Course: Data Visualization

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Course title Data Visualization
Course code KMA/VIZ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Exercise
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Ženčák Pavel, RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Basic types of graphs (scatter, line, bar, area, etc.) 2. What are the individual types of graphs suitable for? 3. Overview of options offered by selected programs 4. Visualization of 1D data 5. Visualization of 2D data 6. Visualization of multidimensional data 7. More advanced methods of data analysis - dimension reduction (PCA, SVD) 8. More advanced methods of data analysis - cluster search 9. Graphic methods of cluster visualization 10. Approximation and smoothing of data 11. Visualization of categorical data 12. Visualization of graphs and trees

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Demonstration
  • Attendace - 39 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 40 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Course Credit - 30 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 40 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course introduces students to different ways of data visualization.
Knowledge Get to know the basic ways of data visualization and the possibilities of selected programs.
Prerequisites
Basic computer skills.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Student performance, Written exam

Credit: active participation in exercises, successfully write a credit test. Exam: oral.
Recommended literature
  • A. C. Telea, Data Visualization. (2014). Principles and Practice, Second Edition. A. K. Peters, Ltd., Natick, MA.
  • Alberto Ferrari, Marco Russo. (2016). Introducing Microsoft Power BI. Microsoft Press.
  • Ch. Chen, W. Hrdle, A. Unwin, Ch.Chen, W. Hrdle, A. Unwin. (2008). Handbook of Data Visualization (Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics). Springer-Verlag TELOS, Santa Clara, CA.
  • Chandraish Sinha. (2016). QlikView Essentials. Packt Publishing.
  • James D. Miller. (2017). Big Data Visualization. Packt Publishing.
  • Joshua N. Milligan. (2015). Learning Tableau. Packt Publishing Ltd.
  • Kieran Healy. (2018). Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Princeton University Press.
  • Kirthi Raman. (2015). Mastering Python Data Visualization. Packt Publishing.
  • Nivedita Majumdar , Swapnonil Banerjee. (2012). MATLAB Graphics and Data Visualization Cookbook. Packt Publishing.
  • Rob Kabacoff. Data Visualization with R.
  • Wendy L. Martinez, Angel R. Martinez, Jeffrey Solka. (2017). Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB, 3rd Edition. Chapman and Hall/CRC.


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