Information Visualization and Presentation

Marti Hearst

School of Information Management & Systems

University of California, Berkeley

Email: hearst[at]sims.berkeley.edu

Homepage of author: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/

Homepage of course: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is247/s04/index.html

• Title of course: Information Visualization and Presentation

• Aimed at what category of students: Students of Computer Science

• Objectives of the course:
• This course will take a critical stance towards the field of information visualization. Rather than survey existing approaches, we will analyze the factors contribute to success or lack thereof, as a means to determine how to devise future successful visualizations. Criteria for success in this analysis are either positive results from usability studies or wide adoption by the target user population.

• List topics of course:
• scientific visualization
• cartography
• computer graphics
• visualization as an artistic enterprise

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