ECE 69500 - Introduction to Visual Analytics
Course Details
Lecture Hours: 3 Credits: 3
Counts as:
Experimental Course Offered:
Fall 2011
Requisites:
None
Requisites by Topic:
Introductory knowledge of one of the following areas: data analysis, knowledge management, statistics, computer graphics, visualization
Catalog Description:
This course introduces students to visual analytics: the use of interactive visual interfaces to facilitate analytical reasoning. The course contents will include both theoretical foundations of this interdisciplinary science as well as practical applications of integrated visual analysis techniques on real-world problems.
Required Text(s):
None.
Recommended Text(s):
- llluminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics , J. J. Thomas and K. A. Cook , IEEE Computer Society , 2005
Lecture Outline:
| Week | Major Topics |
|---|---|
| 1 | Course introduction, overview, and review of visualization and data analysis |
| 2-3 | Analytical reasoning and critical thinking |
| 4 | Cognition and perception |
| 5-6 | Data representations, transformations and statistics for visual reasoning |
| 7-8 | Visual representations |
| 9 | Interaction and interface design |
| 10 | Production, presentation and dissemination |
| 11 | Collaborative visual analytics |
| 12 | Evaluation |
| 13 | New technology for visual analytics |
| 14-15 | Advanced topics in visual analytics |