2.2b Information Visualization Concepts
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2.2b. Information Visualization Concepts
Amit Chourasia, Associate Division Director, SDSC
This tutorial will provide a ground up understanding of information visualization concepts and how they can be leveraged to select and use effective visual idioms for different data types such spreadsheet data, geospatial, graph, etc.). Example visualization designs and fixing problems with existing visualizations will be discussed. Practical guidelines visualization design will be discussed as well.
Slides and sticky notes
Homework exercises
- Etch a sketch for tabular data description. If necessary view actual data in CSV format
- Fix an existing visualization from this list
Textbook
Visualization Analysis and Design, Tamara Munzner (A K Peters Visualization Series, CRC Press, 2014)
Resources
See listing of programming and application tools is available