Informationsvisualisierung - Information Visualization

Module IN 2139

Vorlesung im Sommersemester 2009
Prof. Gudrun Klinker, Ph.D. (with Manuel Huber, Simon Nestler and Michael Schlegel)

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 23, 2009

Exercises: Tuesdays 16:00 - 17:30, MI 03.13.010
Exercises start: April 28, 2009

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.
  • Details including a sign-up sheet will be shown at this place half way through the semester.
  • Registration for exams now open!

Office hours:

• By appointment (email to Prof.Klinker)

Schedule (subject to change)

Date	Subject	links to slides (restricted)
23.April 09	1. Introduction: what is visualization, issues	L1-IntroIssues.pdf
30.April 09	Lab visit
7. May 09	2. Information representation: encoding of value	L2-Representation1.pdf
14. May 09	no class
21. May 09	no class: Christi Himmelfahrt (Christ's Ascension)	-
28. May 09	3. Information representation: encoding of relation	L3-Representation2.pdf
4. June 09	4. Information presentation: space limitations	L4-Presentation1.pdf
11, June 09	no class: Fronleichnam (Feast of Corpus Christi)	-
18. June 09	5. Information presentation: time limitations	L5-Presentation2.pdf
25. June 09	6. Interaction: continuous and stepped	L6-Interaction1.pdf NEW VERSION (correction on slide 16)
2. July 09	7. Interaction: passive and composite; interaction dynamics	L7-Interaction2.pdf
9. July 09	8. Case studies	L8-CaseStudies1.pdf L9-CaseStudies2.pdf
16. July 09	Guest lecture: Dr. Verena Broy (BMW)	Music Map: a cartographic metaphor for driver information systems
22. July 09 (wed)	oral exams
30. July 09 (thur)	oral exams
13. Aug 09 (thur)	oral exams
14. Aug 09 (fri)	oral exams

Excercises

Date	Subject	links to slides (unrestricted)	Excercises	Attachments	Deadline
28. April 09	Visualization of geographical information	lesson1.pdf	sheet1.pdf	Eurovision2007.csv	5. May 09
6. May 09	prefuse development	lesson2.pdf	sheet2.pdf		11. May 09
12. May 09	Graphs and Trees	lesson3.pdf	sheet3.pdf		18. May 09
19. May 09	Treemaps	lesson4.pdf	sheet4.pdf		8. June 09
2. June 09	no exercise (Pentecost)
9. June 09	Distortion	lesson5.pdf	sheet5.pdf		16. June 09
16. June 09	Filtering and Bargrams	lesson6.pdf	sheet6.pdf		23. June 09
23. June 09	Project Kick-off	lesson7.pdf			21. July 09

Literature

The lecture is based on:

• Information Visualization: Design for Interaction second edition by: Robert Spence. PEARSON Education, 2007. ISBN-10: 0-132-0655-09.

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.