Visualizing Information

George Legrady, Media Arts and Technology Program
University of California, Santa Barbara

email: legrady[at]arts.ucsb.edu

Homepage of author: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/

Homepage of course: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/%7Eg.legrady/academic/courses/08w259/08w259.html

Title of course: Visualizing Information

Aimed at what category of students: Students of Media Arts and Technology

Objectives of the course:

A lecture and lab course to explore the visual organization of information. Lectures, readings and technical demos will focus on a range of conceptual models of data visual mapping as implemented in various disciplines, artistic, statistical and scientific, that are used to represent information visually.

List topics of course:

• Visual communication basics
• Visualizing XML data
• Discipline specific perspectives
• Visualize 2D
• Design techniques
• Data visualization
• Animation/interactivity/imaging
• Time based visualization & narrative
• Metaphor/interactive
• Kohonen map algorithm