Information Visualization

Benjamin B. Bederson

Human-Computer Interaction Lab

University of Maryland

Email: bederson[at]cs.umd.edu

Homepage of author: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson/

Homepage of course: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson/classes/infovis/index.html

• Title of course: Information Visualization

• Aimed at what category of students: Computer Science students

• Objectives of the course:
  • What is information visualization? How is it related to scientific visualization? How does it combine with data mining? Information visualization is emerging as an important fusion of graphics, scientific visualization, database, and human-computer interaction. Dozens of innovative visualizations for 1-, 2-, 3-, and multi-dimensional data have been proposed, along with creative designs for temporal, hierarchical, and network data. This seminar will examine the design alternatives (fisheye, overviews, dynamic queries, etc.), algorithms and data structures, plus human factors evaluations of efficacy for a variety of tasks and users.

• List topics of course:
  • Introduction
  • Visual Perception
  • Multidimensional Data
  • Trees
  • Project implementation

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