Visualizing Information
George Legrady, Media Arts and Technology Program
University of California, Santa Barbara
email: legrady[at]arts.ucsb.edu
Homepage of author: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/
Homepage of course: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/%7Eg.legrady/academic/courses/08w259/08w259.html
Title of course: Visualizing Information
Aimed at what category of students: Students of Media Arts and Technology
Objectives of the course:
A lecture and lab course to explore the visual organization of information. Lectures, readings and technical demos will focus on a range of conceptual models of data visual mapping as implemented in various disciplines, artistic, statistical and scientific, that are used to represent information visually.
List topics of course:
- Visual communication basics
- Visualizing XML data
- Discipline specific perspectives
- Visualize 2D
- Design techniques
- Data visualization
- Animation/interactivity/imaging
- Time based visualization & narrative
- Metaphor/interactive
- Kohonen map algorithm