Information Visualization

Notes

The slides and additional material (readings, practical works, etc.) are available at my InfoVis page.

25 sep.	Lecture: Introduction (1/n); readings: Graphs in Statistical Analysis & The Eyes Have It; viewing: Hans Rosling’s TED talks
2 oct.	Lecture: Introduction (2/n) — Visual perception; readings: Feature integration theory & Visual search
9 oct.	Lecture: Introduction (3/n) — Visual mapping; readings: InfoVis design space
16 oct.	Lecture: Introduction (4/n) — Visual mapping (cont.); readings: A Tour Through the Visualization Zoo pdf
23 oct.	Lecture: InfoVis Zoo
6 nov.	Project: steps 0-1 walk-through (cars.html); readings: Gapminder reimplementation with d3.js
13 nov.	Lecture: Interaction; readings: ScatterDice
20 nov.	Lecture: Interaction (cont.); readings: Dendrogramix, code
27 nov.	Lecture: Networks; readings: Construction of a Network, Jacques Bertin's Reorderable Matrices
4 dec.	Lecture: Networks (cont.); readings: Power Graph
11 dec.	no lecture
18 dec.	Lecture: Networks (cont.); readings: Power Graph, Quantifying the Space-Efficiencyof 2D Graphical Representations of Trees
TBA	project defenses

Tour of the InfoVis zoo (sample mappings analysis)

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6 nov.	warmup: complete D3.js practical works step #0 (0%) and step #1 (10%)	10%
27 nov.	questions (see project page)	10%
4 dec.	designs	40%
11 dec.	form groups
jan.	implementation	40%

last update: nov. 27

The project will count for 34% of the final mark.

See the project page for the project description.

I may propose internships to students highly interested in information visualisation.

My current research interests are:

using animation in visualisation to understand reordering
understanding how to use the visual variables 'depth' and 'size' together without too much interference
visualizaiton for uneven distributions to understand inequalities
leveraging high performance computing infrastructure to enable high throughput interactive visualisations

Those subject can be applied to datasets comming from geoscience.

Subject details will be discussed with prospective students, feel free to contact me.