G0R72A - Data Visualisation in Data Science
As data becomes easier and cheaper to generate, we are moving from a hypothesis-driven to data-driven paradigm in scientific research. As a result, we don’t only need to find ways to answer any questions we have, but also to identify interesting questions/hypotheses in that data in the first place. In other words: we need to be able to dig through these large and complex datasets in search for unexpected patterns that - once discovered - can be investigated further using regular statistics and machine learning. Interactive data visualization provides a methodology for just that: to allow the user (be they domain expert or lay user) to find those questions, and to give them deep insight in their data.
Content:
- Background and context of data visualization and visual data analysis
- Design as a process: framing the problem, ideation, sketching, design critique, …
- Programming visualizations: static and dynamic
- Project: visualization of expert dataset
2020-2021
Teaching assistants:
- Jannes Peeters: jannes.peeters@uhasselt.be
- Danai Kafetzaki: danai.kafetzaki@uhasselt.be
- Jelmer Bot: jelmer.bot@uhasselt.be
Schedule
Sessions
| Date | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11/2 | Introduction |
| 2 | 18/2 | Introduction |
| 3 | 25/2 | Introduction Tableau + explain project requirements |
| 4 | 4/3 | HTML & SVG |
| 5 | 11/3 | Design session |
| 6 | 18/3 | Design session |
| 7 | 25/3 | Peer-feedback on intermediate designs |
| 8 | 1/4 | Flipped classroom: Q&A on visualisation libraries: vega/p5/D3/svelte |
| 9 | 22/4 | Peer-feedback on intermediate implementations |
| 10 | 29/4 | Q&A: teaching team available for feedback |
| 11 | 6/5 | Q&A: teaching team available for feedback |
| 12 | 20/5 | Poster session |
Assignments
These assignments are to be prepared for the next session.
| Deadline | Assignment | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11/3 | - Choose data for project, make data exploration, define research questions - Try out miro |
| 2 | 18/3 | - Present data to teaching team for go/no-go - Create additional design and put on miro |
| 3 | 21/3 | - Blog post 1: introduction to project - Blog post 2: description of the data |
| 4 | 28/3 | Blog post 3: visual designs |
| 5 | 1/4 | - Read at least 2 implementation tutorials (svelte/p5/vega/d3) - Blog post 4: comments on blogs of other groups |
| 6 | 15/4 | - Start first implementations on project |
| 7 | 22/4 | Blog post 5: first intermediate blog post on implementation |
| 8 | 6/5 | Blog post 6: second intermediate blog post on implementation |
| 9 | 20/5 | Final report and video submitted |
| 10 | 27/5 | Peer feedback on assigned other group’s project |
Project groups
- Data Wizards: Nicolas Cozzi, Luca Jonas Bernasconi, David Badajkov, Luka Beverin (blog: https://medium.com/@datawizards.kuleuven; primary TA: Jannes)
- 3FM: Dishani Sen, Natalia Bravo, Ladan Hosseinimanesh, Piet Olivier (blog: https://pietolivier.wixsite.com/theoryofpatterns; primary TA: Jannes)
- SEGA: Elizabeth Valdez, Andreas Papaioannou, Gregory van Kruijsdijk, Sanne Kerckhoffs (blog: https://segadv.wordpress.com/; primary TA: Jannes)
- ReadyPlayerOne: Hengqiao Rong, Tianchen Wang, Ran Huo, Luna Zhang (blog: https://dvreadyplayerone.wixsite.com/blog; primary TA: Jannes)
- Data Vizers: Maria Nankova, Nura Kawa, Shourya Bhattacharya, Minh Cuong Hoang (blog: https://medium.com/@datavizers; primary TA: Jannes)
- SportsViz: Laura Knüppel, Pavel Novotny, Arabella D’Havé, Elizabeth North (blog: https://medium.com/@SportsViz; primary TA: Jannes)
- Data Sheep: Hesna Aksoy, Pamela Inostroza, Aharon Valdes, Geoffrey Makondele (blog: https://medium.com/@DataSheep; primary TA: Jannes)
- Data Warriors: Ethan Jones , Justine Aeyels, Khachatur Papikyan, Sanya Anand (blog: https://medium.com/@data_warriors; primary TA: Jannes)
- Visual Reality: Sybren De Boever, Ömer Yiğit, Maxime Keutgen, Rana Cansu Kebabci (blog: https://visualreality.medium.com/; primary TA: Jannes)
- UBUNTU: Franziska Rüffer, Pauline Van Camberg, Marius Brusselmans, Kofi Agyabeng (blog: https://kofiagyabeng.wixsite.com/website ; primary TA: Jelmer)
- WHW: Ninh Vu Van, Hasan Salim Kanmaz, Milton Ossamu Tanizaka Filho, Zofia Anna Hołubowska (blog: https://medium.com/whw-notes ; primary TA: Jelmer)
- The Illusionists: Sarah Al-awa, Nina Morgenstern, Felix Linus Auer, Luis Lamiable Carbonell (blog: https://medium.com/@TheIllusionists; primary TA: Jelmer)
- Pallet Town Gang: Joani Radhima, Tryfon Michalopoulos, Michail Athanasiadis, Free to fill or remain empty (blog: https://joaniradhima.wixsite.com/pallettowngang; primary TA: Jelmer)
- REFRAME:REviewing Female poweRful AsseMbliEs: Sonia Socadagui, Ana Maria Giraldo, Zoi Karampatzaki, Danai Andreadi (blog: https://medium.com/@REFRAME2021; primary TA: Jelmer)
- Truthseekers4: Antoine Chen, Sander Van Wayenbergh, Altynsay Sanalova, Faraz Mirza (blog: https://medium.com/@truthseekers4; primary TA: Jelmer)
- Group1: Nan Hu, Xinyi Xu, Wenbo Gao, Ziyue Zhu (blog: https://medium.com/xinyi-xu; primary TA: Jelmer)
- Data4Change: Filippo Nicolini, Yifan Song, Tepmory Srey, Inès Zitouni (blog: https://yifan-song.medium.com/test-aa48ef8de592; primary TA: Jelmer)
- Visual Star: Le Fan, Bowen Yang, Kaiqian Gong, Zhaoxian Li (blog: https://medium.com/@Visual_Star; primary TA: Jelmer)
- EnergyDB: Kexin Xie, Pai Li, Yiming Shi, Chunbo Wang (blog: https://medium.com/@EnergyDB; primary TA: Danai)
- Data Show: Vancesca Dinh, Mengyang Zhang, Quandi Zhang, Alexandros Ntougias (blog: https://medium.com/@datashow.dataviz; primary TA: Danai)
- Quirky Dust: Lieven Govaerts, Jason Pascal-Claes, Ruben De Smet, Anne Mensink (blog: https://medium.com/quirky-dust; primary TA: Danai)
- Novice Village: Yu Zhang, Yuexue Jin, Xiaolei Wang, Shibin Li (blog: https://medium.com/@l.shibin; primary TA: Danai)
- Beginner: Hao Zhu, Xiao Wang, Shiqi Wang, Shichen Wu (blog: https://medium.com/@4beginners; primary TA: Danai)
- Lapwing: Elias Makonnen, Luana Marinho do Nascimento, Olga Grytsenko, Clifford Cele (blog: https://medium.com/@teamdatawing; primary TA: Danai)
- Team Robin: Jiajing He, Lihan Liu, German Camacho, Andres Perez (blog: https://medium.com/@RobinVisualizes; primary TA: Danai)
- Urban Outlook: Xierui Song, Arailym Jussupova, Kendall Brown (blog: https://medium.com/urban-outlook; primary TA: Danai)