2025-Spring ST: Information Visualization (CSED490D-01) The course syllabus

1.Course Information

Course No. CSED490D Section 01 Credit 3.00
Category Major elective Course Type prerequisites
Postechian Core Competence
Hours MON, WED / 09:30 ~ 10:45 / Science BldgⅡ[109]Lecture Room Grading Scale G

2. Instructor Information

Ko Sungahn Name Ko Sungahn Department Dept. of Computer Science & Eng.
Email address sungahn@postech.ac.kr Homepage https://sites.google.com/view/haiv/
Office Office Phone 054-279-2249
Office Hours

3. Course Objectives

In this course, students will learn various theoretical foundations related to data visualization. Additionally, through hands-on practice, they will develop the ability to represent complex real-world data using visualization techniques and analyze it effectively.

4. Prerequisites & require

5. Grading

- (coding) assignment (45%)
- midterm (10%), final (20%)— coding exams
- quiz (20%, 각 5%)
- participation (5%)

6. Course Materials

Title Author Publisher Publication
Year/Edition		 ISBN
Visualization Analysis and Design (VAD)/ Tamara Munzner 0000

7. Course References

8. Course Plan

W1
Lecture: Introduction
Video: VAD Ch 1 What is Vis and Why do it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GhZisgc6DI&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner

W2
Lecture: Introduction 2
Video: VAD Ch2 Data Abstraction,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBWMOSrASkE&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner
Video: Ch 5 Marks and Channels
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xplSAMwlTmY&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner)

W3
Lecture: Visual Data Model
Video: VAD Ch 10 Color 1, 2
1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNDd_hvdORw&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner
2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUsL6a1d9n0&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner
Quiz 1 on W1~2 lecture
Coding Session 1
Assignment 1 (Basics of D3)

W4
Lecture: Visual Data Model #2
Video: VAD Ch 7 Arrange Tables
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLuojf_ov78&list=RDCMUCnuYznpiC6fO0XyLKGAGFng&index=7&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner

Video: VAD Ch 8 Spatial Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgOtivuo-h8&list=RDCMUCnuYznpiC6fO0XyLKGAGFng&index=19&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmPq7Zjybfw&list=RDCMUCnuYznpiC6fO0XyLKGAGFng&index=27&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner
W5
Lecture: Perception and Color
Quiz 2 on W3~W4 lecture

W6
Lecture and Video:
Multidimensional Visualization
VAD Ch 11&12 Interactive Views
11&12 I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHSYXZMY96s&list=PLT4XLHmqHJBeB5LwmRmo6ln-m7K3lGvrk&index=18&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner

11&12 II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxBRDRf_rTM&list=PLT4XLHmqHJBeB5LwmRmo6ln-m7K3lGvrk&index=19&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner
Assignment 2 (Implementing Basic Vis. (e.g., Line charts))

W7
Lecture: Time I
Video:
VAD Ch 13 Reduce Aggregation & Filtering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KjGpVo6JDU&list=PLT4XLHmqHJBeB5LwmRmo6ln-m7K3lGvrk&index=20&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner

VAD Ch 14 Embed Focus+Context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6NfuuAlENc&list=PLT4XLHmqHJBeB5LwmRmo6ln-m7K3lGvrk&index=21&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner

W8
Midterm (Coding) exam

W9
Lecture: Time II
Lecture: Graphs and Trees I
VAD Ch 9 Network Data
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz_CiN0hPqM&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner
Coding Session 2
Assignment 3 (Animation and interaction)
W10
Lecture: Graphs and Trees II
Quiz 3 on W6~W9 lectures

W11
VAD Ch 3 Task Abstraction
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHljd-cgICY&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner)

VAD Ch 4 Nested Model
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXswx4QSkHc&list=PLT4XLHmqHJBeB5LwmRmo6ln-m7K3lGvrk&index=5&t=15s&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq2IkdgWr9Q&list=PLT4XLHmqHJBeB5LwmRmo6ln-m7K3lGvrk&index=6&t=6s&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner

VAD Ch 6 Rules of Thumb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTTWM8SzCnw&list=PLT4XLHmqHJBeB5LwmRmo6ln-m7K3lGvrk&index=8&ab_channel=TamaraMunzner

Coding Session 3
Assignment 4 (Dashboard design and implementation)

W12
Lecture: Storytelling
Quiz 4 on W10~W11 lectures

W13
Lecture: Animation

W14
Lecture: Collaboration
Lecture: Production, Presentation, Dissemination

W15
Final Exam

9. Course Operation

Theory

10. How to Teach & Remark

11. Supports for Students with a Disability

- Taking Course: interpreting services (for hearing impairment), Mobility and preferential seating assistances (for developmental disability), Note taking(for all kinds of disabilities) and etc.

- Taking Exam: Extended exam period (for all kinds of disabilities, if needed), Magnified exam papers (for sight disability), and etc.

- Please contact Center for Students with Disabilities (279-2434) for additional assistance

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