Lecture Information Visualization

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Andreas Butz
Tutorials: Carl Oechsner
Hours per week: 2 (Lecture) + 2 (Tutorial)
ECTS-Credits: 6
Module:WP16: Computergrafik 3 (für Master Medieninformatik)

• News
• Overview
• Dates and Locations
• Contents
• Lecture
• Tutorial
• InfoVis Project as a graded exam
• Date of the graded final presentation

News

• 03.11.2020 Delay in the enrollment process: If this concerns you and you don't have access to our learning platforms, promptly send uns a message.
• 22.10.2020 Update concerning the teaching and exam format for this course.
• 02.09.2020 Course registration is now open via Uni2Work.
• 20.08.2020 This webpage has been created.

Overview

The lecture will take place online completely.

• Regsitration and grading is performed via Uni2Work.
• Contents, exercise sheets and further information is be provided via Moodle. Moodle access will be provided upon successful registration via Uni2Work.
• Lecture and final presentations take place via Zoom.

Dates and Locations

• Lecture:
  Date: Tuesdays, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. c.t.
  Location: Zoom
• Tutorials:
  
  

  Group	Weekday	Time	Location
  Group 01	Thursdays	2-4 p.m. c.t.	Zoom
  Group 02	Thursdays	4-6 p.m. c.t.	Zoom
  Group 03	Fridays	10 a.m.-12 p.m. c.t.	Zoom
  Group 04	Fridays	12-2 p.m. c.t.	Zoom
  Group 05	Fridays	2-4 p.m. c.t.	Zoom

Contents

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.

The lecture course is suitable for:

• Students of media informatics (Medieninformatik) (Diplom, Master) and computer science (Informatik) (Diplom, Master) with prior knowledge in media informatics (Medieninformatik), Obligatory lecture for Master MCI

The lecture is targeted at master students. However, participation is also possible for bachelor students. Please be advised that credits can cannot be provided to bachelor students prior to enrollment for a master program.

Lecture

This semester Information Visualization will be offered as an interactive collection of course materials on Moodle. For each chapter you will find a combination of videos and interactive units as well as slides from the videos and a concomitant script.

At the weekly lecture date a question and discussion session will be held via Zoom. The respective link will be provided to you after registering for the course via Uni2Work. You have the possibility to ask questions if something is unclear and there will be room for discussion of course topics.

Tutorial

Tutorials will also take place via Zoom (Link: See Moodle). At the weekly dates mentioned above exercise sheets and project work will be presented and discussed alternately.

Exercises will be provided and corrected in Moodle.

InfoVis Project as a graded exam

There is going to be practical coursework performed in groups that directly allows exercising the theoretical knowledge conveyed in the lecture. There will be intermediate project milestones in a way that each group member has to present at least once. Individual and the final group presentation at the end of the semester will jointly determine the individual final grade, whereby final grades can vary within a group. For successful completion of the course both the successful individual and group presentations are crucial.

Date of the graded final presentation

• Dates: 02.02.2021 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 09.02.2021 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. via Zoom.
• Deadline for registration: 31.01.2021
• Deadline for deregistration: 31.01.2021
• Registration is possible via Uni2Work