Lecturers
Tamara Mchedlidze (course coordinator)
Alister Machado dos Reis (tutorials)
Modules
The corse consists of the following modules.
Introduction to Network Visualization
- Complex data: high-dimensional, relational
- Network Visualization and its applications
- Network Visualization styles
- Formalization of network visualization (quality metrics, drawing conventions, constraints)
- Evaluation of the quality of network visualizations
Tree visualizations
- Level-based visualization
- Radial visualization
- Bubble visualization
Visualization of general graphs
- Force-directed layout and its variations
- Stress majorization layout
Visualization of directed graphs
- Sugiyama framework
Visualization of clustered/multilayer networks
- Introduction to multilayer networks
- Bounding box layout
- Edge bundling
Low dimensional data visualization
- Table lenses
- Parallel coordinate plots
- Scatterplot matrices
High dimensional data visualization
- Dimensionality reduction (DR)
- Quality metrics for DR
- Inverse DR
- Advanced DR algorithms
Weekly schedule
Lectures - Wednesdays 9:00-10:45, BBG 201
Tutorial sessions - Mondays 9:00-10:45, BBG 201