Information Visualization 7.5 credits

Based on theoretical foundations of visual perception and visual channels, this course teaches how to approach a domain-specific data problem and how to create an appropriate visualization and interactions for it. Vice-versa it also teaches how to analyze and assess existing visualizations and interactions. In the above context, the course starts with foundations of visual perception and visual channels interwoven into a theoretical visualization model. This model guides in translating an information need that concerns a specific set of domain data into matching data types, suitable visualizations, and appropriate interactions. The course will present and discuss in detail fundamental and advanced information visualizations as well as suiting interactions for different kinds of data such as: - Multidimensional/multivariate data - Trees and hierarchical data - Graphs and networks - Time-series data - Set-based or categorical data.