Informationsvisualisierung - Information Visualization
Module IN 2139
Vorlesung im Sommersemester 2010
Prof. Gudrun Klinker, Ph.D. (with
Tayfur Coskun,
Florian Echtler and
Manuel Huber)
2V + 2Ü
5 ECTS Credits
The class will be taught in English.
Time & Location
Lecture: Thursdays 10:15 - 11:45,
MI 03.13.010
Lecture start: April 22, 2009
Exercises: Tuesdays 16:00 - 17:30,
FMI 03.13.010
Exercises start: April 27, 2010
Content
More Information
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
Exercises:
- The class consists of both a weekly lecture and weekly exercises!
- Exercises constitute half of the credits and thus will make up half of the grade (exam questions).
- Exam questions will be based on experiences gained by attending the excercise meetings and by working on the homework. It will not be enough to just read and understand solutions to the homework. The learning experience and insights gained by struggling with the assignments is essential.
Exams: oral
- Duration: 20 minutes
- Language: English or German
- Schedule: during the last week of the semester and the first weeks of the semester break.
- Registration for exams now open!
Office hours:
Approximate Schedule (subject to change)
Exercises
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.