CS598 Information Visualization

Instructor: Yizhou Yu
Spring 2010, WF 2:00pm-3:15pm, 1131 Siebel
Office hour: W 3:15-4:15pm, 3237 Siebel

Information visualization helps people understand and analyze data. In contrast with scientific visualization, information visualization focuses on abstract data sets, such as databases, graphs or points in a high-dimensional space. This course teaches principles as well as existing techniques, and systems in information visualization. It covers visualization techniques for databases, data cubes, hierarchical structures, graphs and networks. It also covers focus+context techniques for large datasets.

Grading is based on class participation, paper presentation and programming projects. The specific allocation is as follows: class participation 20%, paper presentation 30%, class projects 50%.

Lecture Schedule
Jan 20, Introduction
Jan 22, Basic Charts and Plots
Jan 27, Hierarchical Data
Jan 29, Database Visualization, Polaris and Zoom Trees
Feb 3, Graph Drawing
Feb 5, Basic Cluster Analysis
Feb 12, Advanced Cluster Analysis
Feb 17, Dimensionality Reduction
Feb 19, Social Network Visualization
Feb 24, Isomap and Zoom & Focus+Context
Feb 26, Table Lens and Hyperbolic Trees
Mar 3, Pathfinder Networks
Mar 5, Force-Directed Edge Bundling (presented by Liao)
Mar 10, Spatiotemporal Hotspots (presented by Shook)
Mar 12, Arc Diagrams (presented by Bhasin)
Mar 17, Exploration of Gene Expression Patterns (presented by Tang)
Mar 19, Large Graph Exploration (presented by Blatti)
Mar 24, Spring Break
Mar 26, Spring Break
Mar 31, Mapping Text with Phrase Nets (presented by Zilouchian)
Apr 2, Subgraph Selection and Manipulation (presented by Blatti)
Apr 7, Aircraft Trajectories (presented by Tang)
Apr 9, Collaborative Info Visualization (presented by Zilouchian)
Apr 16, Interactive Dimension Reduction (presented by Liao)
Apr 23, Visually driven analysis of movement data (presented by Shook)
Apr 28, Visualizing Social Photos (presented by Bhasin)
Apr 30, Anomaly/Outlier Detection
May 5, Final Project Presentations

The following is a potential list of papers for presentation.

InfoVis Papers

  1. Christophe Hurter, Benjamin Tissoires, and Stephane Conversy , FromDaDy: Spreading Aircraft Trajectories Across Views to Support Iterative Queries, InfoVis 2009. (Tang)
  2. N. Elmqvist, P. Dragicevic, and J.-D. Fekete, Rolling the Dice: Multidimensional Visual Exploration using Scatterplot Matrix Navigation, InfoVis 2008.
  3. C. Weaver, Cross-Filtered Views for Multidimensional Visual Analysis, IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2009.
  4. L. Byron, and M. Wattenberg, Stacked Graphs -- Geometry & Aesthetics, InfoVis 2008.
  5. D. Holten, and J.J. van Wijk, Force-Directed Edge Bundling for Graph Visualization, EuroVis 2009. (Liao)
  6. Michael J. McGuffin, and Igor Jurisica, Interaction Techniques for Selecting and Manipulating Subgraphs in Network Visualizations, InfoVis 2009. (Blatti)
  7. Frank van Ham, and Adam Perer, "Search, Show Context, Expand on Demand": Supporting Large Graph Exploration with Degree-of-Interest, InfoVis 2009. (Blatti)
  8. Michel Crampes, Jeremy de Oliveira-Kumar, Sylvie Ranwez, and Jean Villerd, Visualizing Social Photos on a Hasse Diagram for Eliciting Relations and Indexing New Photos, InfoVis 2009. (Bhasin)
  9. Sara Johansson, and Jimmy Johansson, Interactive Dimensionality Reduction Through User-defined Combinations of Quality Metrics, InfoVis 2009. (Liao)
  10. Xiaoru Yuan, Peihong Guo, He Xiao, Hong Zhou, and Huamin Qu, Scattering Points in Parallel Coordinates, InfoVis 2009.
  11. Edward C. Clarkson, Krishna Desai, and James D. Foley, ResultMaps: Visualization for Search Interfaces, InfoVis 2009.
  12. Frank van Ham, Martin Wattenberg, and Fernanda B. Viegas, Mapping Text with Phrase Nets, InfoVis 2009. (Zilouchian)
  13. R. Maciejewski, S. Rudolph, R. Hafen, A.M. Abusalah, M. Yakout, M. Ouzzani, W.S. Cleveland, S.J. Grannis, and D.S. Ebert, A Visual Analytics Approach to Understanding Spatiotemporal Hotspots, IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2009. (Shook)
  14. T. Munzner, H3: laying out large directed graphs in 3D hyperbolic space, ieee_infovis, pp.2, 1997 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '97), 1997