Visualization of abstract data

H. Schumann

Department of Computer Science, University of Rostock

email: schumann[at]informatik.uni-rostock.de

homepage of author (in German): http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~schumann/

homepage of course (in German): http://wwwicg.informatik.uni-rostock.de/Lehre/VWD_de.html

list of other courses (in German): http://www.icg.informatik.uni-rostock.de/Lehre/

• Title of visualization course: Visualization of abstract data

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

• Objectives of the course:
  • This course presents important concepts on the graphical presentation of data from scientific, environmental, medical and engineering applications. Emphasis is on methods for visualizing multi-parameter data in space and time as well as the visualization of volume and flow data. Possibilities and limits are being discussed via concrete examples.

• List topics of course:
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Data characteristics and selection
• Chapter 3: Factors influencing visualization
• Chapter 4: Basic techniques
• Chapter 5: Visualization of multi-parameter data
• Chapter 6: Visualization of volume data
• Chapter 7: Visualization of flow data
• Chapter 8: Information visualization

• Lab:
  • OpenDX (which is the open source software version of IBM's Visualization Data Explorer Product); Java, C++

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