of the corresponding lecture slides (the same material but in HTML, PNG, and JPEG), please contact me by email.]

Course Books: If you would like to buy one or two books for the course, I highly recommend the following:
Spence, Information Visualization, 2nd Edition Ware, Information Visualization: Perception for Design, 2nd Edition

[Note: Amazon credit me a small referal amount, should you purchase a book after following these links.]

Course Newsgroup: tu-graz.lv.ivis
Registration: In TUGonline.

This is an advanced course. To allow teaching in small groups, a good number of students is 15 and a maximum number is 20.

It is hard to anticipate how many students will want to take the course. Should more than 20 students register or attend the initial meeting, I will select participants on the basis of applications by email received by Fri. 29th Feb 2008 14:00.

In this case, your application email should contain:

  1. Your name, Matrikel number, and degree programme.
  2. A current list of grades of your courses upto now at TU Graz (Bestätigung des Studienerfolges) from TUGonline as a PDF attachment.
  3. If you only recently came to TU Graz, a list of courses with grades from your previous university (preferably as a PDF attachment).
  4. Any practical experience you have in information visualisation.
  5. Any other good reasons why I should select you for this course.

I will then select the final 20 participants, notify everyone by email of my decision, and modify the registrations in TUGonline accordingly.

Examination Method: The grade will be determined by your presentation of a topic, the development of an infovis prototype in groups of three or four, and a short oral exam.

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