Lecture Information Visualization

Lecturer: Prof. Andreas Butz
Supervisors: Carl Oechsner, Rifat Amin, Xuedong Zhang

Tutors: Anahita Marashi
Contact: iv-ws2526@medien.ifi.lmu.de
Hours per week: 2 (Lecture) + 2 (Tutorial)
ECTS-Credits: 6
Module: Module Assignments

• News
• Syllabus
• Target Group
• Dates and Locations
• Lecture Schedule
• Tutorial Schedule
• Registration

News

• 23.09.2025 The first lecture will be on Wednesday, 15 October 2025.
• 23.09.2025 There is a parallel course Practical Information Visualization in which the topics of this lecture are applied in a practical project. Spots there are assigned via the central registration for practicals.
• 23.09.2025 All further information, materials and dates are published on Moodle.

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Syllabus

The lecture introduces core aspects in information visualization. The focus will be on human visual perception, visualization of multivariate data, and interaction concepts for visualization systems. Based on these concepts, strategies will be introduced that allow graphs, networks, trees, text-based data and time-based data to be visualized. Furthermore, the lecture presents techniques to efficiently use limited display space.

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Target Group

• Students of media informatics (Medieninformatik) (Master) and computer science (Informatik) (Master) with prior knowledge in media informatics (Medieninformatik). This lecture is obligatory for Master MCI (Mensch-Computer Interaktion).

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Dates and Locations

Lecture: Mittwoch, 12:00 - 14:00, Frauenlobstr. 7a, Rm. 151

Tutorials:
Gruppe 01: Do 14-16 Uhr c.t. Amalienstr. 73A / 220
Gruppe 02: Do 16-18 Uhr c.t. Amalienstr. 73A / 220
Gruppe 03: Fr 10-12 Uhr c.t. Amalienstr. 73A / 220
Gruppe 04: Fr 12-14 Uhr c.t. Amalienstr. 73A / 220
Gruppe 05: Fr 14-16 Uhr c.t. Amalienstr. 73A / 220

Lecture Schedule

Lecture topics are subject to change.

Date	Topic
15.10.2025	Lecture 1: Introduction and Motivation
22.10.2025	Lecture 2: Perception and Color
29.10.2025	Lecture 3: Marks and Channels
05.11.2025	No Lecture
12.11.2025	Lecture 4: Good Visualization
19.11.2025	Lecture 5: Tasks and Types
26.11.2025	Lecture 6: Idioms for Multidimensional Data
03.12.2025	Lecture 7: Idioms for Graph Data
10.12.2025	Lecture 8: Idioms for Hierarchies
17.12.2025	No Lecture
07.01.2026	Lecture 9: Idioms for specific data types
14.01.2026	Lecture 10: Interaction
21.01.2026	No Lecture
28.01.2026	Lecture 11: Evaluation
04.02.2026	No Lecture

Tutorial Schedule

Topic	Date (Group 1-2)	Date (Group 3-5)
Assignment 1: Perception and Color	06.11.2025	07.11.2025
Assignment 2: Marks and Channel	20.11.2025	21.11.2025
Assignment 3: Good Visualization and Tasks & Types	04.12.2025	05.12.2025
Assignment 4: Idioms and Interaction	29.01.2026	30.01.2026
Q&A	05.02.2025	06.02.2025

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Registration

Please register via LSF and Moodle for the course. Moodle Key: ivws2526