Course Code: 19CAEN1018 Course Title: Visualization Techniques
Course Category: Professional Elective Course Level: Mastery
L:T:P(Hours/Week) 3: 0: 0 Credits:3 Total Contact Hours:45 Marks:100
Pre-requisites
19CACN1202 Software Engineering
19CAEN1004 Data Mining and Data Warehousing
Course Objectives
The course is intended to:
1. Outline the foundation of data visualization
2. Explain the visual perception and attention pertaining to visualization
3. Choose the concepts of Patterns, Visual objects and Space perception
4. Apply the interaction with visualization.
5. Make use of DOM and Web technologies
Unit I Foundations of Data visualization 9 Hours
A Model of Perceptual processing - Types of Data – Environment - Eye - Optimal display- Luminance,
Brightness, lightness and Gamma.
Unit II Multimedia UI 9 Hours
Color Standards- Appearance and Applications in Visualization - Visual Attention and Information - Visual field-
Iconic Buffer-Gabor Model- Texture in Visualization,-glyphs and Multivariate Discrete data.
Unit III Mobile HCI 9 Hours
Static and Moving Patterns-Gestalt laws-Contours-Patterns in Motion - Visual Objects and Data Objects- Image-
Based Object recognition-Structure-based Object Recognition- Geon diagram- Depth Cue Theory - Task Based
Space Perception.
Unit IV Interacting with Visualizations 9 Hours
Interacting with Visualizations- Data Selection and Manipulation loop- Exploration and Navigation loop- Memory
systems -Eye movements -Problem Solving with Visualizations.
Unit V Visualization Techniques and Systems 9 Hours
Structural Analysis - Statistical Exploration - Practical problems in conducting user studies- Data Driven
Documents (D3) Technology Fundamentals - web DOM - web CSS -web JavaScript - Data for visualization.
Course Outcomes Cognitive
Level
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
CO 1: Outline the foundation of Data Visualization. Understand
CO 2: Explain the visual perception and Attention pertaining to Visualization. Understand
CO 3: Choose the concepts of Patterns, Visual Objects and Space Perception. Apply
CO 4: Apply the interaction with visualization for the given scenario. Apply
CO 5: Make use of DOM and Web Technologies for developing Visualization Systems.
Apply
Reference Book(s):
R1. Colin Ware, “Information Visualization: Perception for Design”, Morgan Kaufmann, 2013
R2. Scott Murray, ”Interactive Data Visualization for the Web-An Introduction to Designing with D3”,
O’Reilly, 2013
R3. Ben Fry, “Visualizing Data”, 2nd Edition, O’Reilly, 2012
R4. Stephen Few, "Now you see it: Simple Visualization techniques for quantitative analysis",
Analytics Press, 2013
Web References:
1. https://www.coursera.org/learn/datavisualization/
2. https://www.udacity.com/course/data-visualization-and-d3js--ud507
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