Apr 25, 2024

2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog

2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

CIS 3320 - Information Visualization

Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0

Prerequisite: MATH 2311 or TMTH 3360 or equivalent.
Description
Information visualization offers instruments for reasoning about quantitative information, analyzing and communicating statistical information. The course overviews the main typologies of data graphics (data-maps, time-series, space-time narrative, relational diagrams, graphs and methods for dimensionality reduction) and provides a language for discussing data visualizations combined with a knowledge of the human perception of visual objects. The course teaches how to visualize information effectively by using statistical methods, combined with knowledge of the human perception and the basics of data graphics.