ESM4714
Scientific Visual Data Analysis and Multimedia

Class Notebook ©

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• Class syllabus.
• Class schedule for visualization lectures (2000).
• Class schedule for multimedia lectures (2000).
• Introduction to class objectives and philosophy.
• Laboratory Access, Policies and Procedures
• Procedures for mounting and unmounting peripheral devices
• Class project guidelines and requirements
• Class project contract example.

  With a WWW browser (e.g., Mosaic, Netscape) students can study the Three Visual Methods and practice using these methods by accessing the Exercises listed below. Together the Three Visual Methods and Exercises were designed to help students complete the Homework Assignments.

• General Principles:
  • Visual Thinking,
  • Experiment in Visual Thinking,
  • Stereo,
  • History of Graphic Design,
  • Principles of Graphic Design,
  • Data Orgainization-Types-Conversions

• Personal Notes:
  • Notes taken from "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information", Tufte.
  • Notes taken from "Envisioning Information", Tufte.
  • Notes taken from "Visualization of Natural Phenomena",Wolff & Yaeger.

• "Envisioning Scientific Information: Three Visual Methods", Kriz
• Class Lectures
• Introduction to CAVE Programming
• Class Homework Assignments
• Class Exercises
• Sources of Scientific Data Sets
• Optical Disk On-Line
• Examples of Insight using Visual Data Analysis.