INFO 5311 - Interactive Information Visualization

Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: INFO 5100 or permission of instructor. Co-meets with INFO 4310.

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.