Engineering in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

The goal of the course is to provide an introduction to the currently used Information Visualization and Visual Analytics techniques. In particular, the course will analyze the methodologies for displaying purely numerical data (tables, diagrams) and representation techniques (mapping of attributes of the represented dataset in visual attributes), providing the practical skills to implement them in d3.js and integrate them with algorithmic solutions. Then, dimensionality reduction techniques will be introduced, with particular attention to PCA, MDS and t-SNE, presenting practical solutions in Python. Finally, the problem of presenting the described techniques will be introduced, acquiring skills on how to overcome limits of space and time in the visualizations, and providing indications on the main interaction techniques.