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Teaching Information Visualization

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Information Visualization

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Teaching InfoVis is a challenge because it is a new and growing field. This paper describes the results of a teaching survey based on the information given by the attendees of Dagstuhl Seminar 07221. It covers several aspects of offered InfoVis courses that range from different kinds of study materials to practical exercises. We have reproduced the discussion during the seminar and added our own experiences. We hope that this paper can serve as an interesting and helpful source for current and future InfoVis teachers.

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  1. School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, Växjö University, Vejdes Plats 7, SE-351 95, Växjö, Sweden

    Andreas Kerren

  2. School of Interactive Computing & GVU Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, 85 5th St., NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0760, USA

    John T. Stasko

  3. Department of Information Science, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, UK

    Jason Dykes

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Kerren, A., Stasko, J.T., Dykes, J. (2008). Teaching Information Visualization. In: Kerren, A., Stasko, J.T., Fekete, JD., North, C. (eds) Information Visualization. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4950. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70956-5_4

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