Computer Science
Undergraduate Seminar
MW 1:10-2:25PM
Data visualizations are a powerful tool for gaining knowledge, discovering hidden relationships and patterns, communicating messages, and influencing others’ opinions and values. Visualizations help inform our personal decisions. But if we cannot communicate our message clearly, a visualization’s usefulness decreases and it can even be detrimental to our goals. In this course, students learn the fundamentals behind using graphs and charts to visually communicate ideas and gain practical experience with creating their own visualizations. We discuss the theory of visual communication, how the brain processes visual information, technical aspects of visualization implementation, ethics of data visualization, and data visualization research.
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