Informationsvisualisierung - Information Visualization
Module IN 2139
Vorlesung im Sommersemester 2008
Prof. Gudrun Klinker, Ph.D. (with
Manuel Huber and
Simon Nestler)
2V + 2Ü
5 ECTS Credits
The class will be taught in English.
RECOMMENDED EVENT: Film presentation "Weizenbaum - Rebel at work" in Hörsaal 1 on July 3, 16:30 Uhr.
More information at http://www.in.tum.de/Weizenbaum
Time & Location
Lecture: Thursdays 10:15 - 11:45,
MI 03.13.010
Exercises: Wednesdays, 14:00 - 15:30,
MI 03.13.010
Starting date: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Exercises start: Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Content
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Intended audience:
- Diploma students: Hauptstudium Informatik I (Praktische Informatik)
- Senior bachelor students with interest in pursuing a bachelor's thesis in this area
- Master students (Informatik, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bioinformatik)
Prerequisites:
- Grundstudium Informatik, Bachelor Informatik, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bioinformatik
Schein:
- Oral exams (20 minutes) during the last week of the semester and the first weeks of the summer holidays.
- Languages: German or English
- Registration for exams now open!
Office hours:
Schedule (subject to change)
Excercises
| Date | Subject | links to slides (unrestricted) | Excercises | Attachments | Deadline |
| 23rd April 2008 | Visualization of geographical information | | | | 30th April 2008 |
| 30th April 2008 | Visualization tool kits (Prefuse / Flare) | | | | 07th May 2008 |
| 07th May 2008 | Graph / Tree visualizations | | | | 21st May 2008 |
| 14th May 2008 | No new exercises. Extended deadline for Sheet 3 | | | | |
| 21st May 2008 | Treemaps | | | | 28th May 2008 |
| 28th May 2008 | Fisheye / Magnifying glass | | | | 04th June 2008 |
| 04th June 2008 | Bargrams / Filtering | | | | 11th June 2008 |
| 11th June 2008 | Scatterplots / Interest trees | | | | 18th June 2008 |
| 18th June 2008 | Project start | | | | 2nd July 2008 |
| 25th June 2008 | no class | | | | --- |
| 02nd July 2008 | Project discussion | | | | |
| 09th July 2008 | no class | | | | --- |
| 16th July 2008 | Project presentation | | | | 16th July 2008 |
Literature
The lecture is based on:
Further reading:
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by: Edward R. Tufte. Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT, 1983.
- Envisioning Information by: Edward R. Tufte. Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT, 1990.
- Readings in Information Visualization by: Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay, and Ben Shneiderman (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
- The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections by: Benjamin B. Bederson, and Ben Shneiderman (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies, 2003.
- Visual Cues: Practical Data Visualization by: Peter R. Keller and Mary M. Keller. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8186-3102-3.