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LIBR 246-07
LIBR 246-16
Information Technology Tools and Applications- Advanced
Topic: Information Visualization
Fall 2012 Course Information

Dr. Michelle Chen
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Course Overview

Current information professionals are faced with an overwhelming amount of information every day. The information is typically unstructured, abstract, large-scale, and needs a more efficient and intuitive way to represent the relationships, reveal the patterns, and/or discover potential opportunities. Information visualization has thus recently gained increasing attention and begun to be widely applied to scientific, engineering, and social disciplines to help people understand their information better. According to Gershon et al. (1998), visualization can provide an interface between two powerful information processing systems- human mind and the modern computer.

LIBR 246 Information Visualization focuses on the state of the art in the field of information visualization. Topics include:

  1. The history and background of information visualization;
  2. Perceptual and cognitive principles of information visualization;
  3. Data analysis methods and hands-on applications of different visualization techniques for large collections of abstract information;
  4. Interaction and interface design issues; and
  5. Exciting emerging trends applied to library and information science field such as social visualization and storytelling.

Much of the relevant work in information visualization is new and still being researched. The course consists of a mixture of lectures, paper readings, homework assignments/quizzes, and projects. The objective of this course is to provide technical and non-technical students with an alternative powerful tool to process information in the specific domain of their own interests.

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