Lesson 1: Introduction to Visual Analytics
Content
- 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
Lesson Slides and Hands-on Notes
Lesson slides in html and pdf formats
Lesson 1 (Supplement): Choosing the Right Visualisation in html and pdf formats. 
Handout of In-class Exercise 1 in html and pdf formats.
In-class Exercise
Self-reading Before Lesson
Webinars
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
- 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
- J.J. Thomas and K.A. Cook, eds. (2005) Illuminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics, IEEE CS Press.
- Jun, Yuan et. al. (2020) “A survey of visual analytics techniques for machine learning”, Computational Visual Media. doi.org/10.1007/s41095-020-0191-7.

- Cui, Wenqiang (2019) “Visual Analytics: A Comprehensive Overview”, IEEE Access.

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