Lecture Information Visualization

Lecturer: Prof. Florian Alt
Tutorials: Emanuel von Zezschwitz
Hours per week: 2 (Lecture) + 2 (Tutorial)
ECTS credits: 6

Module:WP16: Computergrafik 3 (für Master Medieninformatik)

• News
• Dates and Locations
• Contents
• Lecture
• Tutorial
• Exam
• Catch-up exam

News

• 16.03.2015 Registration for the retry exam is possible via UniWorX. The exam is held on 25.03.2015, 10-12 am.
• 25.02.2015 The retry exam is expected to be held on 25.03.2015. However, the room reservations are not yet confirmed.
• 02.02.2015 The exam will be held 05.02.2015, 4:00-6:00 p.m. - Please pay attention to the name specific room assignment.
• 02.02.2015 Some topics have been excluded from the exam.
• 16.01.2015 Registration for the exam is possible via UniWorX
• 07.01.2015 Next tutorials will be held January 15th/16th.
• 18.12.2014 Alexander Schenker developed a PubDB parser. It can be downloaded from https://github.com/wilkoer/pubdb_to_json_converter
• 16.12.2014 Dr. Christian Holz from Yahoo Labs will give a 45-minute research talk during the MMI2 lecture on 17.12.2014. All students are invited to attend the talk.
• 15.12.2014 On 16.12.2014 there will be the Christmas Lecture, given by Prof. Andreas Butz.
• 15.12.2014 Next tutorials will be held January 8th/9th. Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
• 08.12.2014 Due to an overlap with IT-Security, the exam date was changed to 05.02.15, 4-6 pm.
• 01.12.2014 Next tutorials will be held 11./12. of December.
• 15.10.2014 As mentioned during the lecture, the tutorials will start on October 23rd.
• 01.10.2014 The first lecture will be on Tuesday, 14.10.2014 (second week of the winter term).
• 17.09.2014 Registration for the tutorials will start on 07.10.2014
• 08.08.2014 Registration is possible via UniWorX

Dates and Locations

• Lecture:
  Date: Tuesday, 10-12 a.m.
  Location: Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Room A 120
• Tutorial:
  Dates:
  Group 01: Thursday 2-4 p.m., Amalienstr. 73A, 114
  Group 02: Thursday 4-6 p.m., Amalienstr. 73A, 114
  Group 03: Friday 10-12 a.m., Amalienstr. 73A, 114
  
• Exam:
  Date: 05.02.2015, 04:00-06:00 pm s.t.
  Location: Schellingstr. 3/4, Room H 030, Room S 001
  Further details

Contents

The lecture introduces core aspects in information visualization. The focus will be on human visual perception, visualization of multivariate data, and interaction concepts for visualization systems. Based on these concepts, strategies will be introduced that allow graphs, networks, trees, text-based data and time-based data to be visualized. Furthermore, the lecture presents techniques to efficiently use limited display space.

The lecture course is suitable for:

• Students of media informatics (Medieninformatik) (Diplom, Master) and computer science (Informatik) (Diplom, Master) with prior knowledge in media informatics (Medieninformatik)

The lecture is targeted at master students. However, participation is also possible for bachelor students. Please be advised that credits can cannot be provided to bachelor students prior to enrollment for a master program.

Lecture

Date	Subject	Slides	Podcast
14.10.2014	Introduction	PDF	MP4
21.10.2014	Introduction, Perception	PDF	MP4
28.10.2014	Perception, Multidimensional Information Visualization I	PDF	MP4
04.11.2014	Multidimensional Information Visualization II	PDF	MP4
11.11.2014	Multidimensional Information Visualization III, Interaction I	PDF	MP4
18.11.2014	Interaction II	PDF	MP4
25.11.2014	Interaction III, Graphs I	PDF	MP4
02.12.2014	Graphs II, Hierarchies I	PDF	MP4
09.12.2014	Hierarchies II	PDF	MP4
14.01.2015	Time	PDF	MP4
20.01.2015	Text, Presentation I	PDF	MP4
27.01.2015	Presentation II	PDF	MP4

Tutorial

Tutorials will take place bi-weekly.

Date	Topic of the Tutorial	Exercise
23.10.2014	Introduction / Perception	Übungsblatt 01
06.11.2014	Multivariate Data / Evaluation	Übungsblatt 02
18.11.2014	Interaction	Übungsblatt 03
11.12.2014	PubDB, Graphs and Hierarchies	Übungsblatt 04
15.01.2015	Time and Text	Übungsblatt 05
29.01.2015	Presentation

Exam

• Date: 05.02.2015, 16:00-18:00 p.m. s.t.
• Deadline for registration: 01.02.2015, 23:59 p.m.
• Deadline for deregistration: 03.02.2015, 23:59 p.m.
• Location:
  • A-R: H 030 (Schellingstr. 4)
  • S-Z: S 001 (Schellingstr. 3)
• Attention:
  • Closed book exam: Dictionary is allowed. All other material (e.g. books, script, etc.) are forbidden.
  • Mobile phones, laptops and any other communication technologies are strictly forbidden. Leave them at home.
  • Take calculator
  • Bring a ruler
  • student id card required
  • Real (!!) identification document required (e.g. ID card or passport)

Catch-up exam

• Date: 25.03.2015, 10-12 am
• Deadline for registration: 22.03.2015, 11:59 pm
• Deadline for deregistration: 24.03.2015, 12:00 pm
• Location: Room B139, Theresienstr. 39