Teaching structured analytical thinking with data using visual-analytic tools

Guoray Cai

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03656-4_9

Teaching structured analytical thinking with data using visual-analytic tools

Guoray Cai

College of Information Sciences and Technology

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The skills of analytical thinking is highly valuable for many professionals who need to form judgment from complex and incomplete data. This essay is a reflection of my experience with teaching visual analytic methods for thinking with data. Visual analytics is about the development and use of interactive visual representations and processing tools to explore patterns and processes from data. The presented approach has been refined through multiple redesigns and is proven to be workable. The question of how to balance the need of learning tools and the structured method in actual course offerings remains to be answered through more experiments.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Innovative Practices in Teaching Information Sciences and Technology
Subtitle of host publication	Experience Reports and Reflections
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	85-95
Number of pages	11
Volume	9783319036564
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319036564
ISBN (Print)	3319036556, 9783319036557
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03656-4_9
State	Published - Jan 1 2014

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General Social Sciences
General Computer Science

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