Description
Do you know Gapminder? If not, you should have a look at it and play around a bit. It is an intuitive web-based application for visualizing demographic values of various countries over time. This approach for plotting two time-series against each other is generally applicable to many sorts of time-dependent data (e.g., simulation data or financial time-series like stock prices). However, the main limitation is the number of time-series that can simultaneously be traced. In order to extend this approach to thousands of time-series as necessary for simulation data, the idea of this diploma thesis is to try combining automatic clustering of similar time-series with a 2D visualization like Gapminder. This is both an innovative and challenging approach, which will allow for trading off details for visual complexity.Task
The task is to design a view providing an interactive 2D visualization of potentially clustered time-series and to implement this view as plugin of the visualization system visplore in C++ using OpenGL and gtk+. visplore is a large real-world application used and distributed by company partners of the VRVis research centre. This is why this thesis is a great opportunity to experience team working in a big-scale software project and to improve practical skills both in visualization and software engineering. Your results are likely to be used by our partners also after the end of the thesis. Finally, you get a payment for successfully finishing this thesis.Requirements
Very good skills in C++ and software engineering, good knowledge and interest in Information Visualization, basic skills in OpenGL.Additional Information
If you are interested contact me: Harald Piringer, Tel: 01/20501 30601For the time of the diploma thesis, you will work at the VRVis research center, which is located near the UNO City (next subway station: U1 Kaisermühlen)
