Lesson 1

IS428 Visual Analytics for Business Intelligence

About

Weekly Session

Assignments

Visual Analytics Project

Course Resources

Introduction to Visual Analytics

Lesson Outline

• Course Overview
• Motivation of Visual Analytics
• What Visual Analytics is
• Visual Analytics in History
• Intents of Visual Analytics Applications
• Visual Analytics Techniques: basic graphical methods
• Visual Analytics Tools

Core Readings

• Thomas, J.J. & Cook, K.A. (2006) "A Visual Analytics Agenda", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, January 2006, Vol.26(1), pp.10-13
• VIVA – What is Visual Analytics?
• Why Visual Analytics
• Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age
• Chabot, C (2009) "Demystifying Visual Analytics", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, March 2009, Vol.29(2), pp.84-87.
• The 5 Most Influential Data Visualizations of All Time
• Whitepaper: Visual Analysis for Everyone

All About Tableau

Things about Tableau Prof. Kam want you to know!

• Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis,and Visualization of MultidimensionalRelational Databases
• Tableau Technology
• Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis

Tutorial

• Getting Started

• Tableau Interface

• Getting Started with Visual Analytics

• Reference lines

• Getting Started with Data also self-learn the remaining videos under Connecting to Data

• Getting Started with Tableau Prep Builder. This is a brand-new product from Tableau designed to help everyone quickly and confidently combine, shape, and clean their data for analysis. You can learn more about Tableau Data Prep here. You are encouraged to view all the 12 videos under Tableau Prep.