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Visual Analytics (602AA)
- Salvatore Rinzivillo (rinzivillo [at] isti [dot] cnr [dot] it)
Quick access links
- Telegram channel: https://t.me/+6PTkOzAWcWswMWI8
- All source code of exercises are available at the URL: https://github.com/va602aa-master
Schedule
- Wednesday, 11:00 - 13:00, Room M1
- Friday, 11:00 - 13:00, Room M1
News
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March 21 Today the class will start at 11:30 (instead of the usual 11:15) - February 19 The start of the course has been postponed due to the teacher being affected by the flu. Lessons will commence on February 26th.
Exams
Students will be admitted to the exam after the registration on the website http://esami.unipi.it. The exam consists of a discussion of the project. It is mandatory to submit a short report (6-10 pages) within the deadline by mail to the instructor, specifying the tag “[VA]” in the subject.
Planned dates:
- Please log on to the portal for registration to get the next dates
Project assignment
- A project should have the following requirements:
- The application should contain several visual widgets, each providing insights on a selection of dimensions of the original data
- It is possible to use state-of-the-art charts (bar charts, line charts, etc.) and libraries (plot.ly, vega, etc).
- The final evaluation will take into account the implementation of a novel, original visualization to present the data in a creative, non-trivial way, using D3.js (see examples on Vast Challenge 2008 developed in class). You can refer to visualization techniques already present in the literature, by adapting or implementing part of the solution.
- Interactivity should be implemented, providing toolbars, selections, and filters for the data.
- The visual widget should interact among them, realizing a set of linked displays to browse the data across multiple dimensions
- The project should be submitted as a Git repository
- The project report should be submitted 4 days before the discussion and should discuss at least the following points:
- Description of data and presentation of the pattern or model to communicate
- design choices: colors, interactions, shapes, transformations)
- state-of-art: similar tools or interfaces for the same problem
- Detailed description of the visualization with a description of the interaction
- use case example for an analytical task
The student may choose one of the following project proposals. She/he can also propose an additional topic. In this case, a project proposal should be submitted for approval, containing a description of the data, a sketch of the possible visualization, and the motivation for the project.
Next Exams
Textbooks
- Visual Analytics for Data Scientists. Natalia Andrienko, Gennady Andrienko, Georg Fuchs, Aidan Slingsby, Cagatay Turkay, Stefan Wrobel. Springer, 2020. ISBN: 978-3-030-56146-8
- Design for Information. Isabel Meirelles, Rockport Publisher,2013.
- Interactive Data Visualization for the Web, Scott Murray, O'Reilly Atlas, 2013
Useful Resources
- Tools
- Reading Material
- Inspiration
Class Calendar
All exercises and code discussed during each lesson are available as a Git repository at: https://github.com/va602aa-master
A collection of Observable Notebooks are available at https://observablehq.com/collection/@rinziv/va602aa
Recordings of lessons on Microsoft Teams are accessible within the channel of the course.
| Day | Topic | Learning material | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 2025/02/26 | Intro: Visual Analytics Process; | Slides ; VisMaster Book (Chapter 2) |
| 02 | 2025/02/28 | Vision and Cognition; | Slides |
| 03 | 2025/03/05 | Visual Variables; | Slides |
| 04 | 2025/03/07 | Introduction to Python Altair Library | Slides; website |
| 05 | 2025/03/12 | Color Models | Slides |
| 2025/03/14 | No lesson | – | |
| 06 | 2025/03/19 | Toolbox: HTML, CSS, JS | Slides |
| 07 | 2025/03/21 | NPM, GIT and Vue.js | Slides |
| 2025/03/26 | No lesson | – | |
| 2025/03/28 | No lesson | – |