Instructor:

Hui Li (cse.HuiLi@gzu.edu.cn)

Boxue Bldg. room 601

The objectives of this graduate course are：

·Learn the principles involved in information visualization and visual analytics

·Learn about the variety of existing techniques and systems in information visualization

·Develop skills in critiquing different visualization techniques as applied to particular tasks

·Learn how to evaluate visualization systems

·Gain a background that will aid the design of new, innovative visualizations

Syllabus (tentative)：

Week 1     Over view and information visualization

Week 2     Multivariate data & table/graph design

Week 3     Multivariate visual representations

Week 4     Visual analytics system & toolkits

Week 5     Interaction

Week 6     Storytelling      

Week 7     Time series data

Week 8     Hierarchies & trees

Week 9     Graphs and networks

Week 10   Visual analytics & perception

Week 11   Course review

Week 16   Exam and demo