Information Visualization: Advanced Techniques

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Free Online Course: Information Visualization: Advanced Techniques provided by Coursera is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 4 weeks long, 16 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Coursera. Information Visualization: Advanced Techniques is taught by Enrico Bertini and Cristian Felix.

Overview
  • This course aims to introduce learners to advanced visualization techniques beyond the basic charts covered in Information Visualization: Fundamentals. These techniques are organized around data types to cover advance methods for: temporal and spatial data, networks and trees and textual data. In this module we also teach learners how to develop innovative techniques in D3.js.

    Learning Goals
    Goal: Analyze the design space of visualization solutions for various kinds of data visualization problems. Learn what designs are available for a given problem and what are their respective advantages and disadvantages.
    - Temporal
    - Spatial
    - Spatio-Temporal
    - Networks
    - Trees
    - Text

    This is the fourth course in the Information Visualization Specialization. The course expects you to have some basic knowledge of programming as well as some basic visualization skills (as those introduced in the first course of the specialization).

Syllabus
    • Visualizing Geographical Data
    • Visualizing Network Data
    • Visualizing Temporal Data
    • Interaction and Multiple Views