Information Visualization

Katy Börner

School of Library and Information Science

Indiana University

Email: katy[at]indiana.edu

Homepage of author: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/%7Ekaty/

Homepage of course: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/L579-S04/

• Title of course: Information Visualization

• Aimed at what category of students: Computer Science students

• Objectives of the course:
  • The course provides an overview about the state of the art in the emerging field of information visualization. It highlights the process of producing effective visualizations that take the needs of users into account and illustrate practical visualization procedures.

• List topics of course:
  • perceptual basis of information visualization
  • data analysis algorithms that enable extraction of relationships in data
  • major visualization and interaction techniques
  • discussions of systems that drive research and development
  • future trends and remaining fundamental problems in the field

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