Information Visualization and Presentation

Marti Hearst, School of Information Management & Systems, University of California, Berkeley

email: hearst[at]sims.berkeley.edu

Homepage of author: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/

Homepage of course: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is247/s04/index.html

Title of course: Information Visualization and Presentation

Aimed at what category of students: Students of Information Management and Systems

Objectives of the course:

This course will take a critical stance towards the field of information visualization. Rather than survey existing approaches, we will analyze the factors contribute to success or lack thereof, as a means to determine how to devise future successful visualizations. Criteria for success in this analysis are either positive results from usability studies or wide adoption by the target user population.

List topics of course:

• Scientific visualization
• Cartography
• Computer graphics
• Visualization as an artistic enterprise