| Instructor: | Dr. Orland Hoeber | Web: | http://www.cs.mun.ca/~hoeber/ |
| Lectures: | T/Th 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM | Email: | hoeber@cs.mun.ca |
| Room: | S-2064 | Phone: | 709-737-3222 |
| Office Hours: | T/Th 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM W 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (other times by appointment only) |
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: | Feb 19 | 20% |
| Final Exam: | tba | 40% |
| Total: | 100% |
>> you must pass the final exam to pass the class <<
Lectures, three hours per week (T/Th 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM; S-2064).
All lecture notes and assignments will be posted on Desire2Learn.
The course syllabus contains the course schedule, topics, and other details about the course.
All assignments are due prior to the beginning of the class on the specified dates. Late submissions will not be accepted. Each assignment may have two parts: a physical submission that must be handed in prior to the beginning of class, and an electronic submission that must be submitted online.
For the written submission, please be sure to follow the instructions on each assignment. Source code for the assignments must be zipped into a single file, and submitted online. Source code should be commented in a reasonably informative manner (JavaDoc formatting is recommended). You are responsible for ensuring that your code compiles and executes within the LabNet environment.
All electronic assignment submissions are to be submitted via Desire2Learn.
Please familiarize yourself with the Undergraduate Academic Regulations, as provided in the 2008/2009 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.
February 3, 2009
February 17, 2009
February 19, 2009
March 17, 2009
March 31, 2009
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