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Va.jpg IS428 Visual Analytics for Business Intelligence

About

Weekly Session

Assignments

Visual Analytics Project

Course Resources

 


Introduction to Visual Analytics

Lesson 1 slides

Content

Introduction to the course

  • Why this course?
  • What does it cover?
  • Who is involved?
  • What assignments?
  • Rules to be followed

Motivations of Visual Analytics

  • Massive data
  • Complex problem
  • Visual Representation
  • New visual paradigm
  • Hidden insight

The Visual Analytics Framework

  • The Science of Analytical Reasoning
  • Sense-Making Methods
  • Components of visual analytics
  • History of visual analytics
  • The visual analytics process
  • Application challenges
  • Technical challenges

A Gallery of Visual Analytics applications


Hands-on Session

Self-learning Tableau

  • Getting Started [1]
  • Tableau Interface [2]
  • Connecting to Data: From Getting Started with Data to Data Blending

My First Date with Tableau


Daily Readings

Day Time required Readings
Day 1 60 mins Why Visual Analytics [3]Must view!

A Tour through the Visualization Zoo [4]Must read!

Self-Learning Tableau (30mins)

Day 2 60 mins

Visual analysis for everyone [5]

Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age [6]

Self-Learning Tableau (30mins)

Day 3 60 mins Demystifying Visual Analytics, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, March/April 2009 e-journal @smu library

Tools for Visualising [7]

Self-Learning Tableau (30mins)

Day 4 60 mins

Andrew Gelman and Antony Unwin (2011) Infovis and Statistical Graphics: Different Goals, Different Looks [8]

Robert Kosara (2012) Visualization: It’s More than Pictures! [9]

Self-Learning Tableau (30mins)

Day 5 60 mins

The beauty of data visualization [10]

Data Visualisation, Australian Bureau of Statistics Research Paper, July 2007 [11]

Self-Learning Tableau (30mins)


References

James J. Thomas & Kristin A. Cook (ed) (2005) Illuminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda of Visual Analytics [12]


Discussion

Discussion Lesson 01