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

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