Information Visualisation

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 4023869FNW for working students in the 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

NOTE: registration for this course is only possible for working students. Day students can register for courses whose code ends with an R. At Inschrijven / studentenadministratie@vub.be you must be registered at the VUB as a working student for the current academic year.

Taught in

English

Faculty

Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences

Department

Computer Science

Educational team

Maxim Van de Wynckel
Beat Signer (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
26 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals

Course Content

The course covers the following topics:

Perception and colour theory
Data representation
Data presentation
Data processing and visualisation toolkits
Design guidelines and principles
Visualisation techniques
View manipulation and reduction
Validation and evaluation
Dashboards
Case studies

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Slides of the lectures, Learning platform
Handbook (Recommended) : Visualization Analysis & Design, Tamara Munzner, Taylor & Francis Inc, 9781466508910, 2014

Additional info

The lectures are given in English. All relevant course material (slides) is available on the learning platform. For specific course topics, pointers to relevant additional resources (research papers, books and book chapters, website, specifications, online tutorials etc.) will be provided as well.

Learning Outcomes

General competences

The student has background knowledge about information visualisation (terminology, principles and issues, visualisation techniques, data presentation): explain, summarise, interlink, analyse, compare, justify, discuss, interpret
The student can design, develop and test interactive visualisations: apply, produce, solve, analyse, diagnose, design, create, model, build, organise, plan, decide
The student can criticise visualisations: take a step back, analyse, compare, confront, question, check, evaluate, judge, take a position, choose, defend

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 60% of the final mark.
PRAC Teamwork determines 40% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Oral exam with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 60% of the final mark.

Note: During the exam period an oral exam covering all the course topics will be conducted as well as a discussion of the assigned projects.

Within the PRAC Teamwork category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Project with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 40% of the final mark.

Note: During the semester students have to work on a group project.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The final grade is a weighted average. During the semester an assignment has to be done (counts for 40% of the final grade). During the exam period an oral exam covering all the course topics will be conducted (counts for 60% of the final grade) as well as a discussion of the assigned project to assess a student's individual contribution. In order to pass the course, the final grade has to be at least 10/20. Furthermore, each individual grade (assignment or oral exam) has to be at least 8/20, otherwise the lower of these two grades becomes the final grade.

In case of an overall failure, partial marks for the assignment, if the student obtains at least 10/20 for the assignment, are transferred to the second session. Partial marks for the oral exam, if the student obtains at least 10/20 for the oral exam, are transferred to the second session. Students may not relinquish partial marks.

In the second exam period, assignments that were not satisfactory can be reworked and defended again. Also, the oral exam can be redone if the student failed in first session. The final mark is calculated in the same way as in the first exam period.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context