1. Title Computer Science 767W Fall 2007 Interactive Data Visualization Colin Ware Kurt Schwehr

2. Class #01 Course Overview Overview of visualizations

3. Course Layout Sep: Building Google Earth Visualizations (Schwehr) Oct-Dec: Human Perception for Information Display (Ware)

4. Colin Ware’s portion Basic Vision and Displays Elementary interactive graphics programming Color Basics & Color For Information Display 2D techniques for Information Visualization 3D interaction / Input, Viewpoint control, Virtual Reality, Force Feedback Visualization Methodologies Flow Visualization Graph Visualization Interactive Techniques Multi-dimensional Data Visualization GeoSpatial Data

5. Course Web Pages Google Earth: –http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/Classes/2007VisCourse Human Perception for Information Display: –http://ccom.unh.edu/vislab/VisCourse/

6. Course requirements Programming: –Will be generating xml and xhtml for Google Earth –C/C++ for OpenGL Writing intensive course Hold off on purchasing the textbook

7. Office Hours for Kurt 10-15 Minutes immediately before class By appointment - Email kurt@ccom.unh.edukurt@ccom.unh.edu

8. Assignment #00 Email kurt@ccom.unh.edu by Thursday at 5 PMkurt@ccom.unh.edu Describe your programming background. Have you worked with HTML and/or XML before? What is your preferred operating system? (e.g. Windows, Mac, or Linux) What is your favorite currently existing country outside of the United States, Canada, and Mexico?

9. Projects by / started by VisLab members

10. Data Visualization Is communication Part art, part science

11. Population

12. Click locations

14. musicovery

15. Text analysis

16. Conductivity (salinity) and Temp of Portsmouth USCG

17. http://www.cooa.unh.edu/data/buoys/great_bay/

18. Confusing. What/where?

20. ASCII visualization

21. Lack of context

22. Much easier to interpred with context

23. A bad example

25. Ship densities

26. tanker

27. For September: Exploring the potential of Google Earth

28. Position and Time

29. Oops!

30. Time

31. Very basic flow vis Check out Colin’s movie…

32. Unusual Displays

33. Stereo

34. Tour of the CCOM Visualization Lab

35. Next Class (#02) The Google Earth user interface Building Basic Google Earth visualizations using KML (formerly Keyhole Markup Language) –http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/ First assignment given out - Due Sept 17th