CS 5764:  Information Visualization Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech Spring, 2007

Instructor:

Dr. Chris North
Beth Yost, GTA

• Syllabus
• Course calendar (with topics, readings, assignments)
• Lecture notes (and materials)
• Reading list
• Project teams
• Listserv:  CS5764_16073@listserv.vt.edu (must use your @vt.edu email to post)

Assignments:

• Class attendance, participation, and quizzes (Mar 13, May 1)
• Readings:  papers announced in class (see calendar)
• Paper presentation (see calendar)
• Paper review (to be announced)
• Homeworks:
  • HW #1 (due Jan 23)
  • HW #2 (due Feb 1)
  • HW #3+4 (due Mar 1)
  • HW #5 (Cancelled)
  • HW #6 (due April 12)
• Project:
  1. Teams (due Jan 18)
  2. Design concept & presentation (due Feb 13,15 -- see calendar for presentation order)
  3. Initial implementation status (due Mar 15)
  4. Complete implementation (due April 5)
  5. Evaluation report (due April 19)
  6. Final presentation (due April 19,24,26 -- see calendar for presentation order)
  7. Final paper (due May 3)

Related Links:

• Information visualization demos
• Crash course on developing user interfaces in C# and Java
• Previous semesters of this course
• Laboratory for Information Visualization and Evaluation (LIVE)
• GigaPixel Display Laboratory
• Useful code samples for the project: InfoVis Cyberinfrastructure
  • includes links to prefuse, infovis toolkit, Piccolo, ...