Data Analysis and Visualization

Course Title: Data Analysis and Visualization

Course No: CACS455

Nature of the Course: Theory + Lab

Semester: 8

Full Marks: 20 + 20 + 60

Pass Marks: 8 + 8 + 24

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

This course introduces to extend student’s knowledge and practice in data analysis and visualization, software, and applications. It provides the board overview of techniques of the visualization process, detailed view of visual perception, the visualized data and the actual visualization, interaction and distorting techniques.

Course Objectives

Upon the conclusion of the course, students should be able to: - Explain the concept of visualization in the processing and analysis of data - Develop visualization methods and visualization systems using software applications - Perform creative work in the field of visualization

Course Contents

1. Unit 1: Introduction to visualization

6 hrs

1.1. Introduction of visual perception

1.2. Visual representation of data

1.3. Data Abstraction

1.4. Visual Encodings

1.5. Use of Color

1.6. Perceptual Issues

1.7. Information overloads

2. Unit 2: Creating visual representations

7 hrs

2.1. Visualization reference model

2.2. Visual mapping

2.3. Visual analytics

2.4. Design of Visualization applications

3. Unit 3: Non spatial data visualization

15 hrs

3.1. Visualization of one, two and multi-dimensional data

3.2. Tabular data, quantitative values (scatter plot)

3.3. Separate, Order, and Align (Bar, staked Bar, dots and line charts)

3.4. Tree data, Displaying Hierarchical Structures

3.5. graph data, rules for graph drawing and labeling

3.6. text and document data, levels of text representation

3.7. visualizations of a single text document, word cloud, flow data

3.8. Time series data, characteristics of time data

3.9. visualization time series data, mapping of time

4. Unit 4: Spatial Data Visualization

10 hrs

4.1. Scalar fields, Isocontours (Topographic Terrain Maps)

4.2. scalar volumes, Direct Volume Rendering (Multidimensional Transfer Functions)

4.3. Maps (dot, pixel), vector fields

4.4. Defining Marks and Channels

5. Unit 5: Software tools and data for visualization

10 hrs

5.1. The iris data set, The Detroit Data Set, The Breakfast Cereal Data Set

5.2. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Data Set (time series)

5.3. MS spread sheet, Python, Matlab, Java, Tableau

Laboratory Works

Laboratory work should be done covering all the topics listed above and a small project work should be carried out using the concept learnt in this course using any one software tools mention in unit 5.

1.Laboratory Works

Text Books

1.Fry, Visualizing Data. O’Reilly Media, 2008, ISBN 0596514557
2.Ware, Information Visualization: Perception for Design, 3rd ed. Morgan Kaufmann, 2012

Reference Books

1.Telea, Data Visualization: Principles and Practice. A. K. Peters, Ltd, 2007, ISBN 1568813066

Notes:

This syllabus follows the official BCA curriculum of Pokhara University. In case of any doubt or revision, the university's published syllabus shall be considered authoritative.

Data Analysis and Visualization

Data Analysis and Visualization

Select University

Select Program

TabFlux . Data Analysis and Visualization . TU . BCA-OLD