Documente Academic
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Example: Percent chance that a bar will reach the top of a box
year
country origin
brand
number of seats
number of doors
reliability (# of breakdowns)
and so on...
data collection
data assimilation
statistical testing
visualization
computational
analysis (brain)
domain knowledge
Visual
Make decisions based on data
because data scientists may work for more than one group
Visual Interface
Computer
Human
Data
Visual Interface
Computer
computing hardware
Human
manage
algorithms
Data
Visual Interface
Computer
computing hardware
Human
manage
algorithms
pattern recognition
creative thought
Data
Visual Interface
Computer
computing hardware
Human
manage
algorithms
pattern recognition
creative thought
Data
mental model
abstracted knowledge
Visual Interface
Computer
computing hardware
Human
manage
algorithms
pattern recognition
creative thought
Data
formal model
mental model
formatted knowledge
abstracted knowledge
Visual Interface
Computer
computing hardware
Human
manage
algorithms
pattern recognition
creative thought
Data
formal model
mental model
formatted knowledge
abstracted knowledge
formalized insight
update
Visual Interface
visualize
Computer
computing hardware
Human
manage
algorithms
pattern recognition
creative thought
Data
formal model
mental model
formatted knowledge
abstracted knowledge
Visual Interface
interact
learn
Computer
computing hardware
Human
manage
algorithms
apply/update
pattern recognition
creative thought
Data
formal model
mental model
formatted knowledge
abstracted knowledge
update
Visual Interface
visualize
Computer
computing hardware
Human
manage
algorithms
pattern recognition
creative thought
Data
apply/update
formal model
mental model
formatted knowledge
abstracted knowledge
update
Visual Interface
learn
visualize
Computer
computing hardware
Human
manage
algorithms
apply/update
interact
pattern recognition
creative thought
Data
apply/update
formal model
mental model
formatted knowledge
abstracted knowledge
update
Visual Interface
interact
visual communication
learn
visualize
Computer
computing hardware
Human
manage
algorithms
apply/update
pattern recognition
creative thought
Data
apply/update
formal model
mental model
formatted knowledge
abstracted knowledge
Required
Optional
Lecture
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Topic
Intro, schedule, and logistics
Applications of visual analytics and basic tasks
Introduction to D3, basic vis techniques for non-spatial data
Visual perception and cognition
Visual design and aesthetics
Data types, notion of similarity and distance
Data preparation and reduction
Introduction to R, statistics foundations
Data mining techniques: clusters, text, patterns, classifiers
Data mining techniques: clusters, text, patterns, classifiers
Computer graphics and volume rendering
Techniques to visualize spatial (3D) data
Scientific and medical visualization
Scientific and medical visualization
Midterm #1
High-dimensional data, dimensionality reduction
Big data: data reduction, summarization
Correlation and causal modeling
Principles of interaction
Visual analytics and the visual sense making process
Evaluation and user studies
Visualization of time-varying and time-series data
Visualization of streaming data
Visualization of graph data
Visualization of text data
Midterm #2
Data journalism
Final project presentations
Projects
Project #1 out
Project #1 due
Project #2 out
Project #2 due
Project #3 out
Project #3 due
proposal: 10%
prelim report: 10%
final report and presentation: 10%
Participation
not graded, but I hope you will attend regularly and participate
actively