INFO 4310 - [Interactive Information Visualization]

(KCM-AS)

Spring. Next offered: 2019-2020. 3 credits. Student option grading (no audit).

Prerequisite: INFO 3300/CS 3300, or INFO 5100, or permission of instructor.

J. Rzeszotarski.

This course explores a variety of techniques for making appealing and convincing representations of digital data. Students will build a toolbox of techniques for representing information, explore ways for making visualizations interactive, investigate how cognition makes data easy or hard to understand, and use their web development and data-scraping abilities to construct new visualizations. Projects centered around current issues will allow students to make use of their new knowledge both individually and in groups, and in-class critique sessions will refine their understanding of what makes for successful and unsuccessful designs.