Instructor: Prof. Jiangen He (he/him)

Office: Room 444 Communication Building, 1345 Circle Park Drive

Office hours: by booking https://tiny.utk.edu/heoffice

Zoom link: https://tennessee.zoom.us/my/jiangen

SIS Office Information

450 Communications Bldg.
1345 Circle Park Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-0341
SIS Office: 865.974.2148
Fax (SIS): 865.974.4667

Course Mode: In-person classes

Time: TR 2:30PM-03:45PM

Place: Humanities and Social Sciences Building-205A

Email: [email protected]

📜 Course Information

Catalog Description

Visual, intuitive and interactive representation of information. Fundamental understanding of human perceptual and cognitive capabilities, computer graphics, user interface and creativity. Designs and techniques for visualizing various types of data.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this course will be able to

Present information in an intuitive, efficient, effective, and aesthetic manner, for the purposes of explaining ideas and analyzing data.
Compare methods for visually encoding and interacting with data and understand how these different methods might guide users towards different conclusions
Select appropriate visualization methods for the data types of multivariate tables, trees and networks, geospatial, and text data. Understand different ways of formally measuring trade-offs in different visualization approaches.
Critically and constructively assess the design of existing visualizations.
Apply data transformations including deriving new data, aggregation, and filtering.
Gain practical experience and proficiency in creating static and interactive visualizations in Tableau and Python.

Course Design

Course materials will delivered on Canvas, including reading materials, slides, etc.
Submit programming assignments on Canvas. Do not email them to the instructor.
For technical issues, contact the OIT HelpDesk via phone (865) 974-9900 or online at http://help.utk.edu/

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