| Instructor: | Dr. Orland Hoeber | Web: | http://www.cs.mun.ca/~hoeber/ |
| Lectures: | MWF 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM | Email: | hoeber@cs.mun.ca |
| Room: | EN-2022 | Phone: | 709-737-3222 |
| Office Hours: | Tuesday/Wednesday 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Office: | ER-6037 |
COMP 2760 (Encountering the Computer: Society and the Individual)
COMP 3719 (Theory of Computations and Algorithms)
Information Visualization and Applications focuses on the design and implementation of interactive visualization techniques for the analysis, comprehension, exploration, and explanation of large collections of abstract information. Topics to be covered include principles of visual perception, information data types, visual encodings of data, representations of relationships, interaction methods, understanding user goals and tasks, and evaluation techniques. Case studies of accepted techniques and the current state-of-the-art in information visualization will be presented.
Spence, R. Information Visualization: Design for Interaction, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2007. (ISBN-13: 9780132065504)
The final grade in the course will be determined as follows:
| Assignments (4): | 4 x 10% | 40% |
| Midterm Exam: | February 27, 2008 | 20% |
| Final Exam: | April 11, 2008 9:00 - 11:00 AM (EN-2022) |
40% |
| Total: | 100% |
>> you must pass the final exam to pass the class <<
Lectures, three hours per week (MWF 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM; EN-2022).
| Week | Dates | Topics |
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| 1 | January 7 - 11 |
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| 2 | January 14 - 18 |
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| 3 | January 21 - 25 |
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| 4 | January 28 - February 1 |
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| 5 | February 4 - 8 |
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| 6 | February 11 - 15 |
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| 7 | February 18 - 22 (Midterm Break: February 18 - 20) |
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| 8 | February 25 - 29 |
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| 9 | March 3 - 5 |
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| 10 | March 10 - 14 |
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| 11 | March 17 - 21 (March 21 - No lectures) |
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| 12 | March 24 - 28 |
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| 13 | March 31 - April 4 |
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| The Office of the Registrar has scheduled the Final Exam for Friday April 11, 9:00 - 11:00 AM in EN-2022. The exam will be comprehensive, with extra weight given to the topics covered after the midterm. | ||
All assignments are due at 12:00 PM on the specified dates. Late submissions will not be accepted. Each assignment may have two parts: written and programming. For the written part, only hard copy submission is needed. For the programming part, submissions of both electronic and hard copies are required.
In the hard copy, please print out all your source code. Source code should be commented in a reasonably informative manner. You are responsible for ensuring that your code compiles and executes within the LabNet environment. Hard copies are to be handed in at the beginning of class.
All assignments must be submitted using the Submit command. If you are new to LabNet or Submit, view these instructions.
Please familiarize yourself with the Undergraduate Academic Regulations, as provided in the 2007/2008 University Calendar. Of particular importance are the following:
This is a wiki devoted to topics related to Information Visualization. It is well maintained, and is an excellent resource for finding out what is going on in the InfoVis community.
The Super Ad Bowl: Two Decades of Players
This is an interactive visualization created by The New York Times to show the types of companies that have the budget and desire to advertise during the Super Bowl.
Ben Shneiderman on the Thrill of Discovery
This is a video of Ben Shneiderman giving an informative lecture on the field of information visualization. Brief demos of many of the systems that he and his students have developed are provided.
This is a site where people can upload data and create visualizations of the data from a set of visualization tools. Moreover, people can share the visual representations they create, and can explore and comment upon the visualizations created by other users. This is a social networking site formed around information visualization
Steven Johnson tours the Ghost Map
This is a video from the TED conference where the author of the book Ghost Map talks about the context in which John Snow created his map of the Soho District of London to illustrate the link between cholera and the water supply.
January 23, 2008
February 15, 2008
February 27, 2008
March 14, 2008
April 4, 2008
April 11, 2008
