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ISSS608 Visual Analytics and Applications

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Visual Analytics Project

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Visual Analytics Toolkit

In this course, students will be expose to and gain hands-on experience on several generic visual analytics toolkit and specialised data visualisation applications. Below are a list of the core software tools for this course.

Commercial Visual Analytics software

Tableau

• Tableau home page [1]
• Training and Tutorials [2]
• Visual Gallery [3]
• Blogs that inspired
  • The Information Lab [4]
  • DataRemixed [5]

JMP Pro

• JMP home page [6]
• Discovering JMP [7]
• JMP Learning Library [8]
• JMP® for Students 1: Navigation and Use [9]

QlikView and/or Qlik Sense (Optional)

• Qlik home page [10]
• QlikView home page [11]
• Qlik Sense home page [12]

Power BI (Optional)

• Power BI homepage [13]
• Guided Learning [14]
• Power BI Documentation [15]

Data Visualisation design toolkit

D3.js

• d3.js home page [16] and download [17]
• D3.js Tutorial [18]
• Visual Gallery [19]
• d3.js API Reference [20]
• d3.js plug-in [21]
• d3.js Google Group [22]
• d3.js on Stack Overflow[23]

Specialised Data Visualisation Tools

Interactive Exploratory Data Analysis

• Mondrian [24]
• GGobi [25]

High-dimensional Data Visualisation

• Treemaps [26]
• Hierarchical Clustering Explorer [27]

Time-series Data Visualisation

• Time Searcher [28]

Graph Visualisation

• Gephi [29]
• Cytoscape [30]