Seminar in Visualization

Objectives:
The main objective of course INF358 is twofold: On the one hand, students are introduced to a variety of visualization solutions (tools) and exercise them on selected datasets, while, on the other hand, the students are also introduced to the basic methods of scientific work, ranging from literature research to presenting own research. After the successful completion of course INF358, students know about common solutions/tools in visualization and how to use them; they have also learned the principal practices of scientific work and acquired first experiences with them.

Content:
Course INF358 addresses a variety of visualization cases, including tabular data visualization, time-dependent data visualization, graph visualization, and scientific data visualization. In terms of the principles of scientific work, course INF358 addresses literature research and literature review, doing scientific work based on related work, as well as writing and presenting own (scientific) work.

After the successful completion of the course the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge
The student

• knows about tools and methods to visualize tabular data
• knows about tools and methods to visualize time-dependent data
• knows about tools and methods to visualize graph data
• knows about tools and methods to visualize scientific data (gridded data)
• knows about how to search and find related literature
• knows about how to discuss related workknows about how to do own (scientific) work, based on related work
• knows about how to write (scientifically) about own (research) work
• knows about how to present (scientifically) own (research) work

Skills
The student

• is capable of applying an appropriate visualization solution (tool) to tabular data
• is capable of applying an appropriate visualization solution (tool) to time-dependent data
• is capable of applying an appropriate visualization solution (tool) to network data
• is capable of applying an appropriate visualization solution (tool) to scientific data (gridded data)
• is capable of searching and finding scientific literature that is related to a given research problem
• is capable of developing an own solution based on related research work
• is capable of scientifically writing a publication of own (research) work
• is capable of scientifically presenting own (research) work

General competence
The student

• can evaluate the appropriateness of a given visualization solution / tool for a given (research) problem
• appreciates the usual practices of scientific work, including ethical considerations such as being truthful to related work