Material used by the teacher during the lectures.
What we mean by “Interactive Data Visualization”? What is Visualization? Why Visualization is important? Early Visualizations; Visualization today; Visualization and other fields. Visualization Process; The role of Perception.
Course Organization and Overview: Syllabus; Bibliography; Evaluation rules; important dates, etc
Introduction to data foundations; Data Types; Structure within and between records; Data Preprocessing; A quick glimpse on Tamara view on Data
What Is Perception? Physiology; Perceptual Processing
Perception in Visualization; Metrics; Cognition
The Visualization Process in Detail; Semiology of Graphical Symbols; The Eight Visual Variables; Historical Perspective. General Rules for Exploratory Data Analysis
Point-Based Techniques; Projecting high-dimensional points into 2D or 3D display space; Line-Based Techniques; Region-Based Techniques; Combinations of Techniques
Visualizing Geospatial Data; Visualization of Point Data; Visualization of Line Data; Visualization of Area Data; Other Issues in Geospatial Data Visualization.
Motivation; Characterizing Time-Oriented Data; Visualizing Time-Oriented Data; TimeBench.
Interaction Operators; Interaction Operands and Spaces; A Unified Framework
Introduction; User Tasks ; User Characteristics ; Data Characteristics ; Visualization Characteristics ; Structures for Evaluating Visualizations; Benchmarking Procedures; An Example of Visualization Benchmarking